{
  "place_id": "hostomel#7810_11681",
  "wikidata": "Q357038",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Гостомель",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Hostomel",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Hostomel’",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian transcription preserving the final soft sign. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; supplied as a technical retrieval form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hostomel'",
          "why": "ASCII soft-sign spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gostomel",
          "why": "Russian-mediated name prominent in international reporting about the airport."
        },
        {
          "name": "Gostomelʹ",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hostomelʹ",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; a catalogue retrieval form rather than a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Hostomel",
      "why": "Same as in English; Hostomel is attested in Le Monde’s French reporting in 2022, alongside the competing Gostomel spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Gostomel",
          "why": "Russian-mediated spelling widely used in French reporting about the airport; Hostomel is also directly attested in Le Monde."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Hostomel is a settlement northwest of Kyiv in Kyiv Oblast. It is associated with glass production and with the Antonov cargo-aircraft airport, a major site of fighting in 2022.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 528,
  "slug": "hostomel"
}