Piatykhatky

A settlement in Ukraine; local name П'ятихатки.

English name

Piatykhatky — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.

Other forms in use:

Pyatykhatky — Older Ukrainian-based transcription of the initial П’я.
Pyatikhatki — Russian-based name used in English railway and military histories.
Piatikhatki — Alternative English romanization of the Russian name.
P”yatykhatky — BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian technical transliteration, with the Ukrainian apostrophe represented by the system’s double quotation mark; superseded for geographical use in 2019.

Piatykhatky — Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.

Other forms in use:

Piatykhatky is a town in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast northeast of Kryvyi Rih. Its railway junction was the main reason for the settlement’s growth.

The town in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is distinct from the Kharkiv neighbourhood and many villages called Piatykhatky.