Moldova

Moldova is a small, landlocked country nestled between and . Moldova is one of the least visited countries in Europe, but adventurous travellers will find some rewarding experiences.
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is the capital and largest city in Pridnestrovie.

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Bălți is a city in Moldova.

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is an autonomous region of Moldova.

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Situated in the central part of the Budzhak steppe…

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is a city and municipality in northern Moldova…

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is a city and municipality in southern Moldova.

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is in Moldova. Its most notable attraction is Orheiul Vechi, i.e.

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is a city, municipality and the seat of in the Republic of Moldova.

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is the only national park in Moldova.

Moldova

  • Type: Country with 4,130,000 residents
  • Description: country in Eastern Europe
  • Also known as: “Besarabia”, “Cộng hòa Moldova”, “la République de Moldavie”, “md”, “MD”, “mda”, “MDA”, “Moldavii”, “Moldova dásseváldi”, “Moldova Respublikası”, “Moldova tääʹssväʹldd”, “Moldova täsiväldi”, “Moldova Vabariik‘”, “Moldova, Republic Of”, “Moldovai Köztársaság”, “Moldovan tasavalta”, “Moldovan Tazovaldkund”, “Mordavéye”, “Mordavie”, “MR”, “Muldofa”, “R. Moldova”, “Rep. Moldova”, “Repubblika tal-Moldova”, “Republic of Moldova”, “Republica da Moldavia”, “República da Moldávia”, “República de Moldova”, “República de Moldovia”, “Rèpublica de Mordavéye”, “Rèpublica de Mordavia”, “Rèpublica de Mordavie”, “Rèpublica de Mordova”, “República Moldova”, “Republika e Molldavisë”, “Republika Moldavija”, “Republiken Moldavien”, “République de Moldova”, “Respubliko Moldavio”, “Ri̱pobi̱lik Moli̱dova”, “Te Whenua o Morotawa”, “y Voldaav”, “y Voldova”, “Δημοκρατία της Μολδαβίας”, “Μολδαβική Δημοκρατία”, “Молдова республик”, “Република Молдавия”, “Република Молдова”, “Республика Молдавия”, “Республика Молдова”, “Рэспубліка Малдова”, “إمارة البُغدان”, “البغدان”, “جمهورية مولدوفا”, “جمهورية مولدوڤا”, “مۆڵدۆڤا”, “몰다비아”, “몰도바 공화국”, and “摩尔多瓦共和国”
  • Historically known as: “Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic”, “Moldavskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika”, “Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika Moldova”, and “Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova”
  • Languages: Romanian, Russian, Gagauz, and Turkish
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, unitary state, landlocked country, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
47.2867° or 47° 17′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
28.5425° or 28° 32′ 33″ east
Population
4,130,000
Area
33,843 km² (13,067 miles²)
Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)
Capital
Chisinau
Currency
Leu (MDL)
Phone code
373
Internet domain
.md
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424316417
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
617790
Wiki­data ID
Q217
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Moldova” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Молдавиа”
  • Abkhazian: “Молдова”
  • Achinese: “Moldova”
  • Adyghe: “Молдавие”
  • Afrikaans: “Moldova”
  • Afrikaans: “Moldowa”
  • Akan: “Mɔldova”
  • Albanian: “Moldavi”
  • Albanian: “Moldavia”
  • Albanian: “Molldavi”
  • Amharic: “ሞልዶቫ”
  • Amis: “Moldova”
  • Angika: “मॉल्दोवा”
  • Arabic: “مولدافيا”
  • Arabic: “مولدوفا”
  • Aragonese: “Republica de Moldavia”
  • Armenian: “Մոլդովա”
  • Arpitan: “Moldavie”
  • Arpitan: “Mordavia”
  • Assamese: “মোলডোভা”
  • Asturian: “Moldavia”
  • Atayal: “Moldova”
  • Avaric: “Молдавия”
  • Avaric: “Молдов”
  • Awadhi: “मोल्डोवा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Moldova”
  • Balinese: “Moldova”
  • Bambara: “Molidavi”
  • Bashkir: “Молдова”
  • Basque: “Moldavia”
  • Basque: “Moldova”
  • Bavarian: “Moidowien”
  • Bavarian: “Moldàwien”
  • Belarusian: “Малдова, Рэспубліка”
  • Belarusian: “Малдова”
  • Bengali: “মলদোভা”
