{
  "place_id": "marinka#7663_12083",
  "wikidata": "Q2494365",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Мар'їнка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Marinka",
      "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": "Maryinka",
          "why": "Widely used Russian-based English spelling, also resembling older Ukrainian transcription."
        },
        {
          "name": "Marynka",
          "why": "Simplified English press spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mar'inka",
          "why": "English spelling preserving the Ukrainian apostrophe; not the national 2010 form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Marïnka",
          "why": "French spelling, useful when an English text cites French maps, titles or historical sources; not the selected English main form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mar”yinka",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965); a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Мар'їнка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Marïnka",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; the adaptation follows French transcription conventions rather than English spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Marinka",
          "why": "Russian-derived form explicitly recorded in French references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mariinka",
          "why": "Alternative indexed French spelling, without the diaeresis; not the strict Ukrainian national form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Maryinka",
          "why": "International spelling used in French news reporting; French publications do not use one uniform form."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Marinka is a city west of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Fighting during Russia's war against Ukraine has devastated its buildings and displaced its community.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Input Q2494365 correctly identifies the Ukrainian city. The unqualified English Marinka page can lead to a disambiguation item; do not replace the city ID with Q1097023. No current population or military-control claim is made. System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinka ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marïnka. Some reference requests failed during research; surviving checks and unresolved usage limitations are distinguished above.",
  "rank": 1079,
  "slug": "marinka"
}