{
  "place_id": "nova-kakhovka#7597_11854",
  "wikidata": "Q987491",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Нова Каховка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Nova Kakhovka",
      "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. This spelling also coincides with BGN/PCGN 1965 and ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novaya Kakhovka",
          "why": "Russian-based form commonly used in English reporting and older maps."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nova Kahovka",
          "why": "Simplified Latin transcription without kh; not the national 2010 spelling. 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": "Нова Каховка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Nova Kakhovka",
      "why": "Same Ukrainian-based form as in English; French reporting also uses Russian-based Novaïa Kakhovka.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Novaïa Kakhovka",
          "why": "Russian-based French form with ï separating the vowels in Novaïa."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novaya Kakhovka",
          "why": "English-style Russian transcription also encountered in French reporting."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Nova Kakhovka is a planned city in Kherson Oblast on the lower Dnipro. It was built around the Kakhovka hydroelectric project, whose dam was destroyed in 2023.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Distinct from nearby Kakhovka. Do not describe the former reservoir or hydroelectric station as intact or operating.",
  "rank": 233,
  "slug": "nova-kakhovka"
}