{
  "place_id": "buk#7908_10917",
  "wikidata": "Q667588",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Buk",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Buk",
      "why": "Official Polish Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Buchenstadt",
          "why": "German occupation-imposed name from 1943 until 1945, explicitly recorded in English history."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Buk",
      "why": "Same as in English; the French town-specific reference uses Buk, with a country qualifier in the article title.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Buk is a town west of Poznań in Poland's Greater Poland Voivodeship. Its name means beech in Polish, and a beech branch appears in its civic imagery.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Empty input Wikidata resolved to town Q667588. Initial bare Buk/English Buk, Poland redirected to disambiguation Q226207; correct town-specific reference used. German occupation-imposed Buchenstadt dates to 1943–1945. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk,_Greater_Poland_Voivodeship ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_(Pologne).",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1593,
  "slug": "buk"
}