Transnistria

Transnistria is a country in eastern . It seceded from but is still claimed by , and is only recognised by the other breakaway states of the former Soviet Union: , and .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tiraspol and Bendery.

is the capital and largest city in Transnistria. Foreign tourists usually go to and Transnistria for the preserved Soviet symbols and other traces of the communist past.

is a city in the unrecognized republic of Transnistria, on the west or right bank of the Dniestr River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Crasnogorca.

Village
is a village in the Grigoriopol sub-district of Transnistria, . It is currently under the administration of the breakaway government of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic.

Transnistria

Latitude
46.9906° or 46° 59′ 26″ north
Longitude
29.4773° or 29° 28′ 38″ east
Population
466,000
Elevation
123 metres (404 feet)
Open location code
8GRFXFRG+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2043451343
Geo­Names ID
858911
Wiki­data ID
Q907112
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Transnistria” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: Приднестровиатәи Молдавиатәи Ареспублика
  • Abkhazian: Приднестровие
  • Afrikaans: Transnistria
  • Afrikaans: Transnistrie
  • Afrikaans: Transnistrië
  • Albanian: Transnistria
  • Amharic: ትራንስኒስትሪያ
  • Angika: ट्रांसनिस्त्रिया
  • Arabic: ترانسنيستريا
  • Arabic: جمهورية بريدنيستروفيه المولدافية
  • Arabic: جمهورية ترانسنيستريا
  • Aragonese: Republica Moldava de Transnístria
  • Aragonese: Transnistria
  • Armenian: Մերձդնեստր
  • Armenian: Մերձդնեստրի Մոլդովական Հանրապետություն
  • Armenian: ՄՄՀ
  • Arpitan: Rèpublica de Transnistrie moldava
  • Arpitan: Transnistria
  • Asturian: República Moldava de Transnistria
  • Asturian: Transdniester
  • Asturian: Transnistria
  • Azerbaijani: Dnestryanı Moldova Respublikası
  • Azerbaijani: Dnestryanı
  • Bashkir: Днестр буйы Молдова Республикаһы
  • Bashkir: Днестр буйы республикаһы
  • Basque: Pridnestrovia
  • Basque: Pridnestrovie
  • Basque: Trans-Dniester
  • Basque: Transnistria
  • Belarusian: ПМР
  • Belarusian: Прыднястроўе
  • Belarusian: Прыднястроўская Малдаўская Рэспубліка
  • Bengali: ট্রান্সনিস্ট্রিয়া
  • Betawi: Transnistri
  • Bosnian: Pridnjestovlje
  • Bosnian: Pridnjestrovija
  • Bosnian: Pridnjestrovlje
  • Bosnian: Pridnjestrovska Moldavska Republika
  • Bosnian: Transdnjestarska Republika
  • Bosnian: Transistria
  • Breton: Republik moldov an Dniestr
  • Breton: Trañsnistria
  • Breton: Treuznistria
  • Bulgarian: Приднестровие
  • Bulgarian: Приднестровска молдавска република
  • Bulgarian: Транснистрия
  • Catalan: Pridnestrovie
  • Catalan: Pridniestróvie
  • Catalan: Pridniestròvie
  • Catalan: Prydnistróvia
  • Catalan: Prydnistròvia
  • Catalan: República Moldava de Transnístria
  • Catalan: Transdnièster
  • Catalan: Transdnister
  • Catalan: Transnístria
  • Central Bikol: Transnistria
  • Central Kurdish: ترانسنیستریا
  • Chechen: Приднестровье
  • Chechen: Хьалхаранестра Молдавнойн Пачхьалкх
