Mena

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Мена.

English name

Mena — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.

Other forms in use:

• Мена — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.

French name

Mena — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.

About

Mena is a town in Chernihiv Oblast in northern Ukraine. Its zoo and local history museum are distinctive institutions for a town of this size.

Notes

Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.

Identifiers: Wikidata Q149596 · JSON

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