{
  "place_id": "kostsian#7893_10925",
  "wikidata": "",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Kościan",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kościan",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kosten",
          "why": "Historical German name used in English historical writing and archival searches; not the present official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koscian",
          "why": "Plain-text form without native diacritics, useful in English indexes and searches; not a separate exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kościan",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kosten",
          "why": "German historical name for matching French references to Prussian Poland."
        },
        {
          "name": "Koscian",
          "why": "Unaccented search form in French plain text; retain the native diacritics in edited French."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kościan is a town on the Obra in Greater Poland Voivodeship, south of Poznań. Its old town includes a Gothic parish church and a market square.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Input label 'Косьцян' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling. Wikidata is missing in the input and is left empty pending entity verification.",
  "rank": 421,
  "slug": "koscian"
}