  • Chinese: Transnistria
  • Chinese: 外涅斯特里亚
  • Chinese: 外涅斯特里亚共和国
  • Chinese: 德东岸问题
  • Chinese: 德东问题
  • Chinese: 德左
  • Chinese: 德左共和国
  • Chinese: 德左共和國
  • Chinese: 德左问题
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河东岸
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河东岸共和国
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河左岸
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河左岸共和国
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河東岸共和國
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河沿岸
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河沿岸共和国
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河沿岸共和國
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特河沿岸摩尔达维亚共和国
  • Chinese: 德涅斯特里亞
  • Chinese: 聶斯特河沿岸
  • Church Slavic: Придънѣстриѥ
  • Church Slavic: Придънѣ́стриѥ
  • Cornish: Transnistri
  • Crimean Tatar: Pridnestrovye Moldovan Cumhuriyeti
  • Crimean Tatar: Pridnestrovye
  • Croatian: Pridnjestrovlje
  • Croatian: Pridnjestrovska Moldavska Republika
  • Croatian: Transistria
  • Croatian: Transnistria
  • Croatian: Transnistrija
  • Croatian: Transnіstrіa
  • Croatian: Transnіstrіja
  • Czech: Podněsteří
  • Czech: Podněsterská moldavská republika
  • Czech: Podněsterská Moldavská republika
  • Czech: Podněsterská republika
  • Czech: Podněstersko
  • Czech: Podněstří
  • Czech: Zadněstersko
  • Danish: Dnestrrepublikken
  • Danish: PMR
  • Danish: Pridnestrovien
  • Danish: Transnistrien
  • Dhivehi: ޓުރާންސްނިސްޓުރިއާ
  • Dimli (individual language): Transdinyester
  • Dutch: Pridnestrovie
  • Dutch: Pridnestrovische Moldavische Republiek
  • Dutch: Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica
  • Dutch: Trans-Dnjestrie
  • Dutch: Trans-Dnjestrië
  • Dutch: Trans-Nistrie
  • Dutch: Trans-Nistrië
  • Dutch: Transdnestrie
  • Dutch: Transdnestrië
  • Dutch: Transdniestrie
  • Dutch: Transdniestrië
  • Dutch: Transdnjestrie
  • Dutch: Transdnjestrië
  • Dutch: Transnistrie
  • Dutch: Transnistrië
  • Eastern Mari: Днестрсер Молдав Республик
  • Eastern Mari: Днестрсер
  • Egyptian Arabic: ترانسنيستريا
  • Esperanto: Ĉednestria Moldava Respubliko
  • Esperanto: Ĉednestrio
  • Estonian: Dnestri-äärne Vabariik
  • Estonian: Stânga Nistrului
  • Estonian: Transnistria
  • Extremaduran: Trasnistria
  • Finnish: Dnestria
  • Finnish: Transdnestria
  • Finnish: Transdniestr
  • Finnish: Transnistria
  • Finnish: Transnistrian kriisi
  • Finnish: Transnistrian tasavalta
  • French: Pridniestrovie
  • French: république moldave du Dniestr
  • French: Transdniestrie
  • French: Transnistrie (État)
  • French: Transnistrie
  • Gagauz: Transnistriya
  • Galician: Cisdniéster
  • Galician: Pridnestrovia
  • Galician: República Moldava Pridnestroviana
  • Galician: Transdniéster
  • Galician: Transdniestria
  • Galician: Transnistria
  • Georgian: დნესტრისპირეთი
  • German: Dnjestr-Republik
  • German: MD-SN
  • German: PMR
  • German: Pridnestrovie
  • German: Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica
  • German: Pridnestrowien
  • German: Pridnestrowje
  • German: Pridnestrowskaja Mldawskaja Respublika
