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Available in 164 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-164" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">164 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ady mw-list-item"><a href="https://ady.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Adyghe" lang="ady" hreflang="ady" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Адыгабзэ" data-language-local-name="Adyghe" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Адыгабзэ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kischinau" title="Kischinau – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Kischinau" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%AA%E1%88%BA%E1%8A%95%E1%8B%8D" title="ኪሺንው – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ኪሺንው" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88" title="كيشيناو – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كيشيناو" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%94%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%82" title="Քիշնեւ – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Քիշնեւ" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-rup mw-list-item"><a href="https://roa-rup.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chishin%C3%A3u" title="Chishinãu – Aromanian" lang="rup" hreflang="rup" data-title="Chishinãu" data-language-autonym="Armãneashti" data-language-local-name="Aromanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Armãneashti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quixin%C3%A1u" title="Quixináu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Quixináu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisin%C3%A1u" title="Chisináu – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Chisináu" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%9Finyov" title="Kişinyov – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Kişinyov" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89" title="কিশিনাউ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="কিশিনাউ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%88%D1%8B%D0%BD%D1%91%D1%9E" title="Кішынёў – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Кішынёў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%88%D1%8B%D0%BD%D1%91%D1%9E" title="Кішынёў – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Кішынёў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2" title="Кишинев – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Кишинев" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%85%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A6%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%93%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%B4%E0%BC%8D" title="ཅི་སི་ནའུ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཅི་སི་ནའུ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1injev" title="Kišinjev – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Kišinjev" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8D%D1%83" title="Кишинэу – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Кишинэу" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinau" title="Chisinau – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Chisinau" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1in%C4%9Bv" title="Kišiněv – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Kišiněv" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinau" title="Chisinau – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="Chisinau" data-language-autonym="Chavacano de Zamboanga" data-language-local-name="Chavacano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chavacano de Zamboanga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88" title="كيشيناو – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="كيشيناو" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AC%CE%BF%CF%85" title="Κισινάου – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κισινάου" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2_%D0%BE%D1%88" title="Кишинёв ош – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="Кишинёв ош" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisin%C3%A1u" title="Chisináu – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Chisináu" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%9Dinevo" title="Kiŝinevo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kiŝinevo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinau" title="Chisinau – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Chisinau" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88" title="کیشیناو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کیشیناو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%ADsine%C3%A1" title="Císineá – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Císineá" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%9Fin%C3%B6v" title="Kişinöv – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Kişinöv" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%82%A4%EC%8B%9C%EB%84%88%EC%9A%B0" title="키시너우 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="키시너우" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinau" title="Chisinau – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Chisinau" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%94%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%B6%D6%87" title="Քիշնև – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Քիշնև" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%8A" title="चिसिनाऊ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="चिसिनाऊ" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1injow" title="Kišinjow – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Kišinjow" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1injev" title="Kišinjev – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kišinjev" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kis%C3%ADn%C3%A1" title="Kisíná – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Kisíná" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%91" title="קישינב – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קישינב" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" title="კიშინიოვი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კიშინიოვი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisz%C3%ABni%C3%B3w" title="Kiszëniów – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="Kiszëniów" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2" title="Кишинев – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Кишинев" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishineu" title="Kishineu – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Kishineu" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kotava</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinaou" title="Chisinaou – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Chisinaou" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chishinau" title="Chishinau – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Chishinau" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladino</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinovia" title="Chisinovia – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Chisinovia" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1i%C5%86eva" title="Kišiņeva – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Kišiņeva" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Лезги" data-language-local-name="Lezghian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Лезги</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1iniovas" title="Kišiniovas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kišiniovas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinau" title="Chisinau – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Chisinau" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1in%E2%80%99ov" title="Kišin’ov – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="Kišin’ov" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Livvinkarjala</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2" title="Кишинев – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Кишинев" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8C" title="കിഷിനൌ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="കിഷിനൌ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89" title="चिशिनाउ – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="चिशिनाउ" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" title="კიშინიოვი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="კიშინიოვი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88" title="كيشيناو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كيشيناو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88" title="کیشیناو – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="کیشیناو" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8D%D1%83" title="Кишинэу – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Кишинэу" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinau" title="Chisinau – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Chisinau" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A6" title="キシナウ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="キシナウ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov mw-list-item"><a href="https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinau" title="Kishinau – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov" data-title="Kishinau" data-language-autonym="Novial" data-language-local-name="Novial" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Novial</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinyov" title="Kishinyov – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Kishinyov" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%93" title="ਕਿਸ਼ਨਾਓ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਕਿਸ਼ਨਾਓ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%81" title="کشینیف – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="کشینیف" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88" title="کیشیناو – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="کیشیناو" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiszyni%C3%B3w" title="Kiszyniów – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Kiszyniów" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quixinau" title="Quixinau – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Quixinau" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%9Fineu" title="Kişineu – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Kişineu" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rm mw-list-item"><a href="https://rm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Romansh" lang="rm" hreflang="rm" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Rumantsch" data-language-local-name="Romansh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Rumantsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Кишиньов – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Кишиньов" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2" title="Кишинев – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Кишинев" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8C" title="चिशिनौ – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="चिशिनौ" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishinau" title="Kishinau – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Kishinau" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1i%C5%88ov" title="Kišiňov – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Kišiňov" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1injev" title="Kišinjev – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Kišinjev" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cu mw-list-item"><a href="https://cu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%94%D0%B2%D1%8A" title="Кишинєвъ – Church Slavic" lang="cu" hreflang="cu" data-title="Кишинєвъ" data-language-autonym="Словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ" data-language-local-name="Church Slavic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Словѣньскъ / ⰔⰎⰑⰂⰡⰐⰠⰔⰍⰟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88" title="کیشیناو – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="کیشیناو" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%9A%D0%B5%D0%B2" title="Кишињев – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Кишињев" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1injev" title="Kišinjev – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Kišinjev" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%8D" title="கிசினோவ் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="கிசினோவ்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2" title="คีชีเนา – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="คีชีเนา" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%9Finev" title="Kişinev – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Kişinev" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%9Fineu" title="Kişineu – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Kişineu" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-udm mw-list-item"><a href="https://udm.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Кишинёв – Udmurt" lang="udm" hreflang="udm" data-title="Кишинёв" data-language-autonym="Удмурт" data-language-local-name="Udmurt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Удмурт</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2" title="Кишинів – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Кишинів" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88" title="کیشیناو – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="کیشیناو" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%89%D8%B4%D9%89%D9%86%DB%90%DB%8B" title="كىشىنېۋ – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="كىشىنېۋ" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1in%C3%B6v" title="Kišinöv – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Kišinöv" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vepsän kel’</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" title="Chişinău – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Chişinău" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Volapük</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fiu-vro mw-list-item"><a href="https://fiu-vro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Võro" lang="vro" hreflang="vro" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Võro" data-language-local-name="Võro" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Võro</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vls mw-list-item"><a href="https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisinau" title="Chisinau – West Flemish" lang="vls" hreflang="vls" data-title="Chisinau" data-language-autonym="West-Vlams" data-language-local-name="West Flemish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>West-Vlams</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Chișinău – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Chișinău" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wo mw-list-item"><a href="https://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisinawu" title="Kisinawu – Wolof" lang="wo" hreflang="wo" data-title="Kisinawu" data-language-autonym="Wolof" data-language-local-name="Wolof" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Wolof</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%BA%E5%B8%8C%E8%AE%B7%E4%B9%8C" title="基希讷乌 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="基希讷乌" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A2%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%95" title="קעשענעוו – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="קעשענעוו" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ייִדיש</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%BA%E6%96%BD%E7%B4%90" title="基施紐 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="基施紐" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-diq mw-list-item"><a href="https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%9Finew" title="Kişinew – Zazaki" lang="diq" hreflang="diq" data-title="Kişinew" data-language-autonym="Zazaki" data-language-local-name="Zazaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Zazaki</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bat-smg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bat-smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki%C5%A1%C4%97niuovs" title="Kišėniuovs – Samogitian" lang="sgs" hreflang="sgs" data-title="Kišėniuovs" data-language-autonym="Žemaitėška" data-language-local-name="Samogitian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Žemaitėška</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%BA%E5%B8%8C%E8%AE%B7%E4%B9%8C" title="基希讷乌 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="基希讷乌" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>中文</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bew mw-list-item"><a href="https://bew.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisin%C3%A8p" title="Kisinèp – Betawi" lang="bew" hreflang="bew" data-title="Kisinèp" data-language-autonym="Betawi" data-language-local-name="Betawi" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Moldova%2C_Chisinau_King_Stephen_-_Flickr_-_Dave_Proffer.jpg/154px-Moldova%2C_Chisinau_King_Stephen_-_Flickr_-_Dave_Proffer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a></span></div><div><a href="/wiki/Stephen_the_Great_Monument" title="Stephen the Great Monument">Stephen the Great Monument</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:184px;max-width:184px"><div style="height:102px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cl%C4%83direa_fostului_castel_de_ap%C4%83_cu_foi%C8%99or_de_foc._Foto_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Cl%C4%83direa_fostului_castel_de_ap%C4%83_cu_foi%C8%99or_de_foc._Foto_2.jpg/182px-Cl%C4%83direa_fostului_castel_de_ap%C4%83_cu_foi%C8%99or_de_foc._Foto_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="182" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Cl%C4%83direa_fostului_castel_de_ap%C4%83_cu_foi%C8%99or_de_foc._Foto_2.jpg/273px-Cl%C4%83direa_fostului_castel_de_ap%C4%83_cu_foi%C8%99or_de_foc._Foto_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Cl%C4%83direa_fostului_castel_de_ap%C4%83_cu_foi%C8%99or_de_foc._Foto_2.jpg/364px-Cl%C4%83direa_fostului_castel_de_ap%C4%83_cu_foi%C8%99or_de_foc._Foto_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2250" /></a></span></div><div><a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_Water_Tower" title="Chișinău Water Tower">Chișinău Water Tower</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:265px;max-width:265px"><div style="height:175px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:City_gates_(1999)._Chisinau._(51118938711).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/City_gates_%281999%29._Chisinau._%2851118938711%29.jpg/263px-City_gates_%281999%29._Chisinau._%2851118938711%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="263" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/City_gates_%281999%29._Chisinau._%2851118938711%29.jpg/395px-City_gates_%281999%29._Chisinau._%2851118938711%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/City_gates_%281999%29._Chisinau._%2851118938711%29.jpg/526px-City_gates_%281999%29._Chisinau._%2851118938711%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a></span></div><div>City Gates</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:118px;max-width:118px"><div style="height:72px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Teatrul_Na%C8%9Bional_%22Mihai_Eminescu%22,_Chisinau,_Republica_Moldova_Mihai_Eminescu_National_Theatre,_Chisinau,_Republic_of_Moldova_(50730297817).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Teatrul_Na%C8%9Bional_%22Mihai_Eminescu%22%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Mihai_Eminescu_National_Theatre%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2850730297817%29.jpg/116px-Teatrul_Na%C8%9Bional_%22Mihai_Eminescu%22%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Mihai_Eminescu_National_Theatre%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2850730297817%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="116" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Teatrul_Na%C8%9Bional_%22Mihai_Eminescu%22%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Mihai_Eminescu_National_Theatre%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2850730297817%29.jpg/174px-Teatrul_Na%C8%9Bional_%22Mihai_Eminescu%22%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Mihai_Eminescu_National_Theatre%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2850730297817%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Teatrul_Na%C8%9Bional_%22Mihai_Eminescu%22%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Mihai_Eminescu_National_Theatre%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2850730297817%29.jpg/232px-Teatrul_Na%C8%9Bional_%22Mihai_Eminescu%22%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Mihai_Eminescu_National_Theatre%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2850730297817%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5739" data-file-height="3587" /></a></span></div><div><a href="/wiki/Mihai_Eminescu_National_Theatre" title="Mihai Eminescu National Theatre">Mihai Eminescu National Theatre</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:145px;max-width:145px"><div style="height:72px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Parcul_Valea_Morilor_15.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Parcul_Valea_Morilor_15.jpg/143px-Parcul_Valea_Morilor_15.jpg" decoding="async" width="143" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Parcul_Valea_Morilor_15.jpg/215px-Parcul_Valea_Morilor_15.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Parcul_Valea_Morilor_15.jpg/286px-Parcul_Valea_Morilor_15.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4038" data-file-height="2032" /></a></span></div><div>Valea Morilor Park</div></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output 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data-file-height="1145" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Coat of arms</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Nickname(s): <div class="ib-settlement-nickname nickname"><span title="Romanian-language text"><i lang="ro">Orașul din piatră albă</i></span><br />(<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">The city of white stone</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>)</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Chisinau_in_Moldova_(city_%2B_surroundings_hatched)_(semi-secession).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location of Chișinău in Moldova"><img alt="Location of Chișinău in Moldova" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Chisinau_in_Moldova_%28city_%2B_surroundings_hatched%29_%28semi-secession%29.svg/230px-Chisinau_in_Moldova_%28city_%2B_surroundings_hatched%29_%28semi-secession%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="230" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Chisinau_in_Moldova_%28city_%2B_surroundings_hatched%29_%28semi-secession%29.svg/345px-Chisinau_in_Moldova_%28city_%2B_surroundings_hatched%29_%28semi-secession%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Chisinau_in_Moldova_%28city_%2B_surroundings_hatched%29_%28semi-secession%29.svg/460px-Chisinau_in_Moldova_%28city_%2B_surroundings_hatched%29_%28semi-secession%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="1217" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location of Chișinău in Moldova</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="switcher-container"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:#fff!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Moldova_relief_map.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Chișinău is located in Moldova"><img alt="Chișinău is located in Moldova" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Moldova_relief_map.png/250px-Moldova_relief_map.