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The problem exists for Kiev as well

Yes, for Kiev too. I had searched for Kreschatik and got metro station. Station name (and all its address components) was in Russian. But if you search for Kreschatik street you cannot get answer in Russian.

Same for Odessa. If I search for public transit station I can get its name and all address components in Russian. But if I search for street name - only Ukrainian.

I am facing the same issue for Kiev, please-please-please fix

The same problem in Odessa!!! Why? I need have georesult with language what set in `language=??`

And looks like Russian names are still stored in data base. Because when I ask for `Лунный переулок` in Russian I get `Місячний провулок` that is the right name in Ukrainian. And they don't have musch same letters even, so it couldn't have "guessed". Russian names are still somewhere there, API's just stopped returning them for some reason.

I have switched to Yandex, can't wait any more

Will do the same. It seems google doesn't care about several ukrainian guys in trouble.

I did the same. It caused few minor troubles with some street names, that Google and Yandex named slightly different, and I don't want to reset my cache. But nothing major.

It looks like some kind of provocation. Is Google forcing russian-speaking users switch to Yandex map?

I started getting Russian placenames for a Canadian (English) application. I had
never bothered specifying a language because I didn't observe any need before.
Not sure if this was fixed, as I cache recent reverse-geocode requests, but it's
not happening right now.

Hello Team. Do you have any updates on the issue?

We sure do!

There are 2 issues here:

1. 'administrative_area_level_3' results were being returned in an inconsistent language. This was due to a bug that has now been fixed.

2. In a recent announcement (http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.ch/2014/11/localization-of-street-addresses-in.html), addresses returned by the Geocoding API have been updated to use the same localization policy as Google Maps. The new approach favors the local language, while keeping the address understandable as much as possible for both a user who only reads the requested language as well as locals. This is a global update to how Geocoding API does localization, not specific to Ukraine, so this is considered working as intended.

Google, it is really not we are waiting for. You force us to use Yandex instead you.

Solution that you propose are not satisfied with many developers. Local developers know better what language to display on your own site . In Ukraine, two equally consumed language Russian and Ukrainian . Ukraine is visited by many Russian-speaking tourists, but for some reason Google has ignored this point. Why was it necessary to create a parameter in the API , so you ignore it? I 'm not talking about the fact that this approach is absolutely inflexible. Lose customers. Turn on Yandex.
P.S. I apologize for my English - translation through Google translator :) .

I am completely agree with the previous comment. Now I have switched to yandex, but it is not perfect. Google was better util moved to Ukrainian language no matter what API user set. I really don't understand why you can't support BOTH: Ukrainian and Russian? Why?

Same problem for Zaporozhye. Moving to Yandex Maps.

Actually same problem exists for places in Italy if specified language is English. I do see a point for such change. However, engineers in Google should realise that in some cases it is NECESSARY to restrict results to the specified language. They should have added another option to tell the server "definitely return only in this language"

The same for whole Ukraine. Google doesn't you hear us?

Google, fix this issue, please. It is annoying!

Google WTF ????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Problem is still there. It looks like google have dropped the balls on their customers. Geocoder api works well on Android sdk but i can't get result in russian for iOS

D.Voynov, please raise a separate issue for the iOS results, along with reproduction cases, and I will chase with engineering. Thanks!

Ikrombox, Yubar, etc, please supply example cases so I can chase engineering. Thanks!

Faced this dumb issue.
Wondering why it wasn't solved for 1.5 years ((

Google started thinking of it because Uber can't work in Ukraine with this BUG! ha-ha-ha! They don't care about Ukraine at all, just care about money.

We are also waiting for solving of this issue for months. It's critically important for us to get all address components in one language. If Google consider that results for Ukraine must be in Ukrainian it's ok for us. However it's not very good to ignore params developers sent. The biggest problem in our case is different languages in one response.