  • German: Transdnestrien
  • German: Transdniestrien
  • German: Transnistrien
  • German: Transnistrische Moldauische Republik
  • Greek: Τρανσνίστρια
  • Greek: Υπερδνειστερία
  • Gujarati: ટ્રાન્સનિસ્ટ્રિઆ
  • Haitian: Transnistri
  • Hakka Chinese: Transnistria
  • Hebrew: טראנסניסטריה
  • Hebrew: טרנסניסטריה
  • Hindi: ट्रांसनिस्त्रिया
  • Hungarian: Dnyeszter Menti Köztársaság
  • Hungarian: Dnyeszter Menti Moldáv Köztársaság
  • Hungarian: Dnyeszter-mellék
  • Hungarian: Dnyeszteren Túli Köztársaság
  • Hungarian: Dnyeszteren Túli Terület
  • Hungarian: Transznisztria
  • Icelandic: Pridnestrovie
  • Icelandic: Trans-Dniester
  • Icelandic: Transdniestria
  • Icelandic: Transnistría
  • Ido: Transdnistria
  • Indonesian: Transnistria
  • Interlingua: Transnistria
  • Interlingue: Transnistria
  • Irish: an Tras-dnístria
  • Irish: Tras-dnístria
  • Italian: Pridnestrovie
  • Italian: Pridniestrovie
  • Italian: Repubblica Moldava della Transnistria
  • Italian: Repubblica Moldava di Pridniestrov
  • Italian: Transdnestria
  • Italian: Transdniestr
  • Italian: Transdniestria
  • Italian: Transdnistria
  • Italian: Transnistria
  • Japanese: トランスドニエストル・ソビエト社会主義共和国
  • Japanese: トランスドニエストル
  • Japanese: トランスニストリア・ソビエト社会主義共和国
  • Japanese: トランスニストリア
  • Japanese: 沿ドニエステル
  • Japanese: 沿ドニエストル・ソビエト社会主義共和国
  • Japanese: 沿ドニエストル・モルダビア・ソビエト社会主義共和国
  • Japanese: 沿ドニエストル・モルドバ共和国
  • Japanese: 沿ドニエストル
  • Japanese: 沿ドニエストル=モルダビア・ソビエト社会主義共和国
  • Japanese: 沿ドニエストル共和国
  • Javanese: Transdniestria
  • Javanese: Transnistria
  • Kabardian: Днестырпыт Молдовэ Республикэ
  • Kalmyk: Днестр Кевсин Молдавмудин Таңһч
  • Kannada: ಟ್ರಾನ್ಸ್ನಿಸ್ಟ್ರಿಯಾ
  • Kashubian: Pòdniéstrze
  • Kazakh: Транснистрия
  • Kirghiz: Приднестров Молдова Республикасы
  • Komi: Днестрдор
  • Korean: 쁘리드네스뜨로비예
  • Korean: 트란스니스트리아 몰도바 공화국
  • Korean: 트란스니스트리아
  • Kurdish: Transnîstriya
  • Lao: ທຣານສ໌ນີສເຕຣຍ
  • Latin: Transnistria
  • Latvian: Piedņestra (valsts)
  • Latvian: Piedņestras Moldāvijas PSR
  • Latvian: Piedņestras Moldāvijas Republika
  • Latvian: Piedņestras Moldāvu PSR
  • Latvian: Piedņestras Moldāvu republika
  • Latvian: Piedņestras Moldāvu Republika
  • Latvian: Piedņestras MR
  • Latvian: Piedņestras republika
  • Latvian: Piedņestras Republika
  • Latvian: Piedņestras valsts
  • Ligurian: Transnistria
  • Limburgan: Transnistrië
  • Literary Chinese: 德涅斯特河沿岸
  • Lithuanian: Padnestrė
  • Lithuanian: Padniestrė
  • Lithuanian: Padniestrės respublika
  • Lithuanian: PMR
  • Lombard: Transnistria
  • Low German: Transnistrie
  • Low German: Transnistrien
  • Lower Sorbian: Pódnjesterska
  • Lower Sorbian: Pśidněstrowje
  • Luxembourgish: Transnistrien
  • Macedonian: Приднестарска Молдавска Република
  • Macedonian: Приднестровие
  • Macedonian: Трансднестар
  • Macedonian: Трансднестарска Република
  • Macedonian: Трансднестрија
  • Macedonian: Транснистрија
  • Malagasy: Transnistria (fanjakana)
  • Malagasy: Transnistria
  • Malay: Transnistria
  • Malayalam: ട്രാൻസ്-ഡ്നൈസ്റ്റർ
  • Malayalam: ട്രാൻസ്നിസ്ട്രിയ
  • Malayalam: ട്രാൻസ്‌നിസ്ട്രിയ
  • Malayalam: പി.എം.ആർ.