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Moldova_relief_map.png/375px-Moldova_relief_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Moldova_relief_map.png/500px-Moldova_relief_map.png 2x" data-file-width="660" data-file-height="811" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:46.589%;left:61.836%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Chișinău"><img alt="Chișinău" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Chișinău</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"></div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of Moldova</span></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238443738"><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Europe_relief_laea_location_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chișinău is located in Europe"><img alt="Chișinău is located in Europe" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Europe_relief_laea_location_map.jpg/250px-Europe_relief_laea_location_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Europe_relief_laea_location_map.jpg/375px-Europe_relief_laea_location_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Europe_relief_laea_location_map.jpg/500px-Europe_relief_laea_location_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1580" data-file-height="1351" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:64.077%;left:65.539%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Chișinău"><img alt="Chișinău" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Chișinău</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em"></div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of Europe</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&params=47_01_22_N_28_50_07_E_region:MD_type:city(532513)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">47°01′22″N</span> <span class="longitude">28°50′07″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">47.02278°N 28.83528°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">47.02278; 28.83528</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/23px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/35px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/46px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="900" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First written mention</th><td class="infobox-data">14 October 1436<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mayor%E2%80%93council_government" title="Mayor–council government">Mayor–council government</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Mayor of Chișinău">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ion_Ceban" title="Ion Ceban">Ion Ceban</a> (<a href="/wiki/National_Alternative_Movement" title="National Alternative Movement">MAN</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-PUG_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PUG-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">Capital city</a> and <a href="/wiki/Municipiu" title="Municipiu">municipality</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">123 km<sup>2</sup> (47 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Metro<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">571.6 km<sup>2</sup> (217.5 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">85 m (279 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2014 census)<sup id="cite_ref-Census2014_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census2014-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">Capital city</a> and <a href="/wiki/Municipiu" title="Municipiu">municipality</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">532,513</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Estimate <div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2019)<sup id="cite_ref-Anuar2019_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anuar2019-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">639,000</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">4,329/km<sup>2</sup> (11,210/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">Urban</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-Anuar2019_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anuar2019-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">702,300</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Rural_area" title="Rural area">Rural</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-Anuar2019_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anuar2019-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">77,000</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">Metro</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-Anuar2019_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anuar2019-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">779,300</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Romanian-language text"><i lang="ro">chișinăuieni</i></span> (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">GDP<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">Capital city</a> and <a href="/wiki/Municipiu" title="Municipiu">municipality</a></th><td class="infobox-data">€7.0 billion (2021) (<a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Moldova#Regional_GDP" title="Economy of Moldova">1st</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Per capita</th><td class="infobox-data">€11,000 (2021)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B02:00" title="UTC+02:00">UTC+02:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_European_Time" title="Eastern European Time">EET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B03:00" title="UTC+03:00">UTC+03:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_European_Summer_Time" title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Postal code</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">MD-20xx</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">+373-22</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">MD-CU</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a> (2022)</th><td class="infobox-data">0.831<sup id="cite_ref-Global_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Global-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#090"> Very high</span> · <a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Moldova_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of regions of Moldova by Human Development Index">1st</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chisinau.md/">chisinau.md</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><sup>a</sup> As the population of the Municipality of Chișinău (which comprises the city of Chișinău and 34 other suburban localities)<sup id="cite_ref-comune_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-comune-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Chișinău</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/aʊ/: 'ou' in 'mouth'">aʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">KISH</span>-in-<span style="font-size:90%">OW</span></i></a>, <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small"><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">US</a> also </span><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/aʊ/: 'ou' in 'mouth'">aʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">kee-shee-<span style="font-size:90%">NOW</span></i></a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Romanian:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ro-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Romanian" title="Help:IPA/Romanian">[kiʃiˈnəw]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement 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href="/wiki/File:Ro-Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u.ogg" title="File:Ro-Chișinău.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>; formerly known as <b>Kishinev</b>)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Moldova" title="List of cities and towns in Moldova">largest city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial centre, and is located in the middle of the country, on the river <a href="/wiki/B%C3%AEc" title="Bîc">Bîc</a>, a tributary of the <a href="/wiki/Dniester" title="Dniester">Dniester</a>. According to the results of the <a href="/wiki/2014_Moldovan_census" title="2014 Moldovan census">2014 census</a>, the city proper had a population of 532,513, while the population of the Municipality of Chișinău (which includes the city itself and other nearby communities) was 700,000. Chișinău is the most economically prosperous locality in Moldova and its largest transportation hub. Nearly a third of Moldova's population lives in the metro area. </p><p>Moldova has a <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_wine" title="Moldovan wine">history of winemaking</a> dating back to at least 3,000 BCE, and as the capital city, Chișinău hosts the yearly national wine festival every October.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though the city's buildings were badly damaged during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a> and earthquakes, there remains a rich architectural heritage, especially in the form of <a href="/wiki/Socialist_realism" title="Socialist realism">Socialist realism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brutalist_architecture" title="Brutalist architecture">Brutalist architecture</a>. The city's central railway station boasts a <a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Russia" title="Architecture of Russia">Russian-Imperial</a> architectural style, and maintains direct rail links to Romania. The Swiss-Italian-Russian architect <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Bernardazzi" title="Alexander Bernardazzi">Alexander Bernardazzi</a> designed many of the city's buildings, including the <a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_City_Hall" title="Chișinău City Hall">Chișinău City Hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Teodora_de_la_Sihla_Church" title="St. Teodora de la Sihla Church">Church of Saint Theodore</a>, and the Church of Saint Panteleimon. The city hosts the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="National Museum of Fine Arts, Chișinău">National Museum of Fine Arts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moldova_State_University" title="Moldova State University">Moldova State University</a>, Brancusi Gallery, the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_History_of_Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="National Museum of History of Moldova">National Museum of History of Moldova</a> with over 236,000 exhibits, and bustling markets in the north of the city, including the house where <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin" title="Alexander Pushkin">Alexander Pushkin</a> once resided while in exile from <a href="/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia" title="Alexander I of Russia">Alexander I of Russia</a>, and which has now been turned into a museum. The city's <a href="/wiki/Nativity_Cathedral,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Nativity Cathedral, Chișinău">Nativity Cathedral</a>, located at the centre of the city and constructed in the 1830s, has been described as a "masterpiece" of <a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture">Neoclassical architecture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The origin of the city's name is unclear. A theory suggests that the name may come from the <a href="/wiki/Archaism" title="Archaism">archaic</a> Romanian word <span title="Romanian-language text"><i lang="ro">chișla</i></span> (meaning "spring", "source of water") and <span title="Romanian-language text"><i lang="ro">nouă</i></span> ("new"), because it was built around a small spring, at the corner of Pușkin and Albișoara streets.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The other version, formulated by (or attributed to<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) <a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Ciobanu" title="Ștefan Ciobanu">Ștefan Ciobanu</a>, (occasionally to <a href="/wiki/Iorgu_Iordan" title="Iorgu Iordan">Iorgu Iordan</a>) Romanian historian and academician, holds that the name was formed the same way as the name of <a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99ineu-Cri%C8%99" title="Chișineu-Criș">Chișineu</a> (alternative spelt as <i>Chișinău</i>) in Western <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>, near the border with Hungary. Its Hungarian name is <span title="Hungarian-language text"><i lang="hu">Kisjenő</i></span>, from which the Romanian name originates.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kisjenő comes from <span title="Hungarian-language text"><i lang="hu">kis</i></span> "small" and the Jenő, one of the seven <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_tribes" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian tribes">Hungarian tribes</a> that entered the <a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Basin" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpathian Basin">Carpathian Basin</a> in 896. At least 24 other settlements are named after the Jenő tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A third theory by <a class="external text" href="https://hu.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Lajos_(nyelv%C3%A9sz)">Kiss Lajos</a> linguist and <a href="/wiki/Slavic_studies" title="Slavic studies">slavist</a> hold (as possible origin), that the name came from the <a href="/wiki/Cumans" title="Cumans">cuman</a> <i>kešene ("grave", <a href="/wiki/Kurgan" title="Kurgan">kurgan</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Karachays" title="Karachays">karachayian</a></i> "<a href="/wiki/Cemetery" title="Cemetery">cemetery</a>", and these came from the <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> <i><a class="external text" href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87#Persian">kāšāne</a> (<a href="/wiki/House" title="House">house</a>) word.</i><sup id="cite_ref-:4_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://m.nyest.hu/hirek/chisinau-is-magyar-volt?fbclid=IwY2xjawEtbRNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSRuOXxjq2BsVPtX6NySq3EiNgVBjRRTZCmKRa-nkTLjva4cR3BK7LXBnQ_aem_RIM2Hyb3h7_lYQbVDnfGVA">[1]</a></i> </p><p>Chișinău is known in Russian as <span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Kishinyov</i></span> (<span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Кишинёв</span></span>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[kʲɪʂɨˈnʲɵf]</a></span>), while Moldova's Russian-language media call it <span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Kishineu</i></span> (<span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Кишинэу</span></span>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[kʲɪʂɨˈnɛʊ]</a></span>). It is written <span title="Gagauz-language text"><i lang="gag-Latn">Kişinöv</i></span> in the Latin <a href="/wiki/Gagauz_alphabet" title="Gagauz alphabet">Gagauz alphabet</a>. It was also written as <i>Chișineu</i> in pre–20th-century Romanian<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as <span title="Romanian-language text"><span lang="ro-Cyrl">Кишинэу</span></span> in the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Cyrillic_alphabet" title="Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet">Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet</a>. Historically, the English-language name for the city, <b>Kishinev</b>, was based on the modified Russian one because it entered the English language via Russian at the time Chișinău was part of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Kishinev_pogrom" title="Kishinev pogrom">Kishinev pogrom</a>). Therefore, it remains a common English name in some historical contexts. Otherwise, the Romanian-based <i>Chișinău</i> has been steadily gaining wider currency, especially in <a href="/wiki/Written_language" title="Written language">written language</a>. The city is also historically referred to as <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_language" title="Lithuanian language">Lithuanian</a>: <i lang="lt">Kišiniovas</i>, <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a>: <i lang="hu">Kisjenő</i>, <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Kischinau</i>, (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">German:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˌkɪʃiˈnaʊ̯]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-2" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" 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href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>: <i lang="pl">Kiszyniów</i>, (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Polish:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="pl-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Polish" title="Help:IPA/Polish">[kʲiʂɨˈɲuf]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-3" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" 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title="File:Pl-Kiszyniów.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>); <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Кишинів</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian" title="Romanization of Ukrainian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ukrainian-language romanization"><i lang="uk-Latn">Kyshyniv</i></span>, (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Ukrainian:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="uk-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Ukrainian" title="Help:IPA/Ukrainian">[ˈkɪʃɪnʲiv]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-4" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" 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class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:LL-Q8798_(ukr)-Tohaomg-%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B2.wav" title="File:LL-Q8798 (ukr)-Tohaomg-Кишинів.wav">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>); <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a>: <span lang="bg">Кишинев</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Bulgarian" title="Romanization of Bulgarian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Bulgarian-language romanization"><i lang="bg-Latn">Kishinev</i></span>; <a href="/wiki/Yiddish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Yiddish language">Yiddish</a>: <span lang="yi" dir="rtl">קעשענעװ</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Yiddish" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Yiddish">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Yiddish-language romanization"><i lang="yi-Latn">Keshenev</i></span>; or <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>: <i lang="tr">Kişinev</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="History of Chișinău">History of Chișinău</a> and <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Timeline of Chișinău">Timeline of Chișinău</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New 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class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <div class="poem"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/First_Bulgarian_Empire_Flag_Krum_Manasses_Chronicle_Render.png/23px-First_Bulgarian_Empire_Flag_Krum_Manasses_Chronicle_Render.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/First_Bulgarian_Empire_Flag_Krum_Manasses_Chronicle_Render.png/35px-First_Bulgarian_Empire_Flag_Krum_Manasses_Chronicle_Render.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/First_Bulgarian_Empire_Flag_Krum_Manasses_Chronicle_Render.png/46px-First_Bulgarian_Empire_Flag_Krum_Manasses_Chronicle_Render.png 2x" data-file-width="704" data-file-height="353" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">First Bulgarian Empire</a> 681–968<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Coin_of_Vladimir_the_Great_%28reverse%29.svg/15px-Coin_of_Vladimir_the_Great_%28reverse%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Coin_of_Vladimir_the_Great_%28reverse%29.svg/23px-Coin_of_Vladimir_the_Great_%28reverse%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Coin_of_Vladimir_the_Great_%28reverse%29.svg/30px-Coin_of_Vladimir_the_Great_%28reverse%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="407" data-file-height="407" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus" class="mw-redirect" title="Kievan Rus">Kievan Rus</a> 969–971<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Mongol_Empire_3.png/23px-Flag_of_the_Mongol_Empire_3.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Mongol_Empire_3.png/35px-Flag_of_the_Mongol_Empire_3.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Mongol_Empire_3.png/45px-Flag_of_the_Mongol_Empire_3.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="533" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol Empire</a> 1241–1263<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Golden_Horde_flag_1339.svg/23px-Golden_Horde_flag_1339.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Golden_Horde_flag_1339.svg/35px-Golden_Horde_flag_1339.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Golden_Horde_flag_1339.svg/45px-Golden_Horde_flag_1339.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="200" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Golden_Horde" title="Golden Horde">Golden Horde</a> 1241–1327<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" title="Kingdom of Hungary">Kingdom of Hungary</a> 1328–1359<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Flag_of_Moldavia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Moldavia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Flag_of_Moldavia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Moldavia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Flag_of_Moldavia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Moldavia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Principality of Moldavia</a> 1328–1386, 1436–1812<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="no"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Royal_banner_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania.svg/23px-Royal_banner_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Royal_banner_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania.svg/35px-Royal_banner_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Royal_banner_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania.svg/45px-Royal_banner_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="320" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania" title="Grand Duchy of Lithuania">Grand Duchy of Lithuania</a> 1387–1502<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Flag_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_%281844%E2%80%931922%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_%281844%E2%80%931922%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Flag_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_%281844%E2%80%931922%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_%281844%E2%80%931922%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Flag_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_%281844%E2%80%931922%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_%281844%E2%80%931922%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> 1503–1806<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> 1812–1917<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Russian_Republic" title="Russian Republic">Russian Republic</a> 1917<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_Sfatul_Tarii_reverse_%281918%29.svg/19px-Flag_of_Sfatul_Tarii_reverse_%281918%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_Sfatul_Tarii_reverse_%281918%29.svg/29px-Flag_of_Sfatul_Tarii_reverse_%281918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_Sfatul_Tarii_reverse_%281918%29.svg/38px-Flag_of_Sfatul_Tarii_reverse_%281918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="664" data-file-height="531" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a> 1917–1918<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Kingdom of Romania</a> 1918–1940<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, 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typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> 1944–1991<br /> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/23px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/35px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/46px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="900" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Moldova" title="Moldova">Moldova</a> 1991–present </p> </div> </blockquote> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Moldavian_period">Moldavian period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Moldavian period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Founded in 1436 as a <a href="/wiki/Monastery" title="Monastery">monastery</a> village, the city was part of the <a href="/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia">Principality of Moldavia</a> (which, starting with the 16th century became a <a href="/wiki/Vassal_and_tributary_states_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire">vassal state of the Ottoman Empire</a>, but still retaining its autonomy). At the beginning of the 19th century Chișinău was a small town of 7,000 inhabitants. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russian_Imperial_period">Russian Imperial period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Russian Imperial period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_1889_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_1889_1.jpg/220px-Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_1889_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_1889_1.jpg/330px-Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_1889_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_1889_1.jpg/440px-Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_1889_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="715" data-file-height="496" /></a><figcaption>Chișinău, 1889</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1812, in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1806%E2%80%931812)" title="Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)">Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)</a>, the eastern half of Moldavia <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Bucharest_(1812)" title="Treaty of Bucharest (1812)">was ceded</a> by the Ottomans to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>. The newly acquired territories became known as <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia" title="Bessarabia">Bessarabia</a>. </p><p>Under Russian government, Chișinău became the capital of the newly annexed <a href="/wiki/Oblast" title="Oblast">oblast</a> (later <a href="/wiki/Governorate_(Russia)" title="Governorate (Russia)">guberniya</a>) of <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia_Governorate" title="Bessarabia Governorate">Bessarabia</a>. By 1834, an <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revival_architecture" title="Russian Revival architecture">imperial</a> townscape with broad and long roads had emerged as a result of a generous <a href="/wiki/Development_plan" title="Development plan">development plan</a>, which divided Chișinău roughly into two areas: the old part of the town, with its irregular building structures, and a newer city centre and station. Between 26 May 1830 and 13 October 1836 the architect <a href="/wiki/Avraam_Melnikov" title="Avraam Melnikov">Avraam Melnikov</a> established the <a href="/wiki/Nativity_Cathedral,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Nativity Cathedral, Chișinău">Catedrala Nașterea Domnului</a> with a magnificent bell tower. In 1840 the building of the <a href="/wiki/Triumphal_Arch,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Triumphal Arch, Chișinău">Triumphal Arch</a>, planned by the architect Luca Zaushkevich, was completed. Following this the construction of numerous buildings and landmarks began. </p><p>On 28 August 1871, Chișinău was linked by <a href="/wiki/Calea_Ferat%C4%83_din_Moldova" title="Calea Ferată din Moldova">rail</a> with <a href="/wiki/Tiraspol" title="Tiraspol">Tiraspol</a>, and in 1873 with <a href="/wiki/Corne%C8%99ti_(town),_Ungheni" title="Cornești (town), Ungheni">Cornești</a>. Chișinău-<a href="/wiki/Ungheni" title="Ungheni">Ungheni</a>-<a href="/wiki/Ia%C8%99i" title="Iași">Iași</a> railway was opened on 1 June 1875 in preparation for the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877%E2%80%931878)" title="Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)">Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)</a>. The town played an important part in the war between Russia and the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>, as the main <a href="/wiki/Staging_area" title="Staging area">staging area</a> of the Russian invasion. During the <a href="/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque" title="Belle Époque">Belle Époque</a>, the mayor of the city was <a href="/wiki/Carol_Schmidt" class="mw-redirect" title="Carol Schmidt">Carol Schmidt</a>, whose contribution to the modernisation of the city is still commemorated by Moldovans.