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4 Countries in Eastern Europe :  European Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova

Moldova

flag of MoldovaNational anthem of Moldova

OFFICIAL NAME

Republica Moldova (Republic of Moldova)

FORM OF GOVERNMENT

unitary parliamentary republic with a single legislative house (Parliament [101])

HEAD OF STATE

President: Igor Dodon

HEAD OF GOVERNMENT

Prime Minister: Pavel Filip

 

CAPITAL

Chișinău

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

Romanian¹.

OFFICIAL RELIGION

none

MONETARY UNIT

Moldovan leu (plural lei)²

POPULATION

(2018 est.) 3,330,000

POPULATION RANK

(2018) 134

POPULATION PROJECTION 2030

3,192,000

TOTAL AREA (SQ MI)

13,067

TOTAL AREA (SQ KM)

33,843

DENSITY: PERSONS PER SQ MI

(2018) 254.8

DENSITY: PERSONS PER KM

(2018) 98.4

URBAN-RURAL POPULATION

Urban: (2018) 42.9%

Rural: (2018) 57.1%

LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH

Male: (2017) 69.4 years

Female: (2017) 77 years

LITERACY: PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION AGE 15 AND OVER LITERATE

Male: not available

Female: not available

GNI (U.S.$ ’000,000)

(2017) 7,800

GNI PER CAPITA (U.S.$)

(2017) 2,180

• ¹Moldovan, a form of Romanian, is the state (official) language per the constitution (1994), but in 2013 the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of Romanian, as so noted in the Declaration of Independence (1991), as the state language.
• ²The Transdniestrian ruble is the official currency of Transdniestria.

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Moldova (/mɒlˈdoʊvə, mɔːl-/ ( listen) or sometimes UK: /ˈmɒldəvə/),^[11][12][13] officially the Republic of Moldova (Romanian: Republica Moldova,  listen ), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe^[14], bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south (by way of the disputed territory of Transnistria).^[15] The capital city is Chișinău.

Most of the Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was returned to Moldavia, which three years later united with Wallachia to form Romania, but Russian rule was restored over the whole of the region in 1878. During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Bessarabia briefly became an autonomous and then independent Moldavian Democratic Republic until it was integrated into Romania in 1918 following a vote of its assembly. The decision was disputed by Soviet Russia, which, in 1924, allowed the establishment, within the Ukrainian SSR, of a Moldavian autonomous republic (MASSR) on partial Moldovan-inhabited territories to the east of the Dniester. In 1940, as a consequence of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Romania was compelled to cede Bessarabia to the Soviet Union, leading to the creation of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR), which included the greater part of Bessarabia and the westernmost strip of the former MASSR.

On 27 August 1991, as part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Moldavian SSR declared independence and took the name Moldova. The current Constitution of Moldova was adopted in 1994. The strip of the Moldovan territory on the east bank of the Dniester river has been under the de facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria since 1990.

Due to a decrease in industrial and agricultural output following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the service sector has grown to dominate Moldova's economy and currently composes over 60% of the nation's GDP. Its economy is the poorest in Europe in per capita terms.^[15][16] Moldova is also the least visited country in Europe by tourists, with only 11,000 annually recorded visitors from abroad.^[17]

Moldova is a parliamentary republic with a president as head of state and a prime minister as head of government. It is a member state of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) and aspires to join the European Union.^[18][19]

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There is a small community of Muslims in Moldova, numbering several thousand.

In 2005, the Spiritual Organisation of Muslims in Moldova headed by Talgat Masaev was denied registration despite the appeal of the Mission to Moldova of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

In March 2011, the Islamic League of Moldova (Liga Islamica din Moldova), an NGOrepresenting Moldova's Muslims, was registered by the Moldovan Justice Ministry as the first legally recognized Muslim association in Moldova. It had applied for registration in 2008.

The Moldovan Orthodox Church opposed the recognition of Islam and joined protests with conservative groups.

As of 2011, officially there were just 2,000 Muslims in Moldova. But the Islamic League of Moldova head Sergiu Sochirca said the number was closer to 17,000, though not all of them were registered as Muslims due to suppression of Islam in the past.

Demographics

There are 2,009 Muslims living in Moldova, according to the 2014 Republic of Moldova Census, up from 1,667 Muslims according to the 2004 Census. ^[7] Most of the Muslimslive in Chişinău (985 people), followed by Găgăuzia (176 people), Bălţi (76 people), Anenii Noi (68 people) and Cahul (54 people).

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