{
  "place_id": "shostka#7881_11859",
  "wikidata": "Q1000454",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Шостка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Shostka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019; selected for contemporary English use.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Šostka",
          "why": "Scholarly transliteration using Slavist conventions; these conventions are not one single dated national standard."
        },
        {
          "name": "Шостка",
          "why": "Local name in its original Cyrillic script, useful for identifying quotations, signs and local sources."
        },
        {
          "name": "Chostka",
          "why": "French transcription used in French-language accounts; retained alongside the selected main form."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Chostka",
      "why": "Transcription française du nom ukrainien actuel, retenue pour sa lisibilité en français ; la romanisation nationale figure aussi parmi les formes de recherche.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Šostka",
          "why": "Translittération savante selon les conventions slavistiques, qui ne constituent pas une seule norme nationale datée."
        },
        {
          "name": "Shostka",
          "why": "Graphie issue du russe, présente dans les anciennes références internationales et les citations de sources russophones ; forme conservée pour l’identification."
        },
        {
          "name": "Шостка",
          "why": "Nom local en alphabet cyrillique, utile pour identifier les citations, les panneaux et les sources locales."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Shostka is a city in the north of Sumy Oblast in Ukraine. Its industrial history is especially associated with chemicals and the production of photographic film.",
  "about_fr": "Chostka est une ville du nord de l’oblast de Soumy, en Ukraine. Son histoire industrielle est particulièrement liée à la chimie et à la fabrication de pellicules photographiques.",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Formal table-derived aliases are labelled separately from attested prose spellings. Coverage of romanization systems and historical aliases is not exhaustive.",
  "rank": 135,
  "slug": "shostka"
}