Capital (political) of Moldova:
ChișinăuArea of Moldova: 33,846 km² (13,068 mi²) (
138th)
Population of Moldova: 3,034,961 (
138th) - (2024 est.)
Location: Eastern Europe
Languages of Moldova: Moldovan/
Romanian 80.5% (official) (49.2% Moldovan; 31.3% Romanian),
Russian 11.1%,
Gagauz 3.8% (a Turkish language),
Ukrainian 2.9%,
Bulgarian 1.2%, Romani 0.3%, other 0.2% (2024)
Religions of Moldova: Christian 98.2%, (
Eastern Orthodox 95.2%,
Protestant 2.9%, other
Christian 0.1%),
other religion 0.4%,
no religion 1.4% (2024 est.)
Ethnic groups in Moldova: Moldovans 77.2%,
Romanians 7.9%,
Ukrainians 4.9%,
Gagauzes 4.2%,
Russians 3.2%,
Bulgarians 1.6%, other 0.9% (2024 est.)
Currency:
Moldovan leu (
MDL)
Time zone:
UTC+02:00 (
EETEastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The zone uses daylight saving time, so that it uses UTC+03:00 during the summer.), Summer (
DSTDaylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in spring or late winter, and to set clocks back by one hour to standard time in the autumn (or fall in North American English, hence the mnemonic: 'spring forward and fall back').)
UTC+03:00 (
EESTEastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European and Middle Eastern countries, which makes it the same as Arabia Standard Time, East Africa Time, and Moscow Time. During the winter periods, Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) is used.)
Calling code: (
+373)
Organizations: United Nations, Commonwealth of Independent States
Border countries (2):
Romania 683 km,
Ukraine 1202 km.
Coastline: 0 km (0 mi) (landlocked)
Administrative divisions of Moldova
32 raions (raioane, singular - raion),
3 municipalities (municipii, singular - municipiul),
1 autonomous territorial unit (unitatea teritoriala autonoma),
and 1 territorial unit (unitatea teritoriala):
Raions: Anenii Noi, Basarabeasca, Briceni, Cahul, Cantemir, Calarasi, Causeni, Cimislia, Criuleni, Donduseni, Drochia, Dubasari, Edinet, Falesti, Floresti, Glodeni, Hincesti, Ialoveni, Leova, Nisporeni, Ocnita, Orhei, Rezina, Riscani, Singerei, Soldanesti, Soroca, Stefan Voda, Straseni, Taraclia, Telenesti, Ungheni.
Municipalities: Balti, Bender, Chisinau.
Autonomous territorial unit: Gagauzia.
Territorial unit: Stinga Nistrului (Transnistria).
Natural resources: lignite, phosphorites, gypsum, arable land, limestone.