1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Ukraine
Compare this sourced profile of Lviv, Ukraine before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Lviv—717,273, Europe/Kyiv, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Lviv is GeoNames ID 702550. Its recorded administrative path is Lvivskyi Raion → Lviv → Ukraine, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Lviv occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-07-02; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Lviv ranks 773 by recorded population. Inside the 9 selected Ukraine entries it ranks 6; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 56. Its 717,273 population value is 0.80 times the 901,645 median for the country cohort and 1.08 times the 664,046 regional median. Lviv is rank 6 among the 9 selected Ukraine entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Lviv's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Lviv's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kraków at 293.411 km with 816,614 recorded people; Warsaw at 339.141 km with 1,702,139 recorded people; Łódź at 385.072 km with 639,890 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 91.661 km. Compared with Kraków, Lviv's recorded population is 0.88 times as large. Against Lviv, Kraków follows Krakow → Lesser Poland → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Poland cohort rather than Ukraine, uses Europe/Warsaw instead of Europe/Kyiv, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Lviv's. Against Lviv, Warsaw follows Warszawa → Mazovia → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Poland cohort rather than Ukraine, uses Europe/Warsaw instead of Europe/Kyiv, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Lviv's. Against Lviv, Łódź follows Lodz → Lodz Voivodeship → Poland in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Poland cohort rather than Ukraine, uses Europe/Warsaw instead of Europe/Kyiv, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Lviv's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,108 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Lviv's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 702550, the coordinate pair 49.8383 / 24.0232, country rank 6 of 9, and neighbor GeoNames 3094802 at 293.411 km bind Lviv to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Lviv's reference point is 49.8383° north and 24.0232° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Kyiv is shared by 8 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Lviv's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Lviv's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Lviv's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Lviv, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Lviv's closest other entries in this atlas are Kraków (293.411 km), Warsaw (339.141 km), Łódź (385.072 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-07-02; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.