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Lviv, 
Ukraine
627,280 people lived in Lviv in 2025. It is the 863rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Ukraine.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lviv grew
Lviv had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 605,068 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Lviv through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lviv in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ukraine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Lviv is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Ukraine in 2025, 79 in all, led by Kiev, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Lviv covered 101 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 57%, and its people are about as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Ukraine
Its share of Ukraine
Of every 100 people in Ukraine in 2025, 2 lived in Lviv, which is 627,280 people.
How to read this: shrink Ukraine to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Lviv; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 859 Qujing China630,828
- 860 Benghazi Libya630,479
- 861 Seeb Oman630,072
- 862 Lokoja Nigeria629,547
- 863 Lviv627,280
- 864 Chiang Mai Thailand626,629
- 865 Zagreb Croatia623,091
- 866 Pingxiang China623,055
- 867 Xiashan China622,080
In Ukraine, 2025
- 394 Kharkiv1,308,892
- 575 Odesa899,157
- 670 Dnipro792,115
- 758 Donetsk705,832
- 863 Lviv627,280
- 966 Zaporizhzhia566,844
- 1161 Kryvyi Rih477,940
- 1342 Mykolaiv419,484
- 1516 Mariupol375,504
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Lviv are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Lviv publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries