{
  "place_id": "kaniv#7763_11747",
  "wikidata": "Q925340",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Канів",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kaniv",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kanev",
          "why": "Russian-based historical English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kaniów",
          "why": "Polish historical form used in English accounts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kaniow",
          "why": "Unaccented form of the Polish historical name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kanìv",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Канів",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kaniv",
      "why": "Same as in English; Kaniv is used in French reference writing, while older Russian-mediated sources use Kaniev.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kaniev",
          "why": "Russian-based French geographical form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kanev",
          "why": "International Russian-based spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kaniów",
          "why": "Polish historical form used in discussions of the 1787 meeting with Catherine II."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kaniv is a town on the Dnipro in Cherkasy Oblast. Taras Shevchenko’s grave on a hill above the river makes it an important place of Ukrainian remembrance.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "French alternatives: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaniv . Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3_0/rom2_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .",
  "rank": 425,
  "slug": "kaniv"
}