{
  "place_id": "ivano-frankove#7773_11317",
  "wikidata": "Q1019884",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Івано-Франкове",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ivano-Frankove",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010); selected for English geographical use. Also identical to BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965). Also identical to ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table).",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Yaniv",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Ivano-Frankove in 1946."
        },
        {
          "name": "Janów",
          "why": "Polish historical name of the settlement called Yaniv in Ukrainian."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yanov",
          "why": "Russian-based form of the earlier Yaniv name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yanuv",
          "why": "Polish-derived phonetic variant indexed in English naming data; prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ìvano-Frankove",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with independent English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Івано-Франкове",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for local sources quoted or indexed in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Janow",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Janów for English retrieval; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Ivano-Frankove",
      "why": "Same as in English; the French locality reference uses this heading.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ivano-Frankove is a settlement on the Vereshchytsia River west of Lviv. It lies beside the Yaniv reservoir in the wooded Roztochchia uplands and bears the name of writer Ivan Franko.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Ivano-Frankove is the Lviv Oblast settlement formerly Yaniv/Janów, not the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. Former-name replacement year checked against Ukrainian locality history. https://uma.lvivcenter.org/uk/photos/63062 Standard-derived forms are retrieval aids, not claims of English prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1019884 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano-Frankove ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivano-Frankove ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Івано-Франкове.",
  "rank": 1459,
  "slug": "ivano-frankove"
}