| Brief Background |
| Location |
Eastern Europe |
| Capital |
Chisinau |
| Main Religion |
Christianity (orthodoxy) |
| National Language |
Moldovan. The other official language is Russian. (Ethnologists
differ on whether Moldovan is a separate language from Romanian.) |
| History |
Moldova seceded from the Soviet Union
in 1991. Transdniestria seceded
unilaterally from Moldova in 1990. The region of "Gagauzia"
is autonomous. |
| International Oval |
MD |
| ISO Code |
MD |
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