The history of the Jewish people in Chișinău dates to at the early 1700s, when Chișinău was located first in Moldavia and later from 1812 onwards in the Bessarabia region of the Russian Empire. Chișinău is now the capital city of Moldova. Chișinău is the center of the Jewish population of Moldova. As of 2022, around 10,000 of the 15,000 Moldovan Jews reside in Chișinău.