  • Malayalam: പ്രിഡ്നിസ്ട്രോവിയൻ മോൾഡാവിയൻ റിപ്പബ്ലിക്
  • Malayalam: പ്രിഡ്നിസ്ട്രോവീ
  • Malayalam: സ്ട്രിൻഗ നിസ്ട്രൂലൂയി
  • Maltese: Repubblika Pridnestrovijana Moldavjana
  • Maltese: Transnistrija
  • Marathi: ट्रान्सनिस्ट्रिया
  • Mazanderani: ترانس‌نیستریا
  • Min Dong Chinese: Transnistria
  • Min Nan Chinese: Transnistria
  • Minangkabau: Transnistria
  • Mingrelian: დნესტრიშპიჯეთი
  • Moksha: Днестраланга
  • Mongolian: Приднестр
  • Mongolian: ᠌᠌Приднестр
  • Neapolitan: Rupubbreca Moldova ‘e Transnistria
  • Neapolitan: Transnistria
  • Northern Frisian: Transnistrien
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Transdjnestr
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Transdnjestr
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Transnistria
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Den priednestrovisk-moldoviske republikken
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Den priednestroviske moldoviske republikken
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Pridnestrovie
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Trans-Dniester
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Transdniestria
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Transnistria
  • Norwegian: Transnistria
  • Novial: Transnistria
  • Occitan (post 1500): Republica Moldava de Dnièstre
  • Occitan (post 1500): Transnístria
  • Ossetian: Днестргæрон Молдаваг Республикæ
  • Ossetian: Днестргæрон
  • Ossetian: Приднестровье
  • Ossetian: Приднестровьейы Молдаваг Республикæ
  • Panjabi: ਟਰਾਂਸਨਿਸਤਰੀਆ
  • Panjabi: ਟ੍ਰਾਂਸਨਿਸਤ੍ਰੀਆ
  • Persian: ترانس‌نیستریا
  • Persian: ترانسنیستریا
  • Persian: ترنسنیستریا
  • Piemontese: Transnistria
  • Polish: Naddniestrzańska Republika Mołdawska
  • Polish: Naddniestrze
  • Polish: Republika Naddniestrza
  • Polish: Republika Naddniestrzańska
  • Portuguese: Pridnestróvia
  • Portuguese: República Moldava da Pridnestróvia
  • Portuguese: República Moldava Peridniestriana
  • Portuguese: República Moldava Transdniestriana
  • Portuguese: República Moldava Transnístria
  • Portuguese: República Moldávia Transdniéstriana
  • Portuguese: República Moldávia Transnístria
  • Portuguese: República Moldávia Transnistriana
  • Portuguese: República Moldova Transdniestriana
  • Portuguese: República Moldova Transnístria
  • Portuguese: República Moldova Transnistriana
  • Portuguese: República Pridnestrovian Moldávia
  • Portuguese: RMP
  • Portuguese: Transdniestre
  • Portuguese: Transdniestria
  • Portuguese: Transdniéstria
  • Portuguese: Transdnistria
  • Portuguese: Transdnístria
  • Portuguese: Transnístria
  • Pushto: ترانسنيستريا
  • Romanian: Nistrenia
  • Romanian: Republica Moldovenească Nistreană
  • Romanian: RMN
  • Romanian: Stînga Nistrului
  • Romanian: Transnistria
  • Romanian: Unităţile Administrativ-Teritoriale din Stânga Nistrului
  • Romanian: Unitățile Administrativ-Teritoriale din Stânga Nistrului
  • Romanian: Unităţile Administrativ-Teritoriale din Stînga Nistrului
  • Russian: Левобережье Днестра
  • Russian: ПМР
  • Russian: Поднестровье
  • Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская республика
  • Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская Республика
  • Russian: Приднестровская республика
  • Russian: Приднестровско-Молдавская республика
  • Russian: Приднестровье
  • Rusyn: Приднїстровска Молдавска Републіка
  • Rusyn: Придністровська Молдавська Републіка
  • Sardinian: Pridnestròvia
  • Sardinian: Trans-Dniestr
  • Sardinian: Transdnièstria
  • Sardinian: Transnìstria
  • Scots: Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
  • Scots: Trans-Dniestr
  • Scots: Transdniestrie
  • Scots: Transnistrie
  • Serbian: Придњестовље (политички ентитет)
  • Serbian: Придњестовље
