{
  "place_id": "nova-sul#7877_10873",
  "wikidata": "Q157190",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Nowa Sól",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Nowa Sól",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Nowa Sol",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Neusalz an der Oder",
          "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": "Neusalz",
          "why": "Short form of the historical German name; best understood with the Oder location."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Nowa Sól",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Nowa Sol",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        },
        {
          "name": "Neusalz an der Oder",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Neusalz",
          "why": "Shortened German historical name retained in French accounts of the town and its communities."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Nowa Sól is a town on the Oder in Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland. Its name and early industrial development recall the salt trade, followed by river commerce and manufacturing.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 283,
  "slug": "nowa-sol"
}