Moldovans in Ukraine

Moldovan Ukrainians
Total population
258,619 (2001 Ukrainian census)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Odesa Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast
Languages
Predominantly Moldovan/Romanian (71.1%), Russian (17.6%), Ukrainian 10.7%[2][3]
Religion
Eastern Orthodox

Moldovans in Ukraine (Romanian: Moldovenii din Ucraina) are the third biggest minority recorded in the 2001 All Ukrainian Census after Russians and Belarusians. Unlike many other minorities, Moldovans often live in the countryside (71.5%) rather than in a city (28.5%), the majority in the northern and southern historical region of Bessarabia. There is an undergoing identity controversy among the Romanian speakers of Ukraine over whether self-identified Moldovans are a part of the larger Romanian ethnic group or a separate ethnic group.

  1. ^ http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  2. ^ http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/results/general/language/
  3. ^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii dn Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 24, 266, with the figures from the 2001 Ukrainian census.

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