{
  "place_id": "kelmentsi#7692_11490",
  "wikidata": "Q1738337",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Кельменці",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kelmentsi",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010); recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kelmentsy",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin spelling for matching older and Russian-derived English references; actual English prose frequency is unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chelmenți",
          "why": "Romanian historical and regional name explicitly recorded in English geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kel’mentsi",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kelʹmencì",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kelʹment͡si",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table); standard-derived retrieval form, with actual English prose frequency unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Кельменці",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local sources quoted in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chelmenti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Chelmenți for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kelmentsi",
      "why": "Same as in English; used as the French geographical reference heading.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Chelmenți",
          "why": "Romanian name for French matching of Bukovinian and Bessarabian sources; independent French prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chelmenti",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Chelmenți for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kelmentsi is a settlement in the Dniester district of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. It serves a farming area close to the Moldovan border.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "This is Kelmentsi in Chernivtsi Oblast, Romanian Chelmenți; no population or precise historical renaming date is inferred. Standard-derived forms are retrieval aids, not claims of English prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelmentsi ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelmentsi.",
  "rank": 1318,
  "slug": "kelmentsi"
}