{
  "place_id": "dzhankoi#7539_11910",
  "wikidata": "Q161978",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Джанкой",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Dzhankoi",
      "why": "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.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Dzhankoy",
          "why": "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."
        },
        {
          "name": "Canköy",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar Latin-script name, used in English accounts of Crimean Tatar geography and history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Cankoy",
          "why": "Diacritic-free rendering of the Crimean Tatar name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Djankoi",
          "why": "French-style spelling without the diaeresis, also seen in international references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Džankoj",
          "why": "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."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dz͡hankoĭ",
          "why": "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."
        },
        {
          "name": "Джанкой",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Djankoï",
      "why": "Established French transcription uses dj for дж and ï to keep the final vowels separate.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Djankoi",
          "why": "French variant without the diaeresis."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dzhankoi",
          "why": "Same official Ukrainian Latin form as in English; used when French sources retain Ukrainian romanization."
        },
        {
          "name": "Dzhankoy",
          "why": "English-style Russian transcription sometimes reproduced in French reporting."
        },
        {
          "name": "Canköy",
          "why": "Crimean Tatar name retained in French texts discussing Crimean Tatar history and geography."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "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.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "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.",
  "rank": 279,
  "slug": "dzhankoi"
}