{
  "place_id": "khmilnyk#7752_11553",
  "wikidata": "Q1011310",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Хмільник",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Khmilnyk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Khmelnik",
          "why": "Russian-based English form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chmielnik",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in accounts of Podillia; ambiguous with the Polish town of that name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Khmil’nyk",
          "why": "Ukrainian transliteration marking the medial soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hmìlʹnik",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Хмільник",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Khmilnyk",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Khmelnik",
          "why": "Russian-based French geographical form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chmielnik",
          "why": "Historical Polish form in French writing about Podillia."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Khmilnyk is a spa town in Vinnytsia Oblast on the Southern Buh. It is known for mineral-water treatments and for a castle and palace complex overlooking the river.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Not Chmielnik in Poland. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 381,
  "slug": "khmilnyk"
}