# Translation of the name of the town
**URL:** https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919
**Category:** openrouteservice
**Created:** [May 4, 2026, 8:55am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919 "2026-05-04T08:55:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Alexandra](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/Alexandra)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 8:55am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919/1 "2026-05-04T08:55:10Z")
When we would like to have the informations about the italian town “BRA”, the service returns the name of the town translated in French (ie “Soutien-gorge”).
How to have the information with the orignal name (ie BRA) ?
Regards
Alexandra
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### Author:  [@jschnell](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/jschnell)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919/2 "2026-05-04T08:56:31Z")
Hey,
could you be a bit more specific on what you are doing and where you are encountering this issue?
That makes it a lot easier to help 🙂
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Alexandra](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/Alexandra)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 9:25am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919/3 "2026-05-04T09:25:46Z")
With the interface, when I tiped “BRA Italie”, the results are translated in french (ie “Soutien-gorge” instead “BRA”). We have the same results with the service of API.
Is it more clear ?
Regards
Alexandra
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### Author:  [@sascha](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/sascha)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919/4 "2026-05-05T07:05:16Z")
To clarify it even more: “soutien-gorge” is a regular french word (translation of the english word “bra”) and not a city name. I guess it is a wrong translation in the geocoder and not in ORS.
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### Author:  [@Alexandra](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/Alexandra)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2026, 7:19am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919/5 "2026-05-05T07:19:45Z")
Your understanding is correct.
I am a little lost : what it is “Geocoder” ? Do you know how to find a solution ?
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### Author:  [@jschnell](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/jschnell)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2026, 7:32am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919/6 "2026-05-05T07:32:13Z")
Hey,
route calculation works on geographic coordinates, not location names.
The process of converting between these is called “geocoding”.
“Forward Geocoding” takes a place name and tries to convert that into a geographic coordinate, “Reverse Geocoding” takes a geographic coordinate and tries to convert that into a place name.
The “Geocoder” is the tool that is doing this conversion.
It is the tool behind the search at [maps.openrouteservice.org](http://maps.openrouteservice.org) that you took the screenshot of.
However, I could neither get the geocoder on [maps.openrouteservice.org](http://maps.openrouteservice.org) to return the search results that you showed nor could I get the geocoder in our [interactive API playground](https://openrouteservice.org/dev/#/api-docs/geocode/search/get) to return translated results.
If you manage to provide an API request that returns such a translated result, that would help greatly to investigate what is going on here.
I wonder whether it might be the case that automatic translation in your browser is messing with the results?
Best regards
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### Author:  [@Alexandra](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/Alexandra)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919/7 "2026-05-05T14:29:23Z")
Thank you for your answer
Via Postman, we have the result
Do we use the API correctly ? Do you see how to have the right name of the town please ?
Best regards
Alexandra
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### Author:  [@sascha](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/sascha)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2026, 6:30am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/translation-of-the-name-of-the-town/7919/8 "2026-05-06T06:30:45Z")
I can reproduce the issue with this curl request (api-key omitted):
`curl --include --header “Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8” --header “Accept: application/json, application/geo+json, application/gpx+xml, img/png; charset=utf-8” ‘``https://api.openrouteservice.org/geocode/autocomplete?api_key=``&text=bra&boundary.country=it&lang=fr’`
without `lang=fr` the issue is not there.