{
  "place_id": "zymna-voda#7767_11327",
  "wikidata": "Q1988802",
  "country": "UA",
  "local_name": "Зимна Вода",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Zymna Voda",
      "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 BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement gives the same spelling here. ALA-LC Ukrainian table (2011 edition), for bibliographic retrieval gives the same spelling here.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Zimna Woda",
          "why": "Polish historical name used in English historical and genealogical references to this place."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vodiane",
          "why": "Soviet-period Ukrainian name, replaced by the restored Zymna Voda in 1989."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vodyanoye",
          "why": "Russian form of the Soviet-period name; historical."
        },
        {
          "name": "Zimna Voda",
          "why": "ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym."
        },
        {
          "name": "Зимна Вода",
          "why": "Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Zymna Voda",
      "why": "Same form as in English; selected for French source matching. An established distinct French exonym or press preference was not verified.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Zimna Woda",
          "why": "Polish historical form relevant to French accounts of Galicia."
        },
        {
          "name": "Vodiane",
          "why": "Former Soviet-period name for French source matching; restored to Zymna Voda in 1989."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Zymna Voda is a large village on the western edge of Lviv in Ukraine. Its older rural settlement has become closely connected with the city's expanding suburban area.",
  "about_fr": "",
  "certainty": "medium",
  "notes": "Zymna Voda restored in 1989 after the Soviet-period name Vodiane. Zimna Woda is the historical Polish form. Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.",
  "rank": 863,
  "slug": "zymna-voda"
}