{
  "place_id": "bilozerske#7696_12058",
  "wikidata": "Q2351983",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Білозерське",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Bilozerske",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Belozerskoye",
          "why": "Russian-based name used in older English mining and geographical sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Belozerskoe",
          "why": "Alternative international rendering of the Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bìlozersʹke",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; standard-derived retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual use."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bilozers’ke",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; standard-derived retrieval form, with medium confidence in textual use."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bilozersʹke",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; standard-derived catalogue form, with medium confidence in textual use."
        },
        {
          "name": "Білозерське",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, retained in quoted addresses and source titles; not a separate English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bilozers'ke",
          "why": "ASCII apostrophe version of the BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian retrieval spelling; not an additional official name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Bilozerske",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Belozerskoïe",
          "why": "French-style Russian-mediated transcription in older geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Belozerskoye",
          "why": "International Russian spelling in French source citations."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Bilozerske is a coal-mining town in Donetsk Oblast near Dobropillia. Its housing and industrial layout reflect its development around the surrounding mines.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Not Bilozersk in Kherson Oblast or Belozersk in Russia.",
  "rank": 684,
  "slug": "bilozerske"
}