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Moldova is divided administratively into two levels:[1][2][3]
Main article: List of localities in Moldova |
See also: List of cities in Moldova |
Moldova has a total of 1,682 localities; from these 982 are incorporated (de jure with 982 mayors and 982 local councils), including 53 cities/towns, other 13 cities with municipality status (see municipiu), and 916 rural localities.[5] They cover the entire area of the country. A number of villages are self-governed, while others 700 villages are too small to have a separate administration, and are part of either cities/towns/municipalities (41 of them) or communes (659). Few localities are inhabited.
In the administrative-territorial structure of Moldova are 898 second-level administrative territorial units (cities/towns, sectors and villages/communes).[6]
The status of Chișinău, Bălți, and Tighina as municipalities and first-level territorial units of the country allows their suburb villages to have, when large enough, their own mayor and local council. By contrast, the villages that are administratively part of (some of) the other cities do not retain self-rule.
Name of district | District seat | President | Area (km2) |
Population (2014)[7] |
Density (2014) |
Towns/ villages |
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Anenii Noi | Vladimir Vâzdoagă | 892 | 78,996 | 88.6 | 45 |
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Basarabeasca | Ilie Cernăuțan | 295 | 23,012 | 78.0 | 10 |
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Briceni | Efimia Bendulac | 814 | 70,029 | 86.0 | 39 |
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Cahul | Avram Micinschi | 1,546 | 105,324 | 68.1 | 56 |
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Cantemir | Ion Balan | 870 | 52,115 | 59.9 | 51 |
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Călărași | Ilie Rău | 753 | 64,401 | 85.5 | 54 |
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Căușeni | Ilie Gluh | 1,163 | 81,185 | 69.8 | 48 |
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Cimișlia | Ion Veveriță | 923 | 49,299 | 53.4 | 39 |
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Criuleni | Vitalie Rotaru | 688 | 70,648 | 102.7 | 43 |
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Dondușeni | Anastasie Pavlov | 645 | 37,856 | 58.7 | 30 |
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Drochia | Andrei Marian | 1,000 | 74,443 | 74.4 | 40 |
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Dubăsari | Grigore Policinschi | 309 | 29,271 | 94.7 | 15 |
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Edineț | Oleg Scutaru | 933 | 71,849 | 77.0 | 49 |
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Fălești | Valeriu Muduc | 1,073 | 78,258 | 86.3 | 76 |
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Florești | Ștefan Paniș | 1,108 | 76,457 | 69.0 | 74 |
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Glodeni | Valeriu Țarigradschi | 754 | 51,306 | 68.0 | 35 |
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Hîncești | Grigore Cobzac | 1,484 | 103,784 | 69.9 | 63 |
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Ialoveni | Nicolae Andronache | 783 | 93,154 | 119.0 | 34 |
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Leova | Efrosinia Grețu | 775 | 44,702 | 57.7 | 39 |
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Nisporeni | Vasile Bîtcă | 630 | 53,154 | 84.4 | 39 |
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Ocnița | Ion Tomai | 597 | 47,425 | 79.4 | 33 |
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Orhei | Ion Ștefârță | 1,228 | 101,502 | 82.7 | 75 |
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Rezina | Eleonora Graur | 621 | 42,486 | 68.4 | 41 |
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Rîșcani | Ion Parea | 936 | 59,226 | 63.3 | 55 |
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Sîngerei | Gheorghe Meaun | 1,033 | 79,814 | 77.3 | 70 |
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Soroca | Mircea Martîniuc | 1,043 | 77,656 | 74.5 | 68 |
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Strășeni | Petru Voloșciuc | 730 | 82,675 | 113.3 | 39 |
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Șoldănești | Alexandru Relițchi | 598 | 36,743 | 61.4 | 33 |
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Ștefan Vodă | Vasile Buzu | 998 | 62,072 | 62.2 | 26 |
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Taraclia | Vasile Plagov | 674 | 37,357 | 55.4 | 26 |
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Telenești | Boris Burcă | 849 | 61,144 | 72.0 | 54 |
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Ungheni | Iurie Toma | 1,083 | 101,064 | 93.3 | 74 |
Municipality | Mayor | Area (km2) |
Population (2014)[8] |
Density (2014) |
Towns/ villages |
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Dorin Chirtoacă | 563 | 662,836 | 1,177.3 | 35 |
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Renato Usatîi | 78 | 102,457 | 1,313.6 | 3 |
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none¹ | 97 | 2 |
Name of autonomy | Autonomy Seat | Leader | Area (km2) |
Population (2014)[9] |
Density (2014) |
Towns/ villages |
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Comrat | Irina Vlah | 1,832 | 134,535 | 73.4 | 35 |
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Tiraspol | none¹ | 4,163 | 147 |
¹ Tighina and the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester are under the control of the unrecognized separatist Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as Transnistria). There, Tighina is known as Bender.
There are 147 settlement names shared by multiple localities in Moldova. Most notable cases includes these:
The first-level units (except Transnistria?) are grouped into three regions:[10]
Northern Region |
Central Region |
Southern Region
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See also: Counties of Moldova |
Between 1998 and February 2003, Moldova was divided into 12 territorial units, including 1 municipality, 1 autonomous territorial unit, 1 territorial unit, and 9 counties (Romanian: județe; seats in brackets):
In October 1999, Taraclia County was split out from the Cahul County; it coincides with the current Taraclia District.
Between 1991 and 1998, Moldova was divided into 10 cities and 40 districts:[12]
Besides Chișinău, Bălți, Tighina, Comrat, and Tiraspol, on 13 April 2017 eight more became municipalities: Cahul, Ceadîr-Lunga, Edineț, Hîncești, Orhei, Soroca, Strășeni, and Ungheni.[13]