{
  "place_id": "cherepkivtsi#7667_11442",
  "wikidata": "Q4512917",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Черепківці",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Cherepkivtsi",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Cerepcăuți",
          "why": "Romanian historical and community name quoted in English Bukovina references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czerepkoutz",
          "why": "German historical form quoted in English reference material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Čerepkìvcì",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Cherepkivt͡si",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Черепківці",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Cerepcauti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Cerepcăuți for English retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Cherepkivtsi",
      "why": "Same form as in English; Ukrainian Latin spelling retained because a settled French transcription has not been established.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Cerepcăuți",
          "why": "Romanian community name useful in French Bukovina research; French prose occurrence not independently established."
        },
        {
          "name": "Czerepkoutz",
          "why": "German historical form for French archival retrieval; French prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Cerepcauti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Cerepcăuți for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Cherepkivtsi is a village in Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. It lies in the Bukovina border region near Romania.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "low",
  "notes": "The supplied population may reflect a larger local administrative unit; no population is repeated. A settled French transcription was not established, so French preserves Cherepkivtsi. System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherepkivtsi.",
  "rank": 1050,
  "slug": "cherepkivtsi"
}