{
  "place_id": "kotelva#7781_11930",
  "wikidata": "Q1958270",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Котельва",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Kotelva",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Kotel’va",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kotel'va",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kotelʹva",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Котельва",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Kotelva",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Kotelva is a settlement on a river of the same name in northeastern Poltava Oblast. Its Holy Trinity Church is a local landmark, and the surrounding area has a long Cossack and archaeological history.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 814,
  "slug": "kotelva"
}