The capital city of Lviv oblast: Lviv.
Lviv (also spelled Lvov) oblast is situated in the western part of Ukraine and is one of the most developed oblasts of the country. In the north and northwest Lviv oblast borders upon Volyn and Rivne oblasts, in the west and southwest upon Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts, in the south upon Zakarpattia oblast and in the west upon Poland. The capital city is Lviv.
Lviv oblast has the population of about 2,550,000 (2010); land area is 21,833 sq. km.
Lviv oblast area makes 3.6% of the territory of Ukraine. Lviv region population amounts to 5.5% of Ukraine population, urban population running about 60%. Note that Lviv oblast stands as the most urbanized one among the western oblasts of Ukraine.
The territory of the region is cut with dense river system that forms the main Black Sea - Baltic sea watershed.
Lviv oblast boasts considerable mineral resources, coal deposits being the most huge with concentration of coal approximating to 1,2 billion tons. Also, natural gas reserves are concentrated at 15 deposits and amount to approx. 300 billion m3.
Lviv oblast includes 16 districts; 11 towns, including 4 regional subordination towns, 29 town type settlements and 1,349 villages.
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From 1918 to 1939 the territory on which present Lviv oblast is located was a part of Lviv voevode of Poland. In 1939 the territory of the oblast was passed to the Soviet Union and became a part of the Ukrainian SSR.
Lviv oblast industry: food-processing, oil and gas extraction, coal mining, machine-building, power generation; the leading national producer of buses.
Lviv oblast agriculture: grains, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables; cattle and poultry farming.
In 2008 the oblast was the third in Ukraine in amount of theaters (after Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk oblast), the fourth in amount of Universities (after Kiev, Donetsk and Kharkov oblastes) and in amount of students per 10,000 people (after Kiev, Kharkov oblast and Sevastopol).
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