Criva
Criva is a village in Briceni District, Moldova. It is the westernmost point in Moldova and a border crossing point to Mamalyha, Ukraine.Photo: Photobank MD, CC0.
- Type: Village with 920 residents
- Description: village in Briceni District, Moldova
- Also known as: “Criva, Briceni” and “Kriva”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Criva railway station and Emil Racovitsa (Zolushka) cave.
Emil Racovitsa (Zolushka) cave
Cave
Photo: Alex Prodan md, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Emil Racovitsa (Zolushka) cave is situated 3 km northwest of Criva.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drepcăuți and Podvirne.
Drepcăuți
Village
Drepcăuți is a village in Briceni District, Moldova. Drepcăuți is situated 4 km east of Criva.
Podvirne
Village
Podvirne is a village in Dnistrovskyi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Mamalyha rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Until 18 July 2020, Podvirne belonged to Novoselytsia Raion. Podvirne is situated 5 km northwest of Criva.
Mamalyha
Village
Criva
- Categories: border city, commune of Moldova, and locality
- Location: Briceni District, Moldova, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.26758° or 48° 16′ 3″ northLongitude
26.66995° or 26° 40′ 12″ eastPopulation
920Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)Open location code
8GW87M99+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 283838206OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
617961Wikidata ID
Q2711656
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Criva” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Criva”
- Cebuano: “Criva”
- Chechen: “Крива (Молдави)”
- Chechen: “Крива”
- Czech: “Criva”
- Danish: “Criva”
- Dutch: “Criva”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كريڤا”
- French: “Criva”
- Georgian: “კრივა”
- German: “Criva”
- Irish: “Criva”
- Italian: “Criva”
- Japanese: “クリバ (モルドバ)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Criva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Criva”
- Polish: “Criva”
- Polish: “Kriwa”
- Portuguese: “Criva”
- Romanian: “Criva, Briceni”
- Romanian: “Criva”
- Russian: “Крива”
- Spanish: “Criva”
- Swedish: “Criva”
- Tatar: “Крива (Бричени)”
- Tatar: “Крива”
- Turkish: “Criva”
- Ukrainian: “Крива”
- Ukrainian: “Кріва”
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Notable Places Nearby
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