{
  "place_id": "lembork#8030_10986",
  "wikidata": "Q497148",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Lębork",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Lębork",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Lebork",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lauenburg in Pommern",
          "why": "Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lauenburg",
          "why": "Short German historical name, ambiguous without the Pomeranian context."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lauenburg i. Pom.",
          "why": "Abbreviated historical German locator used in maps and archival records."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Lębork",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Lebork",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lauenburg in Pommern",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lauenbourg",
          "why": "French adaptation of the historical German name; the Pomeranian location is needed to distinguish other Lauenburgs."
        },
        {
          "name": "Lauenburg",
          "why": "German historical short name retained in French historical references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Lębork is a town on the Łeba in Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. Its medieval castle and defensive remains reflect its history in the borderlands of Pomerania.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Not Lauenburg on the Elbe in present-day Germany.",
  "rank": 299,
  "slug": "lebork"
}