{
  "place_id": "putsk#8040_11022",
  "wikidata": "Q628962",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Puck",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Puck",
      "why": "Current official Polish Latin-script name, retained in English with its local spelling; no Cyrillic romanization is required.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Putzig",
          "why": "German historical name used in English accounts of the Baltic coast and the former Prussian town."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pùck",
          "why": "Kashubian local name quoted in English references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pùckò",
          "why": "Another Kashubian local form recorded in English reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pëck",
          "why": "Kashubian variant listed in English reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pucko",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pùckò for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Peck",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing form of Pëck for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Puck",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Putzig",
          "why": "German historical name in French accounts of the Baltic coast."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pùck",
          "why": "Kashubian name explicitly given in the French reference entry."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Puck is a port town on Puck Bay in Poland's Kashubian region. It has a long fishing and maritime history and was the setting for Poland's symbolic wedding to the sea after the First World War.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Puck is the Kashubian coastal town. Putzig is historical; there is no reason to turn the local Polish Latin spelling into an English phonetic transcription. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck,_Poland ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(Pologne).",
  "rank": 901,
  "slug": "puck"
}