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Cosmopolitan Lviv is the capital of western Ukraine. Until 1939 it had never been ruled from Moscow, and it was here that Ukrainian nationalism re-emerged in the late 1980s. Having escaped the urban devastation of WWII, Lviv is a living museum of Western architecture from the Gothic to the present.
Fast Facts
Population
808,900
Currency
Name: Hryvnia
Code: UAH
Symbol: hry
Electrical Plugs
220V 50Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Ukrainian
Time Zones
GMT/UTC +2
Country Dialing Code
+380
Weights & Measures
Metric
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