{
  "place_id": "sokhachev#7901_11124",
  "wikidata": "Q250485",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Sochaczew",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sochaczew",
      "why": "Polish Latin-script name used in English; the native spelling is retained rather than retransliterating the Ukrainian input label.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sochatschew",
          "why": "German rendering encountered in wartime historical records; not the current English name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sochaczew",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; French references retain the local Latin-script name, without a fixed article.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sochaczew is a town on the Bzura west of Warsaw, in Masovian Voivodeship. Castle ruins overlook the river, and the town has a narrow-gauge railway museum.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Input label 'Сохачев' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form.",
  "rank": 302,
  "slug": "sochaczew"
}