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==Name==
==Name==
The city's name was traditionally was adapted from the Russian spelling and pronunciation as "Kiev" in English. This is still the most common spelling. Under a transliteration system adopted by the Ukrainian government in October 1995, the name is "Kyiv." The United States Board on Geographic Names, as well as other specialists on geographic names, adopted the revised spelling in 2019.<ref>"[https://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/PDFDocs/BGNStatement_Kyiv.pdf Foreign Names Committee Statement Regarding the Name of the Capital of Ukraine]," September 2019.</ref>
The city's name was traditionally adapted from the Russian spelling and pronunciation as "Kiev" in English. This is still the most common spelling. Under a transliteration system adopted by the Ukrainian government in October 1995, the name is "Kyiv." The United States Board on Geographic Names, as well as other specialists on geographic names, adopted the revised spelling in 2019.<ref>"[https://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/PDFDocs/BGNStatement_Kyiv.pdf Foreign Names Committee Statement Regarding the Name of the Capital of Ukraine]," September 2019.</ref>
==References==
==References==