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-publika_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-publika-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its population had grown to 92,000 by 1862, and to 125,787 by 1900.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Pogroms_and_pre-revolution">Pogroms and pre-revolution</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Pogroms and pre-revolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Kishinev_pogrom" title="Kishinev pogrom">Kishinev pogrom</a></div> <p>In the late 19th century, especially due to growing anti-Semitic sentiment in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> and better economic conditions in Moldova, many Jews chose to settle in Chișinău. By the year 1897, 46% of the population of Chișinău was Jewish, over 50,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As part of the pogrom wave organized in the Russian Empire, a large <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">anti-Semitic</a> riot was organized in the town on 19–20 April 1903, which would later be known as the <a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_pogrom_(1903)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chișinău pogrom (1903)">Kishinev pogrom</a>. The rioting continued for three days, resulting in 47 Jews dead, 92 severely wounded, and 500 suffering minor injuries. In addition, several hundred houses and many businesses were plundered and destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some sources say 49 people were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pogroms are largely believed to have been incited by anti-Jewish propaganda in the only official newspaper of the time, <i>Bessarabetz</i> (<i>Бессарабецъ</i>). Mayor Schmidt disapproved of the incident and resigned later in 1903. The reactions to this incident included a petition to <a href="/wiki/Tsar" title="Tsar">Tsar</a> <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas II of Russia">Nicholas II of Russia</a> on behalf of <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">the American people</a> by US President <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> in July 1903.<sup id="cite_ref-pogrom_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pogrom-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 August 1905, another violent event occurred: the police opened fire on an estimated 3,000 demonstrating agricultural workers. Only a few months later, on 19–20 October 1905, a further protest occurred, helping to force the hand of Nicholas II in bringing about the <a href="/wiki/October_Manifesto" title="October Manifesto">October Manifesto</a>. However, these demonstrations suddenly turned into <a href="/wiki/Second_Kishinev_pogrom" title="Second Kishinev pogrom">another anti-Jewish pogrom</a>, resulting in 19 deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-pogrom_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pogrom-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romanian_period">Romanian period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Romanian period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monumentul_a_lui_Stefan_cel_Mare,_Chisinau_Stefan_the_Great_Monument,_Chisinau,_Moldova_(49601054843).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Monumentul_a_lui_Stefan_cel_Mare%2C_Chisinau_Stefan_the_Great_Monument%2C_Chisinau%2C_Moldova_%2849601054843%29.jpg/220px-Monumentul_a_lui_Stefan_cel_Mare%2C_Chisinau_Stefan_the_Great_Monument%2C_Chisinau%2C_Moldova_%2849601054843%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Monumentul_a_lui_Stefan_cel_Mare%2C_Chisinau_Stefan_the_Great_Monument%2C_Chisinau%2C_Moldova_%2849601054843%29.jpg/330px-Monumentul_a_lui_Stefan_cel_Mare%2C_Chisinau_Stefan_the_Great_Monument%2C_Chisinau%2C_Moldova_%2849601054843%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Monumentul_a_lui_Stefan_cel_Mare%2C_Chisinau_Stefan_the_Great_Monument%2C_Chisinau%2C_Moldova_%2849601054843%29.jpg/440px-Monumentul_a_lui_Stefan_cel_Mare%2C_Chisinau_Stefan_the_Great_Monument%2C_Chisinau%2C_Moldova_%2849601054843%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5562" data-file-height="3705" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Stephen_the_Great" title="Stephen the Great">Stephen the Great</a> monument</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the Russian <a href="/wiki/October_Revolution" title="October Revolution">October Revolution</a>, Bessarabia declared independence from the crumbling empire, as the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a>, before joining the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Kingdom of Romania</a>. As of 1919, Chișinău, with an estimated population of 133,000,<sup id="cite_ref-Kaba_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaba-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> became the second largest city in Romania. </p><p>Between 1918 and 1940, the center of the city undertook large <a href="/wiki/Renovation" title="Renovation">renovation</a> work. Romania granted important subsidies to its province and initiated large scale investment programs in the infrastructure of the main cities in Bessarabia, expanded the railroad infrastructure and started an extensive program to eradicate illiteracy. </p><p>In 1927, the <a href="/wiki/Stephen_the_Great_Monument" title="Stephen the Great Monument">Stephen the Great Monument</a>, by the sculptor <a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Pl%C4%83m%C4%83deal%C4%83" title="Alexandru Plămădeală">Alexandru Plămădeală</a>, was erected. In 1933, the first higher education institution in Bessarabia was established, by transferring the Agricultural Sciences Section of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Ia%C8%99i" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Iași">University of Iași</a> to Chișinău, as the <a href="/wiki/Agricultural_State_University_of_Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="Agricultural State University of Moldova">Faculty of Agricultural Sciences</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moldova-chisineu-war-memorial-site.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Moldova-chisineu-war-memorial-site.jpg/220px-Moldova-chisineu-war-memorial-site.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Moldova-chisineu-war-memorial-site.jpg/330px-Moldova-chisineu-war-memorial-site.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Moldova-chisineu-war-memorial-site.jpg/440px-Moldova-chisineu-war-memorial-site.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="2015" /></a><figcaption><i>Eternity</i> – a memorial complex dedicated to the soldiers who fell in World War II and the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Transnistria" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Transnistria">military conflict in Transnistria</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trenul_durerii.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Trenul_durerii.jpg/220px-Trenul_durerii.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Trenul_durerii.jpg/330px-Trenul_durerii.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Trenul_durerii.jpg/440px-Trenul_durerii.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1333" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Memorial_to_Victims_of_Stalinist_Repression" title="Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression">Train of Pain</a> – the monument to the victims of communist mass deportations in Moldova</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:State_Art_Museum_(80-ies)._(8257398062).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/State_Art_Museum_%2880-ies%29._%288257398062%29.jpg/220px-State_Art_Museum_%2880-ies%29._%288257398062%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/State_Art_Museum_%2880-ies%29._%288257398062%29.jpg/330px-State_Art_Museum_%2880-ies%29._%288257398062%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/State_Art_Museum_%2880-ies%29._%288257398062%29.jpg/440px-State_Art_Museum_%2880-ies%29._%288257398062%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>State Art Museum, during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> period</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prospectul_P%C4%83cii_(1980).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Prospectul_P%C4%83cii_%281980%29.jpg/220px-Prospectul_P%C4%83cii_%281980%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Prospectul_P%C4%83cii_%281980%29.jpg/330px-Prospectul_P%C4%83cii_%281980%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Prospectul_P%C4%83cii_%281980%29.jpg/440px-Prospectul_P%C4%83cii_%281980%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="516" /></a><figcaption>Prospectul Păcii in 1980</figcaption></figure> <p>On 28 June 1940, as a direct result of the <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a>, Bessarabia was <a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">annexed by the Soviet Union</a> from Romania, and Chișinău became the capital of the newly created <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic">Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic</a>. </p><p>Following the Soviet occupation, mass deportations, linked with atrocities, were executed by the <a href="/wiki/NKVD" title="NKVD">NKVD</a> between June 1940 and June 1941. More than 400 people were <a href="/wiki/Summarily_executed" class="mw-redirect" title="Summarily executed">summarily executed</a> in Chișinău in July 1940 and buried in the grounds of the Metropolitan Palace, the Chișinău Theological Institute, and the backyard of the Italian Consulate, where the NKVD had established its headquarters.<sup id="cite_ref-Brez2010_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brez2010-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As part of the policy of political repression of the potential opposition to the Communist power, tens of thousand members of native families were <a href="/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">deported from Bessarabia</a> to other regions of the USSR. </p><p><a href="/wiki/1940_Vrancea_earthquake" title="1940 Vrancea earthquake">A devastating earthquake</a> occurred on 10 November 1940, measuring 7.4 (or 7.7, according to other sources) on the <a href="/wiki/Richter_scale" title="Richter scale">Richter scale</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Epicenter" title="Epicenter">epicenter</a> of the quake was in the <a href="/wiki/Vrancea_Mountains" title="Vrancea Mountains">Vrancea Mountains</a>, and it led to substantial destruction: 78 deaths and 2,795 damaged buildings (of which 172 were destroyed).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1941, in order to recover Bessarabia, Romania entered <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> under the command of the German <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a>, declaring <a href="/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II" title="Romania in World War II">war on the Soviet Union</a>. Chișinău was severely affected in the chaos of the Second World War. In June and July 1941, the city came under bombardment by Nazi <a href="/wiki/Strategic_bombing" title="Strategic bombing">air raids</a>. However, the Romanian and newly Moldovan sources assign most of the responsibility for the damage to Soviet NKVD <a href="/wiki/Destruction_battalion" class="mw-redirect" title="Destruction battalion">destruction battalions</a>, which operated in Chișinău until 17 July 1941, when it was captured by Axis forces.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the German and Romanian military administration, the city suffered from the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust">Nazi extermination policy</a> of its Jewish inhabitants, who were transported on trucks to the outskirts of the city and then summarily shot in partially dug pits. The number of Jews murdered during the initial occupation of the city is estimated at 10,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this time, Chișinău, part of <a href="/wiki/L%C4%83pu%C8%99na_County_(Romania)" title="Lăpușna County (Romania)">Lăpușna County</a>, was the capital of the newly established <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia_Governorate_(Romania)" title="Bessarabia Governorate (Romania)">Bessarabia Governorate</a> of Romania.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the war drew to a conclusion, the city was once again the scene of heavy fighting as German and Romanian troops retreated. Chișinău was captured by the Red Army on 24 August 1944 as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Jassy%E2%80%93Kishinev_offensive" title="Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive">Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Soviet_period">Soviet period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Soviet period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the war, <a href="/wiki/Bessarabia" title="Bessarabia">Bessarabia</a> was fully reintegrated into the Soviet Union, with around 65 percent of its territory as the Moldavian SSR, while the remaining 35 percent was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR">Ukrainian SSR</a>. </p><p>Two other waves of deportations of Moldova's native population were carried out by the Soviets, the first one immediately after the Soviet reoccupation of Bessarabia until the end of the 1940s and the second one in the mid-1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LOWA_ET54.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/LOWA_ET54.jpg/220px-LOWA_ET54.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/LOWA_ET54.jpg/330px-LOWA_ET54.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/LOWA_ET54.jpg/440px-LOWA_ET54.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1190" data-file-height="810" /></a><figcaption>Trams in Chișinău (pictured Gothawagen ET54) were discontinued in 1961.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the years 1947 to 1949, the architect <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Shchusev" title="Alexey Shchusev">Alexey Shchusev</a> developed a plan with the aid of a team of architects for the gradual reconstruction of the city. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>There was rapid population growth in the 1950s, to which the Soviet administration responded by constructing large-scale housing and palaces in the style of <a href="/wiki/Stalinist_architecture" title="Stalinist architecture">Stalinist architecture</a>. This process continued under <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>, who called for construction under the slogan "good, cheaper, and built faster." The new <a href="/wiki/Architectural_style" title="Architectural style">architectural style</a> brought about dramatic change and generated the style that dominates today, with large <a href="/wiki/Blocks_of_flats" class="mw-redirect" title="Blocks of flats">blocks of flats</a> arranged in considerable settlements. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> These Khrushchev-era buildings are often informally called <a href="/wiki/Khrushchyovka" class="mw-redirect" title="Khrushchyovka">Khrushchyovka</a>. </p><p>The period of the most significant <a href="/wiki/Urban_renewal" title="Urban renewal">redevelopment of the city</a> began in 1971, when the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of Ministers (Soviet Union)">Council of Ministers</a> of the Soviet Union adopted a decision "On the measures for further development of the city of Kishinev," which secured more than one billion <a href="/wiki/Soviet_ruble" title="Soviet ruble">rubles</a> in investment from the <a href="/wiki/Budget" title="Budget">state budget</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and continued until the <a href="/wiki/Independence_of_Moldova" title="Independence of Moldova">independence of Moldova</a> in 1991. The share of dwellings built during the Soviet period (1951–1990) represents 74.3 percent of total households.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 4 March 1977, the city was again jolted by a devastating <a href="/wiki/1977_Vrancea_earthquake" title="1977 Vrancea earthquake">earthquake</a>. Several people were killed, and panic broke out.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The <a href="/wiki/National_Hotel_(Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u)" title="National Hotel (Chișinău)">Intourist Hotel</a>, a flagship property constructed by the <a href="/wiki/Intourist" title="Intourist">Soviet state-owned travel monopoly of the same name</a>, was completed in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 April 1993, the city inaugurated the Monument to the Victims of Jewish Ghettos, a public monument centring on a bronze statue of the <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">Biblical prophet</a> <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>, which serves as a symbol of remembrance to the thousands of Jews who perished during the holocaust. The monument was designed by architect Simeon Shoihet and sculptor Naum Epelbaum. It stands on Ierusalim Street, marking the site of the main entrance to the Chișinău ghetto, which was established in the lower part of the city in July 1941, shortly after the German and Romanian troops occupied the area.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an unreliable source. (August 2024)">unreliable source?</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="After_independence">After independence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: After independence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since <a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_of_the_Republic_of_Moldova" title="Independence Day of the Republic of Moldova">Moldovan independence</a> following the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">dissolution of the Soviet Union</a>, many streets of Chișinău have been <a href="/wiki/Street_names_in_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Street names in Chișinău">renamed after historic persons, places or events</a>. Independence from the Soviet Union was followed by a large-scale renaming of streets and localities from a Communist theme into a national one.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 5 September 2022, the country's first Christian university Universitatea Moldo-Americană opened its doors, supported by the Scandinavian broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Visjon_Norge" title="Visjon Norge">Visjon Norge</a> and several donors in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>, and run in cooperation with the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_University_(Florida)" class="mw-redirect" title="Southeastern University (Florida)">American Southeastern University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russia's invasion of Ukraine</a>, Moldova allowed more than 600,000 Ukrainian civilians to flee Ukraine across their border. Despite being among the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_Moldova" title="Poverty in Moldova">poorest states in Europe</a>, Moldova has continued to host more than 100,000 <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_refugee_crisis_(2022%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian refugee crisis (2022–present)">Ukrainian refugees</a>, many of them in Chișinău.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 23 November 2022, the Chișinău Court of Appeal ruled that <a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_International_Airport" title="Chișinău International Airport">Chișinău International Airport</a> will return to state ownership, according to <a href="/wiki/Justice_Minister_of_Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice Minister of Moldova">justice minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Sergiu_Litvinenco" title="Sergiu Litvinenco">Sergiu Litvinenco</a>, more than three months after an international court allowed Moldova to terminate a 49-year concession deal with airport operator Avia Invest.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2023, the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch Government">Dutch government</a> opened a new embassy in Chișinău.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 21 May 2023, tens of thousands of Moldovans took to the streets in a massive rally, the <a href="/wiki/European_Moldova_National_Assembly" title="European Moldova National Assembly">European Moldova National Assembly</a>, to support the country's <a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Moldova_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Moldova to the European Union">European Union membership bid</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moldovan police said more than 75,000 demonstrators were present at the rally organised by Moldovan president <a href="/wiki/Maia_Sandu" title="Maia Sandu">Maia Sandu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later that month, Chișinău hosted a major international summit of the <a href="/wiki/European_Political_Community" title="European Political Community">European Political Community</a> organised to discuss the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as cybersecurity, migration and energy security, and regional issues in <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_North_Kosovo_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2022–2023 North Kosovo crisis">clashes in Kosovo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Biserica_de_lemn_din_Hiri%C8%99eni_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Biserica_de_lemn_din_Hiri%C8%99eni_3.jpg/220px-Biserica_de_lemn_din_Hiri%C8%99eni_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Biserica_de_lemn_din_Hiri%C8%99eni_3.jpg/330px-Biserica_de_lemn_din_Hiri%C8%99eni_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Biserica_de_lemn_din_Hiri%C8%99eni_3.jpg/440px-Biserica_de_lemn_din_Hiri%C8%99eni_3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4038" data-file-height="3025" /></a><figcaption>"Museum of the village" (<i>Muzeul satului</i>), located on the southern outskirts of the city</figcaption></figure> <p>Chișinău is located on the river <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A2c_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Bâc River">Bâc</a>, a tributary of the <a href="/wiki/Dniester" title="Dniester">Dniester</a>, at <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&params=47_0_N_28_55_E_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">47°0′N</span> <span class="longitude">28°55′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">47.000°N 28.917°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">47.000; 28.917</span></span></span></a></span></span>, with an area of 120 km<sup>2</sup> (46 sq mi). The municipality comprises 635 km<sup>2</sup> (245 sq mi). </p><p>The city lies in central Moldova and is surrounded by a relatively level landscape with very fertile ground. </p><p>Chișinău is roughly equidistant between the borders with Romania (58 km.) and Ukraine (54 km.), and between the northernmost (188 km.) and southernmost (179 km.) points of Moldova, thus meaning that it is very close to Moldova's geographic centre. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gradina_botanica_Chisinau_(15).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Gradina_botanica_Chisinau_%2815%29.jpg/220px-Gradina_botanica_Chisinau_%2815%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Gradina_botanica_Chisinau_%2815%29.jpg/330px-Gradina_botanica_Chisinau_%2815%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Gradina_botanica_Chisinau_%2815%29.jpg/440px-Gradina_botanica_Chisinau_%2815%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="961" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chisinau_Botanical_Garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Chisinau Botanical Garden">Botanical garden</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Chișinău has a <a href="/wiki/Humid_continental_climate" title="Humid continental climate">humid continental climate</a> (<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a> <i>Dfa</i>) characterised by warm summers and cold, windy winters. Winter minimum temperatures are often below 0 °C (32 °F), although they rarely drop below −10 °C (14 °F). In summer, the average maximum temperature is approximately 25 °C (77 °F), however, temperatures occasionally reach 35 to 40 °C (95 to 104 °F) in mid-summer in downtown. Although average <a href="/wiki/Humidity" title="Humidity">humidity</a> during summer is relatively low, most of the annual <a href="/wiki/Precipitation_(meteorology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Precipitation (meteorology)">precipitation</a> occurs during summer, causing infrequent yet heavy storms. </p><p>Spring and autumn temperatures vary between 16 and 24 °C (61 and 75 °F), and precipitation during this time tends to be lower than in summer but with more frequent yet milder periods of rain. