{
  "place_id": "gmina-khelm-shlonskyi#7783_11066",
  "wikidata": "Q553460",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "gmina Chełm Śląski",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Gmina Chełm Śląski",
      "why": "Official Polish municipality name, retaining gmina to distinguish the administrative area from its seat village.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Chełm Śląski",
          "why": "Name of the municipality’s seat; in context also short for the gmina, but the village and municipality have different boundaries."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gmina Chelm Slaski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gmina Chełm Śląski for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chelm Slaski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Chełm Śląski for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Chełm Śląski",
      "why": "French locality heading uses the seat’s name Chełm Śląski for the rural municipality; gmina remains part of the identity.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gmina Chełm Śląski",
          "why": "International spelling for cross-references in French; independent French prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chelm Slaski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Chełm Śląski for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gmina Chelm Slaski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Gmina Chełm Śląski for French retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Gmina Chełm Śląski is a rural municipality in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. It includes the village of Chełm Śląski and neighbouring localities near the Dziećkowice reservoir.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Supplied Q553460 and population refer to Gmina Chełm Śląski, including Chełm Mały and Kopciowice, not just its seat village. English keeps Gmina; French heading uses Chełm Śląski with administrative scope made explicit. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmina_Chełm_Śląski ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chełm_Śląski_(gmina).",
  "rank": 1456,
  "slug": "gmina-chelm-slaski"
}