{
  "place_id": "chersk#7988_10998",
  "wikidata": "Q1015160",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Czersk",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Czersk",
      "why": "Current official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is required.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Czérskò",
          "why": "Kashubian local name quoted in English geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Heiderode",
          "why": "German occupation name used in 1942–1945."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czersko",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Czérskò for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Czersk",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Heiderode",
          "why": "German occupation name from 1942–1945 for French historical retrieval."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czérskò",
          "why": "Kashubian local form; French prose frequency not verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czersko",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Czérskò for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Czersk is a town in Poland's Pomeranian Voivodeship near the Tuchola Forest. Timber processing and railway connections helped shape its modern growth.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "This is Czersk in Pomerania, not the historic village and castle of Czersk near Warsaw. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czersk ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czersk_(Poméranie).",
  "rank": 967,
  "slug": "czersk"
}