Lviv

Lviv is in and used to be the capital of East Galicia. It's the biggest city of the region and a major Ukrainian cultural centre on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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  • Type: City with 725,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine
  • Also known as: “L’vov”, “Lemberik”, “Leopol”, and “Lvov”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet and St. George’s Cathedral.

Theater building
Photo: Oleksandr Samoylyk, Public domain.
The Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet or Lviv Opera is an opera house located in Lviv, designed by Polish architect Zygmunt Gorgolewski.

Church
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St. George's Cathedral is a baroque-rococo cathedral located in the city of Lviv, the historic capital of western . It was constructed between 1744-1760 on a hill overlooking the city.

Museum
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The in Lviv was built in the 1880s as an urban seat of Alfred Józef Potocki, former Minister-President of Austria. No cost was spared to make it the grandest nobleman's residence in the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Klepariv and Lychakiv.

Suburb
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is a former suburb of the city of Lviv in , now forming part of the city proper. The Yaniv cemetery in was founded in 1883. has a railway station.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is one of the boroughs of the city of Lviv in western Ukraine. It is notable as the main site of the infamous Lemberg Ghetto.

Lviv

Latitude
49.8434° or 49° 50′ 36″ north
Longitude
24.0265° or 24° 1′ 35″ east
Population
725,000
Elevation
284 metres (932 feet)
Inception
1256
IATA airport code
LWO
United Nations Location Codes
UA LVI, UA LVV, and UA LWO
Open location code
8GX6R2VG+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26150791
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
702550
Wiki­data ID
Q36036
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Lviv” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Львив”
  • Abkhazian: “Львов”
  • Afrikaans: “Lwif”
  • Albanian: “Lvivi”
  • Amharic: “ልቪቭ”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة أوكرانيا الثقافية”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة لفيف أوبلاست”
  • Arabic: “لفوف”
  • Arabic: “لفيف أوبلاست”
  • Arabic: “لفيف”
  • Arabic: “ليمبرج”
  • Arabic: “مدينة أوكرانية”
  • Aragonese: “Lbib”
  • Aragonese: “Lviv”
  • Armenian: “Լվիվ”
  • Armenian: “Լվով”
  • Armenian: “Լվուվ”
  • Arpitan: “Lviv”
  • Asturian: “Lviv”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lvov”
  • Balinese: “Lviv”
  • Bashkir: “Львов”
  • Basque: “Lviv”
  • Bavarian: “Lemberg”
  • Bavarian: “Lwiw”
  • Belarusian: “Лембэрг”
  • Belarusian: “Львоў”
  • Bengali: “লিভিভ”
  • Betawi: “Lèmbereh”
  • Bosnian: “Lavov”
  • Breton: “Lviv”
  • Bulgarian: “Лвов”
  • Burmese: “လွှမ်းယွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Lemberg (alemany)”
  • Catalan: “Leopolis (llatí)”
  • Catalan: “Lviv”
  • Catalan: “Lvov (rus)”
  • Catalan: “Lwów (polonès)”
  • Cebuano: “L’viv”
  • Central Kurdish: “لڤیڤ”
  • Chechen: “Львов”
  • Chinese: “倫伯格”
  • Chinese: “列域夫”
  • Chinese: “利沃夫”
