{
  "place_id": "tokmak#7625_11983",
  "wikidata": "Q760235",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Токмак",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Tokmak",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use. ISO 9:1995 gives the same spelling for this particular name.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bolshoy Tokmak",
          "why": "Russian-based historical name meaning “Greater Tokmak”, before shortening in 1962."
        },
        {
          "name": "Velykyi Tokmak",
          "why": "Ukrainian rendering of the historical longer name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Токмак",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Tokmak",
      "why": "Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Bolchoï Tokmak",
          "why": "Older Russian-based French form of the name used before 1962."
        },
        {
          "name": "Velykyï Tokmak",
          "why": "French Ukrainian-based rendering of the earlier longer name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Tokmak is a city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the Tokmak river. Its industrial history includes engineering and machinery manufacture.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "The river and the city share the name. No current population or territorial-control claim is made. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.",
  "rank": 346,
  "slug": "tokmak"
}