Moldova

Moldova

Moldova ranks 92nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Memorable people born in present day Moldova include Anton Rubinstein, Mircea Snegur, and Lewis Milestone. Memorable people who died in Moldova include Ivan Mazepa, Mircea Snegur, and Grigore Vieru. Moldova has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, on the northeastern corner of the Balkans. The country spans a total of 33,483 km2 (12,928 sq mi) and has a population of approximately 2.42 million as of January 2024. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova is a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic with its capital in Chișinău, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Read more on Wikipedia