🇲🇩 Moldova

Where is Moldova?

Moldova lies in Eastern Europe, on the continent of Europe.

It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 5 232 km from the equator.

Moldova is landlocked: it has no coast at all, so you cannot reach the sea without crossing another country.

It shares a border with 2 countries: Romania and Ukraine.

How big is Moldova?

Moldova covers 33 846 square kilometres.

That is about 13 times the size of Luxembourg.

Among the world's countries that makes it the 135th largest.

If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 80 people on every square kilometre.

Who lives in Moldova?

About 2.7 million people live in Moldova.

That is the 138th biggest population in the world.

People here speak Moldavian.

They pay with the Moldovan leu (L).

On average, people born here can expect to live about 65 years.

The land of Moldova

The land in Moldova sits on average 139 metres above sea level, which makes it one of the flatter countries on Earth.

Because it is landlocked, everything that arrives by ship has to cross one of its 2 neighbours first.

It lies between the tropics and the poles, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.

What makes Moldova different?

A dish the country is known for: Mămăligă, Sarmale and Răcituri.

Websites from here often end in .md.

Moldova and the rest of the world

Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 0.4 live in Moldova.

It takes up about 0.03 % of all the land that countries stand on.

Within Europe it is the 32nd largest of 45 countries, and the 31st most populated.

That is close to the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.

Moldova and its neighbours

Ukraine, its largest neighbour, is about 17.8 times bigger.

Ukraine has more people: 44.6 million against 2.7 million.

Nature and animals

The longest river is the Danube, running 2 850 km from source to mouth.