  • Chinese: “利維夫”
  • Chinese: “利维夫”
  • Chinese: “莱姆贝格”
  • Chuvash: “Львов”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İlbav”
  • Croatian: “Lavov”
  • Croatian: “Ljviv”
  • Czech: “Lvov”
  • Danish: “Lviv”
  • Dutch: “Lviv”
  • Eastern Mari: “Львов”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لفيف”
  • Erzya: “Львив”
  • Erzya: “Львов ош”
  • Erzya: “Львов”
  • Esperanto: “Lvivo”
  • Esperanto: “Łvov”
  • Esperanto: “Lvovo”
  • Esperanto: “Lwöw”
  • Estonian: “Lviv”
  • Faroese: “Ljviv”
  • Faroese: “Lviv”
  • Finnish: “L’viv”
  • Finnish: “Lviv”
  • French: “Léopol”
  • French: “Lviv”
  • French: “Łwow”
  • Gagauz: “Lviv”
  • Galician: “Lviv”
  • Georgian: “ლვივი”
  • Georgian: “ლვოვი”
  • German: “Lamberg”
  • German: “Lamburg”
  • German: “Lemberik”
  • German: “Lemburg”
  • German: “Lwiw”
  • German: “Lemberg” (historical)
  • Greek: “Λβιβ”
  • Greek: “Λβιφ”
  • Greek: “Λβοβ”
  • Greek: “Λβοφ”
  • Greek: “Λβυβ”
  • Greek: “Λβωβ”
  • Greek: “Λέμπεργκ”
  • Gujarati: “લ્વિવ”
  • Hausa: “Lviv”
  • Hawaiian: “Lviv”
  • Hebrew: “לבוב”
  • Hebrew: “לביב”
  • Hebrew: “למברג”
  • Hebrew: “לעמבערג”
  • Hebrew: “לעמברג”
  • Hindi: “लुव्यूव”
  • Hindi: “ल्वीव”
  • Hungarian: “Ilyvó” (historical)
  • Hungarian: “Lviv”
  • Icelandic: “Lviv”
  • Icelandic: “Lvív”
  • Ido: “Lviv”
  • Indonesian: “Lemberk”
  • Indonesian: “Lviv”
  • Interlingue: “Lviv”
  • Irish: “Lviv”
  • Italian: “Leopoli”
  • Italian: “Leopolo”
  • Japanese: “リヴィウ”
  • Japanese: “リヴィヴ”
  • Japanese: “リヴィフ”
  • Japanese: “リヴィフ歴史地区”
  • Japanese: “リヴォフ”
  • Japanese: “リビウ”
  • Japanese: “リボフ”
  • Japanese: “ルヴォフ”
  • Japanese: “ルヴフ”
  • Japanese: “ルブフ”
  • Japanese: “ルボフ”
  • Japanese: “レムベルク”
  • Japanese: “レムベルグ”
  • Japanese: “レンベルク”
  • Javanese: “Lviv”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lviv”
  • Kannada: “ಲವಿವ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲ್ವೇವ್”
  • Kazakh: “Батыс Еуропаның астанасы”
  • Kazakh: “Львов қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Львов”
  • Kirghiz: “Львов”
  • Komi: “Львов”
  • Korean: “르부프”
  • Korean: “르비우”
  • Korean: “리보프”
  • Korean: “리비브”
  • Korean: “리비우”
  • Korean: “리비프”
  • Kotava: “Lviv”
  • Kurdish: “Lvîv”
  • Ladin: “Leopolis”
  • Ladino: “Leopolis”
  • Lao: “ລວິວ”
  • Lao: “ລະວີຟ (Lviv)”
  • Latin: “Leopol”
  • Latin: “Leopolis”
  • Latvian: “Lemberga”
  • Latvian: “Ļviva”
  • Latvian: “Ļvova”
  • Lithuanian: “Lvivas”
  • Lithuanian: “Lvovas”
  • Lombard: “Leòpol”
  • Lombard: “Leopul”
  • Low German: “Lviv”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lwiw”
  • Macedonian: “Лавов”
  • Malagasy: “Lviv”
  • Malay: “Lviv”
  • Malayalam: “എൽവീവ്”
  • Malayalam: “ലിവിവ്”
  • Maltese: “Leopoli”
  • Maltese: “Lviv”
  • Manx: “L’vov”
  • Manx: “Lemberik”
  • Manx: “Leopol”
  • Manx: “Lviv”
  • Marathi: “लिव्हिव”
  • Marathi: “ल्विव”
  • Mingrelian: “ლვივი”
  • Mingrelian: “ლვოვი”
  • Moksha: “Львив”
  • Mongolian: “Львов”
  • Nepali: “ल्भिभ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lemberg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lviv”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lvovas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “L’viv”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lviv”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lvovas”
