Sokal
Sokal’
a city (since 1939) and administrative center of Sokal’ Raion, L’vov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Located on the Bug River, 2 km from the Sokal’ railroad station on the L’vov-Kovel’ line and 78 km northeast of L’vov. Population, 17,600 (1975). Sokal’ has food-processing enterprises, plants for the production of reinforced-concrete products, chemical fibers, and bricks, and a hosiery factory.