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title: "Moldova — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Moldova: capital Chișinău, area 33,851 km², population 2,360,527 (2025), currency Moldovan leu. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/moldova/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Moldova

**Moldova: Capital Chișinău**

33,851 km² · 2,360,527 people (2025) · Moldovan leu

Landlocked, mostly rolling steppe, and largely covered in fertile black-earth chernozem soil. The wine cellars at Mileștii Mici run about 200 km of underground limestone galleries and hold the largest wine collection in the world by bottle count.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Chișinău
- **Area:** 33,851 km² — 13,070 sq mi
- **Population:** 2,360,527 (2025)
- **Density:** 69.7 people per km²
- **Currency:** Moldovan leu (MDL, L)
- **Official language:** Romanian
- **Time zone:** UTC+02:00
- **Calling code:** +373
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** MD · MDA
- **Continent:** Europe

## How it compares

- **By area:** 137 of 200
- **By population:** 146 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Guinea-Bissau | 36,125 | 2,249,515 |
| Taiwan | 35,980 | 23,600,776 |
| Moldova ← | 33,851 | 2,360,527 |
| Belgium | 30,528 | 11,941,781 |
| Lesotho | 30,355 | 2,363,325 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Moldova?

Chișinău

### What currency does Moldova use?

The Moldovan leu (MDL).

### How big is Moldova?

33,851 km², or 13,070 square miles — 137 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Moldova drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Guinea-Bissau](https://atoneplace.net/country/guinea-bissau/)
- [Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country/taiwan/)
- [Belgium](https://atoneplace.net/country/belgium/)
- [Lesotho](https://atoneplace.net/country/lesotho/)
- [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/)
- [Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country/germany/)
- [United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-kingdom/)
- [France](https://atoneplace.net/country/france/)
- [Italy](https://atoneplace.net/country/italy/)
- [Spain](https://atoneplace.net/country/spain/)
- [Ukraine](https://atoneplace.net/country/ukraine/)
- [Poland](https://atoneplace.net/country/poland/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]