Drochia, Moldova
🇲🇩 Drochia is a city in the northern part of Moldova. It is the administrative centre of the eponymous district. The city is located 174 km north of the national capital, Chișinău, and 67 km north-east of the Romanian city of Iaşi. The name of the city comes from a local type of bird, called dropie (English: great bustard).
History Drochia is first mentioned by chroniclers in 1777. By 1830 it was a small settlement encompassing 25 families. A document dating from 1847 notes that a small grape-processing plant, the town's first industrial enterprise, had been built. Two mills situated on a local stream were built in 1875.
More intensive industrial development emerged after the railway first came through at the end of the 19th century. At the 1930 census, the locality (then a village) was known as Drochia-Gară (literally Drochia Station), and had a population of only 595. It was part of Plasa Bădiceni of the Soroca County.
Drochia received the status of a city in 1973.
Media • Radio Chişinău 93.8 FM • Vocea Basarabiei 101,0 • Radio Studentus.
Chisinau Time
Drochia has a population of over 16,606 people. Drochia also forms the centre of the wider Drochia District which has a population of over 90,100 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Drochia has links with:
🇷🇴 Dorohoi, Romania 🇺🇦 Kolomyia, Ukraine 🇺🇦 Kolomyya, Ukraine 🇮🇹 Pineto, Italy 🇷🇴 Rădăuți, Romania🇺🇦 Shakhtarsk 48.033
🇩🇪 Landsberg am Lech 48.033
🇩🇪 Mindelheim 48.037
🇺🇸 Marysville 48.05
🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 48.066
🇺🇦 Sverdlovsk 48.067
Locations Near: Drochia 27.75,48.033
🇲🇩 Rîșcani 27.55,47.95 d: 17.5
🇲🇩 Bălți 27.932,47.774 d: 31.8
🇺🇦 Mohyliv-Podilskyi 27.783,48.45 d: 46.4
🇲🇩 Edineț 27.317,48.167 d: 35.4
🇲🇩 Soroca 28.307,48.156 d: 43.5
🇲🇩 Briceni 27.083,48.35 d: 60.7
🇲🇩 Ungheni 27.807,47.208 d: 91.9
Antipodal to: Drochia -152.25,-48.033
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 16615.3
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16389.3
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15895.4
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15808.2
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12475.4
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 12358.6
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 12341.3
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 12339.5