Request query string params:
  address: Пушкинская Киев
  language: ru
  sensor: false

OR:
  address:Пушкинская Киев
  sensor:false

Both requests give the same response:

address_components: [
  {long_name: "вулиця Пушкінська", short_name: "вулиця Пушкінська", types: ["route"]},
  {long_name: "Шевченківський район", short_name: "Шевченківський район",…},
  {long_name: "Київ", short_name: "Київ", types: ["locality", "political"]},
  {long_name: "місто Київ", short_name: "місто Київ",…},
  {long_name: "город Киев", short_name: "город Киев",…},
  {long_name: "Украина", short_name: "UA", types: ["country", "political"]},
],
formatted_address: "вулиця Пушкінська, Київ, Украина"

As you see above only "administrative_area_level_1" and "country" are in Russian.
If you try to send this request with "language": "ua" param you will receive response in Ukrainian. And it's only working case..

Our minimal request for the Google Team is to provide one language in same response.
Also it'll be perfect if "language": "ru" param will give response in Russian.

Hope to be heard. Thanks

Any updates on this issue? Should we wait for resolve or not?

No ))) I've lost a hope ))

Feels bad man :(

I see status is "Fixed", but it's not.
I get results like this in places.address_components if I search for "улица Ирпенская, Киев, город Киев", for example:
{
administrative_area_level_1:"город Киев",
country:"Украина",
locality:"Київ",
route:"вулиця Ірпінська"
}

So country and administrative_area_level_1 are in russian and locality and route - in ukrainian.
They are different languages. You can't just mix up two languages in one response just because they are from one language group.

2 years and bug still there... So sad.

Geocoding for "улица Ирпенская, Киев, город Киев" with preference to UK language does not actually produce an administrative_area_level_1 component at all:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0%20%D0%98%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F%2C%20%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%20%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2&language=ru

All components are correctly formatted in the local language, except country name which is _always_ formatted in the preferred language:
route: вулиця Ірпінська
sublocality_level_1: Святошинський район
locality: Київ
administrative_area_level_2: місто Київ
country: Украина

This is a slightly different issue: administrative_area_level_1 is not relevant for postal address in Ukraine, which is currently causing the language selection logic to not apply the preferred language (Ukrainian) to it. This is what used to happen with administrative_area_level_3.

A different address does produce an administrative_area_level_1 component, which is correctly formatted in the local language (UK):
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Chaikovs%27koho%20Ln%2C%202%2C%20Odesa%2C%20Odessa%20Oblast%2C%20Ukraine&language=uk
route: провулок Чайковського
sublocality_level_1: Приморський район
locality: Одеса
administrative_area_level_3: Одеська міськрада
administrative_area_level_1: Одеська область
country: Украина

Sorry, forgot to mention preference is actually need to be set to RU.
All fine with UK preference. Problem is when preference is russian language but you search ukrainian address.

I figured as much. I also had a typo in my 2nd link, I was actually using language=ru

Uhm, I probably misplaced my question. I have this trouble with Places library.

Is there any open bug for it? Basically it's same issue as I described before.
I'm attaching the full response I get.

Please file a new bug with the full Places API request as well, or steps on how to reproduce in one of these samples:
https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/utils/geocoder/
https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-autocomplete
https://google-developers.appspot.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/places-autocomplete-addressform

Good day. The issue status is fixed, but i have the same problem with language response.
I'm using geocoding api to get address components. I need to get result in russian language. My request is: http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9,%20%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0%20%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%20%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%B0%2015&language=ru

Part of the response :
"results" : [
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "15",
               "short_name" : "15",
               "types" : [ "street_number" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "вулиця Академіка Вільямса",
               "short_name" : "вулиця Академіка Вільямса",
               "types" : [ "route" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Голосіївський район",
               "short_name" : "Голосіївський район",
               "types" : [ "political", "sublocality", "sublocality_level_1" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Київ",
               "short_name" : "Київ",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "місто Київ",
               "short_name" : "місто Київ",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Київська область",
               "short_name" : "Київська область",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Украина",
               "short_name" : "UA",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            },

Only country is translated. Is there a way to fix it. I hope for a positive result from you.

