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Currently, Moldova is divided into 32 districts (Romanian: raioane; see also raions), 3 municipalities (Chişinău, Bălţi, and Bender/Tighina), one autonomous territorial unit (Gagauzia), and one territorial unit (Transnistria). The final status of the latter has not been settled yet, as the region, such as defined administratively, is not under the control of Moldovan authorities. The cities of Comrat and Tiraspol also have municipality status, but are not among first-tier units of Moldova; they are the seats of Gagauzia, respectively Transnistria. The 32 districts are:

Note: Areas not under central government control include:

• Transnistria, which with the exception of six communes (comprising a total of 9 villages) corresponds to the geographic part of Moldova situated to the east of the Dniestr (Romanian: Nistru) river, is de jure a part of Moldova, but in reality it is governed by breakaway authorities. (See also: War of Transnistria.) The six communes (administratively in the Dubăsari district of Moldova), and the city of Dubăsari (administratively in Transnistria, and not in the Dubăsari district) form the northern part of the security zone.
• Bender/Tighina municipality and three communes of Căuşeni district (one city and six villages in total) are de facto controlled by the breakaway regime of Transnistria. Together with one commune of Anenii Noi district and one of Căuşeni district under Moldovan control, these localities form the southern part of the security zone. The city of Bender/Tighina has both a Moldovan police force (mostly symbolic) and a Transnistrian militsiya force (de facto in charge).

Previous divisions

Between 1998 and February 2003, Moldova was divided into 12 territorial units, including 1 municipality, 1 autonomous territorial unit, 1 territorial unit, and 9 counties (Romanian: judeţe; seats in brackets):

Localities

Moldova has a total of 982 incorporated localities (i.e. theoretically 982 mayors and 982 local councils), of which 5 have municipality status, 60 have city status, and 917 villages with commune status. They cover the entire area of the country. Another 699 villages are too small to have a separate administration, and are part of either cities (35 of them), or communes (664). This makes for a total of 1,681 localities of Moldova, all but one of which are inhabited.

The status of Chişinău, Bălţi, and Bender as municipalities and first-level territorial units of the country allows their suburb villages to have, when large enough, own mayor and local council. By contrast, the villages that are administratively part of (some of) the other cities do not retain self-rule.

See also

• Counties of Moldavia
• List of cities in Moldova
• List of localities in Moldova
• List of places in Transnistria

References

1. Administrative-territorial units of Moldova

External links

• Moldovan Ministry of Local Public Administration
• Law № 764-XV/2001 on the administrative organization of the Republic of Moldova available on Wikisource.
  • Modification 37-XV-14.02.2003
  • Modification 124-XV-18.03.2003
• Moldovan Law 431-XIII from April 19, 1995, Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: md (help), no. 31-32/340, June 9, 1995

• Subdivisions of Moldova
• Lists of country subdivisions
• First-level administrative country subdivisions
• Country subdivisions of Europe