{
  "place_id": "antratsyt#7673_12171",
  "wikidata": "Q609028",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Антрацит",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Antratsyt",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019. This spelling also coincides with BGN/PCGN 1965.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Antratsit",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling; also resembles the Russian word for anthracite."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokovo-Antratsit",
          "why": "Former Russian-based city name before the shorter name was adopted in 1962."
        },
        {
          "name": "Antracit",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Antrat͡syt",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011 library romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Антрацит",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Antratsyt",
      "why": "Ukrainian-based spelling used in French geographical references; the Russian-based variant remains recognizable.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Antratsit",
          "why": "Russian-based form also encountered in French writing on the Donbas."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bokovo-Antratsit",
          "why": "Former name in Russian transcription, relevant in French accounts of the period before 1962."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Antratsyt is a coal-mining city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its name refers to anthracite, the hard coal associated with this part of the Donbas.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The 1962 change shortened the earlier Bokovo-Antratsyt name; the mining name is not a recent decommunization renaming.",
  "rank": 205,
  "slug": "antratsyt"
}