Costești is a village in

Ialoveni District Ialoveni () is a district ( ro, raion) in the central part of Moldova, with the administrative center at Ialoveni. As of 1 January 2011, its population was 99,100. History Localities with the oldest documentary attestation of the district are: ...

, in central

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states ...

, with a population of 11,128 at the 2004 census.''Clasificatorul unităților administrativ-teritoriale al Republicii Moldova'' (CUATM)
It is the second largest rural locality in the country by population, three times larger than the homonymous city in the north of Moldova.

Notable people

Teodor Bârcă Teodor Bârcă (12 June 1894 – 12 May 1993) was a Bessarabian politician and professor, who on 27 March 1918 voted the union of Bessarabia with Romania. He was the vice president of Sfatul Țării, the parliament of Bessarabia at the time ...

* Constantin Bivol *

Victor Stepaniuc Victor Stepaniuc (born July 13, 1958, in Costeşti, Ialoveni) is a Moldovan historian and politician. He has been a member of the Parliament of Moldova since 1996 until 2010. He served several times as Leader of Parliament Commission for Educat ...

References

Villages of Ialoveni District Kishinyovsky Uyezd {{Ialoveni-geo-stub