{
  "place_id": "yakymivka#7594_11953",
  "wikidata": "Q1009558",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Якимівка",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Yakymivka",
      "why": "Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Akimovka",
          "why": "Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Iakymivka",
          "why": "French-language form, useful when an English text quotes a French map, report or source title; not the English main name."
        },
        {
          "name": "Âkimìvka",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "I͡akymivka",
          "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": "Якимівка",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Iakymivka",
      "why": "Attested French geographical-index spelling; initial I represents Ukrainian Я in this French geographical form.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Akimovka",
          "why": "Russian-based spelling usable in French reporting and historical records; French frequency for this settlement unverified."
        },
        {
          "name": "Yakymivka",
          "why": "International Ukrainian spelling; French geographical indexes also record Iakymivka."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Yakymivka is a settlement southwest of Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Its railway station and food-processing businesses developed within the farming region inland from the Sea of Azov.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 854,
  "slug": "yakymivka"
}