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gr%C4%83dina_Public%C4%83_%22%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_%C8%99i_Sf%C3%A2nt%22_Foto_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Gr%C4%83dina_Public%C4%83_%22%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_%C8%99i_Sf%C3%A2nt%22_Foto_1.jpg/220px-Gr%C4%83dina_Public%C4%83_%22%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_%C8%99i_Sf%C3%A2nt%22_Foto_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Gr%C4%83dina_Public%C4%83_%22%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_%C8%99i_Sf%C3%A2nt%22_Foto_1.jpg/330px-Gr%C4%83dina_Public%C4%83_%22%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_%C8%99i_Sf%C3%A2nt%22_Foto_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Gr%C4%83dina_Public%C4%83_%22%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_%C8%99i_Sf%C3%A2nt%22_Foto_1.jpg/440px-Gr%C4%83dina_Public%C4%83_%22%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_%C8%99i_Sf%C3%A2nt%22_Foto_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3870" data-file-height="2177" /></a><figcaption>Bird's eye view of the <a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_Central_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Ștefan cel Mare Central Park">Central park</a></figcaption></figure> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Chișinău (1991–2020, extremes 1886–present) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFAB58; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.6<br />(61.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF8F1F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.7<br />(69.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.7<br />(78.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.6<br />(88.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF2600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.9<br />(96.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF1B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.5<br />(99.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF0E00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">39.4<br />(102.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF0F00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">39.2<br />(102.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF1C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.3<br />(99.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF3D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.6<br />(90.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF7900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.8<br />(74.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9F40; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.3<br />(64.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF0E00; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">39.4<br />(102.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #ECECFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.1<br />(34.0) </td> <td style="background: #F9F9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.4<br />(38.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFDEBE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.2<br />(48.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC5A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.4<br />(61.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF8409; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.3<br />(72.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.1<br />(79.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF5A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.4<br />(83.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF5A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.3<br />(82.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF8409; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.3<br />(72.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB367; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.5<br />(59.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1<br />(46.6) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.7<br />(36.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFB46A; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">15.3<br />(59.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #DDDDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.8<br />(28.8) </td> <td style="background: #E5E5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.2<br />(31.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.5<br />(40.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.0<br />(51.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFAA55; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.8<br />(62.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF8F1F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.7<br />(69.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8001; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.9<br />(73.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF8205; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.6<br />(72.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.0<br />(62.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD3A8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.8<br />(51.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFFCFA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.8<br />(40.6) </td> <td style="background: #E5E5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.2<br />(31.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD4A9; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">10.7<br />(51.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #D0D0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4.2<br />(24.4) </td> <td style="background: #D6D6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3.0<br />(26.6) </td> <td style="background: #EAEAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.7<br />(33.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFF2E6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.3<br />(43.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8<br />(53.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFB061; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.9<br />(60.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFA246; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.9<br />(64.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFA54B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.5<br />(63.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFC790; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.5<br />(54.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.1<br />(44.8) </td> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.1<br />(35.8) </td> <td style="background: #D9D9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−2.5<br />(27.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFDF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6.8<br />(44.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #4D4DFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−28.4<br />(−19.1) </td> <td style="background: #4A4AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−28.9<br />(−20.0) </td> <td style="background: #7474FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−21.1<br />(−6.0) </td> <td style="background: #C3C3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6.6<br />(20.1) </td> <td style="background: #E0E0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.1<br />(30.0) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.6<br />(38.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.8<br />(46.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFF8F1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.5<br />(41.9) </td> <td style="background: #D9D9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−2.4<br />(27.7) </td> <td style="background: #ACACFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−10.8<br />(12.6) </td> <td style="background: #7272FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−21.6<br />(−6.9) </td> <td style="background: #6D6DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−22.4<br />(−8.3) </td> <td style="background: #4A4AFF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−28.9<br />(−20.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #C9FFC9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36<br />(1.4) </td> <td style="background: #CCFFCC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(1.2) </td> <td style="background: #CAFFCA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35<br />(1.4) </td> <td style="background: #C2FFC2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39<br />(1.5) </td> <td style="background: #AEFFAE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54<br />(2.1) </td> <td style="background: #9AFF9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">65<br />(2.6) </td> <td style="background: #9BFF9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67<br />(2.6) </td> <td style="background: #B5FFB5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49<br />(1.9) </td> <td style="background: #B5FFB5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48<br />(1.9) </td> <td style="background: #B8FFB8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">47<br />(1.9) </td> <td style="background: #BCFFBC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(1.7) </td> <td style="background: #C1FFC1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41<br />(1.6) </td> <td style="background: #B8FFB8; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">555<br />(21.8) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #E9E9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7<br />(2.8) </td> <td style="background: #ECECFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6<br />(2.4) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3<br />(1.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1<br />(0.4) </td> <td style="background: #F5F5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3<br />(1.2) </td> <td style="background: #E9E9FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">7<br />(2.8) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainy days </th> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8 </td> <td style="background: #A0A0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 </td> <td style="background: #7777FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11 </td> <td style="background: #5959FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13 </td> <td style="background: #5252FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">14 </td> <td style="background: #4C4CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">14 </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #8383FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10 </td> <td style="background: #7F7FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10 </td> <td style="background: #7777FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11 </td> <td style="background: #6666FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12 </td> <td style="background: #8383FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10 </td> <td style="background: #7474FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">132 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowy days </th> <td style="background: #5E5EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13 </td> <td style="background: #4E4EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13 </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0 </td> <td style="background: #B2B2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6 </td> <td style="background: #7777FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11 </td> <td style="background: #C9C9FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">51 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0000C4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">82 </td> <td style="background: #0000D3; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">78 </td> <td style="background: #0000EE; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">71 </td> <td style="background: #0E0EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">63 </td> <td style="background: #1919FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">60 </td> <td style="background: #0E0EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">63 </td> <td style="background: #1111FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">62 </td> <td style="background: #1919FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">60 </td> <td style="background: #0202FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">66 </td> <td style="background: #0000E6; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73 </td> <td style="background: #0000C8; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">81 </td> <td style="background: #0000C0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">83 </td> <td style="background: #0000F2; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">70 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #7F7F7F; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">70 </td> <td style="background: #AFAF88; color:#000000;" class="notheme">96 </td> <td style="background: #C6C600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">155 </td> <td style="background: #DBDB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">210 </td> <td style="background: #EAEA02; color:#000000;" class="notheme">283 </td> <td style="background: #F1F111; color:#000000;" class="notheme">301 </td> <td style="background: #F4F419; color:#000000;" class="notheme">326 </td> <td style="background: #F0F00F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">308 </td> <td style="background: #DDDD00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">220 </td> <td style="background: #C9C900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">162 </td> <td style="background: #999999; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81 </td> <td style="background: #767676; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">65 </td> <td style="background: #D6D600; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">2,277 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 1: Pogoda.ru.net<sup id="cite_ref-pogoda_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pogoda-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 2: <a href="/wiki/NOAA" class="mw-redirect" title="NOAA">NOAA</a> (sun, 1991–2020)<sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Law_and_government">Law and government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Law and government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cl%C4%83direa_fostei_Dume_Or%C4%83%C8%99ene%C8%99ti._Ast%C4%83zi_Prim%C4%83ria_%C8%99i_Consiliul_Municipal_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u._Foto_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Cl%C4%83direa_fostei_Dume_Or%C4%83%C8%99ene%C8%99ti._Ast%C4%83zi_Prim%C4%83ria_%C8%99i_Consiliul_Municipal_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u._Foto_4.jpg/220px-Cl%C4%83direa_fostei_Dume_Or%C4%83%C8%99ene%C8%99ti._Ast%C4%83zi_Prim%C4%83ria_%C8%99i_Consiliul_Municipal_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u._Foto_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Cl%C4%83direa_fostei_Dume_Or%C4%83%C8%99ene%C8%99ti._Ast%C4%83zi_Prim%C4%83ria_%C8%99i_Consiliul_Municipal_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u._Foto_4.jpg/330px-Cl%C4%83direa_fostei_Dume_Or%C4%83%C8%99ene%C8%99ti._Ast%C4%83zi_Prim%C4%83ria_%C8%99i_Consiliul_Municipal_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u._Foto_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Cl%C4%83direa_fostei_Dume_Or%C4%83%C8%99ene%C8%99ti._Ast%C4%83zi_Prim%C4%83ria_%C8%99i_Consiliul_Municipal_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u._Foto_4.jpg/440px-Cl%C4%83direa_fostei_Dume_Or%C4%83%C8%99ene%C8%99ti._Ast%C4%83zi_Prim%C4%83ria_%C8%99i_Consiliul_Municipal_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u._Foto_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2250" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_City_Hall" title="Chișinău City Hall">Chișinău City Hall</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Municipality">Municipality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Municipality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Moldova is administratively subdivided into 3 municipalities, 32 districts, and 2 autonomous units. With a population of 662,836 inhabitants (as of 2014), the Municipality of Chișinău (which includes the nearby communities) is the largest of these municipalities.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Besides the city itself, the municipality comprises 34 other suburban localities: 6 towns (containing further 2 villages within), and 12 communes (containing further 14 villages within). The population, as of the <a href="/wiki/2014_Moldovan_census" title="2014 Moldovan census">2014 Moldovan census</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-comune_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-comune-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is shown in brackets: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cities/towns"><span id="Cities.2Ftowns"></span>Cities/towns</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Cities/towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li>Chișinău (532,513)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codru,_Moldova" title="Codru, Moldova">Codru</a> (15,934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cricova" title="Cricova">Cricova</a> (10,669)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durle%C8%99ti" title="Durlești">Durlești</a> (17,210)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%AEngera" title="Sîngera">Sîngera</a> (9,966) <ul><li><i>Dobrogea</i></li> <li><i>Revaca</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vadul_lui_Vod%C4%83" title="Vadul lui Vodă">Vadul lui Vodă</a> (5,295)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vatra,_Moldova" title="Vatra, Moldova">Vatra</a> (3,457)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Communes">Communes</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 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<ul><li><i>Ceroborta</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghidighici" title="Ghidighici">Ghidighici</a> (5,051)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gr%C4%83tie%C8%99ti" title="Grătiești">Grătiești</a> (6,183) <ul><li><i>Hulboaca</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St%C4%83uceni,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Stăuceni, Chișinău">Stăuceni</a> (8,694) <ul><li><i>Goianul Nou</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tohatin" title="Tohatin">Tohatin</a> (2,596) <ul><li><i>Buneți</i></li> <li><i>Cheltuitori</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tru%C8%99eni" title="Trușeni">Trușeni</a> (10,380) <ul><li><i>Dumbrava</i></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administration">Administration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Administration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mapa_chisinau_vectorizata232.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Mapa_chisinau_vectorizata232.svg/200px-Mapa_chisinau_vectorizata232.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Mapa_chisinau_vectorizata232.svg/300px-Mapa_chisinau_vectorizata232.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Mapa_chisinau_vectorizata232.svg/400px-Mapa_chisinau_vectorizata232.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="627" data-file-height="666" /></a><figcaption>Administrative sectors of Chișinău: 1-Centru, 2-Buiucani, 3-Râșcani, 4-Botanica, 5-Ciocana</figcaption></figure> <p>Chișinău is governed by the City Council and the <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Mayor of Chișinău">Mayor</a> (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a>: <i lang="ro">Primar</i>), both elected once every four years. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Local_government">Local government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Local government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The municipality in its totality elects a mayor and a local council, which then name five <i><a href="/wiki/Praetor#Recent_Praetors" title="Praetor">pretors</a></i>, one for each sector. They deal more locally with administrative matters. Each sector claims a part of the city and several suburbs:<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <dl><dt><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Drapelul_sectorului_Centru.jpg/23px-Drapelul_sectorului_Centru.jpg" decoding="async" width="23" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Drapelul_sectorului_Centru.jpg/35px-Drapelul_sectorului_Centru.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Drapelul_sectorului_Centru.jpg/46px-Drapelul_sectorului_Centru.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2330" data-file-height="1156" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sectorul_Centru" title="Sectorul Centru">Centru</a></dt> <dd> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Codru,_Moldova" title="Codru, Moldova">Codru</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Drapelul_sectorului_Buiucani.jpg/23px-Drapelul_sectorului_Buiucani.jpg" decoding="async" width="23" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Drapelul_sectorului_Buiucani.jpg/35px-Drapelul_sectorului_Buiucani.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Drapelul_sectorului_Buiucani.jpg/46px-Drapelul_sectorului_Buiucani.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2330" data-file-height="1156" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sectorul_Buiucani" title="Sectorul Buiucani">Buiucani</a></dt> <dd> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Durle%C8%99ti" title="Durlești">Durlești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vatra,_Moldova" title="Vatra, Moldova">Vatra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Condri%C8%9Ba" title="Condrița">Condrița</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghidighici" title="Ghidighici">Ghidighici</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tru%C8%99eni" title="Trușeni">Trușeni</a> <ul><li><i>Dumbrava</i></li></ul></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Drapelul_sectorului_R%C3%A2%C8%99cani.png/23px-Drapelul_sectorului_R%C3%A2%C8%99cani.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Drapelul_sectorului_R%C3%A2%C8%99cani.png/35px-Drapelul_sectorului_R%C3%A2%C8%99cani.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Drapelul_sectorului_R%C3%A2%C8%99cani.png/46px-Drapelul_sectorului_R%C3%A2%C8%99cani.png 2x" data-file-width="2330" data-file-height="1157" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sectorul_R%C3%A2%C8%99cani" class="mw-redirect" title="Sectorul Râșcani">Râșcani</a></dt> <dd> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cricova" title="Cricova">Cricova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ciorescu" title="Ciorescu">Ciorescu</a> <ul><li><i>Făurești</i></li> <li><i>Goian</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gr%C4%83tie%C8%99ti" title="Grătiești">Grătiești</a> <ul><li><i>Hulboaca</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St%C4%83uceni,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Stăuceni, Chișinău">Stăuceni</a> <ul><li><i>Goianul Nou</i></li></ul></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt><span class="flagicon"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Drapelul_sectorului_Botanica.jpg/23px-Drapelul_sectorului_Botanica.jpg" decoding="async" width="23" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Drapelul_sectorului_Botanica.jpg/35px-Drapelul_sectorului_Botanica.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Drapelul_sectorului_Botanica.jpg/46px-Drapelul_sectorului_Botanica.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2330" data-file-height="1156" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sectorul_Botanica" title="Sectorul Botanica">Botanica</a></dt> <dd> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%AEngera" title="Sîngera">Sîngera</a> <ul><li><i>Dobrogea</i></li> <li><i>Revaca</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C4%83cioi" title="Băcioi">Băcioi</a> <ul><li><i>Brăila</i></li> <li><i>Frumușica</i></li> <li><i>Străisteni</i></li></ul></li></ul></dd></dl> <dl><dt><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Drapelul_sectorului_Ciocana.jpg/23px-Drapelul_sectorului_Ciocana.jpg" decoding="async" width="23" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Drapelul_sectorului_Ciocana.jpg/35px-Drapelul_sectorului_Ciocana.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Drapelul_sectorului_Ciocana.jpg/46px-Drapelul_sectorului_Ciocana.