  • Bengali: “মলদোভিয়া”
  • Bengali: “মোল্দাভিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Moldawi”
  • Bhojpuri: “मोल्डोवा”
  • Bishnupriya: “মোলদোভা”
  • Bislama: “Moldova”
  • Bosnian: “Moldavija”
  • Breton: “Moldova”
  • Bulgarian: “Молдова, Република”
  • Bulgarian: “Молдова”
  • Burmese: “မောလ်ဒိုဗာ”
  • Burmese: “မော်လ်ဒိုဗာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Cajun French: “Moldavie”
  • Catalan: “Moldàvia”
  • Catalan: “Moldova”
  • Catalan: “República de Moldàvia”
  • Cebuano: “Moldabya”
  • Cebuano: “Moldova”
  • Central Bikol: “Moldoba”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆلدۆڤا”
  • Chavacano: “Moldavia”
  • Chechen: “Молдави”
  • Cherokee: “ᎹᎵᏙᏫᎠ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎼᎵᏙᏩ”
  • Chinese: “Móěrduōwă”
  • Chinese: “摩尔多瓦”
  • Chinese: “摩爾多瓦”
  • Church Slavic: “Молдова”
  • Chuvash: “Молдави”
  • Chuvash: “Молдова”
  • Cornish: “Moldova”
  • Corsican: “Moldavia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Moldova Cumhuriyeti”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Moldova”
  • Croatian: “Moldavija”
  • Croatian: “Moldova”
  • Croatian: “Republika Moldova”
  • Czech: “Moldavská republika”
  • Czech: “Moldavsko, republika”
  • Czech: “Moldavsko”
  • Czech: “Moldova”
  • Dagbani: “Moldavia”
  • Danish: “Moldavien”
  • Danish: “Moldova”
  • Danish: “Republikken Moldova”
  • Dhivehi: “މޮލްޑޯވާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Moldova”
  • Dotyali: “मोल्दोभा”
  • Dutch: “Moldavië”
  • Dutch: “Moldova”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Moldavië”
  • Dzongkha: “མོལ་ཌོ་བྷ།”
  • Dzongkha: “མོལ་དོ་བཱ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Молдова”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مولدوڤا”
  • Emilian: “Muldàvi”
  • Erzya: “Молдавия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Moldava Respubliko”
  • Esperanto: “Moldavio”
  • Esperanto: “Moldavujo”
  • Estonian: “Moldova Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Moldova”
  • Ewe: “Moldova nutome”
  • Ewe: “Moldova”
  • Extremaduran: “Moldavia”
  • Extremaduran: “Moldávia”
  • Faroese: “Moldova”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Moldova”
  • Finnish: “Moldova”
  • French: “Moldavie”
  • French: “Moldova”
  • French: “République de Moldavie”
  • Friulian: “Moldavie”
  • Friulian: “Republiche di Moldavie”
  • Fulah: “Moldawii”
  • Fulah: “Moldowa”
  • Gagauz: “Moldova Republikası”
  • Gagauz: “Moldova”
  • Galician: “Moldavia”
  • Galician: “Moldova”
  • Ganda: “Moldova”
  • Ganda: “Molodova”
  • Georgian: “მოლდოვა”
  • German: “Moldau (Republik Moldau)”
  • German: “Moldau”
  • German: “Moldawien”
  • German: “Republik Moldau”
  • German: “Republik Moldova”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Moldavia”
  • Gilaki: “مؤلداوي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Moldova”
  • Goan Konkani: “मॉल्डोवा”
  • Goan Konkani: “मोल्दोव्हा”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Μολδαβία, Δημοκρατία της”
  • Greek: “Μολδαβία”
  • Greek: “Μολδόβα”
  • Guarani: “Moyndávia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Moldavi”
  • Gujarati: “મોલડોવા”
  • Gujarati: “મોલ્દોવા”
  • Haitian: “Moldavi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Moldova”
  • Hausa: “Maldoba”
  • Hausa: “Moldufiniya”
  • Hausa: “MOldufiniya”
  • Hawaiian: “Molodowa”
  • Hebrew: “מולדובה”
  • Hindi: “मॉल्डोवा”
  • Hindi: “मोल्डाविया”
  • Hindi: “मोल्दोवा”
  • Hungarian: “Moldáv Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Moldova”
  • Icelandic: “Moldova”
  • Icelandic: “Moldóva”
  • Ido: “Moldova”
  • Igbo: “Moldova”
  • Iloko: “Moldova”
  • Iloko: “Moldovia”
  • Inari Sami: “Moldova”
  • Indonesian: “Moldavia”
  • Indonesian: “Moldova”
  • Interlingua: “Moldavia”
  • Interlingue: “Moldavia”
  • Irish: “an Mholdóiv”
  • Irish: “An Mholdóiv”
  • Italian: “Moldavia”
  • Italian: “Moldova”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Molduova”
  • Japanese: “モルドバ”
  • Japanese: “モルドバ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Moldavia”
  • Javanese: “Moldova”
  • Jèrriais: “Moldova”
  • Kabardian: “Молдавиэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Mɔlɩdaavii”
  • Kabyle: “Muldavya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Moldova”
