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United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database

It is registered as:

Capital City: “Kyiv”

Note: “In its letter of 14 November 2002, the Ukrainian Government requested that the capital be rendered as Kyiv, rather than Kiev.”

Official UN map of Ukraine: “Kyiv”

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  1. Marko said

    Funny enough, German is no longer lingua franca, as it is not even listed among the UN languages, or was it that it never been one?

  2. Marko said

    The U.N. also has it as Kyiv on their official map of Ukraine:

    http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/ukraine.pdf