{
  "place_id": "polohy#7637_12014",
  "wikidata": "Q368856",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Пологи",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Polohy",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string. ALA-LC (2011) gives the same string.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pologi",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling prominent in older English maps and reporting. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chubarivka",
          "why": "Former Ukrainian Soviet commemorative name, replaced by Polohy in 1938."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chubarovka",
          "why": "Russian-mediated version of the former name, used before 1938."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Polohy",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Pologi",
          "why": "Russian-mediated form used in French sources alongside the Ukrainian spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tchoubarivka",
          "why": "French-style rendering of the former Ukrainian name, replaced in 1938."
        },
        {
          "name": "Tchoubarovka",
          "why": "French-style rendering of the former Russian name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Polohy is a town in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the Kinska River. It developed as a railway junction serving the agricultural and industrial districts of southeastern Ukraine.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "This record is the town in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, not one of the villages sharing the name.",
  "rank": 545,
  "slug": "polohy"
}