{
  "place_id": "sukhodilsk#7686_12206",
  "wikidata": "Q2354470",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Суходільськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Sukhodilsk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, followed by BGN/PCGN since 2019; selected as the English main form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sukhodolsk",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sukhodil’sk",
          "why": "Ukrainian transliteration retaining the soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sukhodil'sk",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe form marking the soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Suhodìlʹsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Суходільськ",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sukhodil’s’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019. Supplied as a systematic search form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Sukhodilʹsʹk",
          "why": "ALA-LC 2011 Ukrainian romanization; a systematic library-catalogue search form with the prescribed ties and soft-sign marks, not a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Soukhodilsk",
      "why": "Editorial French transcription using French sound-spelling conventions; no place-specific official recommendation or press preference has been verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Sukhodilsk",
          "why": "Same form as in English; an international spelling usable in French maps and references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Soukhodolsk",
          "why": "Russian-mediated French transcription."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Sukhodilsk is a city in Luhansk Oblast near the Russian border. Its modern development belongs to the coal-mining history of the eastern Donbas.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The Ukrainian and Russian forms differ in the second vowel; do not treat the latter as a recent official name change. Romanization references: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua ; https://arhiiv.eki.ee/wgrs/v3_0/rom2_uk.htm ; https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/ukrainia.pdf .",
  "rank": 470,
  "slug": "sukhodilsk"
}