Moldovan diaspora is a diaspora

Diaspora

A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...

 of Moldovans

Moldovans

Moldovans or Moldavians are the largest population group of Moldova...

 of Romanian

Romanians

The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....

 descent, i.e., citizens of the Republic of Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

 of Romanian ethnic origin living abroad. Very few of them have settled in other parts of the world, but there is a significant number of them in some countries, mostly in the former Soviet Union, Italy

Italy

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 and Portugal

Portugal

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. Moldovan is a regional name for ethnic Romanians living in Romania,the Republic of Moldova and elsewhere. The Moldovan diaspora is an integral part of the Romanian diaspora abroad, sharing the same language and culture.

Citizens of Moldova of Romanian ethnic origin

190,000 (2010) 172,330 (2002) 21,147 Moldovan citizens (legal residents, 2008) 20,000 (2001) 19,458 (1999) 10,434 (2006) 4,300 (1999) 778 (1999) 645 (2000) 300 (2000) 186 (2008) Unknown, estimated at 1,000 to 10,000 Moldovans, separately counted from Romanians.