Elamur LocationsDzhankoi
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Джанкой.
English name
Dzhankoi — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019.
Other forms in use:
- Dzhankoy — Russian-based English spelling, common in older maps and current reporting. BGN/PCGN 1965 geographical romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- Canköy — Crimean Tatar Latin-script name, used in English accounts of Crimean Tatar geography and history.
- Cankoy — Diacritic-free rendering of the Crimean Tatar name.
- Djankoi — French-style spelling without the diaeresis, also seen in international references.
- Džankoj — ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- Dz͡hankoĭ — ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011 library romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
- Джанкой — Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form.
French name
Djankoï — Established French transcription uses dj for дж and ï to keep the final vowels separate.
Other forms in use:
- Djankoi — French variant without the diaeresis.
- Dzhankoi — Same official Ukrainian Latin form as in English; used when French sources retain Ukrainian romanization.
- Dzhankoy — English-style Russian transcription sometimes reproduced in French reporting.
- Canköy — Crimean Tatar name retained in French texts discussing Crimean Tatar history and geography.
About
Dzhankoi is a city and railway junction in northern Crimea. Its position on routes across the peninsula made transport and agricultural processing important to its development.
Notes
UA follows internationally recognized sovereignty over Crimea. Canköy is a Crimean Tatar language form; differences between it and Dzhankoi are not a recent renaming.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q161978 · JSON
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