{
  "place_id": "vasylkivka#7678_12001",
  "wikidata": "Q1011406",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Васильківка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Vasylkivka",
      "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": "Vasilkovka",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vassylkivka",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vasyl’kivka",
          "why": "BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently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": "Vasyl'kivka",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vasilʹkìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vasylʹkivka",
          "why": "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": "Васильківка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Vassylkivka",
      "why": "Attested French reference spelling; ss preserves the voiceless s between vowels.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Vasylkivka",
          "why": "International Ukrainian form also encountered in French; Vassylkivka doubles s to preserve its sound between vowels."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vassilkovka",
          "why": "French Russian-based spelling of the settlement name."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Vasylkivka is a settlement on the Vovcha in eastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It serves an agricultural hinterland and is connected to the railway network through its local station.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 842,
  "slug": "vasylkivka"
}