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Article: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
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Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
Area-33,700 sq. km.
Population-4.3 million, of which 64 per cent are Moldavians, 14 per
cent
Ukrainians, 13 per cent Russians, 4 per cent Gagauz and 2 per cent
Jews
Capital-Kishinev (665,000)
Towns and cities-21
Situated in the country's southwest. Moldavia's territory stretches
for
350 kilometres from north to south and for 150 kilometres from west
to east.
Nature. In the north lie thinly wooded hilly plains and in the
south is
steppe with a metre-thick layer of chernozem. Eighty-five per cent
of all the
land is cultivated. The wooded areas, which are mainly nature reserves,
have
oaks, hornbeams and beeches; 16 parks, a ...