{
  "place_id": "kokhtla-yarve#8300_11515",
  "wikidata": "Q201391",
  "country": "EE",
  "local_name": "Kohtla-Järve",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kohtla-Järve",
      "why": "Estonian Latin-script name used in English; native spelling and punctuation retained.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kohtla Järve",
          "why": "Unhyphenated search and index variant; official Estonian uses a hyphen."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kokhtla-Yarve",
          "why": "Russian-based romanization, associated with Soviet and Russian-language references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kokhtla-Jarve",
          "why": "Mixed international/Russian-based spelling in older references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kohtla-Jarve",
          "why": "Spelling without native diacritics, used in English plain-text indexes and international search; not a separate exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kohtla-Järve",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; French references retain the local Latin-script name, without a fixed article.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kohtla Järve",
          "why": "Unhyphenated French index variant; the official hyphen is preferred."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kokhtla-Iarvé",
          "why": "Older Russian-mediated French form, attested in Soviet-era French-language publishing."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kohtla-Jarve",
          "why": "French plain-text and search variant without native diacritics; the main form keeps the local spelling."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kohtla-Järve is an industrial city in Ida-Viru County in north-eastern Estonia. Its separate urban districts grew around oil-shale mining and processing.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The city is spatially discontinuous; do not describe all districts as one compact settlement. Input label 'Кохтла-Ярве' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form.",
  "rank": 311,
  "slug": "kohtla-jarve"
}