{
  "place_id": "obukhivka#7696_11937",
  "wikidata": "Q598009",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Обухівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Obukhivka",
      "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": "Obukhovka",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling used in historical and geographical references; not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirovske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian Soviet name, replaced by Obukhivka in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirovskoye",
          "why": "Russian form of the former name, replaced in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oboukhivka",
          "why": "French spelling, useful when an English text cites French maps, titles or historical sources; not the selected English main form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Obuhìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; a standard-derived search form, not evidence of an established English exonym. Textual occurrence has not been independently verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Обухівка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling, useful when matching quoted local maps, addresses and source titles in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Oboukhivka",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; the adaptation follows French transcription conventions rather than English spelling.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Oboukhovka",
          "why": "Russian-derived spelling explicitly recorded in French reference usage; not a change to the Ukrainian official name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirovske",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian name, replaced in 2016; French historical retrieval only."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirovskoïe",
          "why": "French rendering of the Russian former name, replaced in 2016."
        },
        {
          "name": "Obukhivka",
          "why": "International spelling also useful for French source matching; the selected French main follows French reference transcription."
        },
        {
          "name": "Kirovskoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Kirovskoïe for French retrieval; not a separate official name. Independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Obukhivka is a settlement northwest of Dnipro in central Ukraine. It lies near the Dnipro and the floodplain of the Oril River.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Kirovske renamed Obukhivka in 2016. This is the settlement near Dnipro, not another Obukhivka. System-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of press frequency. Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obukhivka ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboukhivka_(oblast_de_Dnipropetrovsk).",
  "rank": 1067,
  "slug": "obukhivka"
}