Overview

• Country: Ukraine;

• City location: Western Ukraine, approximately 535 km from the capital Kyiv;

• City population: 735 000 (2007, 5.3 % of the country population);

• City land area: 171 sq. km. (3.6 % of the total area of Ukraine.);

• City Postal code: 79000;

• City Phone code: +380 32(2);

• Time zone: EET (GMT+02:00) Helsinki, Kyiv, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius;

• Climate: temperate-continental;

• Spoken Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and English;

• Education: Lviv has 38 higher education institutions with 30,000 highly educated graduates each year;

• Culture: Lviv was declared a World Heritage site by the UNESCO in 1998;

• Government: Appointed Regional Administration and elected Regional Council (Rada);

• Key region industry sectors: forestry, paper, oil and gas, food processing, textiles, agriculture, cattle, and sheep farming;

• Foreign direct investments to Lviv region (2008): $ 733 894,0 (EU states); $ 9 962,0 (CIS states); $ 233 847,0 (other states).