Costești | |
Settlement Type: | Commune and village |
Pushpin Map: | Moldova |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 285 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Moldova |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Ialoveni |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Ion Marandici |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1573 |
Unit Pref: | metric |
Area Total Km2: | 68.82 |
Population As Of: | 2014 census |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 10,907 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 46.8678°N 28.7689°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | MD-6813 |
Costești is a village in Ialoveni District, in central Moldova, with a population of 11,128 at the 2004 census.[2] It is the second largest rural locality in the country by population, three times larger than the homonymous city in the north of Moldova.