{
  "place_id": "novolukoml#8036_11619",
  "wikidata": "Q954178",
  "country": "BY",
  "local_name": "Новалукомль",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Novalukoml",
      "why": "Belarusian-based English form, distinguished from Russian-based Novolukoml.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novolukoml",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling of Новолукомль."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novalukomĺ",
          "why": "Belarusian national geographical romanization (2007; UN recommendation 2012), preserving the soft final l."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novolukoml’",
          "why": "Russian-based form retaining the final soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novaloukoml",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Новалукомль",
          "why": "Original Belarusian spelling, retained for matching local sources cited in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Novaloukoml",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; ou renders у; Nova- follows Belarusian rather than Russian Novo-.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novalukoml",
          "why": "International Belarusian-based form, useful when French sources quote English documents."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novoloukoml",
          "why": "French Russian-based spelling, distinct from Belarusian-based Novaloukoml."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Novalukoml is a town near Lake Lukoml in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It was built to serve the large Lukoml thermal power station.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Belarusian Новалукомль and Russian Новолукомль produce different vowel sequences. The 2007 Belarusian geographical form is labelled by date, not presented as the unchanged domestic policy after 2023. Belarusian 2007 geographical forms are dated historical standards; no implementation of the replacement domestic instruction of 2023 is claimed.",
  "rank": 857,
  "slug": "novalukoml"
}