{
  "place_id": "kopchak#7547_11594",
  "wikidata": "Q2638544",
  "country": "MD",
  "local_name": "Copceac",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Copceac",
      "why": "Official Romanian Latin-script name retained in English.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kıpçak",
          "why": "Gagauz local name explicitly given in the English reference; Romanian civic name remains Copceac."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kopchak",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling, also resembling the supplied Ukrainian name Копчак."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tatar-Kopchak",
          "why": "Russian-based rendering of the historical qualified name Татар-Копчак."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kıpcak",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Kıpçak for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Copceac",
      "why": "Same as in English; no separate established French form was verified.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Copceac is a large village in the Gagauzia autonomous region of southern Moldova. Its local identity is closely connected with the Gagauz language and agricultural traditions.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "This is Copceac in Gagauzia, Q2638544, not the village of the same name in Ștefan Vodă district. Romanian Copceac and Gagauz Kıpçak are concurrent language forms, not a recent renaming. Independent French settlement-reference attestation is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2638544 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copceac,_Gagauzia ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Копчак_(Гагаузія).",
  "rank": 1443,
  "slug": "copceac"
}