{
  "place_id": "hrebinka#7784_11802",
  "wikidata": "Q268814",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Гребінка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Hrebinka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, using the Ukrainian national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Grebenka",
          "why": "Russian-based English rendering of Гребёнка, with ё represented by e."
        },
        {
          "name": "Grebyonka",
          "why": "Russian-based form making the ё vowel explicit."
        },
        {
          "name": "Grebìnka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived retrieval form, not claimed as an independently attested press exonym. Confidence in textual occurrence is medium."
        },
        {
          "name": "Гребінка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local addresses, maps or source titles cited in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Гребёнка",
          "why": "Russian-script name recorded in local/reference sources, retained for matching quotations in English; not a preferred English spelling."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Hrebinka",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in French reference usage, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Grebionka",
          "why": "Russian-derived French form recorded alongside Hrebinka."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Hrebinka is a railway town in western Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine. Its junction links several railway routes, and the town bears the name of the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Hrebinka.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Formal romanization variants are search aids and do not establish common usage in either language. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrebinka ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrebinka.",
  "rank": 915,
  "slug": "hrebinka"
}