{
  "place_id": "mena#7862_11789",
  "wikidata": "Q149596",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Мена",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Mena",
      "why": "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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here.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.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Мена",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Mena",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "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.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 887,
  "slug": "mena"
}