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I've just noticed that the Preferred name with language = 'en' for Kiev, is Kyiv. This is not the English name as the data suggests.

AlternateNameId is 5463691

Can it be changed ?

Thanks

nixon

Thanks I have fixed it.

The database is open for everybody to help and edit:
http://www.geonames.org/manual.html

Please feel free to contribute.

Marc

Thanks Marc. I didn't know I could do that ! Thanks !

nixon wrote:

I've just noticed that the Preferred name with language = 'en' for Kiev, is Kyiv. This is not the English name as the data suggests.
nixon

The spelling for the capital of Ukraine has become Kyiv.
[list]
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev
CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html
[/list]

Kiev corresponds to the (now deprecated) Russian spelling.

Denis

I agree. "Kiev" appears to be outdated and derived from Russian (part of Ukraine was part of Russian empire and the Soviet Union). For the last twenty years, the Ukrainian capital has been known as Kyiv. What is the procedure to initiate the change back to Kyiv?

denis.arnaud wrote:

nixon wrote:

I've just noticed that the Preferred name with language = 'en' for Kiev, is Kyiv. This is not the English name as the data suggests.
nixon

The spelling for the capital of Ukraine has become Kyiv.
[list]
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev
CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/up.html
[/list]

Kiev corresponds to the (now deprecated) Russian spelling.

Denis

Sorry for not having seen the continuation of the thread earlier.

You are right the change was wrong, I have added Kyiv and flagged Kiev as historical.

Best

Marc