json_encode и кириллица

[{"id":"5","name":"\u0412\u0438\u043a\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f"}

preg_replace_callback('/\\\u([0-9a-fA-F]{4})/',create_function('$match', 'return mb_convert_encoding("&#". intval($match[1], 16) . ";", "UTF-8", "HTML-ENTITIES");'),
json_encode($region_list)
)

{"id":"5","name":"Кинсленд"}]

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