{
  "place_id": "shepetivka#7787_11503",
  "wikidata": "Q161965",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Шепетівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Shepetivka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and recommended by the UN in 2012; also the BGN/PCGN system adopted in 2019. This spelling also coincides with BGN/PCGN 1965 and ALA-LC Ukrainian 2011.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Shepetovka",
          "why": "Russian-based form, common in older English railway and military histories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Szepetówka",
          "why": "Polish historical name, encountered in English discussions of Polish and Jewish sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Szepetowka",
          "why": "Diacritic-free Polish historical form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Šepetìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 reversible transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling. Standard-derived form; medium confidence in actual use for this place, not claimed as an established English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Шепетівка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian Cyrillic spelling, useful for matching local documents and quotations; not a Latin-script English form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Chepetivka",
      "why": "French transcription uses ch for Ukrainian ш; older French works commonly have Chepetovka.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Shepetivka",
          "why": "Same official Latin form as in English; retained in French sources using Ukrainian romanization."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chepetovka",
          "why": "Traditional Russian-based French transcription."
        },
        {
          "name": "Szepetówka",
          "why": "Polish historical spelling retained in French historical references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Shepetivka is a city in Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. Its railway junction helped it develop into an industrial and transport centre.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 257,
  "slug": "shepetivka"
}