{
  "place_id": "buchach#7725_11410",
  "wikidata": "Q849109",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Бучач",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Buchach",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Buczacz",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English historical and genealogical references to this place."
        },
        {
          "name": "Boutchatch",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Bučač",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Бучач",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Boutchatch",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; ou and tch adapt the Ukrainian consonants and vowel to French spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Buczacz",
          "why": "Polish name used in French historical and literary writing, notably about Agnon."
        },
        {
          "name": "Buchach",
          "why": "International Ukrainian form found in French source titles."
        },
        {
          "name": "Butschatsch",
          "why": "German historical form, encountered in French writing on Austrian Galicia."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Buchach is a town on the Strypa in Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. Its castle ruins, ornate town hall and association with the writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon reflect its layered Galician history.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 810,
  "slug": "buchach"
}