{
  "place_id": "novoazovsk#7617_12115",
  "wikidata": "Q2353526",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Новоазовськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Novoazovsk",
      "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": "Novoazovsk’",
          "why": "Ukrainian-based spelling retaining the final soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Budonivka",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced by Novoazovsk in 1959."
        },
        {
          "name": "Budyonovka",
          "why": "Russian form of the former name, replaced in 1959."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novonikolayevskaya",
          "why": "Earlier Russian name of the Cossack stanitsa; historical, before the Soviet name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novoazovs’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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": "Novoazovs'k",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novoazovsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym. 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": "Новоазовськ",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Novoazovsk",
      "why": "Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Boudionovka",
          "why": "French Russian-based rendering of the former name, replaced in 1959."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novonikolaïevskaïa",
          "why": "French Russian-based form of the earlier stanitsa name, used for historical retrieval."
        },
        {
          "name": "Novonikolaievskaia",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Novonikolaïevskaïa for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Novoazovsk is a coastal town east of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast. It stands near the mouth of the Hruzkyi Yelanchyk and a road crossing close to the Russian border.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 876,
  "slug": "novoazovsk"
}