Gagauzia

Gagauzia is an autonomous region of . It has a population of about 135,000 people, 83% of whom are of the Gagauz Turkic ethnic group.
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  • Type: autonomous territorial unit with 153,000 residents
  • Description: autonomous administrative territorial entity of Moldova
  • Also known as: “Autonomous Region of Gagauzia”, “Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia”, “Găgăuzia”, and “Unitate Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Gagauz History and Ethnographic Museum.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beșalma.

Village
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is a commune and village in the district, Gagauz Autonomous Territorial Unit of the . According to the 2024 Moldovan census the commune has 2,458 people, 2,366 of them being Gagauz.

Gagauzia

Latitude
46.1667° or 46° 10′ north
Longitude
28.6667° or 28° 40′ east
Population
153,000
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
Open location code
8GRC5M88+MM
Geo­Names ID
858895
Wiki­data ID
Q164819
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Gagauzia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gagaoesië”
  • Afrikaans: “Gagausië”
  • Albanian: “Gagauzia”
  • Albanian: “Găgăuzia”
  • Albanian: “Gazi Yeri”
  • Amharic: “ጋጋውዚያ”
  • Arabic: “جاجوزيا”
  • Arabic: “غاغاوزيا”
  • Armenian: “Գագաուզիյա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qaqauziya”
  • Bashkir: “Гагауз Ери”
  • Basque: “Gagauzia”
  • Belarusian: “Гагавузія”
  • Belarusian: “Гагаузія”
  • Bengali: “গাগাউজিয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Гагаузия”
  • Catalan: “Gagaúsia”
  • Cebuano: “Găgăuzia”
  • Chechen: “Гагаузи”
  • Chinese: “加告兹自治区”
  • Chinese: “加告兹自治领土单位”
  • Chinese: “加告茲共和國”
  • Chinese: “加告茲自治區”
  • Chinese: “嘎嘎烏孜自治區”
  • Chuvash: “Гагаузи”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ğağauz Yeri”
  • Croatian: “Gagauzija”
  • Czech: “Gagauzie”
  • Czech: “Gagauzsko”
  • Danish: “Gagausien”
  • Danish: “Găgăuzia”
  • Danish: “Gagauzien”
  • Dutch: “Gagaoezie”
  • Dutch: “Gagaoezië”
  • Dutch: “Gagauz Yeri”
  • Dutch: “Gagauzia”
  • Dutch: “Gagauzie”
  • Dutch: “Gagauzië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гагаузий”
  • Esperanto: “Gagauzio”
  • Estonian: “Gagauusia”
  • Finnish: “Gagauzia”
  • French: “Gagaouzie”
  • French: “Région autonome de Gagaouzie”
  • French: “Région de Gagaouzie”
  • Gagauz: “Avtonom Territorial Bölümlüü Gagauz Yeri”
  • Gagauz: “Avtonom Territoriali Bölümlüü Gagauziya”
  • Gagauz: “Gagauz Yeri”
  • Gagauz: “Gagauziya”
  • Galician: “Gagauzia”
  • Georgian: “გაგაუზია”
  • German: “Autonome territoriale Einheit Gagausien”
  • German: “Autonome Territoriale Einheit Gagausien”
  • German: “Gagausia”
  • German: “Gagausien”
  • German: “MD-GA”
  • Greek: “Γκαγκαουζία”
  • Gujarati: “ગાગાઉઝિયા”
  • Hausa: “Gagauzia”
  • Hebrew: “גגאוז יארי”
  • Hebrew: “גגאוז-יארי”
  • Hebrew: “גגאוזיה”
  • Hindi: “गगाउज़िया”
  • Hungarian: “Gagauzia”
  • Icelandic: “Gagásía”
  • Indonesian: “Gagauzia”
  • Italian: “Gagausia”
  • Italian: “Gagauzia”
  • Italian: “Găgăuzia”
  • Japanese: “ガガウジア”
  • Japanese: “ガガウズ共和国”
  • Japanese: “ガガウズ自治区”
  • Javanese: “Gagauzia”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಗುಜಿಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Gägäwzïya”
  • Kazakh: “Гәгәузия”
  • Kazakh: “Ғағауызстан”
  • Kazakh: “گاگاۋزىييا”
  • Kirghiz: “Гагаузия”
  • Komi: “Гагаузия”
  • Korean: “가가우즈-옐리 공화국”
  • Korean: “가가우지아 공화국”
  • Korean: “가가우지아-옐리 공화국”
  • Korean: “가가우지아”
  • Korean: “옐리 공화국”
  • Ladino: “Gagauz-Yeri”
  • Ladino: “Gagauziya”
  • Ladino: “Gagauzya”
  • Ladino: “Gagavuz Yeri”
  • Ladino: “Gagavuziya”
  • Ladino: “Gagavuzya”
  • Latvian: “Gagauzija”
  • Lithuanian: “Gagauzija”
  • Lithuanian: “Gagaūzija”
  • Lombard: “Gagauzia”
  • Macedonian: “Гагаузија”
  • Malay: “Gagauzia”
  • Marathi: “गॅगाउझिया”
  • Mazanderani: “گاگائوزیا”
  • Mingrelian: “გაგაუზია”
  • Mongolian: “Гагауз нутаг”
