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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  • City with 725,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 284 metres (932 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code LWO
  • …dates from 1256
  • Description: capital city of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine
  • Also known as
    “L’vov”
    “Lemberik”
    “Leopol”
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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…

Church
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St. George's Cathedral is a baroque-rococo cathedral…

Museum
Photo: Andrey Okhrimets, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The in Lviv was built in the 1880s…

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.

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.

Lviv

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Latitude
49.8434° or 49° 50′ 36″ north
Longitude
24.0265° or 24° 1′ 35″ east
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Assamese: “লভিভ”
  • 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: “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: “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: “ಲ್ವೀವ್”
  • 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”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਵੀਵ”
  • 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: “లవీవ్”
  • Telugu: “లివ్యూ”
  • Thai: “ลวิว”
  • Thai: “ลวีฟ”
  • 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: “Իլվով”
  • Western Armenian: “Լեմպէրկ” (historical)
  • Western Armenian: “Լէոպոլիս” (historical)
  • 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: “列域夫”
  • Yue Chinese: “利維夫”
  • “Лемберг”

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