{
  "place_id": "plonsk#7923_11131",
  "wikidata": "Q270656",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Płońsk",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Płońsk",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its native spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Plonsk",
          "why": "Unaccented spelling widely used in English Jewish history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Plöhnen",
          "why": "German occupation-era name, relevant to Second World War records."
        },
        {
          "name": "Plohnen",
          "why": "Plain-letter version of the German wartime name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Płońsk",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain the native Latin spelling in French. No separate established French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Plonsk",
          "why": "Unaccented spelling also common in French accounts of Ben-Gurion."
        },
        {
          "name": "Plöhnen",
          "why": "German wartime designation for historical document searches."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Płońsk is a town on the Płonka in Masovian Voivodeship, north-west of Warsaw. It is the birthplace of David Ben-Gurion and had a substantial Jewish community before the Holocaust.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "The local diacritics are retained in the main form. Input label 'Плонськ' is Ukrainian or indirect; local_name gives the native spelling.",
  "rank": 457,
  "slug": "plonsk"
}