{
  "place_id": "varshava#7901_11167",
  "wikidata": "Q270",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Warszawa",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Warsaw",
      "why": "Established English exonym for Polish Warszawa.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Warszawa",
          "why": "The Polish endonym, used in Polish addresses and some international contexts."
        },
        {
          "name": "Varsovia",
          "why": "Latin historical name, encountered in scholarly and ecclesiastical references; not a modern vernacular name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Warschau",
          "why": "Historical German name, encountered in historical writing, maps and genealogy; not the current official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Varsovie",
          "why": "French spelling, useful for identifying references and quotations in French; not the usual modern English spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Varshava",
          "why": "Russian-based romanized spelling, encountered in older English and international texts; retained for recognition, not as the preferred local form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Varsovie",
      "why": "Exonyme français traditionnel de Warszawa.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Warszawa",
          "why": "Nom polonais, employé notamment dans les adresses."
        },
        {
          "name": "Varsovia",
          "why": "Nom latin historique, rencontré dans les références savantes et ecclésiastiques ; ce n’est pas un nom usuel moderne."
        },
        {
          "name": "Warschau",
          "why": "Nom allemand historique, rencontré dans les ouvrages historiques, les cartes et la généalogie ; ce n’est pas le nom officiel actuel."
        },
        {
          "name": "Varshava",
          "why": "Graphie romanisée issue du russe, rencontrée dans les textes anciens et internationaux ; conservée pour l’identification, sans en faire la forme locale privilégiée."
        },
        {
          "name": "Warsaw",
          "why": "Forme anglaise établie, utile pour identifier les titres anglais cités en français."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Warsaw is Poland’s capital, on the Vistula River. Its reconstructed Old Town stands beside a city shaped by wartime destruction and postwar rebuilding.",
  "about_fr": "Varsovie est la capitale de la Pologne, sur la Vistule. Sa vieille ville reconstruite côtoie des quartiers profondément marqués par les destructions de la guerre et la reconstruction.",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 2,
  "slug": "warsaw"
}