Regional map focus
Lviv Oblast opens at the focused map link /en/?region=UA-46. Lviv is its administrative center, but the oblast outline also contains Drohobych, Sambir, Stryi, Yavoriv, Zolochiv, and Sheptytskyi district. It borders Poland and five Ukrainian oblasts: Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Zakarpattia. Regional administration material describes a landscape running from plains and forest-steppe into foothills and the Carpathians. A European watershed crosses the oblast: the Western Bug drains toward the Baltic basin, while the Dniester belongs to the Black Sea basin. These are useful landmarks for someone searching for a place elsewhere in Lviv Oblast rather than in the city. The UA-46 link opens the whole region, so a query about an area near the Polish border or in the Carpathian direction need not collapse into results about the capital alone. The present alert state belongs on the live map and in official notices, where the time of the information can be checked. The watershed is a physical feature, whereas the map code refers to an administrative unit; the two ways of dividing land should not be treated as the same boundary.
How to use this page
Lviv Oblast now has seven districts: Drohobych, Zolochiv, Lviv, Sambir, Stryi, Sheptytskyi, and Yavoriv. The 2020 district resolution called Sheptytskyi district Chervonohrad district; the current Lviv regional statistics portal uses Sheptytskyi. This change matters when readers compare an older official document with a present-day search or a message using a newer place name. Lviv district is only one part of the oblast, whereas UA-46 focuses the entire regional map layer. The same link can serve someone travelling between Lviv, Drohobych, and Sambir, or a recipient reading a notice from Yavoriv district. The Lviv local statistics portal places Skole and Slavske communities in Stryi district. That mountain-side district context differs from border-side Yavoriv and from the urban center around Lviv, even though all belong to the UA-46 oblast layer. For a particular community, the reader still needs the official notice that names it and the time that notice was issued. Keeping the district name, oblast name, and timestamp together makes a shared message easier to interpret accurately.
Name and boundary sources
“Lviv” in a brief message can mean the city, the district, or the entire oblast; these are three different geographical scales. The UA-46 oblast link settles the scale by selecting the region's administrative outline. The regional administration's geographic account confirms its Polish border, neighboring Ukrainian oblasts, and watershed. The Lviv local statistics portal provides present district names. The Lviv statistics portal places Skole and Slavske communities in Stryi district and Yavoriv and Shehyni communities in Yavoriv district. The Carpathian direction and the area by the Polish border thus have different district names within one oblast. The regional administration adds a physical distinction: the Western Bug belongs to the Baltic drainage basin, while the Dniester flows toward the Black Sea basin. The city name “Lviv” alone does not reveal either that watershed or the full seven-district outline. The administration also names the Poltva as a tributary of the Western Bug, linking a river associated with the regional capital to the Baltic basin rather than the Dniester basin farther south.
Change history
If the live map shows history for this region, use that interface for current change context. This page does not copy changing values into static text.