Sectorul Ciocana () is one of the five sectors in Chişinău, the capital of

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. The local administration is managed by a pretor appointed by the city administration. It governs over a portion of the city of Chişinău itself (the eastern part), the town of

Vadul lui Vodă Vadul lui Vodă is a town in the Chișinău municipality, Moldova. It is an eastern suburb of the capital of the country, and is well known as a resort. The town is situated 23 km east of Chișinău on the right (western) bank of the Dniester ...

, and the communes of

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, Budeşti, Coloniţa, Cruzeşti and Tohatin. It is largely populated by

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. The name of the sector comes from the name of the former village of Ciocana Nouă, included in the borders of Chisinau only in 1959. In the Ciocana sector there are 10750 registered economic agents. Ciocana is considered one of the most industrialized sectors of Chisinau.

History

The Ciocana sector was founded as an administrative-territorial unit in August 1985. Today, the Ciocana sector, with an area of 148 km2, includes part of the urban territory of the municipality (27.8 km2): six autonomous administrative-territorial units the city of

and the communes of

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(Văduleni village),

(Humulești and Bîc villages), Cruzești (Ceroborta village), Tohatin (Buneti, Cheltuitori villages) and

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