Lviv facts for kids

Lviv
Quick facts for kids Lviv ; Львів
	City of regional significance
Ukrainian transcription(s)
• National	Lviv
• ALA-LC	L′viv
• BGN/PCGN	L’viv
• Scholarly	L′viv
	Flag
Coat of arms
	Motto(s): Semper fidelis
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Lviv Oblast
Municipality	Lviv
Founded	1240–1247
Magdeburg law	1356
Area
• Total	182.01 km2 (70.27 sq mi)
Elevation	296 m (971 ft)
Population (January 2019)
• Total	724,713
• Density	3,982/km2 (10,310/sq mi)
• Demonym	Leopolitan
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal codes	{{#property:p281}}
Area code(s)	+380 32(2)
Licence plate	BC (before 2004: ТА, ТВ, ТН, ТС)
Sister cities	Corning, Freiburg, Grozny, Kraków, Lublin, Novi Sad, Przemyśl, Saint Petersburg, Whitstable, Winnipeg, Wolfsburg, Rochdale

Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів) is the capital city of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. 860,000 people live in Lviv. 88% of the people living there are Ukrainian, 8% are Russian, and 1% are Polish. An extra 200,000 people commute to Lviv every day for work.

During the city's history, it was ruled by many countries. When part of Poland it was called Lwów (pronounced and sometimes spelled Lvov). In German, it was known as Lemberg, that was part of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires and again under Nazi German occupation. From 1350 until 1772 it belonged to the Kingdom of Poland and from 1918 to 1939 to the Republic of Poland.

Images for kids

Lviv satellite view (Sentinel-2, 14 August 2017)
A 17th century portrait depicting Knyaz Lev of Galicia-Volhynia with the city of Lviv in the background
Lviv High Castle, fragment of engraving by A. Gogenberg, 17th century
A painting by Jan Matejko of King John II Casimir pledging his famous oath in Lwów's Latin Cathedral
Lviv in a lithograph from 1618
The Racławice Panorama opened in 1894
Lviv at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
The Galician Sejm (till 1918), since 1920 the Jan Kazimierz University
Lemberg (Lviv, Lwów) in 1915
The Lwów Eaglets, teenage soldiers who fought on the Polish side during the Battle of Lwów
Eastern Trade Fair (Targi Wschodnie), main entrance.
Lviv Holocaust memorial in Israel
Sykhiv – Lviv's largest residential neighborhood, was built in the early 1980s under Soviet rule
Lviv City Hall
E19101 electric bus – product of the Electron
One of the new apartment complexes in Lviv
SoftServe Headquarters in Lviv
Inside the Church of the Transfiguration
Chapel of the Boim family
A room in the Lviv National Art Gallery
The Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre, an important cultural centre for residents and visitors
The main building of Lviv National Museum
Pikkardiyska Tertsiya – Ukrainian a cappella musical formation
The front façade of the Lviv University, the oldest university in Ukraine
Ukrainian Catholic University
The former building of the Scottish Café
Ivan Franko Park
Clock in Lviv on Prospekt Svobody (Freedom Ave.), showing time to start of EURO 2012. Opera and Ballet Theatre in background
A confectioner makes chocolate lions at the Festival of Chocolate
A Lviv tram in the Old Town.
Lviv's Main Railway Terminal
Lviv International Airport
Police patrol by bicycles in the tourist area of Lviv
Lviv Polytechnic.
Anatomy Department Building of Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University - one of the oldest and prime medical institute of Ukraine.
Aleksander Fredro Monument, moved from Lviv to Wrocław, its sister city, after World War II.
The Jesuit Church - An example of baroque style in Lviv.
Bernardine church and monastery in the style of Italian and Dutch mannerism
Early 20th century architecture in Lviv
Architecture of Shevchenko Avenue
The Nativity of the Holy Virgin Church was constructed in 1995–2001 in Sykhiv district
The mixture of modern and soviet architecture in the northern part of the city.
Bernardine Church
Dominican Church
Potocki Palace
St. George's Cathedral, Lviv
View on Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site