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Moldova: map and facts
Moldova is in Eastern Europe. It has about 3 million people (2025), the 135th largest population. It covers 33,849 km², the 135th largest by area. That is about 89 people per km². Its highest point is Balanesti, at 430 m. The longest river on its map is the Dniester, 1,352 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 2,996,106 (2025, UN World Population Prospects 2024)
- Area: 33,849 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 33,100 km².
- Capital: Chisinau
- Highest point: Balanesti, 430 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 11.3% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Moldova, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Dniester: 1,352 km
- Prut: 953 km
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Balanesti: 430 m (its highest point)
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): farmland 82.3%, grassland 5.3%, deciduous broadleaf forest 4.9%, savanna 3.6%, towns and cities 2.6%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): hills 56.9%, plains 43.1%.
Forests covered 11.3% of its land in 2024, up from 10.2% in 1995 (World Bank).
Neighbours
Moldova shares land borders with Romania and Ukraine on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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