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2330" data-file-height="1156" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sectorul_Ciocana" title="Sectorul Ciocana">Ciocana</a></dt> <dd> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vadul_lui_Vod%C4%83" title="Vadul lui Vodă">Vadul lui Vodă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bubuieci" title="Bubuieci">Bubuieci</a> <ul><li><i>Bîc</i></li> <li><i>Humulești</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bude%C8%99ti,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Budești, Chișinău">Budești</a>, <ul><li><i>Văduleni</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coloni%C8%9Ba" title="Colonița">Colonița</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cruze%C8%99ti" title="Cruzești">Cruzești</a> <ul><li><i>Ceroborta</i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tohatin" title="Tohatin">Tohatin</a> <ul><li><i>Buneți</i></li> <li><i>Cheltuitori</i></li></ul></li></ul></dd></dl> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Malldova_Shopping,_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2,_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_Malldova_Shopping,_Chisinau,_Republica_Moldova_Moldova_Shopping,_Chisinau,_Republic_of_Moldova_(51187661202).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Malldova_Shopping%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_Malldova_Shopping%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Moldova_Shopping%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2851187661202%29.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Malldova_Shopping%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_Malldova_Shopping%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Moldova_Shopping%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2851187661202%29.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Malldova_Shopping%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_Malldova_Shopping%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Moldova_Shopping%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2851187661202%29.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5826" data-file-height="2924" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Malldova" class="mw-redirect" title="Malldova">MallDova</a> shopping centre</figcaption></figure> <p>Historically, the city was home to fourteen factories in 1919.<sup id="cite_ref-Kaba_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaba-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chișinău is the financial and business capital of Moldova. Its GDP comprises about 60% of the national economy<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reached in 2012 the amount of 52 billion lei (US$4 billion). Thus, the GDP per capita of Chișinău stood at 227% of the Moldova's average. Chișinău has the largest and most developed mass media sector in Moldova, and is home to several related companies ranging from leading television networks and radio stations to major newspapers. All national and international banks (15) have their headquarters located in Chișinău. </p><p>Notable sites around Chișinău include Cineplex Loteanu, the new malls <a href="/wiki/Malldova" class="mw-redirect" title="Malldova">MallDova</a>, Port Mall and best-known retailers, such as N1, Linella, Kaufland, Fourchette and Metro. While many locals continue to shop at the <a href="/wiki/Bazaar" title="Bazaar">bazaars</a>, many upper class residents and tourists shop at the retail stores and at MallDova. Jumbo, an older mall in the Botanica district, and Sun City, in the centre, are more popular with locals. </p><p>Several amusement parks exist around the city. A <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a>-era one is located in the Botanica district, along the three lakes of a major park, which reaches the outskirts of the city centre. Another, the modern Aventura Park, is located farther from the centre. The Chișinău State Circus, which used to be in a grand building in the Râșcani sector, has been inactive for several years due to a poorly funded renovation project.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:45em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">City of Chișinău</caption><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="padding:0 0.5em"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1812<sup id="cite_ref-demography_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-demography-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">7,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1818<sup id="cite_ref-demography_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-demography-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">10,966</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.77%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1835<sup id="cite_ref-demography_58-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-demography-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">34,079</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+6.90%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1847<sup id="cite_ref-demography_58-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-demography-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">43,965</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.15%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1851 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">58,849</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+7.56%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1865 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">94,047</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.41%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1897(c)<sup id="cite_ref-pop1_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pop1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">108,483</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.45%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1912 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">121,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.73%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1930(c)<sup id="cite_ref-pop1_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pop1-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">114,896</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.29%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1950 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">134,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+0.77%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1963 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">253,500</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+5.03%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1980 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">519,200</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.31%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1991 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">676,700</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.44%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2004(c)<sup id="cite_ref-census2004_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2004-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">589,446</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.06%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2014(c)<sup id="cite_ref-Census2014_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census2014-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">532,513</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−1.01%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2017(e)<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">685,900</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+8.80%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2019(e)<sup id="cite_ref-Anuar2019_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anuar2019-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">639,000</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−3.48%</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">c-census; e-estimate</td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_population_pyramid.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_population_pyramid.svg/220px-Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_population_pyramid.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_population_pyramid.svg/330px-Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_population_pyramid.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_population_pyramid.svg/440px-Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_population_pyramid.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2693" data-file-height="2057" /></a><figcaption>Chișinău population pyramid in 2021</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236656977"><table class="table-pale" style="width:30em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Municipality of Chișinău</caption><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="padding:0 0.5em"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1959(c) </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">258,910</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1970(c) </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">415,956</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.40%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1979(c) </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">589,140</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.94%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1989(c) </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">770,948</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.73%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2004(c) </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">712,218</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−0.53%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2014(c) </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">662,836</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.72%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2017(e) </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">820,500</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.37%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2019(e) </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">779,300</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−2.54%</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">c-census; e-estimate; Source:<sup id="cite_ref-Anuar2019_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anuar2019-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>According to the results of the 2014 Moldovan census, conducted in May 2014, 532,513 inhabitants live within the Chișinău city limits. This represents a 9.7% drop in the number of residents compared to the results of the <a href="/wiki/2004_Moldovan_census" title="2004 Moldovan census">2004 census</a>. </p><p>Natural statistics (2015):<sup id="cite_ref-CITY2012_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CITY2012-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Births" class="mw-redirect" title="Births">Births</a>: 6,845 (9.8 per 1,000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deaths" class="mw-redirect" title="Deaths">Deaths</a>: 6,433 (7.7 per 1,000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Population_growth_rate" class="mw-redirect" title="Population growth rate">Net Growth rate</a>: 412 (2.1 per 1,000)</li></ul> <p>Population by sector: </p> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr style="background:#c41e3a;"> <th>Sector </th> <th>Population (2004 cen.)<sup id="cite_ref-CITY2012_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CITY2012-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Population (2019 est.)<sup id="cite_ref-Anuar2019_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anuar2019-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sectorul_Botanica" title="Sectorul Botanica">Botanica</a> </td> <td>156,633 </td> <td>170,600 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sectorul_Buiucani" title="Sectorul Buiucani">Buiucani</a> </td> <td>107,744 </td> <td>110,100 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sectorul_Centru" title="Sectorul Centru">Centru</a> </td> <td>90,494 </td> <td>96,200 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sectorul_Ciocana" title="Sectorul Ciocana">Ciocana</a> </td> <td>101,834 </td> <td>115,900 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sectorul_R%C3%A2%C8%99cani" class="mw-redirect" title="Sectorul Râșcani">Râșcani</a> </td> <td>132,740 </td> <td>146,200 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnic_composition">Ethnic composition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Ethnic composition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"> <caption>Population of Chișinău according to ethnic group (Censuses 1930–2014) </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Ethnic<br />group </th> <th colspan="2">1930<sup>1</sup> </th> <th colspan="2">1941<sup>2</sup> </th> <th colspan="2">1959<sup>3</sup> </th> <th colspan="2">1970<sup>4</sup> </th> <th colspan="2">1989<sup>5</sup> </th> <th colspan="2">2004<sup>6</sup> </th> <th colspan="2">2014<sup>7</sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Moldovans" title="Moldovans">Moldovans</a> <sup><b>*</b></sup> </td> <td rowspan="2">48,456 </td> <td rowspan="2">42.17 </td> <td rowspan="2">43,024 </td> <td rowspan="2">81.24 </td> <td>69,722 </td> <td>32.38 </td> <td>137,942 </td> <td>37.90 </td> <td>366,468 </td> <td>51.26 </td> <td>481,626 </td> <td>68.94 </td> <td>304,860 </td> <td>67.18 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Romanians" title="Romanians">Romanians</a> <sup><b>*</b></sup> </td> <td>331 </td> <td>0.15 </td> <td>513 </td> <td>0.14 </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">– </td> <td>31,984 </td> <td>4.58 </td> <td>65,605 </td> <td>14.46 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a> </td> <td>19,631 </td> <td>17.09 </td> <td>5,915 </td> <td>11.17 </td> <td>69,600 </td> <td>32.22 </td> <td>110,449 </td> <td>30.35 </td> <td>181,002 </td> <td>25.32 </td> <td>99,149 </td> <td>14.19 </td> <td>42,174 </td> <td>9.29 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a> </td> <td>563 </td> <td>0.49 </td> <td>1,745 </td> <td>3.29 </td> <td>25,930 </td> <td>12.00 </td> <td>51,103 </td> <td>14.04 </td> <td>98,190 </td> <td>13.73 </td> <td>58,945 </td> <td>8.44 </td> <td>26,991 </td> <td>5.95 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarians" title="Bulgarians">Bulgarians</a> </td> <td>541 </td> <td>0.47 </td> <td>183 </td> <td>0.35 </td> <td>1,811 </td> <td>0.84 </td> <td>3,855 </td> <td>1.06 </td> <td>9,224 </td> <td>1.29 </td> <td>8,868 </td> <td>1.27 </td> <td>4,850 </td> <td>1.07 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Gagauz_people" title="Gagauz people">Gagauz</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">– </td> <td>17 </td> <td>0.03 </td> <td>1,476 </td> <td>0.68 </td> <td>2,666 </td> <td>0.73 </td> <td>6,155 </td> <td>0.86 </td> <td>6,446 </td> <td>0.92 </td> <td>3,108 </td> <td>0.68 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><i>Others</i> </td> <td>45,705 </td> <td>39.78 </td> <td>2,078 </td> <td>3.92 </td> <td>45,626 </td> <td>21.12 </td> <td>54,688 </td> <td>15.03 </td> <td>47,525 </td> <td>6.65 </td> <td>11,605 </td> <td>1.66 </td> <td>6,210 </td> <td>1.37 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Total </th> <th colspan="2">114,896 </th> <th colspan="2">52,962 </th> <th colspan="2">216,005 </th> <th colspan="2">363,940 </th> <th colspan="2">714,928 </th> <th colspan="2">712,218 </th> <th colspan="2">469,402 </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="15" style="text-align:center;"><small><b>*</b> Since the independence of Moldova, there is an <a href="/wiki/Controversy_over_linguistic_and_ethnic_identity_in_Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="Controversy over linguistic and ethnic identity in Moldova">ongoing controversy</a> over whether <a href="/wiki/Moldovans" title="Moldovans">Moldovans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Romanians" title="Romanians">Romanians</a> are the same ethnic group.<br /><b>**</b> These percentages are for the 469,402 reviewed citizens in the 2014 census that answered the ethnicity question. An additional estimated 193,434 inhabitants of the Municipality of Chișinău weren't reviewed.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="15" style="text-align:center;"><small><sup><b>1</b></sup>Source:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/stream/recensamntulgene02inst#page/n3/mode/2up">[2]</a>. <sup><b>2</b></sup>Source:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://historymaps.ro/?p=246">[3]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181101055012/http://historymaps.ro/?p=246">Archived</a> 1 November 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. <sup><b>3</b></sup>Source:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/census.php?cy=3">[4]</a>. <sup><b>4</b></sup>Source:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/census.php?cy=4">[5]</a>. <sup><b>5</b></sup>Source:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/census.php?cy=6">[6]</a>. <sup><b>6</b></sup>Source:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.statistica.md/pageview.php?l=ro&idc=295&">[7]</a>. <sup><b>7</b></sup>Source:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.statistica.md/pageview.php?l=ro&idc=479&">[8]</a>.</small> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages">Languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"> <caption>Languages usually spoken in Chișinău (Censuses 1989–2014) </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">First<br />language </th> <th colspan="2">1989<sup>1</sup> </th> <th colspan="2">2004<sup>2</sup> </th> <th colspan="2">2014<sup>3</sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th> <th>Number </th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a><sup><b>*</b></sup> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">– </td> <td>258,910 </td> <td>37.06 </td> <td>197,101 </td> <td>43.78 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Moldovan_language" title="Moldovan language">Moldovan</a><sup><b>*</b></sup> </td> <td>117,527 </td> <td>17.34 </td> <td>199,547 </td> <td>28.56 </td> <td>133,027 </td> <td>29.55 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> </td> <td>482,436 </td> <td>71.20 </td> <td>234,037 </td> <td>33.50 </td> <td>115,434 </td> <td>25.64 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><i>Other languages</i> </td> <td>77,627 </td> <td>11.46 </td> <td>6,106 </td> <td>0.87 </td> <td>4,635 </td> <td>1.03 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;">Total </th> <th colspan="2">714,928 </th> <th colspan="2">712,218 </th> <th colspan="2">469,402 </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"><small><b>*</b> The Moldovan language represents the <a href="/wiki/Linguonym" title="Linguonym">glottonym</a> (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_dialects" title="Romanian dialects">dialect</a>) given to the Romanian language in the Republic of Moldova.</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"><small><sup><b>1</b></sup>Sursă:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/census.php?cy=6">[9]</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (October 2022)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup>. <sup><b>2</b></sup>Sursă:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.statistica.md/pageview.php?l=ro&idc=295&">[10]</a>. <sup><b>3</b></sup>Sursă:<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.statistica.md/pageview.php?l=ro&idc=349&">[11]</a>.</small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Chișinău is the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Orthodox_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldovan Orthodox Church">Moldovan Orthodox Church</a>, as well as of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolis_of_Bessarabia" title="Metropolis of Bessarabia">Metropolis of Bessarabia</a>. The city has multiple churches and <a href="/wiki/Synagogue" title="Synagogue">synagogues</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kaba_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaba-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christians</a> – 90.0% <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Orthodox Christians</a> – 88.4%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> – 1.2% <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptists</a> – 0.6%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evangelicals" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelicals">Evangelicals</a> – 0.4%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pentecostals" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostals">Pentecostals</a> – 0.2%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventists" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh-day Adventists">Seventh-day Adventists</a> – 0.1%</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholics</a> – 0.4%</li></ul></li> <li>Other – 1.0%</li> <li>No religion – 1.4%</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atheists" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheists">Atheists</a> – 1.5%</li> <li>Undeclared – 6.1%</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cityscape">Cityscape</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Cityscape"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:1208px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Telegentru_at_night_panorama_01.jpeg" class="mw-file-description" title="Panorama of Chișinău at night"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Telegentru_at_night_panorama_01.jpeg/1200px-Telegentru_at_night_panorama_01.jpeg" decoding="async" width="1200" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Telegentru_at_night_panorama_01.jpeg/1800px-Telegentru_at_night_panorama_01.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Telegentru_at_night_panorama_01.jpeg/2400px-Telegentru_at_night_panorama_01.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="10486" data-file-height="1368" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Telegentru_at_night_panorama_01.jpeg" title="File:Telegentru at night panorama 01.jpeg"> </a></div>Panorama of Chișinău at night</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architecture">Architecture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:312px;max-width:312px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:201px;max-width:201px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:132px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vorota_kishineva.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Gate" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Vorota_kishineva.jpg/199px-Vorota_kishineva.jpg" decoding="async" width="199" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Vorota_kishineva.jpg/299px-Vorota_kishineva.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Vorota_kishineva.jpg/398px-Vorota_kishineva.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2387" data-file-height="1591" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Soviet-style apartment buildings in Chișinău</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:107px;max-width:107px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:132px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Romashka_Tower.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Romashka Tower" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Romashka_Tower.jpg/105px-Romashka_Tower.jpg" decoding="async" width="105" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Romashka_Tower.jpg/158px-Romashka_Tower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Romashka_Tower.jpg/210px-Romashka_Tower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1116" data-file-height="1407" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Romashka Tower, the tallest building in Moldova</div></div></div></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wooden_church_of_Hiri%C8%99eni" title="Wooden church of Hirișeni">Wooden church of Hirișeni</a></div> <p>Chișinău's growth plan was developed in the 19th century. In 1836 the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Kishinev_Cathedral" class="mw-redirect" title="Kishinev Cathedral">Kishinev Cathedral</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Bell_tower" title="Bell tower">belfry</a> was finished. The belfry was demolished in Soviet times and was rebuilt in 1997. Chișinău also displays a tremendous number of Orthodox churches and 19th-century buildings around the city such as <a href="/wiki/Ciuflea_Monastery" title="Ciuflea Monastery">Ciuflea Monastery</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Transfiguration_Church,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Transfiguration Church, Chișinău">Transfiguration Church</a>. Much of the city is made from limestone quarried from <a href="/wiki/Cricova" title="Cricova">Cricova</a>, leaving a famous <a href="/wiki/Cricova_(winery)" title="Cricova (winery)">wine cellar</a> there. </p><p>Many modern-style buildings have been built in the city since 1991. There are many office and shopping complexes that are modern, renovated or newly built, including Kentford, SkyTower, and <a href="/wiki/Uni%C3%B3n_Fenosa" title="Unión Fenosa">Unión Fenosa</a> headquarters. However, the old Soviet-style clusters of living blocks are still an extensive feature of the cityscape. