{
  "place_id": "ukrainsk#7672_12075",
  "wikidata": "Q2496842",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Українськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Ukrainsk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ukrayinsk",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian-based spelling with y marking ї."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ukrainsk’",
          "why": "Ukrainian spelling retaining the final soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oukraïnsk",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ukrayins’k",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ukrayins'k",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant."
        },
        {
          "name": "Ukraïnsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Українськ",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oukrainsk",
          "why": "Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Oukraïnsk for English retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Oukraïnsk",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; ou renders у and ï separates the vowel sequence.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Ukrainsk",
          "why": "International form also used in French reporting; Oukraïnsk adds the French ou and diaeresis."
        },
        {
          "name": "Oukrainsk",
          "why": "French spelling without the diaeresis, encountered in reporting."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Ukrainsk is a small city in the Donetsk coalfield near Selydove. It grew as a mining settlement and later suffered extensive damage during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 836,
  "slug": "ukrainsk"
}