  • Norwegian: “Lviv”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lviv”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lembeorg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lemburg”
  • Ossetian: “Львов”
  • Papiamento: “Lviv”
  • Persian: “لمبرگ”
  • Persian: “لووف”
  • Persian: “لویو”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Lembärsch”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Lemberg”
  • Picard: “Lviv”
  • Piemontese: “Lviv”
  • Polish: “L’wiw”
  • Polish: “Lwiw”
  • Polish: “Lwów”
  • Pontic: “Λβιβ”
  • Portuguese: “Lemberga”
  • Portuguese: “Leópolis”
  • Portuguese: “Levive”
  • Portuguese: “Lviv”
  • Pushto: “لووف”
  • Quechua: “Lwiw”
  • Romanian: “Liov”
  • Romanian: “Livov”
  • Romanian: “Lviv”
  • Russian: “Бандерштадт”
  • Russian: “Город Льва”
  • Russian: “Культурная столица Украины”
  • Russian: “Леополис”
  • Russian: “Львив”
  • Russian: “Львов”
  • Russian: “Львув”
  • Russian: “Маленький Париж”
  • Russian: “Столица Галиции”
  • Russian: “Столица Западной Украины”
  • Russian: “Украинский Пьемонт”
  • Rusyn: “Львів”
  • Sardinian: “Lviv”
  • Scots: “Lviv”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lviv”
  • Serbian: “Lavov”
  • Serbian: “Лавов”
  • Serbian: “Лвов”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lavov”
  • Sicilian: “Liopuli”
  • Sicilian: “Liòpuli”
  • Silesian: “Lwůw”
  • Silesian: “Lymberg”
  • Sindhi: “لويف”
  • Sinhala: “ල’විව්”
  • Sinhala: “ල්විව්”
  • Slovak: “Ľviv”
  • Slovak: “Ľvov”
  • Slovenian: “Lvov”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لووف”
  • Spanish: “Lamberg”
  • Spanish: “Lamburg”
  • Spanish: “Lemberik”
  • Spanish: “Lemburg”
  • Spanish: “Leópolis”
  • Spanish: “Lwiw”
  • Swahili: “Lviv”
  • Swedish: “Loewenburg”
  • Swedish: “Lviv”
  • Swiss German: “Lemberg”
  • Sylheti: “ꠟꠛꠤꠛ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠟꠜꠤꠜ”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Lviv”
  • Tagalog: “Lviv”
  • Tajik: “Лвив”
  • Tajik: “Львив”
  • Talysh: “Lvov”
  • Tamil: “லிவீவ்”
  • Tamil: “லிவ்யூ”
  • Tatar: “Львов”
  • Telugu: “లివ్యూ”
  • Thai: “ลวิว”
  • Thai: “ลวีฟ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lemberg”
  • Turkish: “L’viv”
  • Turkish: “Lviv”
  • Turkmen: “Lwiw”
  • Tuvinian: “Львив”
  • Udmurt: “Львов”
  • Ukrainian: “Леополіс”
  • Ukrainian: “Львів”
  • Ukrainian: “Місто Лева”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lwiw”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lwów”
  • Urdu: “لیویو”
  • Uzbek: “Lvov”
  • Venetian: “Leopoli”
  • Venetian: “Leopołi”
  • Veps: “L’vov”
  • Veps: “Lvov”
  • Vietnamese: “Lviv”
  • Volapük: “L’viv”
  • Võro: “Lviv”
  • Walloon: “Lviv”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lviv”
  • Welsh: “Lviv”
  • Western Armenian: “Լուով”
  • Western Frisian: “Lviv”
  • Western Mari: “Львов”
  • Western Panjabi: “لویو”
  • Wu Chinese: “利沃夫”
  • Yakut: “Львов”
  • Yiddish: “Lemberik”
  • Yiddish: “לבאב”
  • Yiddish: “לבוב”
  • Yiddish: “לעמבערג”
  • Yiddish: “לעמבעריק”
  • Yiddish: “לעמבריק” (historical)
  • Yue Chinese: “利維夫”
  • “L’viv”
  • “Lemberg”
  • “Leopolis”
  • “Lviv”
  • “Lvov”
  • “Lwow”
  • “Lwów”
  • “Лемберг”
  • “Львів”
  • “Львов”

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