{
  "place_id": "marhanets#7647_11923",
  "wikidata": "Q610813",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Марганець",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Marhanets",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Marganets",
          "why": "Russian-based form, common in older English industrial and geographical references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Marhanets’",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 geographical romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Marganecʹ",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Marhanet͡sʹ",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011 library romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Марганець",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Marhanets",
      "why": "Ukrainian-based form retained here; French references also use Marganets.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Marganets",
          "why": "Russian-based name also found in French reporting on the Dnipro region."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Marhanets is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its growth is tied to the manganese-ore deposits of the Nikopol mining basin.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The city name refers to manganese. The description avoids treating the former Kakhovka reservoir shoreline as a current feature.",
  "rank": 236,
  "slug": "marhanets"
}