{
  "place_id": "sambir#7750_11288",
  "wikidata": "Q156593",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Самбір",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sambir",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sambor",
          "why": "Historical Polish name used in English histories and family records."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sambìr",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Самбір",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sambir",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sambor",
          "why": "Polish historical form encountered in French accounts of the former Polish territories; not a modern French transcription."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sambir is a town on the Dniester in Lviv Oblast, near the foothills of the Carpathians. Its old centre reflects its long history as a trading town in Galicia.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Do not confuse with Staryi Sambir, a separate nearby town. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 301,
  "slug": "sambir"
}