Moldova officially Republic of Moldova

Location of Moldova (green) and Transnistria (light green) in Europe.
Capital and largest city		Chișinău 47°0′N 28°55′E
Official languages		Romaniana[1][2][3]
Demonym		Moldovan
Government		Unitary parliamentary republic
-	President	Nicolae Timofti
-	Prime Minister	Chiril Gaburici
-	President of the Parliament	Andrian Candu
Legislature		Parliament
Independence from the USSR
-	Sovereignty declared	23 June 1990
-	Independence declared	27 August 1991b
-	Constitution adopted	29 July 1994
Area
-	Total	33,846 km2 (138th) 13,067 sq mi
-	Water (%)	1.4
Population
-	2014 estimate	2,913,281[4] (excluding Transnistria)(133rd)
-	2004 census	3,383,332[5] (excluding Transnistria) 3,938,679[6] (including Transnistria)
-	Density	105/km2 (101st) 272/sq mi
GDP (PPP)		2015 estimate
-	Total	$14.820 billion[7]
-	Per capita	$4,177[7]
GDP (nominal)		2015 estimate
-	Total	$8.738 billion[7]
-	Per capita	$2,456[7]
Gini (2010)		33.0[8] medium
HDI (2013)		0.663[9] medium · 114th
Currency		Moldovan leu (MDL)
Time zone		EET (UTC+2)
-	Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Drives on the		right
Calling code		+373
Patron saint		Saint George
ISO 3166 code		MD
Internet TLD		.md
a.	As determined by the Moldovan Declaration of Independence, which the Constitutional court of Moldova found to take precedence over Article 13 of the Constitution, which uses the name "Moldovan".[1]
b.	Date of proclamation. Independence subsequently finalized with the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991.

Moldova ⁱ/mɔːlˈdoʊvə/,^{[nb 1][nb 2]} officially the Republic of Moldova (Romanian: Republica Moldova pronounced [reˈpublika molˈdova]), also known as Moldavia,^[10] is a landlocked^[11] country in Eastern Europelocated between Romania to its west and Ukraine to its north, east and south. Its capital city is Chișinău.

Moldova declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991 as part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. A new constitution was adopted on 29 July 1994. A strip of Moldova's internationally recognised territory on the east bank of the river Dniester has been under the de factocontrol of the breakaway government of Transnistria since 1990.

As a result of a decrease in industrial and agricultural output since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the relative size of the service sector in Moldova's economy has grown to dominate its GDP and currently stands at over 60%. Moldova remains, however, the poorest country in Europe.