1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Moldova
Compare this sourced profile of Chișinău, Moldova before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Chișinău—635,994, Europe/Chisinau, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Moldova.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Chișinău is GeoNames ID 618426. Its recorded administrative path is Chisinau Municipality → Moldova, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Chisinau occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-06-12; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Chișinău ranks 874 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Moldova entries it ranks 1; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 70. Its 635,994 population value is 1.00 times the 635,994 median for the country cohort and 0.96 times the 664,046 regional median. Chișinău is rank 1 among the 1 selected Moldova entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Chișinău's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Chișinău's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Odesa at 154.919 km with 1,010,537 recorded people; Kryvyy Rih at 355.15 km with 603,904 recorded people; Bucharest at 357.407 km with 1,877,155 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 202.488 km. Compared with Odesa, Chișinău's recorded population is 0.63 times as large. Against Chișinău, Odesa follows Odeskyi Raion → Odesa → Ukraine in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Ukraine cohort rather than Moldova, uses Europe/Kyiv instead of Europe/Chisinau, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Chișinău's. Against Chișinău, Kryvyy Rih follows Kryvyy Rih Raion → Dnipropetrovsk → Ukraine in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Ukraine cohort rather than Moldova, uses Europe/Kyiv instead of Europe/Chisinau, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Chișinău's. Against Chișinău, Bucharest follows Municipiul Bucuresti → Bucharest → Romania in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Romania cohort rather than Moldova, uses Europe/Bucharest instead of Europe/Chisinau, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Chișinău's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 888 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Chișinău's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 618426, the coordinate pair 47.0090 / 28.8594, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 698740 at 154.919 km bind Chișinău to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Chișinău's reference point is 47.0090° north and 28.8594° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Chisinau is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Chișinău's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Chișinău's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Chișinău's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Chișinău, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Chișinău's closest other entries in this atlas are Odesa (154.919 km), Kryvyy Rih (355.15 km), Bucharest (357.407 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-06-12; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.