Chișinău

capital of Moldova
City city Q21197
Chișinău
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Summary

Chișinău is a city[1]. Chișinău ranks in the top 2% of city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,254 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Order of Lenin[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Chișinău Municipality[4]
  • Country: Moldova[5]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Bâc[6]
  • Instance of: big city[7], municipality[8]
  • Official language: Moldovan[9]
  • Flag: flag of Chișinău[10]
  • Twinned administrative body: Grenoble[11], Reggio Emilia[12], Mannheim[13], Sacramento[14], Odesa[15], Bucharest[16], Kyiv[17], Yerevan[18], Minsk[19], Tel Aviv[20], Ankara[21], Iași[22], Tbilisi[23], Alba Iulia[24]
  • Coat of arms: coat of arms of Chișinău[25]
  • Postal code: MD-20xx[26]
  • Commons category: Chișinău[27]
  • Local dialing code: 22[28], 32[29]
  • Inception: 1436[30]
  • Coordinate location: 47.022777777777776, 28.835277777777776[31]
  • Official website: https://www.chisinau.md/[32]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Chișinău[33]
  • Commons gallery: Chișinău[34]
  • Population: 685,900[35], 532,513[36], 639,000[37], 589,446[38], 676,700[39], 519,200[40], 253,500[41], 134,000[42], 114,896[43], 121,000[44], 108,483[45], 94,047[46], 58,849[47], 43,965[48]

Why It Matters

Chișinău has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Chișinău is known by 155 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

FAQs

What awards did Chișinău receive?

Honors received include Order of Lenin[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Thor19 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.chisinau.md/
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Official website: https://www.chisinau.md/"
  2. 6w ago · UVD93 · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital of → Moldova, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldavian Democratic Republic +6
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Capital of: Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic"
  3. 6w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital of → Moldova, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldavian Democratic Republic +6
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Capital of: Bessarabia Governorate"
  4. 7w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital of → Moldova, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, Moldavian Democratic Republic +6
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Capital of: Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic"
  5. 9w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Yivo encyclopedia of jews in eastern europe id → Kishinev
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Yivo encyclopedia of jews in eastern europe id: Kishinev, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1787398435544"
  6. 13w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 9350
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 9350, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167481028|KISHINEF (KISHINEV) (#167481028)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Ency"
  7. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 12npdZ
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → g0005030-Kisinev-Moldavsko
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: g0005030-Kisinev-Moldavsko, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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