Moldova

Facts

What the numbers say about Moldova

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 511× the size of Moldova.
• At 73 people per km², Moldova is the 92nd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 47°N is drawn about 2.2× too large in area, so Moldova looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Moldova's main territory stretches about 336 km north to south and 264 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 33,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 33,200 km², to within 2%.

How Moldova measures up

Moldova holds 0.1% of the land area and 0.3% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Eastern Europe it is the 10th largest of 10.

Where Moldova sits

• Moldova's centre lies at 47.2°N, 28.5°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 5,250 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 45°N to 48°N, about 340 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Moldova had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Moldova would have 41.6 million people. It has 2.4 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Moldova would have 124,000 people. It has 2.4 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 2.4 million.

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