{
  "place_id": "mikoluv#7787_11050",
  "wikidata": "Q659905",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Mikołów",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Mikołów",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Mikolow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nikolai",
          "why": "Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Mikołów",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Mikolow",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nikolai",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Mikołów is a town in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. Its old market centre lies on the southwestern side of the Upper Silesian industrial area.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 253,
  "slug": "mikolow"
}