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_education">Culture and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Culture and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_public_schools_in_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="List of public schools in Chișinău">List of public schools in Chișinău</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Moldova" title="List of universities in Moldova">List of universities in Moldova</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The city is home to 9 public and 8 private universities, the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Sciences_of_Moldova" title="Academy of Sciences of Moldova">Academy of Sciences of Moldova</a>, a number of institutions offering high school and 1–2 years of <a href="/wiki/Higher_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher education">college education</a>. Among them are <a href="/wiki/Moldova_State_University" title="Moldova State University">Moldova State University</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Economic_Studies_of_Moldova" title="Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova">Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexandru_cel_Bun_Military_Academy" title="Alexandru cel Bun Military Academy">Alexandru cel Bun Military Academy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Testemi%C8%9Banu_State_University_of_Medicine_and_Pharmacy" title="Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy">Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ion_Creang%C4%83_State_Pedagogical_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University">Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University</a>. </p><p>On 5 September 2022, the country's first Christian university Universitatea Moldo-Americană opened its doors, supported by the Scandinavian broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Visjon_Norge" title="Visjon Norge">Visjon Norge</a> and several donors in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>, and run in cooperation with the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_University_(Florida)" class="mw-redirect" title="Southeastern University (Florida)">American Southeastern University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Chișinău there are several museums. The three national museums are the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="National Museum of Fine Arts, Chișinău">National Museum of Fine Arts</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_History_of_Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="National Museum of History of Moldova">National Museum of History of Moldova</a>. The National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History was founded in October 1889 by baron Alexandru Stuart, moved to its current location in 1905, and is the oldest museum in Moldova.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It houses more than 135,000 exhibit pieces, among them a life-sized reconstruction of the skeleton of a dinothere, discovered in the Rezine region in 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also includes exhibits on <a href="/wiki/Natural_history" title="Natural history">natural history</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natural_science" title="Natural science">natural sciences</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archaeology" title="Archaeology">archaeology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paleontology" title="Paleontology">paleontology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">geology</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ethnography" title="Ethnography">ethnography</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The building was designed by the architect <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Tsyganko" title="Vladimir Tsyganko">Vladimir Tsyganko</a> in a distinctive <a href="/wiki/Moorish_architecture" title="Moorish architecture">Moorish architectural style</a> with a signature frontal façade consisting of a triangular pediment supported by two <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric columns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Moldova" title="National Library of Moldova">National Library of Moldova</a> is also located in Chișinău.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 194px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 192px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%83%D0%BC%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0,_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2,_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_Arcul_de_Triumf,_Chisinau,_Republica_Moldova_Arch_of_Triumph,_Chisinau,_Republic_of_Moldova_(51161091844).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Triumphal Arch"><img alt="Triumphal Arch" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%83%D0%BC%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_Arcul_de_Triumf%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republica_Moldova_Arch_of_Triumph%2C_Chisinau%2C_Republic_of_Moldova_%2851161091844%29.jpg/576px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="3750" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Triumphal_Arch,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Triumphal Arch, Chișinău">Triumphal Arch</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Museum_of_History_(AP4L0086_1PS)_(28922487610).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Capitoline Wolf and National History Museum"><img alt="Capitoline Wolf and National History Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Museum_of_History_%28AP4L0086_1PS%29_%2828922487610%29.jpg/240px-Museum_of_History_%28AP4L0086_1PS%29_%2828922487610%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Museum_of_History_%28AP4L0086_1PS%29_%2828922487610%29.jpg/360px-Museum_of_History_%28AP4L0086_1PS%29_%2828922487610%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Museum_of_History_%28AP4L0086_1PS%29_%2828922487610%29.jpg/480px-Museum_of_History_%28AP4L0086_1PS%29_%2828922487610%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3475" data-file-height="2606" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Capitoline Wolf, Chișinău">Capitoline Wolf</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_History_Museum_of_Moldova" title="National History Museum of Moldova">National History Museum</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Scara_cu_cascade_Valea_morilor_(2016)_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Waterfall Steps at the Mill Valley Park"><img alt="Waterfall Steps at the Mill Valley Park" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Scara_cu_cascade_Valea_morilor_%282016%29_%282%29.jpg/271px-Scara_cu_cascade_Valea_morilor_%282016%29_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="181" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Scara_cu_cascade_Valea_morilor_%282016%29_%282%29.jpg/406px-Scara_cu_cascade_Valea_morilor_%282016%29_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Scara_cu_cascade_Valea_morilor_%282016%29_%282%29.jpg/541px-Scara_cu_cascade_Valea_morilor_%282016%29_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="959" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Waterfall Steps at the Mill Valley Park</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 178.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 176.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Chisinau_Stefan_cel_Mare_park_fountain.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ștefan cel Mare Central Park"><img alt="Ștefan cel Mare Central Park" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Chisinau_Stefan_cel_Mare_park_fountain.jpg/265px-Chisinau_Stefan_cel_Mare_park_fountain.jpg" decoding="async" width="177" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Chisinau_Stefan_cel_Mare_park_fountain.jpg/397px-Chisinau_Stefan_cel_Mare_park_fountain.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Chisinau_Stefan_cel_Mare_park_fountain.jpg/529px-Chisinau_Stefan_cel_Mare_park_fountain.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4159" data-file-height="2832" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_cel_Mare_Central_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Ștefan cel Mare Central Park">Ștefan cel Mare Central Park</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 194px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 192px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB,_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2,_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0_Sala_cu_orga,_Chisinau,_Republica_Moldova_Organ_Hall,_Chisinau,_Republic_of_Moldova_(50698302796).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Organ Hall"><img alt="Organ Hall" 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<p>Chișinău, as well as Moldova as a whole, still show signs of ethnic culture. Signs that say "Patria Mea" (English: My homeland) can be found all over the capital. While few people still wear traditional Moldavian attire, large public events often draw in such original costumes. </p><p><i>Moldova National Wine Day</i> and <i>Wine Festival</i> take place every year in the first weekend of October, in Chișinău. The events celebrate the autumn harvest and recognises the country's long history of winemaking, which dates back to at least 3,000 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moldova has been called the wine capital of Europe and its yearly festival is a major cultural and tourist event, and every year the streets are filled with people enjoying food, wine, dance, and music taking over the streets.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moldova's most-awarded sommelier Mihai Druta has described Moldovan wine as being about "small producers and family wineries making premium wine. And nothing costs more than 100 Euro a bottle."<sup id="cite_ref-:3_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">The Daily Express</a></i> in 2019 described the city as "Europe's latest hotspot" in which journalist Maisha Frost praised "its wines, monumental wineries and their epic tasting sessions."<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She described the city's Carpe Diem <a href="/wiki/Wine_bar" title="Wine bar">wine bar</a> as "the flagship for a flourishing new breed of craft-style makers." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The majority of Moldova's <a href="/wiki/Mass_media" title="Mass media">media industry</a> is based in Chișinău. There are almost 30 FM-radio stations and 10 TV-channels broadcasting in Chișinău. The first radio station in Chișinău, <a href="/wiki/Radio_Basarabia" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio Basarabia">Radio Basarabia</a>, was launched by the <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Radio_Broadcasting_Company" title="Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company">Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company</a> on 8 October 1939, when the religious service was broadcast on air from the <a href="/wiki/Nativity_Cathedral,_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Nativity Cathedral, Chișinău">Nativity Cathedral</a>. The first TV station in the city, <a href="/wiki/Moldova_1" title="Moldova 1">Moldova 1</a>, was launched on 30 April 1958, while <a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Lupan" title="Nicolae Lupan">Nicolae Lupan</a> was serving as the redactor-in-chief of <a href="/wiki/TeleRadio-Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="TeleRadio-Moldova">TeleRadio-Moldova</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The state national broadcaster in the country is the <a href="/wiki/Public_ownership" class="mw-redirect" title="Public ownership">state-owned</a> <a href="/wiki/Moldova_1" title="Moldova 1">Moldova 1</a>, which has its head office in the city. The broadcasts of <a href="/wiki/TeleRadio-Moldova" class="mw-redirect" title="TeleRadio-Moldova">TeleradioMoldova</a> have been criticised by the Independent Journalism Center as showing 'bias' towards the authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other TV channels based in Chișinău are <a href="/wiki/Pro_TV_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro TV Chișinău">Pro TV Chișinău</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prime_(Moldovan_TV_channel)" title="Prime (Moldovan TV channel)">PRIME</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jurnal_TV" title="Jurnal TV">Jurnal TV</a>, <a href="/wiki/Publika_TV" title="Publika TV">Publika TV</a>, CTC, <a href="/wiki/DTV_(Moldovan_TV_channel)" title="DTV (Moldovan TV channel)">DTV</a>, Euro TV, <a href="/wiki/TV8_(Moldova)" class="mw-redirect" title="TV8 (Moldova)">TV8</a>, etc. In addition to television, most Moldovan radio and newspaper companies have their headquarters in the city. Broadcasters include the national radio <a href="/wiki/Vocea_Basarabiei" title="Vocea Basarabiei">Vocea Basarabiei</a>, Prime FM, BBC Moldova, Radio Europa Libera, Kiss FM Chișinău, Pro FM Chișinău, Radio 21, Fresh FM, Radio Nova, <a href="/wiki/Russkoye_Radio" title="Russkoye Radio">Russkoye Radio</a>, Hit FM Moldova, and many others. </p><p>The biggest broadcasters are SunTV, <a href="/wiki/StarNet" title="StarNet">StarNet</a> (IPTV), <a href="/wiki/Moldtelecom" title="Moldtelecom">Moldtelecom</a> (IPTV), Satellit and Zebra TV. In 2007 SunTV and Zebra launched <a href="/wiki/Digital_television" title="Digital television">digital TV</a> cable networks. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information on the defunct newspaper founded in 1933: <a href="/wiki/Mi%C8%99carea_femenist%C4%83" title="Mișcarea femenistă">Mișcarea femenistă</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a 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href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2023_Moldovan_local_elections" title="2023 Moldovan local elections">2023 Moldovan local elections</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chisinau_railway_station_(188802333_cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Chisinau_railway_station_%28188802333_cropped%29.jpg/220px-Chisinau_railway_station_%28188802333_cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Chisinau_railway_station_%28188802333_cropped%29.jpg/330px-Chisinau_railway_station_%28188802333_cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Chisinau_railway_station_%28188802333_cropped%29.jpg/440px-Chisinau_railway_station_%28188802333_cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1467" data-file-height="946" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_Railway_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Chișinău Railway Station">Chișinău Railway Station</a>, exterior</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ki%C5%A1in%C4%9Bv,_leti%C5%A1t%C4%9B,_AKSM-321_(2019-03-17;_02).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Airport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_International_Airport" title="Chișinău International Airport">Chișinău International Airport</a> offers connections to major destinations in Europe and Asia. </p><p><a href="/wiki/FlyOne" title="FlyOne">FlyOne</a> and <a href="/wiki/HiSky" title="HiSky">HiSky</a> airlines have their headquarters, and Wizz-Air has its hub on the grounds of Chișinău International Airport.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road">Road</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Road"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most popular form of internal <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Moldova" title="Transport in Moldova">transport in Moldova</a> is generally the bus.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Although the city has just three main terminals, buses generally serve as the <a href="/wiki/Mode_of_transport" title="Mode of transport">means of transport</a> between cities in and outside of Moldova. Popular destinations include <a href="/wiki/Tiraspol" title="Tiraspol">Tiraspol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odesa" title="Odesa">Odesa</a> (Ukraine), <a href="/wiki/Ia%C8%99i" title="Iași">Iași</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a> (Romania). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rail">Rail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Rail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The second most popular form of domestic transportation within Moldova is via railways. The total length of the network managed by <a href="/wiki/Calea_Ferat%C4%83_din_Moldova" title="Calea Ferată din Moldova">Moldovan Railway</a> (as of 2009<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>) is 1,232 kilometres (766 miles). The entire network is single track and is not electrified. The central hub of all railways is <a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_Railway_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Chișinău Railway Station">Chișinău Central Railway Station</a>. There is another smaller railway station – <a href="/wiki/Revaca_railway_station" title="Revaca railway station">Revaca</a> located on the city's ends. </p><p>Chișinău Railway Station has an international railway terminal with connections to <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odesa" title="Odesa">Odesa</a>, Moscow, <a href="/wiki/Samara,_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Samara, Russia">Samara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Varna,_Bulgaria" title="Varna, Bulgaria">Varna</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a>. Due to the simmering conflict between Moldova and the unrecognised <a href="/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria">Transnistria republic</a> the rail traffic towards Ukraine is occasionally stopped.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_transport">Public transport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Public transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Trolleybuses">Trolleybuses</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Trolleybuses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Trolleybuses in Chișinău">Trolleybuses in Chișinău</a></div> <p>There is wide <a href="/wiki/Trolleybus" title="Trolleybus">trolleybus</a> network operating as common public transportation within city. From 1994, Chișinău saw the establishment of new trolleybus lines, as well as an increase in capacity of existing lines, to improve connections between the urban districts. The network comprises 22 trolleybus lines being 246 km (153 mi) in length. Trolleybuses run between 05:00 and 03:00. There are 320 units daily operating in Chișinău. However the requirements are as minimum as 600 units.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (April 2022)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> A trolleybus ticket costs 6 lei (ca. $0.31). It is the cheapest method of transport within Chișinău municipality. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Buses">Buses</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Buses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are 29 lines of buses within Chișinău municipality. At each public transportation stops there is attached a schedule for buses and trolleybuses. There are approximately 330 public transportation stops within Chișinău municipality. There is a big lack of buses inside city limits, with only 115 buses operating within Chișinău.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Minibuses">Minibuses</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Minibuses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Chișinău and its suburbs, privately operated minibuses known as "<i><a href="/wiki/Rutiera" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutiera">rutieras</a></i>" generally follow the major bus and <a href="/wiki/Trolleybus" title="Trolleybus">trolleybus</a> routes and appear more frequently.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of October 2017, there are 1,100 units of minibuses operating within Chișinău. Minibuses services are priced the same as buses – 3 <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_leu" title="Moldovan leu">lei</a> for a ticket (ca. $0.18).<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Traffic">Traffic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Traffic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The city traffic becomes more congested as each year passes. Nowadays there are about 300,000 cars in the city plus 100,000 transit transports coming to the city each day.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The number of personal transports is expected to reach 550,000 (without transit) by 2025.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zimbru_Stadium_2023.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Zimbru_Stadium_2023.jpg/230px-Zimbru_Stadium_2023.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Zimbru_Stadium_2023.jpg/345px-Zimbru_Stadium_2023.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Zimbru_Stadium_2023.jpg/460px-Zimbru_Stadium_2023.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Zimbru_Stadium" title="Zimbru Stadium">Zimbru Stadium</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> is the most widely followed sport in Chișinău. Local clubs such as <a href="/wiki/FC_Zimbru_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="FC Zimbru Chișinău">Zimbru</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dacia_Buiucani" class="mw-redirect" title="Dacia Buiucani">Dacia Buiucani</a> compete in the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_National_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldovan National Division">Moldovan Super Liga</a> (first division), while <a href="/wiki/Real_Succes_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="Real Succes Chișinău">Real Succes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Bardar" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria Bardar">Victoria Bardar</a> play in the <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_%22A%22_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Moldovan "A" Division">Liga 1</a> (second division). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Zimbru_Stadium" title="Zimbru Stadium">Zimbru Stadium</a>, which opened in May 2006 with a seating capacity of 10,500, meets all the requirements for hosting official international matches and serves as the home venue for the <a href="/wiki/Moldova_national_football_team" title="Moldova national football team">Moldova national football team</a>. </p><p>Since 2011, <a href="/wiki/CS_Femina-Sport_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" title="CS Femina-Sport Chișinău">CS Femina-Sport Chișinău</a> has organized women's competitions in seven sports. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Arena_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u" class="mw-redirect" title="Arena Chișinău">Arena Chișinău</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Indoor_arena" class="mw-redirect" title="Indoor arena">indoor arena</a> was opened in 2022. