{
  "place_id": "snihurivka#7615_11822",
  "wikidata": "Q889549",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Снігурівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Snihurivka",
      "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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here.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": "Snigirevka",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Snigiryovka",
          "why": "Alternative English transcription of Russian Снигирёвка."
        },
        {
          "name": "Snigurivka",
          "why": "Older mixed spelling with g; less faithful to modern Ukrainian romanization."
        },
        {
          "name": "Snihourivka",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Snìgurìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Снігурівка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Snihourivka",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; ou renders у.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Snihurivka",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling also used by French media."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sniguiriovka",
          "why": "Russian-based French spelling explicitly given in the French reference entry."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Snihurivka is a town on the Inhulets in Mykolaiv Oblast. A railway junction and a centre for the surrounding farming district, it also became a focus of fighting during the 2022 invasion.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 822,
  "slug": "snihurivka"
}