  • Serbian: Придњестровље (политички ентитет)
  • Serbian: Придњестровље
  • Serbian: Придњестровска Молдавска Република
  • Serbian: Трансдњестар
  • Serbian: Трансдњестровље
  • Serbian: Транснистрија
  • Serbo-Croatian: Pridnjestrovlje
  • Serbo-Croatian: Pridnjestrovska Moldavska Republika
  • Serbo-Croatian: Transnistria
  • Serbo-Croatian: Transnistrija
  • Shan: ထရွၼ်ႇသၼိတ်ႉသထရီးယႃး
  • Sicilian: Transdnìstria
  • Sicilian: Transnistria
  • Sindhi: ٽرانس نسٽريا
  • Sinhala: ට්රානිස්ට්රියා
  • Slovak: Podnesterská moldavská republika
  • Slovak: Podnestersko
  • Slovenian: Pridnestrje
  • Slovenian: Pridnestrska republika
  • Slovenian: Pridniestrska republika
  • Slovenian: Pridnjestrska republika
  • Slovenian: Transnistria
  • Slovenian: Transnistrija
  • Somali: Transnistria
  • South Azerbaijani: ترانسنیستریا
  • Spanish: Cisdniéster
  • Spanish: Pridnestrovia
  • Spanish: Pridnestrovie
  • Spanish: Pridniestrovia
  • Spanish: República Moldava de Transnistria
  • Spanish: República Moldava Pridnestrovia
  • Spanish: República Moldava Pridnestroviana
  • Spanish: Trans-Dniester
  • Spanish: Trans-Dniéster
  • Spanish: Transdniéster
  • Spanish: Transdniestria
  • Spanish: Transniéster
  • Spanish: Transnistria
  • Spanish: Transnitria
  • Sundanese: Transnistria
  • Swahili: Transnistria
  • Swedish: Dnestrien
  • Swedish: Dnestriska moldaviska republiken
  • Swedish: Pridnestrovie
  • Swedish: Trans-Dnestrien
  • Swedish: Transdnjestrien
  • Swedish: Transnistrien
  • Sylheti: ꠔꠤꠘꠤꠍ꠆ꠔꠣꠘ
  • Tagalog: Transnistria
  • Tajik: Приднестровие
  • Tajik: Трансднестр
  • Tajik: Транснистриа
  • Tajik: Ҷумҳурии молдовии назди соҳили дарёи Днестр
  • Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Приднестровие
  • Tamil: டிரான்சுனிசுட்ரியா
  • Tamil: ட்ரான்ஸனிஸ்டரை
  • Tamil: திரான்சுனிஸ்திரியா
  • Tamil: திரான்ஸ்னிஸ்திரியா
  • Tatar: ДМҖ
  • Tatar: Днестр буе Молдавия Республикасы
  • Tatar: Днестр буе Молдован Җөмһүрияте
  • Tatar: ПМҖ
  • Tatar: Приднестровье Молдован Җөмһүрияте
  • Tatar: Приднестровье Молдован Республикасы
  • Tatar: Приднестровье
  • Telugu: ట్రాన్సినిస్ట్రియా
  • Thai: Transnistria
  • Thai: ทรานส์นิสเตรีย
  • Thai: ทรานส์นีสเตรีย
  • Tosk Albanian: Transnistrien
  • Turkish: Pridnestrovian Moldova Cumhuriyeti
  • Turkish: Pridnestrovian Moldovya Cumhuriyeti
  • Turkish: Pridnestrovie
  • Turkish: Trans Dniester
  • Turkish: Trans-Dniester
  • Turkish: Transdinyester Özerk Cumhuriyeti
  • Turkish: Transdinyester
  • Turkish: Transnistria
  • Turkmen: Transnister
  • Ukrainian: Наддністрянщина
  • Ukrainian: ПМР
  • Ukrainian: Придністров’я (Молдова)
  • Ukrainian: Придністров’я
  • Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська республіка
  • Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська Республіка
  • Upper Sorbian: Podněsterska
  • Upper Sorbian: Podnjesterska
  • Upper Sorbian: Transnistriska
  • Urdu: Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
  • Urdu: Transnistria
  • Urdu: پریڈنسٹروین مالدویائی جمہوریہ
  • Urdu: ٹرینسنیسٹریا
  • Uzbek: Dnestrboʻyi Moldova Respublikasi
  • Venetian: Transnìstria
  • Veps: Dnestranrand
  • Veps: Transnistria
  • Veps: Transnistrii
  • Vietnamese: Transnistria
  • Vlax Romani: Transnistriya
  • Waray (Philippines): Transnistria
  • Welsh: Trans-Dniester
  • Welsh: Transnistria
  • Western Panjabi: ٹرانسنسٹریا
  • Wu Chinese: 聶斯特河沿岸
  • Yakut: Приднестровье Молдавия Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ
  • Yiddish: טראנסניסטעריא
  • Yiddish: טראנסניסטריע
  • Yoruba: Transnistria
  • Yue Chinese: 德涅斯特河沿岸共和國
  • Zulu: i-Transnistria
  • ma Pinesowi
  • Нистрения
  • Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ
  • РМН

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