{
  "place_id": "veiherovo#8033_11013",
  "wikidata": "Q672949",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Wejherowo",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Wejherowo",
      "why": "Current Polish Latin-script name, retained in English; no transliteration is needed.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Neustadt in Westpreußen",
          "why": "Historical German name, used in English accounts of the town before 1945 and in historical or family records; not the current official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Neustadt in Westpreussen",
          "why": "German historical form with ss replacing ß."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wejrowò",
          "why": "Kashubian name; useful when English texts discuss local Kashubian culture."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Wejherowo",
      "why": "Same current Polish spelling as in English; no separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Neustadt in Westpreußen",
          "why": "German historical name retained in French writing about the former German town and in references to German sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Neustadt in Westpreussen",
          "why": "German historical spelling with ss, also recognizable in French archival references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wejrowò",
          "why": "Kashubian form cited in French discussions of Kashubian language and culture."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Wejherowo is a town in Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. Its monastery and wooded pilgrimage calvary are important landmarks in the Kashubian region.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Bare Neustadt is ambiguous and is not supplied as a precise alias.",
  "rank": 223,
  "slug": "wejherowo"
}