{
  "place_id": "vilnohirsk#7693_11889",
  "wikidata": "Q577225",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Вільногірськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Vilnohirsk",
      "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": "Volnogorsk",
          "why": "Russian-based name widely used in older English industrial references."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vil’nohirsk",
          "why": "Ukrainian transliteration retaining the medial soft sign."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vil'nohirsk",
          "why": "Plain-apostrophe version of the soft-sign-marked form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vìlʹnogìrsʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, supplied as a systematic bibliographic search form. This does not establish ordinary English usage."
        },
        {
          "name": "Вільногірськ",
          "why": "Ukrainian original-script name, useful in quotations and bilingual indexes; not a romanized English name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vil’nohirs’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          "why": "BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian romanization; a historical standard superseded by adoption of the Ukrainian national system in 2019.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": "Vilʹnohirsʹk",
          "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": "Vilnohirsk",
      "why": "Same as in English; editorial choice for French reference use. A place-specific official French recommendation has not been established.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Volnogorsk",
          "why": "Russian-based form in French geographical and industrial references."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Vilnohirsk is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. It developed around the mining and processing of heavy-mineral sands.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "No claim is made about current output or ownership of local industrial plants. 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": 455,
  "slug": "vilnohirsk"
}