Manufacturing Industry Unexplored Opportunities
Manufacturing Industry Unexplored opportunities Edition 2017/2018 GAGAUZIA PROFILE Political and administrative status Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia Total area 1,848 km2 Currency Moldovan Leu (MDL) Capital Comrat (26,200 inhabitants) Total population 162,000 people (4.8% of the Moldovan population) Spoken languages Gagauzian, Russian, Turkish, Romanian LOCATION COMRAT KIRSOVO Situated in the southern part 26,200 of the Republic of Moldova, inhabitants 7,100 Gagauzia is bordered by inhabitants CONGAZ the Ukrainian district of Odessa to the East and has 12,230 CEADIR- administrative border with inhabitants LUNGA districts of Leova, Cantemir, 22,900 and Cahul to the West. By inhabitants car, it takes 1.5 hours to travel from the capital of BAURCI Gagauzia, Comrat, to the 8,250 capital of Moldova, Chisinau. inhabitants VULCANESTI Its location in the South 16,700 COPCEAC of Moldova is close to the inhabitants Danube ports of Giurgiulesti 10,120 (International Free Port, inhabitants Moldova), and to the river ports of Galati (Romania), Reni, and Ismail (both Ukraine). 1320 km 2612 km 992 km 2061 km 232 km 1928 km 218 km 1263 km 177 km 112 km 100 km London Milano Frankfurt Vienna Chisinau Istanbul Moscow Ungheni Comrat Odessa Giurgiulesti Galati ECONOMIC COOPERATION The Republic of Moldova has signed 43 Free Trade Agreements (FTA), all of them are valid also for Gagauzia, including: • DCFTA Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union – 500 million customers • FTA with CIS countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
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