Returns the names of the locations with the special characters, while our service needs to have the names returned in English (latin alphabet without special characters) for the search results in the targeted countries (booking engine)

{
   "results" : [
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "157",
               "short_name" : "157",
               "types" : [ "street_number" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "vulica Savieckaja",
               "short_name" : "vulica Savieckaja",
               "types" : [ "route" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Čyhunačny rajon",
               "short_name" : "Čyhunačny rajon",
               "types" : [ "political", "sublocality", "sublocality_level_1" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Homieĺ",
               "short_name" : "Homieĺ",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Homieĺski rajon",
               "short_name" : "Homieĺski rajon",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Homieĺskaja voblasć",
               "short_name" : "Homieĺskaja voblasć",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Belarus",
               "short_name" : "BY",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "vulica Savieckaja 157, Homieĺ, Belarus",
         "geometry" : {
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 52.4724227,
               "lng" : 30.9793503
            },
            "location_type" : "ROOFTOP",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.47377168029149,
                  "lng" : 30.9806992802915
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.47107371970849,
                  "lng" : 30.9780013197085
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJLZzETl9p1EYRFjT73TXL_ME",
         "types" : [ "street_address" ]
      },
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "Gidraautamatyka",
               "short_name" : "Gidraautamatyka",
               "types" : [ "neighborhood", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel",
               "short_name" : "Gomel",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel District",
               "short_name" : "Gomel District",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "short_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Belarus",
               "short_name" : "BY",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "Gidraautamatyka, Gomel, Belarus",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.4940432,
                  "lng" : 31.0180519
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.45689849999999,
                  "lng" : 30.9744073
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 52.4763873,
               "lng" : 30.9979713
            },
            "location_type" : "APPROXIMATE",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.4940432,
                  "lng" : 31.0180519
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.45689849999999,
                  "lng" : 30.9744073
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJL7ml9FBp1EYRtaFzkIUVvAw",
         "types" : [ "neighborhood", "political" ]
      },
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "Čyhunačny District",
               "short_name" : "Čyhunačny District",
               "types" : [ "political", "sublocality", "sublocality_level_1" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel",
               "short_name" : "Gomel",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel District",
               "short_name" : "Gomel District",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "short_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Belarus",
               "short_name" : "BY",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "Čyhunačny District, Gomel, Belarus",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.5008884,
                  "lng" : 31.0335016
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.4238447,
                  "lng" : 30.8882333
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 52.4623259,
               "lng" : 30.9752568
            },
            "location_type" : "APPROXIMATE",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.5008884,
                  "lng" : 31.0335016
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.4238447,
                  "lng" : 30.8882333
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJCb-jSNhr1EYRVnstSmHKrmM",
         "types" : [ "political", "sublocality", "sublocality_level_1" ]
      },
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel",
               "short_name" : "Gomel",
               "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel District",
               "short_name" : "Gomel District",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "short_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Belarus",
               "short_name" : "BY",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "Gomel, Belarus",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.5006794,
                  "lng" : 31.171646
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.3452764,
                  "lng" : 30.8004284
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 52.4411761,
               "lng" : 30.9878462
            },
            "location_type" : "APPROXIMATE",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.5006794,
                  "lng" : 31.171646
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.3452764,
                  "lng" : 30.8004284
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJpfH6UJtp1EYRlhM20g-jzF4",
         "types" : [ "locality", "political" ]
      },
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel District",
               "short_name" : "Gomel District",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "short_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Belarus",
               "short_name" : "BY",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "Gomel District, Belarus",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.5852944,
                  "lng" : 31.3885831
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.042329,
                  "lng" : 30.5220364
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 52.3643699,
               "lng" : 30.9268526
            },
            "location_type" : "APPROXIMATE",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 52.5852944,
                  "lng" : 31.3885831
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 52.042329,
                  "lng" : 30.5220364
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJoQhN-6lE1EYR57vJ3VSJm7M",
         "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ]
      },
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "short_name" : "Gomel Region",
               "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
            },
            {
               "long_name" : "Belarus",
               "short_name" : "BY",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "Gomel Region, Belarus",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 53.3679551,
                  "lng" : 31.7992701
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 51.26201100000001,
                  "lng" : 27.244141
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 52.4312653,
               "lng" : 30.9937973
            },
            "location_type" : "APPROXIMATE",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 53.3679551,
                  "lng" : 31.7992701
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 51.26201100000001,
                  "lng" : 27.244141
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJswX2bnVp1EYRXm4VP35AKWk",
         "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ]
      },
      {
         "address_components" : [
            {
               "long_name" : "Belarus",
               "short_name" : "BY",
               "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
            }
         ],
         "formatted_address" : "Belarus",
         "geometry" : {
            "bounds" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 56.1718719,
                  "lng" : 32.7768202
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 51.26201100000001,
                  "lng" : 23.1783377
               }
            },
            "location" : {
               "lat" : 53.709807,
               "lng" : 27.953389
            },
            "location_type" : "APPROXIMATE",
            "viewport" : {
               "northeast" : {
                  "lat" : 56.1718719,
                  "lng" : 32.7768202
               },
               "southwest" : {
                  "lat" : 51.26201100000001,
                  "lng" : 23.1783377
               }
            }
         },
         "place_id" : "ChIJgUit4oQl2kYREIzsgdGhAAA",
         "types" : [ "country", "political" ]
      }
   ],
   "status" : "OK"
}
How do our tech-guys fix this one?

