Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Moldova - Moldova: Where is it? What is it?

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Official name: Republic of Moldova Area: 33,700 sq km Population: 4.3 million (Moldovans: 64 per cent; Ukrainians: 14 per cent; Russians: 13 per cent; Gagauz (an Orthodox Christian Turkic people): 3.5 per cent (about 150,000 inhabitants). Capital: Chisinau (717,000 inhabitants in 2005) Main cities: Tiraspol (“capital” of Transnistria, 182,000 inhabitants in 1994), Balti (128,000 inhabitants in 2005), Teghina (or Bender, 133,000 inhabitants in 1992) Official language: Moldovan (identical (...)

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