  • Mongolian: “Гагауз”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gagausien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gagaus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gagausar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gagauz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gagauzia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den autonome territorialeininga Găgăuzia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gagauz-Jeri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gagauz-Yeri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gagauzia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Găgăuzia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gagauzija”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gagauziya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Unitatea Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Гагаузия”
  • Norwegian: “Gagaus”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gagauzia”
  • Oromo: “Gagauzia”
  • Ossetian: “Гагаузи”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਾਗੌਜ਼ੀਆ”
  • Persian: “گاگائوزیا”
  • Polish: “Gagauzja”
  • Polish: “Gaugazia”
  • Portuguese: “Gagausia”
  • Portuguese: “Gagauzia”
  • Portuguese: “Gagaúzia”
  • Portuguese: “Gagáuzia”
  • Portuguese: “Găgăuzia”
  • Pushto: “ګاګاوزيا”
  • Romanian: “Gagauz-Yeri”
  • Romanian: “Gagauzia”
  • Romanian: “Găgăuzia”
  • Romanian: “Gagauziya”
  • Romanian: “Raionul Unitatea Teritorială Administrativă Găgăuzia”
  • Romanian: “Raionul Unitatea Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia”
  • Romanian: “Unitatea Teritorială Administrativă Gagauz-Yeri”
  • Romanian: “Unitatea Teritorială Administrativă Găgăuzia”
  • Romanian: “Unitatea Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia”
  • Romanian: “UTA Gagauz-Yeri”
  • Romanian: “UTA Găgăuzia”
  • Russian: “Автономное территориальное образование Гагаузия”
  • Russian: “АТО Гагауз Ери”
  • Russian: “АТО Гагаузия”
  • Russian: “АТОГ”
  • Russian: “Гагаузия”
  • Russian: “Гагаузская автономия”
  • Scots: “Gagauzie”
  • Serbian: “Gagauzija”
  • Serbian: “Гагаузија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gagauzija”
  • Silesian: “Gagauzyjo”
  • Sinhala: “ගාගෝසියා”
  • Slovak: “Găgăuzia”
  • Slovak: “Gagauzsko”
  • Slovenian: “Gagauzija”
  • Somali: “Gagauzia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قاقاووزیا”
  • Spanish: “Gagaúcia”
  • Spanish: “Gagaúzia”
  • Spanish: “Unidad Territorial Autonoma de Gagaúzia”
  • Spanish: “Unidad Territorial Autónoma de Gagaúzia”
  • Sundanese: “Gagauz-Yeri”
  • Sundanese: “Gagauzia”
  • Swahili: “Gagauzia”
  • Swedish: “Găgăuzia”
  • Swedish: “Gagauzien”
  • Swedish: “Gagauzija”
  • Swedish: “Gagauziya”
  • Tajik: “Гагаузия”
  • Tamil: “காகவுசிங்”
  • Tatar: “Gagauziä”
  • Tatar: “Гагаузия”
  • Telugu: “గగావూజియా”
  • Thai: “กากาอูซียา”
  • Turkish: “Gagaoğuz”
  • Turkish: “Gagauz Özerk Yeri”
  • Turkish: “Gagauz Yeri Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Gagauz Yeri Özerk Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Gagauz Yeri”
  • Turkish: “Gagauzya”
  • Turkish: “Gagavuz Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Gagavuz Yeri Özerk Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Gagavuz Yeri Özerk Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Gagavuz Yeri”
  • Turkish: “Gagavuz”
  • Turkish: “Gagavuzya”
  • Turkmen: “Gagauzystan”
  • Ukrainian: “Автономне територіальне утворення Ґаґауз Єрі”
  • Ukrainian: “Автономне територіальне утворення Гагаузія”
  • Ukrainian: “Гагауз Єрі”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґаґауз Єрі”
  • Ukrainian: “Гагаузія”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґаґаузія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gagauska”
  • Urdu: “گاگاؤزیا”
  • Uzbek: “Gagauziya”
  • Vietnamese: “Gagauzia”
  • Welsh: “Gagauzia”
  • Western Panjabi: “گاگاؤزیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “加告兹自治区”
  • Yakut: “Гагауз Сирэ”
  • Yakut: “Гагаузия”
  • Zeeuws: “Gagaoezië”
  • “Гэгэузия”

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