{
  "place_id": "nova-odesa#7628_11765",
  "wikidata": "Q607203",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Нова Одеса",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Nova Odesa",
      "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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here.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": "Novaya Odessa",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nova Odessa",
          "why": "Older spelling retaining the established Odessa spelling for the second element."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novo-Odessa",
          "why": "Russian-mediated compound spelling found in older geographical material."
        },
        {
          "name": "Нова Одеса",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Nova Odessa",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; the established French spelling Odessa is retained in the second element.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Nova Odesa",
          "why": "International spelling used in French source titles; French reference usage also retains double-s Odessa."
        },
        {
          "name": "Nova-Odessa",
          "why": "Hyphenated French reference variant; not a separate official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novaïa Odessa",
          "why": "French transcription of the Russian name, rather than the Ukrainian one."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novaia Odessa",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Novaïa Odessa for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Nova Odesa is a town on the Southern Bug north of Mykolaiv. It serves surrounding farming communities and has a history connected with river transport and trade.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 844,
  "slug": "nova-odesa"
}