{
  "place_id": "ivanivka#7679_12164",
  "wikidata": "Q50824",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Іванівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ivanivka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. The same string also results from BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965). The same string also results from ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table).",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ivanovka",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin form for matching historical or multilingual sources; English prose frequency is not established. Not an official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ìvanìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form. Actual English textual use is unverified; not an asserted established exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Іванівка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local maps, addresses and source titles quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ivanivka",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical references.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ivanovka",
          "why": "Russian-based form indexed in French naming data; French heading retains the Ukrainian-based Ivanivka."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ivanivka is a settlement in Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast near the Donbas mining towns of Antratsyt and Khrustalnyi. Its development is connected with the coal-mining economy of the surrounding region.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "This is Ivanivka in Rovenky Raion near Khrustalnyi, formerly in Antratsyt Raion. The input population may include a wider local area; no population is repeated. Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50824 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanivka,_Luhansk_Oblast ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanivka_(oblast_de_Louhansk).",
  "rank": 1174,
  "slug": "ivanivka"
}