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Lviv (/ l ə ˈ v iː v /, / l ə ˈ v iː f / lə-VEEV, lə-VEEF; Ukrainian: Львів ⓘ; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of 717,500 (2022 estimate).
Lviv. Type: City with 725,000 residents. Description: capital city of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Category: locality. Location: Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Western Ukraine, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap.
Feb 24, 2022 · The city of Lviv is situated on the tip of the Roztochia Upland at an average elevation of 296m above sea level. The city covers a land area of 171 sq. km. Lviv is located approximately 160km from the eastern Carpathian Mountains, 70km from the country’s border with Poland, 469km from Kyiv, and 1,123km from Moscow.
- Diptarka Ghosh
May 2, 2024 · Lviv, city, western Ukraine, on the Roztochchya Upland. Founded in the mid-13th century by Prince Daniel Romanovich of Galicia, Lviv has historically been the chief centre of Galicia, a region now divided between Ukraine and Poland. Its position controlling east-west routes and passes across the Carpathians has given it a stormy history. Polish ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів ⓘ, L’viv; Polish: Lwów; German: Lemberg or Leopoldstadt [citation needed] (archaic); Yiddish: לעמבערג; Russian: Львов, romanized: Lvov, see also other names) is an administrative center in western Ukraine with more than a millennium of history as a settlement, and over seven centuries as a city.
Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images. Lviv. Ukraine, Europe. If you’ve spent time in other Ukrainian regions, Lviv will come as a shock. Mysterious and architecturally lovely, this Unesco-listed city is the country’s least Soviet and exudes the same authentic Central European charm as pretourism Prague or Kraków once did.
A city with a lively history, Lviv (also spelled L’viv and Lvov) in Ukraine’s west was founded in the 13th century and has changed flags many times in the years since, having been part of Poland, Austria-Hungary and the Soviet empire.
