Novovolynsk

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Нововолинськ.

English name

Novovolynsk — 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. Modern English form without the soft-sign marker.

Other forms in use:

• Novovolyns’k — BGN/PCGN 1965 geographical romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
• Novovolinsʹk — 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.
• Novovolynsʹk — ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011 library romanization of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym.
• Нововолинськ — Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form.

French name

Novovolynsk — Same current name as in English; retained here for French readers without claiming a separate established French exonym. Ukrainian-based spelling retained in French geographical writing.

About

Novovolynsk is a mining city in Volyn Oblast in northwestern Ukraine, near the Polish border. It developed as a planned centre for the Lviv–Volyn coalfield.

Notes

The name means New Volyn; no separate established English exonym is selected.

Identifiers: Wikidata Q591719 · JSON

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