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# Hnivan

A settlement in Ukraine; local name Гнівань.

## English name

**Hnivan** — Current Ukrainian name in the national romanization adopted in 2010, recommended by the UN in 2012 and adopted by BGN/PCGN in 2019.

Other forms in use:

- **Gnivan** — Russian-based English form; useful for Soviet-era and Russian-language-derived references, rather than the preferred Ukrainian name.
- **Hnivan’** — Ukrainian-based form retaining the final soft sign. BGN/PCGN Ukrainian system (1965), superseded for US/UK geographical naming by the 2019 agreement; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Gniewań** — Polish historical name used in English historical and genealogical references to this place.
- **Hnivan'** — Plain-apostrophe typography of the BGN/PCGN 1965 form; standard-derived retrieval variant.
- **Gnìvanʹ** — ISO 9:1995 character transliteration; standard-derived spelling, with medium confidence in actual textual occurrence, not an independently attested press exonym.
- **Hnivanʹ** — 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.
- **Гнівань** — Original Ukrainian spelling for matching local source titles or addresses quoted in English.
- **Gniewan** — Diacritic-free typing or indexing variant of Gniewań for English retrieval; not a distinct official name. Textual frequency is unverified.

## French name

**Hnivan** — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry, without a separate French exonym.

Other forms in use:

- **Gnivan** — Russian-derived form listed with Hnivan in French reference material.

## About

Hnivan is a town on the Southern Bug southwest of Vinnytsia. Its industrial history includes granite quarrying, sugar production and railway-related manufacturing.

## Notes

Record certainty includes transliteration and alias coverage; formal system outputs are not all attested press forms.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q155330](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155330) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/ukraine/hnivan/?format=json)


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