{
  "place_id": "horodok#7765_11313",
  "wikidata": "Q930449",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Городок",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Horodok",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string. ALA-LC (2011) gives the same string.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gorodok",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling in older English reference works; ambiguous without a region. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; standard-derived retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual use."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gródek Jagielloński",
          "why": "Polish historical name, used in English accounts of Galicia."
        },
        {
          "name": "Grodek Jagiellonski",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of the Polish historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gródek",
          "why": "Polish short historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Horodok (Lviv Oblast)",
          "why": "English geographical disambiguation, not an additional official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Городок",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Horodok",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gródek Jagielloński",
          "why": "Historical Polish name used in French studies of Galicia."
        },
        {
          "name": "Grodek Jagiellonski",
          "why": "Accent-free form used in French indexes."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gorodok",
          "why": "Russian-mediated French historical form; specify the Lviv region."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Horodok is a town west of Lviv, beside ponds on the Vereshchytsia River. Its churches and former Franciscan complex reflect its long history in Galicia.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "This is the Lviv Oblast Horodok, not the Khmelnytskyi Oblast town earlier in this batch.",
  "rank": 619,
  "slug": "horodok-q930449"
}