{
  "place_id": "okhtyrka#7794_11938",
  "wikidata": "Q1013471",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Охтирка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Okhtyrka",
      "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": "Akhtyrka",
          "why": "Established Russian-based form, common in older English historical and geographical works."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ohtyrka",
          "why": "Simplified Latin transcription dropping the k in kh; not the national 2010 spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ohtirka",
          "why": "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": "Охтирка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Okhtyrka",
      "why": "Same Ukrainian-based form as in English; French sources also preserve the older Akhtyrka. Ukrainian-based form also used in French references.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Akhtyrka",
          "why": "Older Russian-based name familiar in French historical and geographical sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Okhtyrka is a city in Sumy Oblast in northeastern Ukraine, near the Vorskla River. It has a Cossack regimental past and a later role in the region’s oil industry.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The city is near the Vorskla; the smaller local watercourse also bears the name Okhtyrka.",
  "rank": 222,
  "slug": "okhtyrka"
}