{
  "place_id": "vynnyky#7767_11340",
  "wikidata": "Q997412",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Винники",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Vynnyky",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010; the same system was adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN 1965 gives the same string. ALA-LC (2011) gives the same string.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Winniki",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English accounts of Galicia and family history."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vinniki",
          "why": "Russian-mediated spelling found in older English maps. ISO 9:1995 character transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a technical search form, not an independently attested English exonym."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Vynnyky",
      "why": "Same as in English; retain this spelling in French. No separate French exonym is selected.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Winniki",
          "why": "Polish historical form relevant to French writing on Austrian and Polish Galicia."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vinniki",
          "why": "Russian-mediated form in older French or translated geographical sources."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Vynnyky is a town on the eastern edge of Lviv in western Ukraine. Its local history includes tobacco manufacturing, and wooded hills separate parts of the town from central Lviv.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 514,
  "slug": "vynnyky"
}