{
  "place_id": "minsk-mazovetskyi#7899_11198",
  "wikidata": "Q648071",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Mińsk Mazowiecki",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Mińsk Mazowiecki",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Minsk Mazowiecki",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mińsk",
          "why": "Short historical and contextual name; easily confused with Minsk in Belarus."
        },
        {
          "name": "Minsk",
          "why": "Diacritic-free shortened name; ambiguous without the Masovian qualifier."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nowomińsk",
          "why": "Former official name under Russian imperial rule, 1868–1916."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novominsk",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling of the former name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Mińsk Mazowiecki",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Minsk Mazowiecki",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mińsk",
          "why": "Short form in historical sources; French readers need the Masovian context to distinguish it from Minsk."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nowomińsk",
          "why": "Former name, 1868–1916, retained in French historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novominsk",
          "why": "Russian-derived form of the former name in French imperial-period references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Mińsk Mazowiecki is a town east of Warsaw in Masovian Voivodeship. Rail connections and its position on routes into the capital have shaped its growth.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "A different place from Minsk, the Belarusian capital. The qualifier Mazowiecki is an integral part of the current municipal name.",
  "rank": 256,
  "slug": "minsk-mazowiecki"
}