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What is the difference between ukraine and moldova?

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ukraine

English

(wikipedia Ukraine) (Name of Ukraine)

Alternative forms

* Ocraine; Ukrain; Ukrania, Ucrania

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Eastern Europe; was long part of the Russian Empire, then of the Soviet Union. Official name: Ukraine.
  • * (seeCites)

    • Usage notes

    * Since the country's independence in 1991, style guides recommend Ukraine'' (as in "a musician from Ukraine"), without an article. Previously, the most common usage was ''the Ukraine (as in "a musician from the Ukraine").

    Related terms

    * Ukrainian * Ukrainian SSR

    See also

    * * * * Little Russia * Ruthenia ----

    moldova

    English

    (wikipedia Moldova)

    Alternative forms

    * Moldava * Moldavia * Moldovia

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A country in Europe, situated between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east, north and south. Official name: Republic of Moldova (Romanian : Republica Moldova).
  • A region in eastern Romania adjacent to the country of Moldova, once part of the principality of Moldova

    • Related terms

    * Moldavian, Moldovian * Moldovan * Moldavian SSR

    See also

    * ----