{
  "place_id": "khshanuv#7785_11077",
  "wikidata": "Q93323",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Chrzanów",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Chrzanów",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Chrzanow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Krenau",
          "why": "German occupation name used during the Second World War; not the current Polish official name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Chrzanów",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Chrzanow",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Krenau",
          "why": "Name in French histories and archival references to the Nazi occupation."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Chrzanów is a town in western Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Its industrial history includes the Fablok locomotive works.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 296,
  "slug": "chrzanow"
}