{
  "place_id": "balta#7663_11645",
  "wikidata": "Q805554",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Балта",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Balta",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. ISO 9:1995 gives the same string. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string. ALA-LC (2011) gives the same string.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bałta",
          "why": "Polish historical spelling, relevant to English histories and Jewish family records."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Balta",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bałta",
          "why": "Polish historical form quoted in French studies of the old frontier and Jewish communities."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Balta is a town in northern Odesa Oblast on the Kodyma River. Its market-town history reflects a former borderland between Ottoman and Polish territories.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Do not confuse with Bălți in Moldova. Balta was a centre of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.",
  "rank": 505,
  "slug": "balta"
}