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/FMF_Beach_Soccer_Arena" title="FMF Beach Soccer Arena">FMF Beach Soccer Arena</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Beach_soccer" title="Beach soccer">beach soccer</a> stadium that opened in 2022, was the main venue for the <a href="/wiki/Socca_EuroCup" title="Socca EuroCup">Socca EuroCup</a> events held in 2023 and 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-socca1_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-socca1-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The city also hosts the annual <a href="/wiki/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u_International_Marathon" class="mw-redirect" title="Chișinău International Marathon">Chișinău International Marathon</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Natives">Natives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Natives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavril_Afanasiu">Gavril Afanasiu</a>, Bessarabian opera singer, lyric baritone and singing teacher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radu_Albot" title="Radu Albot">Radu Albot</a>, Moldovan professional tennis player</li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doina_Aldea-Teodorovici">Doina Aldea-Teodorovici</a>, Moldovan-Romanian singer, part of the iconic <a href="/wiki/Doina_and_Ion_Aldea_Teodorovici" title="Doina and Ion Aldea Teodorovici">musical duo</a> that defined the national awakening of the early 1990s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Alexandri" title="Nicolae Alexandri">Nicolae Alexandri</a>, Bessarabian-Romanian politician, editor-in-chief of <a href="/wiki/Cuv%C3%A2nt_Moldovenesc_(newspaper)" title="Cuvânt Moldovenesc (newspaper)">Cuvânt Moldovenesc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olga_Bancic" title="Olga Bancic">Olga Bancic</a>, Jewish-Romanian communist activist, known for her role in the <a href="/wiki/French_Resistance" title="French Resistance">French Resistance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regina_Barzilay" title="Regina Barzilay">Regina Barzilay</a>, Israeli-American computer scientist and professor at <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Ba%C8%99tovoi" title="Ștefan Baștovoi">Savatie Baștovoi</a>, Moldovan Orthodox monk, novelist, essayist, poet, painter, and theologian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_B%C4%83lan" class="mw-redirect" title="Dan Bălan">Dan Bălan</a>, Moldovan musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, founder of the popular Eurodance band <a href="/wiki/O-Zone" title="O-Zone">O-Zone</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Boldur">Alexandru Boldur</a>, Bessarabian-Romanian historian, lawyer, and archeologist</li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Bostan">Marcel Bostan</a>, Moldovan singer and leader of the alternative rock band <a href="/wiki/Alternosfera" title="Alternosfera">Alternosfera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Bronston" title="Samuel Bronston">Samuel Bronston</a>, American film producer and media executive (and Leon Trotsky's nephew)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lena_Scissorhands" title="Lena Scissorhands">Elena Cataraga (Lena Scissorhands)</a>, Moldovan heavy metal singer and songwriter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petru_Cazacu" title="Petru Cazacu">Petru Cazacu</a>, medical doctor, historian, publicist, and Prime Minister of the <a href="/wiki/Moldavian_Democratic_Republic" title="Moldavian Democratic Republic">Moldavian Democratic Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Cebotari" title="Maria Cebotari">Maria Cebotari</a>, Romanian soprano and actress, one of Europe's greatest opera stars in the 1930s and 1940s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toma_Ciorb%C4%83" title="Toma Ciorbă">Toma Ciorbă</a>, Romanian physician and hospital director</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudia_Cobizev" title="Claudia Cobizev">Claudia Cobizev</a>, Moldovan sculptor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miron_Constantinescu" title="Miron Constantinescu">Miron Constantinescu</a>, Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist, leading member of the <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Communist_Party" title="Romanian Communist Party">Romanian Communist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Cristea" title="Alexandru Cristea">Alexandru Cristea</a>, priest, choir conductor, music teacher, composer of the music for the <a href="/wiki/Limba_noastr%C4%83" title="Limba noastră">national anthem</a> of Moldova</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Cu%C8%9Belaba" title="Ion Cuțelaba">Ion Cuțelaba</a>, Moldovan light heavyweight UFC fighter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Donici" title="Nicolae Donici">Nicolae Donici</a>, Romanian astronomer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Epure" title="Boris Epure">Boris Epure</a>, Bessarabian-Romanian politician, member of <a href="/wiki/Sfatul_%C8%9A%C4%83rii" title="Sfatul Țării">Sfatul Țării</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_F._Friedman" title="William F. Friedman">William F. Friedman</a>, American cryptologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Frumkin" title="Alexander Frumkin">Alexander Frumkin</a>, Soviet electrochemist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Gaitsgory" title="Dennis Gaitsgory">Dennis Gaitsgory</a>, Israeli-American mathematician at <a href="/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Mathematics" title="Max Planck Institute for Mathematics">MPIM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anton_G%C4%83murari" title="Anton Gămurari">Anton Gămurari</a>, Moldovan general, veteran of the <a href="/wiki/Transnistrian_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Transnistrian War">Transnistrian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anastasia_Golovina" title="Anastasia Golovina">Anastasia Golovina</a>, the first Bulgarian female doctor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Gorby" title="Sarah Gorby">Sarah Gorby</a>, French-Jewish singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Gore_(historian)" title="Paul Gore (historian)">Paul Gore</a>, Romanian politician and historian, honorary member of the <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Academy" title="Romanian Academy">Romanian Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Her%C8%9Ba" title="Vladimir Herța">Vladimir Herța</a>, mayor of Chișinău in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Union" title="Great Union">Great Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Hidalgo" title="Laura Hidalgo">Laura Hidalgo</a>, Argentine actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anatole_Jakovsky" title="Anatole Jakovsky">Anatole Jakovsky</a>, French art critic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Katz" title="Boris Katz">Boris Katz</a>, American computer scientist at <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Kleitman" title="Nathaniel Kleitman">Nathaniel Kleitman</a>, American physiologist and sleep researcher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Kopatchinskaja" title="Patricia Kopatchinskaja">Patricia Kopatchinskaja</a>, Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avigdor_Lieberman" title="Avigdor Lieberman">Avigdor Lieberman</a>, Israeli politician</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.musicarussica.com/composers/grigory-lvovsky#:~:text=As%20a%20composer%2C%20Lvovsky%20studied,based%20on%20pre%2Dexisting%20chants.">Grigory Lvovsky</a>, composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lia_Manoliu" title="Lia Manoliu">Lia Manoliu</a>, Romanian discus thrower and Olympic medalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viorica_Marian" title="Viorica Marian">Viorica Marian</a>, Moldovan-born American psycholinguist, cognitive scientist, and professor of psychology at <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Meniuc" title="George Meniuc">George Meniuc</a>, Moldovan writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Milestone" title="Lewis Milestone">Lewis Milestone</a>, American film director, two-time Academy Award winner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantin_Mimi" title="Constantin Mimi">Constantin Mimi</a>, Bessarabian politician and winemaker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacha_Moldovan" title="Sacha Moldovan">Sacha Moldovan</a>, American expressionist and post-impressionist painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleg_Mutu" title="Oleg Mutu">Oleg Mutu</a>, Romanian cinematographer and film producer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatiana_Nicolescu" title="Tatiana Nicolescu">Tatiana Nicolescu</a>, Romanian historian of literature and translator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilya_Oleynikov" title="Ilya Oleynikov">Ilya Oleynikov</a>, Russian comic actor and television personality</li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusanda_Panfili">Rusanda Panfili</a>, Moldovan-Romanian violinist and composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Pekerman" title="Nina Pekerman">Nina Pekerman</a>, Israeli triathlete</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lev_Pisarzhevsky" title="Lev Pisarzhevsky">Lev Pisarzhevsky</a>, Soviet chemist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandru_Pl%C4%83m%C4%83deal%C4%83" title="Alexandru Plămădeală">Alexandru Plămădeală</a>, Moldovan sculptor, creator of the <a href="/wiki/Stephen_the_Great_Monument" title="Stephen the Great Monument">Stephen the Great Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radu_Poklitaru" title="Radu Poklitaru">Radu Poklitaru</a>, Moldovan-born Ukrainian choreographer-director</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicu_Popescu" title="Nicu Popescu">Nicu Popescu</a>, Moldovan author and diplomat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitaliy_Pushkar" title="Vitaliy Pushkar">Vitaliy Pushkar</a>, Ukrainian rally driver</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Rayel" title="Andrew Rayel">Andrew Rayel</a>, stage name of Andrei Rață, a Moldovan producer and DJ</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alecu_Russo" title="Alecu Russo">Alecu Russo</a>, Bessarabian-Romanian writer, literary critic and publicist</li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Rusu-Ciobanu">Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu</a>, Moldovan painter and stage designer</li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebus_Sainciuc">Glebus Sainciuc</a>, Moldovan artist, portraitist and author of masks</li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lic%C4%83_Sainciuc">Lică Sainciuc</a>, Moldovan artist, writer and architect</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_S%C3%A2rbu" title="Andrei Sârbu">Andrei Sârbu</a>, Moldovan painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Schmidt_(politician)" title="Alexander Schmidt (politician)">Alexander Schmidt</a>, Bessarabian German politician, economist, lawyer and academic, the last Tsarist mayor of Chișinău</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexey_Shchusev" title="Alexey Shchusev">Alexey Shchusev</a>, Russian and Soviet architect</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yulia_Sister" title="Yulia Sister">Yulia Sister</a>, Israeli analytical chemist and science historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serghei_Spivac" title="Serghei Spivac">Serghei Spivac</a>, Moldovan heavyweight UFC fighter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_Stratan" title="Cleopatra Stratan">Cleopatra Stratan</a>, Moldovan-Romanian singer, the youngest artist to score a No. 1 hit in a country</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mihai_Timofti" title="Mihai Timofti">Mihai Timofti</a>, Moldovan theatre and film director, actor, multi-instrumentalist musician, professor, screenwriter, writer and composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatiana_%C8%9A%C3%AEbuleac" title="Tatiana Țîbuleac">Tatiana Țîbuleac</a>, Moldovan writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Ulanovsky" title="Alexander Ulanovsky">Alexander Ulanovsky</a>, Soviet <a href="/wiki/Resident_spy" title="Resident spy">resident spy</a> in the United States in the 1930s, prisoner in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Gulag" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Gulag">Soviet Gulag</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Vakulovski">Mihail Vakulovski</a>, Moldovan-Romanian author, poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, blogger and translator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Winetzkaja" title="Maria Winetzkaja">Maria Winetzkaja</a>, American opera singer in the 1910s-1920s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iona_Yakir" title="Iona Yakir">Iona Yakir</a>, Red Army commander executed during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Purge" title="Great Purge">Great Purge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chaim_Yassky" title="Chaim Yassky">Chaim Yassky</a>, Jewish physician killed in the <a href="/wiki/Hadassah_medical_convoy_massacre" title="Hadassah medical convoy massacre">Hadassah medical convoy massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Zemurray" title="Sam Zemurray">Sam Zemurray</a>, American businessman who made his fortune in the banana trade</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Residents">Residents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Residents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Balan" title="Dan Balan">Dan Balan</a>, musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_de_Bothezat" title="George de Bothezat">Gheorghe Botezatu</a>, American engineer, businessman and pioneer of helicopter flight</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugen_Doga" title="Eugen Doga">Eugen Doga</a>, composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Testemi%C8%9Banu" title="Nicolae Testemițanu">Nicolae Testemițanu</a>, physician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timofei_Mo%C8%99neaga" title="Timofei Moșneaga">Timofei Moșneaga</a>, physician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Gohberg" title="Israel Gohberg">Israel Gohberg</a>, Soviet and Israeli mathematician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dovid_Knut" title="Dovid Knut">Dovid Knut</a>, poet and member of the French Resistance</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Mogulesko" title="Sigmund Mogulesko">Sigmund Mogulesko</a>, singer, actor, and composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasha_Parfeny" class="mw-redirect" title="Pasha Parfeny">Pasha Parfeny</a>, Singer, Musician, songwriter and who represented for the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2012" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2012">Eurovision Song Contest 2012</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2023" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2023">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SunStroke_Project" title="SunStroke Project">SunStroke Project</a>, Moldovan representative for the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2010" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2010">Eurovision Song Contests 2010</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2017" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2017">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zlata_Tkach" title="Zlata Tkach">Zlata Tkach</a>, composer and music educator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Biesu" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria Biesu">Maria Biesu</a>, operatic soprano</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twin_towns_–_sister_cities"><span id="Twin_towns_.E2.80.93_sister_cities"></span>Twin towns – sister cities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Twin towns – sister cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_Moldova" title="List of twin towns and sister cities in Moldova">List of twin towns and sister cities in Moldova</a></div> <p>Chișinău is <a href="/wiki/Sister_city" title="Sister city">twinned</a> with:<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania"><img alt="Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Alba_Iulia" title="Alba Iulia">Alba Iulia</a>, Romania (2011)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey"><img alt="Turkey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ankara" title="Ankara">Ankara</a>, Turkey (2004)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden"><img alt="Sweden" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Borl%C3%A4nge_Municipality" title="Borlänge Municipality">Borlänge</a>, Sweden (2009)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania"><img alt="Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a>, Romania (1999)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine"><img alt="Ukraine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Chernivtsi" title="Chernivtsi">Chernivtsi</a>, Ukraine (2014)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Grenoble" title="Grenoble">Grenoble</a>, France (1977)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania"><img alt="Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ia%C8%99i" title="Iași">Iași</a>, Romania (2008)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine"><img alt="Ukraine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>, Ukraine (1999)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Mannheim" title="Mannheim">Mannheim</a>, Germany (1989)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine"><img alt="Ukraine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Odesa" title="Odesa">Odesa</a>, Ukraine (1994)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Reggio_Emilia" title="Reggio Emilia">Reggio Emilia</a>, Italy (1989)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a>, United States (1990)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania"><img alt="Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Suceava" title="Suceava">Suceava</a>, Romania (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)"><img alt="Georgia (country)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Flag_of_Georgia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>, Georgia (2011)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel"><img alt="Israel" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/21px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/32px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/41px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, Israel (2000)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia"><img alt="Armenia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>, Armenia (2000)</li></ul> </div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England"><img alt="England" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kingston_Upon_Hull" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingston Upon Hull">Kingston Upon Hull</a>, England (1982)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span>-<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'f' in 'find'">f</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">KISH</span>-in-off, -⁠ef</i></a>, <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small"><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">US</a> also </span><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/-<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">-⁠ev</i></a>; <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Кишинёв</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian" title="Romanization of Russian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Kishinyov</i></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[kʲɪʂɨˈnʲɵf]</a></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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"Town Clips: Kishinev." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/KISHINEV.pdf"><i>Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories</i></a> . Secaucus, NJ: Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation. p. 364-371. ISBY 978-0-96-565081-6. 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title="Briceni">Briceni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cahul" title="Cahul">Cahul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cantemir,_Moldova" title="Cantemir, Moldova">Cantemir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C4%83l%C4%83ra%C8%99i,_Moldova" title="Călărași, Moldova">Călărași</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C4%83u%C8%99eni" title="Căușeni">Căușeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cimi%C8%99lia" title="Cimișlia">Cimișlia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criuleni" title="Criuleni">Criuleni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dondu%C8%99eni" title="Dondușeni">Dondușeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drochia" title="Drochia">Drochia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edine%C8%9B" title="Edineț">Edineț</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C4%83le%C8%99ti" title="Fălești">Fălești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flore%C8%99ti,_Moldova" title="Florești, Moldova">Florești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glodeni" title="Glodeni">Glodeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%AEnce%C8%99ti" title="Hîncești">Hîncești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ialoveni" title="Ialoveni">Ialoveni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leova" title="Leova">Leova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nisporeni" title="Nisporeni">Nisporeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocni%C8%9Ba" title="Ocnița">Ocnița</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orhei" title="Orhei">Orhei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rezina" title="Rezina">Rezina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%AE%C8%99cani" title="Rîșcani">Rîșcani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%AEngerei" title="Sîngerei">Sîngerei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soroca" title="Soroca">Soroca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Str%C4%83%C8%99eni" title="Strășeni">Strășeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98old%C4%83ne%C8%99ti" title="Șoldănești">Șoldănești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Vod%C4%83" title="Ștefan Vodă">Ștefan Vodă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taraclia" title="Taraclia">Taraclia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telene%C8%99ti" title="Telenești">Telenești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ungheni" title="Ungheni">Ungheni</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other towns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biruin%C8%9Ba" title="Biruința">Biruința</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bucov%C4%83%C8%9B" title="Bucovăț">Bucovăț</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C4%83inari" title="Căinari">Căinari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camenca" title="Camenca">Camenca</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cead%C3%AEr-Lunga" title="Ceadîr-Lunga">Ceadîr-Lunga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Codru,_Moldova" title="Codru, Moldova">Codru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corne%C8%99ti_(town),_Ungheni" title="Cornești (town), Ungheni">Cornești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coste%C8%99ti,_R%C3%AE%C8%99cani" title="Costești, Rîșcani">Costești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crasnoe" title="Crasnoe">Crasnoe</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cricova" title="Cricova">Cricova</a></li> <li><a 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title="Rîbnița">Rîbnița</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%AEngera" title="Sîngera">Sîngera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slobozia,_Moldova" title="Slobozia, Moldova">Slobozia</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiraspolul_Nou" title="Tiraspolul Nou">Tiraspolul Nou</a><sup><small>1</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tvardi%C8%9Ba" title="Tvardița">Tvardița</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vadul_lui_Vod%C4%83" title="Vadul lui Vodă">Vadul lui Vodă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vatra,_Moldova" title="Vatra, Moldova">Vatra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vulc%C4%83ne%C8%99ti" title="Vulcănești">Vulcănești</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="background:lavender; line-height:10pt; text-align:center; font-size:80%;"><div><sup>1</sup> In <a href="/wiki/Transnistria" title="Transnistria">Transnistria</a>. <sup>2</sup> Controlled by the Transnistrian authorities. <sup>3</sup> Also a municipality. <sup>4</sup> The seat of <a href="/wiki/Dub%C4%83sari_District" title="Dubăsari District">Dubăsari District</a> is the commune of <a href="/wiki/Cocieri" title="Cocieri">Cocieri</a> (not a city).</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="25px&#124;border_&#124;alt=Moldova&#124;link=Moldova_Administrative_divisions_of_Moldova" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/25px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/38px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Moldova.svg/50px-Flag_of_Moldova.