  • Kalmyk: “Молдавмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಲ್ಡೋವ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಲ್ಡೋವಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Moldaviya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Молдавия”
  • Kashmiri: “مالڈووا”
  • Kashmiri: “مولڑاوِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Mòłdawiô”
  • Kashubian: “Mòłdawskô”
  • Kazakh: “Молдова”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ុលដាវី”
  • Kikuyu: “Moldova”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Molidova”
  • Kirghiz: “Молдова”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Молдова”
  • Komi: “Молдова”
  • Kongo: “Moldova”
  • Korean: “몰도바”
  • Kotava: “Moldova”
  • Kurdish: “Moldova”
  • Ladin: “Moldavia”
  • Ladin: “Moldova”
  • Ladino: “Moldova”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດມອລໂດວາ”
  • Lao: “ໂມນໂດວາ”
  • Latgalian: “Moldaveja”
  • Latin: “Moldavia”
  • Latin: “Respublica Moldavica”
  • Latvian: “Moldova”
  • Lezghian: “Молдова”
  • Ligurian: “Moldavia”
  • Limburgan: “Moldavië”
  • Lingala: “Moldova”
  • Lingala: “Molidavi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Moldova”
  • Literary Chinese: “摩爾多瓦”
  • Lithuanian: “Moldavija”
  • Lithuanian: “Moldova”
  • Liv: “Moldova”
  • Livvi: “Molduavii”
  • Lojban: “moldovas”
  • Lombard: “Muldavia”
  • Low German: “Moldavië”
  • Low German: “Moldawien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Moldawska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Molidavi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Moldawien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Moldova”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Republica Moldova”
  • Macedonian: “Молдавија”
  • Macedonian: “Молдова”
  • Madurese: “Moldavia”
  • Maithili: “मोल्डोवा”
  • Malagasy: “Môldavia”
  • Malay: “Moldova”
  • Malay: “مولدوۏا”
  • Malayalam: “മൾഡോവ”
  • Malayalam: “മൊൾഡോവ”
  • Maltese: “il-Moldova”
  • Maltese: “Moldova”
  • Maltese: “Moldovja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯣꯜꯗꯣꯚꯥ”
  • Manx: “Moldova”
  • Maori: “Morotawa”
  • Marathi: “मोल्डोव्हा”
  • Marathi: “मोल्दोव्हा”
  • Mazanderani: “مولداوی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Moldova”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Moldova”
  • Minangkabau: “Moldova”
  • Mingrelian: “მოლდოვა”
  • Mirandese: “Moldábia”
  • Moksha: “Молдова”
  • Mongolian: “Молдав”
  • Mongolian: “Молдова”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مولدوڤا”
  • Nauru: “Ripubrikin Mordowa”
  • Navajo: “Chʼótoohnii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Moldavie”
  • Nepali: “माल्डोभा”
  • Nepali: “मोल्दोभा”
  • Nepali: “मोल्दोवा”
  • Newari: “मोल्दोवा”
  • North Ndebele: “Moldova”
  • Northern Frisian: “Moldaawien”
  • Northern Luri: “موٙلداڤی”
  • Northern Sami: “Moldávia”
  • Northern Sami: “Moldova”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Moldova”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moldova”
  • Norwegian: “Moldova”
  • Novial: “Moldova”
  • Obolo: “Mọlidova”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Moldàvia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Moldova”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܘܠܕܘܒܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Muldofland”
  • Oriya: “ମାଲଡୋଭା”
  • Oriya: “ମୋଲଡୋଭା”
  • Oromo: “Moldoovaa”
  • Ossetian: “Молдовæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “မော်ဒိုဗာခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “मोल्दोवा”
  • Pampanga: “Moldabya”
  • Pangasinan: “Moldavia”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਲਡੋਵਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੋਲਦੋਵਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Moldavia”
  • Papiamento: “Moldova”
  • Persian: “مولداوی”
  • Persian: “مولدوا”
  • Persian: “مولدووا”
  • Picard: “Moldavie”
  • Piemontese: “Moldavia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Moldoewa”
  • Polish: “Mołdawia, Republika”
  • Polish: “Mołdawia”
  • Pontic: “Μολδαβία”
  • Portuguese: “Moldávia”
  • Portuguese: “Moldova, República de”
  • Portuguese: “Moldova”
  • Pushto: “مولدوا”
  • Pushto: “مولدووا”
  • Quechua: “Moldova”
  • Quechua: “Mulduwa”
  • Quechua: “Multhawya”