Please note this issue is only about formatting street-level address (located in Ukraine) in the Russian language when that's the preferred language.
This is a broader FR than the original request (#1) to format administrative_area_level_3 in the same language as other components, which has already been implemented.

In Google Maps, Ukrainian is the only local language in Ukraine, which is why street-level address in Ukraine will always be formatted in Ukrainian.
Please see https://maps-apis.googleblog.com/2014/11/localization-of-street-addresses-in.html for more details about why this is.

In particular, the example in #38 is working as intended: the local language in Belarus (BY) Belarusian (be) and that is the language used always to format street level addresses. When the preferred language is different, the address is formatted in a friendly script, in this case the Latin script. Note that the lating script does include diacritics and other special characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_script#As_used_by_various_languages

As for removing diacritics from international names, that's a question better suited for Stack Overflow, a search for "remove diacritics from international names" produced
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3635511/remove-diacritics-from-a-string
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517923/what-is-the-best-way-to-remove-accents-in-a-python-unicode-string
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15686752/ruby-method-to-remove-accents-from-utf-8-international-characters
and many more

HTH

I'm experiencing the same issue, only difference is I'm getting results in Spanish language!

Urls:
• "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=" + lat + "," + lng + "&sensor=true&language=en"
• "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=" + lat + "," + lng + "&sensor=true&language=en&key=" +  getString(R.string.google_maps_key)

Example: "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.6413111,-73.778134&sensor=true&language=en"

Response:
{
  "results": [
    {
      "address_components": [
        {
          "long_name": "Aeropuerto De Newark",
          "short_name": "Aeropuerto De Newark",
          "types": [
            "airport",
            "establishment",
            "point_of_interest"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "Jamaica",
          "short_name": "Jamaica",
          "types": [
            "neighborhood",
            "political"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "Queens",
          "short_name": "Queens",
          "types": [
            "political",
            "sublocality",
            "sublocality_level_1"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "Queens County",
          "short_name": "Queens County",
          "types": [
            "administrative_area_level_2",
            "political"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "New York",
          "short_name": "NY",
          "types": [
            "administrative_area_level_1",
            "political"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "United States",
          "short_name": "US",
          "types": [
            "country",
            "political"
          ]
        },
        {
          "long_name": "11430",
          "short_name": "11430",
          "types": [
            "postal_code"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Please file a new bug, this one is exclusively about Ukraine.
Make sure to include the actual Geocoding request such as https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?&latlng=40.689531,-74.174462&language=en

| Please file a new bug, this one is exclusively about Ukraine - #41
People tried reporting the same issue (without mentioning specific language) but moderators mark it as duplicate of this issue. For example: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35828443

| Make sure to include the actual Geocoding request - #41
Tried with that too, same result. Let me edit my previous comment.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35828443 was precisely about an address in Ukraine being formatted in Ukrainian even though the user preferred Russian.
Your example is something entirely different, and does not reproduce easily (all results show up in English for me) so please file a new bug.

I confirm this issue still exists... Described in a very first post.

This issue still exists after 7 years!!, when using English the response is correct, but Russian and Ukrainian responses are the same, except for the country which is returned correctly.

According to the Google announcement "Street-level addresses returned by the Google Maps Geocoding API now favor the local language... If the local language and user language both use the same alphabet, the Geocoding API will now return the local names for the streets and localities.".

Ukrainian is the only one official and major language for the Ukraine.
So I think, localization works as expected and we have no issue here.