{
  "place_id": "kalynivka#7747_11584",
  "wikidata": "Q1020122",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Калинівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kalynivka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string. ALA-LC (2011) gives the same string.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kalinovka",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling common in older English maps; many other settlements share it."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kalyniwka",
          "why": "Ukrainian-based form with w for в, found in German-influenced historical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kalinìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kalynivka",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kalinovka",
          "why": "Russian-mediated form used in older French sources; highly ambiguous without Vinnytsia Oblast."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kalynivka is a town north of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine. Railway links and food-processing industries connect it with the agricultural countryside of Podillia.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Identified as the town in Vinnytsia Oblast, not another Ukrainian village of this very common name.",
  "rank": 527,
  "slug": "kalynivka"
}