  • Romanian: “Moldova, Republica”
  • Romanian: “Moldova”
  • Romanian: “Republica Moldova”
  • Romanian: “Молдова”
  • Romansh: “Moldavia”
  • Rundi: “Moludavi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Молдав”
  • Russia Buriat: “Молдави”
  • Russian: “Молдавия” (historical)
  • Russian: “Молдова”
  • Rusyn: “Молдавия”
  • Rusyn: “Молдавія”
  • Sakizaya: “Moldova”
  • Samoan: “Moldova”
  • Samoan: “Molotova”
  • Samogitian: “Moldavėjė”
  • Sango: “Moldavùii”
  • Sanskrit: “मोल्दोवा”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱳᱞᱫᱳᱵᱷᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Moldàvia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Moldawien”
  • Scots: “Moldovae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Mholdobha”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Mholdobha”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Moldàibhia”
  • Serbian: “Moldavija”
  • Serbian: “Молдавија”
  • Serbian: “Молдова”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Moldavija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမေႃႇတူဝ်းဝႃး”
  • Shona: “Moldova”
  • Shona: “Morudhovha”
  • Sicilian: “Moldavia”
  • Silesian: “Mołdawijo”
  • Sindhi: “مالدووا”
  • Sindhi: “مولدووا”
  • Sinhala: “මොල්ඩෝවාව”
  • Sinhala: “මෝල්ඩෝවා ජනරජය”
  • Sinhala: “මෝල්ඩෝවා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Moldova”
  • Slovak: “Moldavsko, republika”
  • Slovak: “Moldavsko”
  • Slovenian: “Moldavija”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Moldova”
  • Somali: “Moldofa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مولداوی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Moldova”
  • Spanish: “Moldavia”
  • Spanish: “Moldova”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Moldavikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⵓⵍⴹⵓⴼⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Moldova”
  • Swahili: “Moldova”
  • Swati: “IMolidiva”
  • Swedish: “Moldavien”
  • Swedish: “Moldova”
  • Swiss German: “Moldawie”
  • Swiss German: “Moldawien”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠣꠟ꠆ꠖꠜꠣ”
  • Tachelhit: “Muldavya”
  • Tachelhit: “Mulduva”
  • Tagalog: “Moldabya”
  • Tagalog: “Moldavia”
  • Tagalog: “Moldova”
  • Tajik: “Молдова”
  • Talysh: “Məldovə”
  • Tamil: “மல்தோவா”
  • Tamil: “மால்டோவா”
  • Taroko: “Moldova”
  • Tatar: “Молдова”
  • Telugu: “మోల్డోవా”
  • Tetum: “Moldávia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศมอลโดวา”
  • Thai: “มอลโดวา”
  • Tibetan: “མོལ་དོ་ཝ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሞልዶቫ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Moldova”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Molotova”
  • Tsonga: “Moldova”
  • Tumbuka: “Moldova”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “مولداڥيا”
  • Turkish: “Moldova”
  • Turkish: “Moldovya Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Moldovya”
  • Turkmen: “Moldawiýa”
  • Turkmen: “Moldowa”
  • Twi: “Moldova”
  • Tyap: “Ma̱li̱dova”
  • Udmurt: “Молдавия”
  • Uighur: “مولدوۋا”
  • Ukrainian: “Молдова”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Молдова”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Moldawska”
  • Urdu: “مالدووا”
  • Uzbek: “Moldova”
  • Venetian: “Moldàvia”
  • Veps: “Moldov”
  • Vietnamese: “Moldova”
  • Vietnamese: “Môn-đô-va (Moldova)”
  • Vietnamese: “Môn-đô-va”
  • Vietnamese: “Mondova”
  • Vlaams: “Moldavië”
  • Vlaams: “Moldoavië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Moldova”
  • Volapük: “Moldavän”
  • Võro: “Moldova”
  • Walloon: “Moldaveye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Moldavia”
  • Welsh: “Moldofa”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոլտովա”
  • Western Frisian: “Moldaavje”
  • Western Frisian: “Moldavië”
  • Western Mari: “Молдави”
  • Western Panjabi: “مالدووا”
  • Western Panjabi: “مولڈوا”
  • Wolof: “Moldaawi”
  • Wolof: “Moldawi”
  • Wu Chinese: “摩尔多瓦”
  • Xhosa: “IMoldova”
  • Yakut: “Молдова”
  • Yiddish: “מאלדאוויע”
  • Yiddish: “מאלדאווע”
  • Yoruba: “Modofia”
  • Yoruba: “Móldófà”
  • Yue Chinese: “摩爾多瓦”
  • Zeeuws: “Moldâvië”
  • Zhuang: “Moldova”
  • Zulu: “i-Moldova”
  • Zulu: “IMoldova”
  • “ma Motowa”
  • “Moldavija”
  • “Moldova”
  • “मोल्डोवा”

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