{
  "place_id": "khust#7676_11294",
  "wikidata": "Q146469",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Хуст",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Khust",
      "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": "Huszt",
          "why": "Hungarian historical name common in English accounts of Carpathian Ruthenia."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chust",
          "why": "Czech, Slovak and historical Polish form used in English histories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Hust",
          "why": "Older English form without the initial kh. The same spelling also results from ISO 9:1995 applied to Ukrainian; that equivalence does not establish additional usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Хуст",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Khoust",
      "why": "French geographical transcription, selected for recognizability in French references; normally used without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Khust",
          "why": "International spelling also encountered in French texts and map references; the selected French form follows French transcription practice."
        },
        {
          "name": "Huszt",
          "why": "Hungarian historical name used in French Central European history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chust",
          "why": "Czechoslovak-period and historical form in French references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Khust is a town in Zakarpattia Oblast, near the meeting of the Rika and Tysa rivers. Ruins of a hilltop castle overlook the town and the surrounding valley.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "The Hungarian form is not a recent official renaming. Khust was a political centre of Carpatho-Ukraine. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 367,
  "slug": "khust"
}