Costești, Ialoveni

Costești is a village in Ialoveni District, in central Moldova, with a population of 11,128 at the 2004 census. 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, teacher and politician
 * Constantin Bivol, agriculturalist and politician
 * Victor Stepaniuc, historian and politician
 * Ion Sula, politician