{
  "place_id": "volochysk#7752_11456",
  "wikidata": "Q219762",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Волочиськ",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Volochysk",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Volochys’k",
          "why": "Older Ukrainian transcription preserving the soft sign. BGN/PCGN 1965 Ukrainian transliteration, superseded for US/UK geographical use in 2019; supplied as a technical retrieval form."
        },
        {
          "name": "Volochisk",
          "why": "Russian-based English spelling."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wołoczyska",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English accounts of the border railway."
        },
        {
          "name": "Voločisʹk",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Volochysʹk",
          "why": "ALA-LC Ukrainian table, 2011 edition, with its bibliographic diacritics; a catalogue retrieval form rather than a separate English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Volotchysk",
      "why": "French reference spelling, adapted to French transcription conventions; usage is not uniform across publishers.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Volotchisk",
          "why": "Russian-mediated French spelling in older maps and histories."
        },
        {
          "name": "Wołoczyska",
          "why": "Polish historical form quoted in French accounts of the former imperial border."
        },
        {
          "name": "Volochysk",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling retained in French texts that follow Ukrainian name forms; see the English entry for the system."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Volochysk is a town in Khmelnytskyi Oblast on the eastern bank of the Zbruch River. The town and neighbouring Pidvolochysk developed on opposite sides of a former imperial frontier.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "Pidvolochysk is the separate town on the western bank, not a former name of Volochysk.",
  "rank": 537,
  "slug": "volochysk"
}