{
  "place_id": "donets#7750_12031",
  "wikidata": "Q4512408",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Донець",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Donets",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name adopted in 2016; national romanization (2010) gives Donets.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Chervonyi Donets",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian Soviet name, shortened to Donets in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chervony Donets",
          "why": "Shorter Russian-based historical spelling; not a distinct renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Donets’",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form. Actual English textual use is unverified; not an asserted established exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Donecʹ",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form. Actual English textual use is unverified; not an asserted established exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Donet͡sʹ",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form. Actual English textual use is unverified; not an asserted established exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Донець",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local maps, addresses and source titles quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Donets",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical references.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Chervonyi Donets",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, shortened in 2016; retained for French historical source matching."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Donets is a settlement in Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast near the Siverskyi Donets River. Its industrial development is linked to the Shebelynka gas field and gas processing.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Former Chervonyi Donets shortened to Donets in 2016. Sources disagree on the precise May date, so only the year is asserted. Do not confuse the settlement with the river, Donetsk city, or a different former Chervonyi Donets renamed Shchaslyve. Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donets,_Ukraine ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donets_(oblast_de_Kharkiv).",
  "rank": 1151,
  "slug": "donets"
}