{
  "place_id": "kostopil#7826_11469",
  "wikidata": "Q148985",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Костопіль",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kostopil",
      "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": "Kostopol",
          "why": "Russian-based form and plain-letter historical Polish spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kostopil’",
          "why": "Soft-sign-marked Ukrainian spelling used in transliteration-based references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kostopolʹ",
          "why": "Soft-sign-marked Russian transliteration."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kostopol'",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe Russian transliteration."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kostopìlʹ",
          "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": "Костопіль",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kostopil",
      "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": "Kostopol",
          "why": "Older Russian- or Polish-mediated spelling in French geographical and historical writing."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kostopil is a town in Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine. It is associated with timber processing and other industries serving the surrounding Polissia region.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Ukrainian Костопіль and Russian Костополь are language forms of the same name. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 329,
  "slug": "kostopil"
}