{
  "place_id": "rokytne#7760_11693",
  "wikidata": "Q653642",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Рокитне",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Rokytne",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Rokitnoye",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rokytno",
          "why": "Historical Polish form used in regional and genealogical references; distinguish the many places of this name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rokitne",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Рокитне",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Rokytne",
      "why": "Same form as in English; selected for French source matching. An established distinct French exonym or press preference was not verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Rokitnoïe",
          "why": "French-style Russian transcription; French transcription supplied for retrieval, with medium confidence in textual occurrence for this settlement."
        },
        {
          "name": "Rokitnoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Rokitnoïe for French retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Rokytne is a settlement southeast of Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast. It grew as a local market and industrial centre in the Ros basin and formerly served as a district capital.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Rokytne in Kyiv Oblast, not the settlement of the same name in Rivne Oblast. Historical forms are ambiguous without this regional qualifier. Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 885,
  "slug": "rokytne"
}