{
  "place_id": "poznan#7911_10940",
  "wikidata": "Q268",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Poznań",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Poznań",
      "why": "The official Polish spelling, retained in English with its diacritics.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Posen",
          "why": "German historical name used in English writing about the Prussian period."
        },
        {
          "name": "Poznan",
          "why": "Spelling without diacritics, used when the local accents or special letters are unavailable; not a separate name or renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Posnania",
          "why": "Latin historical name, encountered in scholarly and ecclesiastical references; not a modern vernacular name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Poznań",
      "why": "Nom officiel polonais conservé en français avec ses signes diacritiques.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Posen",
          "why": "Nom allemand historique employé dans les ouvrages sur la période prussienne."
        },
        {
          "name": "Poznan",
          "why": "Graphie sans signes diacritiques, employée lorsque les accents ou lettres particulières ne sont pas disponibles ; il ne s’agit pas d’un autre nom."
        },
        {
          "name": "Posnania",
          "why": "Nom latin historique, rencontré dans les références savantes et ecclésiastiques ; ce n’est pas un nom usuel moderne."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Poznań is a city on the Warta in western Poland and a centre of the Greater Poland region. Its cathedral island is linked to the beginnings of the Polish state, while the old market square forms another historic focus.",
  "about_fr": "Poznań est une ville de l’ouest de la Pologne, sur la Warta, au cœur de la Grande-Pologne. L’île de la cathédrale est liée aux débuts de l’État polonais, tandis que la place du vieux marché constitue un autre centre historique.",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Input Wikidata field was empty; Q268 verified against Wikidata. Input Wikidata field was empty; identity checked at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q268.",
  "rank": 16,
  "slug": "poznan"
}