Львів

Lviv Oblast


Львів (Lviv) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the sixth-largest in Ukraine, and the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion. The area north of the Carpathian mountain ridge is a basin, also a lowland around 200 to 300 m asl. There are some forested hills running through the area, typically in hercynian direction, which is west northwest to east southeast. The city is actually located in the gap between such hills, where the Poltva river flows through the hills, and one his is located in the middle of the city, named Vysokyy Zamok (409 m asl). The name means High Castle, today it's the location of the TV tower.

This area was a part of Poland until World War II. After the war the Allies made new boundaries and the border was moved.