{
  "place_id": "solone#7678_11937",
  "wikidata": "Q1001064",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Солоне",
  "forms": [],
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Solone",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. The same string also results from BGN/PCGN Ukrainian romanization (1965). The same string also results from ISO 9:1995 character transliteration. The same string also results from ALA-LC Ukrainian romanization (2011 table).",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Solyonoye",
          "why": "Russian-based Latin spelling for historical or multilingual retrieval; English prose frequency is unverified. Not a separate official renaming."
        },
        {
          "name": "Solenoye",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling using e for ё."
        },
        {
          "name": "Solenenke",
          "why": "Earlier Ukrainian name explicitly recorded in English historical text; no precise replacement year verified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Солоне",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching quoted local source titles, maps and addresses."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Solone",
      "why": "Same form as in English; used in French geographical reference headings.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Solionoïe",
          "why": "Russian-based French form explicitly given in references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Solionoie",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Solionoïe for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Solone is a settlement south of Dnipro in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It is a local administrative and service centre for the surrounding steppe farmland.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Standard-derived alternatives are retrieval aids, not claims of prose frequency. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solone ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solone_(oblast_de_Dnipropetrovsk).",
  "rank": 1245,
  "slug": "solone"
}