{
  "place_id": "sarny#7851_11479",
  "wikidata": "Q997512",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Сарни",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sarny",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sarni",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Сарни",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Sarny",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": []
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sarny is a town in Rivne Oblast in the Polissia region of Ukraine. It developed around a railway junction linking routes across the wooded northern lowlands.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The English and French forms coincide with the Ukrainian national romanization. No different historical spelling is asserted without evidence. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 360,
  "slug": "sarny"
}