What every visitor should know about Moldova:
- Money
- The currency is the Moldovan leu (MDL). 10 MDL is worth about US$0.83, or €0.55.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 4 out of 5 (Safe)
Areas of concern:
- Credit-card fraud
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Capital
- Chisinau (Kishinev)
- Tap water
- Not recommended. Water is usually drinkable in large cities, but quality is uneven.
Moldova facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 4,320,748
- Language
- Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect)
- Ethnicity
- Moldovan/Romanian 78.2%, Ukrainian 8.4%, Russian 5.8%, Gagauz 4.4%, Bulgarian 1.9%, other 1.3%
Economy
- GDP
- US$2,500 (per capita)
- Income equality
- High