{
  "place_id": "svidnyk#7846_11261",
  "wikidata": "Q387387",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Świdnik",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Świdnik",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Swidnik",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Polish name, used where Polish letters are unavailable; not the official spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Świdnik",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Swidnik",
          "why": "Accent-stripped form also encountered in French indexes and travel searches; the Polish spelling is preferred in edited French."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Świdnik is a town just east of Lublin in eastern Poland. Its aircraft works, especially helicopter production, are central to its modern identity.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Not Świdnica in Lower Silesia; the historical German name Schweidnitz belongs to that different town.",
  "rank": 270,
  "slug": "swidnik"
}