What is Bălţi?
{{Infobox settlement |official_name = Bălți |other_name= |nickname = |motto = |image_skyline = Trolley beltsy.jpg |image_flag = Balti flag 2006.png |image_shield = Balti-arm.jpg |image_map = Balti Moldova.png |map_caption = Municipality of Bălţi (in red) in [[Moldova]] |subdivision_type = [[Country]] |subdivision_type1 = [[Municipality]] |subdivision_type2 = [[List of localities in Moldova|Communes]] |subdivision_name = {{MDA}} |subdivision_name1 = Bălți |subdivision_name2 = [[Sadovoe]], [[Elizaveta]] |established_title = Founded |established_date = 1620<ref>{{cite journal | author=Teo-Teodor Marșalcovschi | title=Geneza municipiului Bălţi: concept urbanistic şi prima atestare | journal=Anuarul Catedrei Discipline Socioumanistice | pages=6–28 | year=2007 | url=http://dspace.usarb.md:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/2373/1/Marsalcovschi_Teo_Teodor_Geneza_municipiului_Balti.pdf | accessdate=2022-07-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author=Nicolae Enciu | title=Orașul și județul Bălți de la începuturi până în anul Marii Uniri | journal=Dialogica, revistă de studii culturale și literatură | pages=104–115 | doi= 10.5281/zenodo.3332722 | year=2019 | url=https://ibn.idsi.md/sites/default/files/imag_file/104-115.pdf | accessdate=2022-07-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author=Руслан Михалевский | title=Академия наук: 1421 год не является датой первого упоминания о Бельцах | journal=SP | year=2016 | url=https://esp.md/sobytiya/2016/02/23/akademiya-nauk-1421-god-ne-yavlyaetsya-datoy-pervogo-upominaniya-o-belcah?qt-widget_socials=0 |format=PDF| accessdate=2022-07-21}}</ref> |established_title2 = [[Town privileges|City rights]] |established_date2 = 1818 |government_type = [[Municipal council|Municipal Council]] |leader_title = [[Mayor of Bălți|Mayor]] |leader_name = [[Vasile Panciuc]], since 2011 |area_magnitude = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_total_km2 = 78.00 |area_urban_sq_mi = |area_urban_km2 = 41.43 |area_metro_km2 = |area_metro_sq_mi = |population_as_of=2011 |population_footnotes = |population_total = 144,000 |population_urban