{
  "place_id": "mykhailivka#7626_11956",
  "wikidata": "Q1019407",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Михайлівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Mykhailivka",
      "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": "Mikhailovka",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mykhaylivka",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based spelling retaining y for й. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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": "Mihajlìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mykhaĭlivka",
          "why": "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": "Михайлівка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Mykhailivka",
      "why": "Same form as in English; selected for French source matching. An established distinct French exonym or press preference was not verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Mikhaïlovka",
          "why": "French Russian-based transcription; not a separate settlement, and highly ambiguous without the region."
        },
        {
          "name": "Mikhailovka",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Mikhaïlovka for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Mykhailivka is a settlement in the inland steppe of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It was a district administrative centre before Ukraine's 2020 reform and serves an agricultural area west of the Molochna valley.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 828,
  "slug": "mykhailivka"
}