{
  "place_id": "rivne#7680_11763",
  "wikidata": "Q4395287",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Рівне",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Rivne",
      "why": "Current official Ukrainian name in national romanization (2010), adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019; selected for English geographical use. Also matches BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965). Also matches ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table).",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Rovnoye",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling for matching older English geographical references; independent prose frequency unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rìvne",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived retrieval form, independent English prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Рівне",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for local sources quoted or indexed in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Rivne",
      "why": "Same as in English; no distinct established French prose form verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Rovnoïé",
          "why": "Russian-derived French naming-data alias using ïé; independent French prose use unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rìvne",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 form for French catalogue matching; not verified as French prose usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rovnoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free form of Rovnoïé for French indexing; independent prose frequency unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Rivne is a village in Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. It belongs to Novoukrainka Raion and is distinct from the city of Rivne in northwestern Ukraine.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Rivne is the village in Novoukrainka Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, not the northwestern Ukrainian regional capital. Population omitted; French Rovnoïé is a naming-data alias, not a verified contemporary French preference. Standard-derived forms support retrieval without implying English or French press adoption. Independent French locality-prose evidence is limited. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4395287 ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Рівне_(Рівнянська_сільська_громада) ; https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riwne_(hromada_Riwne) ; https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivne,_Novoukraiinka.",
  "dropped": [],
  "version": 0,
  "rank": 1652,
  "slug": "rivne-q4395287"
}