Lviv
City State Year
Winnipeg Canada 1973
Freiburg im Breisgau Germany 1989
Rzeszów Poland 1992
Rochdale United Kingdom 1992
Budapest Hungary 1993
Rishon LeZion Israel 1993
Przemyśl Poland 1995
Kraków Poland 1995
Novi Sad Serbia 1999
Samarkand Uzbekistan 2000
Kutaisi Georgia 2002
Wrocław Poland 2003
Łódź Poland 2003
Banja Luka Bosnia and Herzegovina 2004
Lublin Poland 2004
Parma , Ohio United States 2013
International relations -- Twin towns and sister cities
Aleksander Fredro Monument , moved from Lviv to Wrocław , its sister city , after World War II . See also : List of twin towns and sister cities in Ukraine
Lviv (Ukrainian: Львів [lʲwiu̯] (listen); Old East Slavic: Львіхород; Polish: Lwów [lvuf] (listen); Russian: Львов, romanized: Lvov [lʲvof]; German: Lemberg; Latin: Leopolis; see also other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of 724,713 as of January 2019. Lviv is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. Named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, Prince of Ruthenia, it was the capital of the Galicia-Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic. After the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Lviv became part of the Soviet Union, and in 1944-46 there was a population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine. In 1991, it became part of the independent nation of Ukraine. Administratively, Lviv serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and has the status of city of oblast significance. Lviv was the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia. The historical heart of the city, with its old buildings and cobblestone streets, survived Soviet and German occupations during World War II largely unscathed.