{
  "place_id": "boryslav#7738_11301",
  "wikidata": "Q157525",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Борислав",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Boryslav",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Borysław",
          "why": "Historical Polish name used in English histories and family records."
        },
        {
          "name": "Borislav",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling encountered in older English maps, reporting and reference works; not the selected Ukrainian-based form. The same spelling also results from ISO 9:1995 applied to Ukrainian; that equivalence does not establish additional usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Boryslaw",
          "why": "Polish historical spelling without the stroke on ł, common in English oil-industry and genealogical sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Борислав",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Boryslav",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Borysław",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in French writing about Galician petroleum."
        },
        {
          "name": "Borislav",
          "why": "Older Russian-mediated spelling in French reference works."
        },
        {
          "name": "Boryslaw",
          "why": "Plain-letter version of the Polish historical form."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Boryslav is a city in Lviv Oblast at the edge of the Ukrainian Carpathians. It became a major centre of the Galician oil and ozokerite industries.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": " Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 322,
  "slug": "boryslav"
}