Map of Moldova

Moldova is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 47.0° N, 29.0° E. Moldova is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 2 neighbours — Romania and Ukraine — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Moldova is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Moldova is surrounded by the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Moldova covers about 33,847 km² (13,068 sq mi). That makes it the 136th-largest country in the world by area and the 32nd-largest in Europe, larger by area than 13 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 2,749,076, the 140th-largest in the world and the 30th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Moldova has an average population density of about 81 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 30th by population and 32nd by area.

The seat of government is Chișinău, and the official currency is the Moldovan leu (MDL, L), and the main official language is Romanian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Moldova carries the ISO country codes MD and MDA, dials on the international calling code +373 and uses the .md internet domain.

Moldova shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Ukraine (capital Kyiv, about 32,862,000 people) and Romania (capital Bucharest, about 19,036,031 people).

By area, Moldova is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 47.0° N, 29.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Moldova within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Chișinău. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Moldova lies about 5,217 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Moldova keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Moldovan leu (MDL, L).

The official language is Romanian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +373 and websites commonly use the .md internet domain.

In short, Moldova is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Chișinău. Moldova has a population of about 2,749,076 and covers around 33,847 km² (13,068 sq mi), ranking it 140th in the world by population and 136th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Moldova.

The flag of Moldova is composed of three equal vertical bands of blue, yellow and red, with the national coat of arms centered in the yellow band.

The flag of Moldova is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.