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Moldova" title="Administrative divisions of Moldova">Administrative divisions of Moldova</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Raion" title="Raion">Districts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anenii_Noi_District" title="Anenii Noi District">Anenii Noi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basarabeasca_District" title="Basarabeasca District">Basarabeasca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Briceni_District" title="Briceni District">Briceni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cahul_District" title="Cahul District">Cahul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cantemir_District" title="Cantemir District">Cantemir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C4%83l%C4%83ra%C8%99i_District" title="Călărași District">Călărași</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C4%83u%C8%99eni_District" title="Căușeni District">Căușeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cimi%C8%99lia_District" title="Cimișlia District">Cimișlia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criuleni_District" title="Criuleni District">Criuleni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dondu%C8%99eni_District" title="Dondușeni District">Dondușeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drochia_District" title="Drochia District">Drochia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dub%C4%83sari_District" title="Dubăsari District">Dubăsari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edine%C8%9B_District" title="Edineț District">Edineț</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C4%83le%C8%99ti_District" title="Fălești District">Fălești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flore%C8%99ti_District" title="Florești District">Florești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glodeni_District" title="Glodeni District">Glodeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%AEnce%C8%99ti_District" title="Hîncești District">Hîncești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ialoveni_District" title="Ialoveni District">Ialoveni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leova_District" title="Leova District">Leova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nisporeni_District" title="Nisporeni District">Nisporeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocni%C8%9Ba_District" title="Ocnița District">Ocnița</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orhei_District" title="Orhei District">Orhei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rezina_District" title="Rezina District">Rezina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%AE%C8%99cani_District" title="Rîșcani District">Rîșcani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%AEngerei_District" title="Sîngerei District">Sîngerei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soroca_District" title="Soroca District">Soroca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Str%C4%83%C8%99eni_District" title="Strășeni District">Strășeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98old%C4%83ne%C8%99ti_District" title="Șoldănești District">Șoldănești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Vod%C4%83_District" title="Ștefan Vodă District">Ștefan Vodă</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taraclia_District" title="Taraclia District">Taraclia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telene%C8%99ti_District" title="Telenești District">Telenești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ungheni_District" title="Ungheni District">Ungheni</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_territorial_unit" title="Autonomous territorial unit">Autonomous territorial units</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gagauzia" title="Gagauzia">Găgăuzia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Administrative-Territorial_Units_of_the_Left_Bank_of_the_Dniester" title="Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester">Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester</a><sup id="cite_ref-pmr_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pmr-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">Municipalities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B%C4%83l%C8%9Bi" title="Bălți">Bălți</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bender,_Moldova" title="Bender, Moldova">Bender</a><sup id="cite_ref-pmr_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pmr-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cahul" title="Cahul">Cahul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cead%C3%AEr-Lunga" title="Ceadîr-Lunga">Ceadîr-Lunga</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Chișinău</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comrat" title="Comrat">Comrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edine%C8%9B" title="Edineț">Edineț</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%AEnce%C8%99ti" title="Hîncești">Hîncești</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orhei" title="Orhei">Orhei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soroca" title="Soroca">Soroca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Str%C4%83%C8%99eni" title="Strășeni">Strășeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiraspol" title="Tiraspol">Tiraspol</a><sup id="cite_ref-pmr_83-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pmr-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ungheni" title="Ungheni">Ungheni</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-pmr-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pmr_83-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pmr_83-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pmr_83-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Currently controlled by the <a href="/wiki/List_of_states_with_limited_recognition" title="List of states with limited recognition">unrecognized</a> <a href="/wiki/Pridnestrovian_Moldavian_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic">Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Capitals_of_European_states_and_territories" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:List_of_European_capitals_by_region" title="Template:List of European capitals by region"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:List_of_European_capitals_by_region" title="Template talk:List of European capitals by region"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:List_of_European_capitals_by_region" title="Special:EditPage/Template:List of European capitals by region"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Capitals_of_European_states_and_territories" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Capitals of European states and territories</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Capitals of <a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">dependent territories</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_states_with_limited_recognition" title="List of states with limited recognition">states whose sovereignty is disputed</a> shown in <i>italics</i>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sovereign states</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a></b>, Netherlands<sup>1</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Andorra_la_Vella" title="Andorra la Vella">Andorra la Vella</a></b>, Andorra</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ankara" title="Ankara">Ankara</a></b>, Turkey<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Astana" title="Astana">Astana</a></b>, Kazakhstan<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a></b>, Greece</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a></b>, Azerbaijan<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Belgrade" title="Belgrade">Belgrade</a></b>, Serbia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></b>, Germany</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bern" title="Bern">Bern</a></b>, Switzerland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bratislava" title="Bratislava">Bratislava</a></b>, Slovakia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a></b>, Belgium<sup>3</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a></b>, Romania</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Budapest" title="Budapest">Budapest</a></b>, Hungary</li> <li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Chișinău</a></b>, Moldova</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a></b>, Denmark</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a></b>, Ireland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a></b>, Finland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a></b>, Ukraine</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a></b>, Portugal</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Ljubljana" title="Ljubljana">Ljubljana</a></b>, Slovenia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></b>, United Kingdom</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_City" title="Luxembourg City">Luxembourg</a></b>, Luxembourg</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a></b>, Spain</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a></b>, Belarus</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Monaco" title="Monaco">Monaco</a></b><sup>5</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></b>, Russia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Nicosia" title="Nicosia">Nicosia</a></b>, Cyprus<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a></b>, Norway</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a></b>, France</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Podgorica" title="Podgorica">Podgorica</a></b>, Montenegro</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a></b>, Czech Republic</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk" title="Reykjavík">Reykjavík</a></b>, Iceland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Riga" title="Riga">Riga</a></b>, Latvia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a></b>, Italy</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/City_of_San_Marino" title="City of San Marino">San Marino</a></b>, San Marino</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sarajevo" title="Sarajevo">Sarajevo</a></b>, Bosnia and Herzegovina</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Skopje" title="Skopje">Skopje</a></b>, North Macedonia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a></b>, Bulgaria</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Stockholm" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a></b>, Sweden</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tallinn" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</a></b>, Estonia</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a></b>, Georgia<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tirana" title="Tirana">Tirana</a></b>, Albania</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vaduz" title="Vaduz">Vaduz</a></b>, Liechtenstein</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Valletta" title="Valletta">Valletta</a></b>, Malta</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City">Vatican City</a></b><sup>4</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a></b>, Austria</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a></b>, Lithuania</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a></b>, Poland</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a></b>, Armenia<sup>2</sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Zagreb" title="Zagreb">Zagreb</a></b>, Croatia</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">States with<br />limited recognition</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/North_Nicosia" title="North Nicosia">North Nicosia</a></b>, Northern Cyprus</i><sup>2</sup></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Pristina" title="Pristina">Pristina</a></b>, Kosovo</i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sukhumi" title="Sukhumi">Sukhumi</a></b>, Abkhazia</i><sup>2</sup></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tiraspol" title="Tiraspol">Tiraspol</a></b>, Transnistria</i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tskhinvali" title="Tskhinvali">Tskhinvali</a></b>, South Ossetia</i><sup>3</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Dependencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Constituent countries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></b></i>, England</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></b></i>, Scotland</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a></b></i>, Wales</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a></b></i>, Northern Ireland</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Crown_Dependencies" title="Crown Dependencies">Crown Dependencies</a> and<br /><a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories" title="British Overseas Territories">Overseas Territories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Douglas,_Isle_of_Man" title="Douglas, Isle of Man">Douglas</a></b></i>, Isle of Man</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Episkopi_Cantonment" title="Episkopi Cantonment">Episkopi Cantonment</a></b></i>, Akrotiri and Dhekelia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></b></i>, Gibraltar</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/St_Helier" title="St Helier">St Helier</a></b></i>, Jersey</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter_Port" title="Saint Peter Port">Saint Peter Port</a></b></i>, Guernsey</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Longyearbyen" title="Longyearbyen">Longyearbyen</a></b>, Svalbard (Norway)</i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/T%C3%B3rshavn" title="Tórshavn">Tórshavn</a></b>, Faroe Islands (Denmark)</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Federal states</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Austria" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Austria">Austria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Bregenz" title="Bregenz">Bregenz</a></b></i>, Vorarlberg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Eisenstadt" title="Eisenstadt">Eisenstadt</a></b></i>, Burgenland</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Graz" title="Graz">Graz</a></b></i>, Styria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Innsbruck" title="Innsbruck">Innsbruck</a></b></i>, Tyrol</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Klagenfurt" class="mw-redirect" title="Klagenfurt">Klagenfurt</a></b></i>, Carinthia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Linz" title="Linz">Linz</a></b></i>, Upper Austria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Salzburg" title="Salzburg">Salzburg</a></b></i>, Salzburg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sankt_P%C3%B6lten" title="Sankt Pölten">Sankt Pölten</a></b></i>, Lower Austria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a></b></i>, Vienna</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Communities,_regions_and_language_areas_of_Belgium#Communities" class="mw-redirect" title="Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium">Communities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/City_of_Brussels" title="City of Brussels">Brussels</a></b></i>, Flemish Community and French Community</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Eupen" title="Eupen">Eupen</a></b></i>, German-speaking Community</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Communities,_regions_and_language_areas_of_Belgium#Regions" class="mw-redirect" title="Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/City_of_Brussels" title="City of Brussels">Brussels</a></b></i>, Brussels-Capital Region and Flanders</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Namur" title="Namur">Namur</a></b></i>, Wallonia</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Political_divisions_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Banja_Luka" title="Banja Luka">Banja Luka</a></b></i> (de facto), Republika Srpska</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Br%C4%8Dko" title="Brčko">Brčko</a></b></i>, Brčko District</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sarajevo" title="Sarajevo">Sarajevo</a></b></i>, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/States_of_Germany" title="States of Germany">Germany</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a></b></i>, Berlin</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Bremen" title="Bremen">Bremen</a></b></i>, Bremen</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden">Dresden</a></b></i>, Saxony</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/D%C3%BCsseldorf" title="Düsseldorf">Düsseldorf</a></b></i>, North Rhine-Westphalia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Erfurt" title="Erfurt">Erfurt</a></b></i>, Thuringia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a></b></i>, Hamburg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Hanover" title="Hanover">Hanover</a></b></i>, Lower Saxony</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kiel" title="Kiel">Kiel</a></b></i>, Schleswig-Holstein</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Magdeburg" title="Magdeburg">Magdeburg</a></b></i>, Saxony-Anhalt</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Mainz" title="Mainz">Mainz</a></b></i>, Rhineland-Palatinate</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></b></i>, Bavaria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Potsdam" title="Potsdam">Potsdam</a></b></i>, Brandenburg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saarbr%C3%BCcken" title="Saarbrücken">Saarbrücken</a></b></i>, Saarland</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Schwerin" title="Schwerin">Schwerin</a></b></i>, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Stuttgart" title="Stuttgart">Stuttgart</a></b></i>, Baden-Württemberg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Wiesbaden" title="Wiesbaden">Wiesbaden</a></b></i>, Hesse</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia" title="Federal subjects of Russia">Russia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Republics_of_Russia" title="Republics of Russia">Republics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Cheboksary" title="Cheboksary">Cheboksary</a></b></i>, Chuvashia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Cherkessk" title="Cherkessk">Cherkessk</a></b></i>, Karachay-Cherkessia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Elista" title="Elista">Elista</a></b></i>, Kalmykia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Grozny" title="Grozny">Grozny</a></b></i>, Chechnya</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Izhevsk" title="Izhevsk">Izhevsk</a></b></i>, Udmurtia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kazan" title="Kazan">Kazan</a></b></i>, Tatarstan</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Magas" title="Magas">Magas</a></b></i>, Ingushetia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Makhachkala" title="Makhachkala">Makhachkala</a></b></i>, Dagestan</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Maykop" title="Maykop">Maykop</a></b></i>, Adygea</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Nalchik" title="Nalchik">Nalchik</a></b></i>, Kabardino-Balkaria</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Petrozavodsk" title="Petrozavodsk">Petrozavodsk</a></b></i>, Karelia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saransk" title="Saransk">Saransk</a></b></i>, Mordovia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Simferopol" title="Simferopol">Simferopol</a></b></i>, Crimea (<a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Crimea" title="Political status of Crimea">disputed</a>)</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Syktyvkar" title="Syktyvkar">Syktyvkar</a></b></i>, Komi</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ufa" title="Ufa">Ufa</a></b></i>, Bashkortostan</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Vladikavkaz" title="Vladikavkaz">Vladikavkaz</a></b></i>, North Ossetia–Alania</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Yoshkar-Ola" title="Yoshkar-Ola">Yoshkar-Ola</a></b></i>, Mari El</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_okrugs_of_Russia" title="Autonomous okrugs of Russia">Autonomous okrugs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Naryan-Mar" title="Naryan-Mar">Naryan-Mar</a></b></i>, Nenets</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Krais_of_Russia" title="Krais of Russia">Krais</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Krasnodar" title="Krasnodar">Krasnodar</a></b></i>, Krasnodar Krai</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Perm,_Russia" title="Perm, Russia">Perm</a></b></i>, Perm Krai</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Stavropol" title="Stavropol">Stavropol</a></b></i>, Stavropol Krai</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Oblasts_of_Russia" title="Oblasts of Russia">Oblasts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Arkhangelsk" title="Arkhangelsk">Arkhangelsk</a></b></i>, Arkhangelsk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Astrakhan" title="Astrakhan">Astrakhan</a></b></i>, Astrakhan Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a></b></i>, Belgorod Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Bryansk" title="Bryansk">Bryansk</a></b></i>, Bryansk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ivanovo" title="Ivanovo">Ivanovo</a></b></i>, Ivanovo Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kaliningrad" title="Kaliningrad">Kaliningrad</a></b></i>, Kaliningrad Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kaluga" title="Kaluga">Kaluga</a></b></i>, Kaluga Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kirov,_Kirov_Oblast" title="Kirov, Kirov Oblast">Kirov</a></b></i>, Kirov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kostroma" title="Kostroma">Kostroma</a></b></i>, Kostroma Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Krasnogorsk,_Moscow_Oblast" title="Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast">Krasnogorsk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></b></i>, Moscow Oblast (de facto)</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kursk" title="Kursk">Kursk</a></b></i>, Kursk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Lipetsk" title="Lipetsk">Lipetsk</a></b></i>, Lipetsk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Murmansk" title="Murmansk">Murmansk</a></b></i>, Murmansk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod" title="Nizhny Novgorod">Nizhny Novgorod</a></b></i>, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Orenburg" title="Orenburg">Orenburg</a></b></i>, Orenburg Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Oryol" title="Oryol">Oryol</a></b></i>, Oryol Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Penza" title="Penza">Penza</a></b></i>, Penza Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Pskov" title="Pskov">Pskov</a></b></i>, Pskov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Rostov-on-Don" title="Rostov-on-Don">Rostov-on-Don</a></b></i>, Rostov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ryazan" title="Ryazan">Ryazan</a></b></i>, Ryazan Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Gatchina" title="Gatchina">Gatchina</a></b></i>, Leningrad Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Samara" title="Samara">Samara</a></b></i>, Samara Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saratov" title="Saratov">Saratov</a></b></i>, Saratov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Smolensk" title="Smolensk">Smolensk</a></b></i>, Smolensk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tambov" title="Tambov">Tambov</a></b></i>, Tambov Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tula,_Russia" title="Tula, Russia">Tula</a></b></i>, Tula Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Tver" title="Tver">Tver</a></b></i>, Tver Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Ulyanovsk" title="Ulyanovsk">Ulyanovsk</a></b></i>, Ulyanovsk Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Veliky_Novgorod" title="Veliky Novgorod">Veliky Novgorod</a></b></i>, Novgorod Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Vladimir,_Russia" title="Vladimir, Russia">Vladimir</a></b></i>, Vladimir Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Volgograd" title="Volgograd">Volgograd</a></b></i>, Volgograd Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Vologda" title="Vologda">Vologda</a></b></i>, Vologda Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Voronezh" title="Voronezh">Voronezh</a></b></i>, Voronezh Oblast</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Yaroslavl" title="Yaroslavl">Yaroslavl</a></b></i>, Yaroslavl Oblast</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_cities_of_Russia" title="Federal cities of Russia">Federal cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a></b></i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a></b></i></li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sevastopol" title="Sevastopol">Sevastopol</a></b></i> (<a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Crimea" title="Political status of Crimea">disputed</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland" title="Cantons of Switzerland">Switzerland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Aarau" title="Aarau">Aarau</a></b></i>, Aargau</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Altdorf,_Uri" title="Altdorf, Uri">Altdorf</a></b></i>, Uri</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Appenzell_(village)" title="Appenzell (village)">Appenzell</a></b></i>, Appenzell Innerrhoden</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Basel" title="Basel">Basel</a></b></i>, Basel-Stadt</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Bellinzona" title="Bellinzona">Bellinzona</a></b></i>, Ticino</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Chur" title="Chur">Chur</a></b></i>, Grisons</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Del%C3%A9mont" title="Delémont">Delémont</a></b></i>, Jura</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Frauenfeld" title="Frauenfeld">Frauenfeld</a></b></i>, Thurgau</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Fribourg" title="Fribourg">Fribourg</a></b></i>, Canton of Fribourg</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a></b></i>, Canton of Geneva</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Herisau" title="Herisau">Herisau</a></b></i>, Appenzell Ausserrhoden</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Lausanne" title="Lausanne">Lausanne</a></b></i>, Vaud</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Liestal" title="Liestal">Liestal</a></b></i>, Basel-Landschaft</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Lucerne" title="Lucerne">Lucerne</a></b></i>, Canton of Lucerne</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Neuch%C3%A2tel" title="Neuchâtel">Neuchâtel</a></b></i>, Canton of Neuchâtel</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sarnen" title="Sarnen">Sarnen</a></b></i>, Obwalden</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Schaffhausen" title="Schaffhausen">Schaffhausen</a></b></i>, Canton of Schaffhausen</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Schwyz" title="Schwyz">Schwyz</a></b></i>, Canton of Schwyz</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Sion,_Switzerland" title="Sion, Switzerland">Sion</a></b></i>, Valais</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Solothurn" title="Solothurn">Solothurn</a></b></i>, Canton of Solothurn</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Stans" title="Stans">Stans</a></b></i>, Nidwalden</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/St._Gallen" title="St. Gallen">St. Gallen</a></b></i>, Canton of St. Gallen</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Glarus" title="Glarus">Glarus</a></b></i>, Canton of Glarus</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Zug" title="Zug">Zug</a></b></i>, Canton of Zug</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Zurich" title="Zurich">Zurich</a></b></i>, Canton of Zürich</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Autonomous<br />entities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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Azores">Horta</a></b></i>, Azores</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Funchal" title="Funchal">Funchal</a></b></i>, Madeira</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a></b></i>, Catalonia</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Las_Palmas" title="Las Palmas">Las Palmas</a></b></i> & <i><b><a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife" title="Santa Cruz de Tenerife">Santa Cruz de Tenerife</a></b></i>, Canary Islands</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Logro%C3%B1o" title="Logroño">Logroño</a></b></i>, La Rioja</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a></b></i>, Community of Madrid</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9rida,_Spain" title="Mérida, 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