{
  "place_id": "borkovo#8016_11033",
  "wikidata": "Q168814",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Borkowo",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Borkowo",
      "why": "Current official Polish Borkowo retained in English; the older English reference heading Borkowo Łostowickie preserves the pre-2003 name.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Borkowo Łostowickie",
          "why": "Former official qualified name used through 2002, still retained as the English encyclopedia heading; present official name is Borkowo."
        },
        {
          "name": "Borkowo Lostowickie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Borkowo Łostowickie for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Borkowo",
      "why": "Same as in English; current Polish name retained for French readers, with no independently verified French exonym.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Borkowo is a village directly south of Gdańsk in northern Poland. It belongs to the rural municipality of Pruszcz Gdański and borders the city's Lipce and Maćkowy neighbourhoods.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Current official Borkowo overrides older English heading Borkowo Łostowickie. Polish national place-name register records the latter through 2002. Not Borkowo in Kartuzy County. https://www.borkowo.eu/informacje/ ; https://pzgik.geoportal.gov.pl/prng/Miejscowosc/PL.PZGiK.204.PRNG.00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000008784-6518 Independent French locality-reference attestation is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168814 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borkowo_Łostowickie.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1514,
  "slug": "borkowo"
}