{
  "place_id": "piatykhatky#7689_11872",
  "wikidata": "Q640661",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "П'ятихатки",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Piatykhatky",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pyatykhatky",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based transcription of the initial П’я."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pyatikhatki",
          "why": "Russian-based name used in English railway and military histories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Piatikhatki",
          "why": "Alternative English romanization of the Russian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "P”yatykhatky",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian technical transliteration, with the Ukrainian apostrophe represented by the system’s double quotation mark; superseded for geographical use in 2019."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Piatykhatky",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Piatikhatki",
          "why": "Russian-mediated form in older French geographical material."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Piatykhatky is a town in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast northeast of Kryvyi Rih. Its railway junction was the main reason for the settlement’s growth.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The town in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is distinct from the Kharkiv neighbourhood and many villages called Piatykhatky.",
  "rank": 543,
  "slug": "piatykhatky"
}