Currency
:For current exchange rates, see Exchange links.
Currency names
Currency names of the world in alphabetic order by currency name:
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A-E
- Afghani - Afghanistan
- Ariary - Madagascar
- Baht - Thailand
- Balboa - Panama (U.S. dollar used for paper money)
- Birr - Ethiopia
- Bolívar - Venezuela
- Boliviano - Bolivia
- Cedi - Ghana
- Colón
- Costa Rican colón - Costa Rica
- El Salvador colón - El Salvador
- Córdoba - Nicaragua
- Dalasi - The Gambia
- Denar - Macedonia
- Dinar
- Algerian dinar - Algeria
- Bahraini dinar - Bahrain
- Iraqi dinar - Iraq
- Jordanian dinar - Jordan, Palestine
- Kuwaiti dinar - Kuwait
- Libyan dinar - Libya
- Tunisian dinar - Tunisia
- Serbian dinar - Serbia
- Sudanese dinar - Sudan
- Iranian rial - The dinar is a subdivision of the Iranian Rial
- Dinar-Haut - Biffeche
- Dirham - Morocco, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Dobra - Sao Tome and Principe
- Dollar
- Australian dollar - Australia; also in Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island, Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu
- Barbados dollar - Barbados
- Bahamian dollar - Bahama
- Belize dollar - Belize
- Bermuda dollar - Bermuda
- Brunei dollar - Brunei
- Canadian dollar - Canada
- Cayman Islands dollar - Cayman Islands
- East Caribbean dollar - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Fijian dollar - Fiji
- Guyanese dollar - Guyana
- Hong Kong dollar - Hong Kong
- International dollar - hypothetical currency pegged 1:1 to the United States dollar
- Jamaican dollar - Jamaica
- Liberian dollar - Liberia
- Namibian dollar - Namibia
- New Zealand dollar - New Zealand; also in the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Pitcairn Islands.
- Singapore dollar - Singapore
- Solomon Islands dollar - Solomon Islands
- Suriname dollar - Suriname
- New Taiwan dollar - Taiwan
- Trinidad and Tobago dollar - Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvaluan dollar - Tuvalu
- United States dollar - United States of America; also used in several other countries, including Ecuador and Panama, as well as many former UN Trust Territories
- Zimbabwe dollar - Zimbabwe
- Dong - Vietnam
- Drachma - (Greece now uses euro)
- Dram - Armenia
- Escudo - Cape Verde, (Portugal now uses euro)
- Euro
- European Union (as an organisation; the euro is not legal tender in every EU country.)
- EU members: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France (except pacific territories using CFP franc), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.
- Countries that have made legal agreements with the EU to use the euro: Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City.
- Territories that unilaterally use the euro: Andorra, Montenegro and Kosovo.
- Currencies pegged to the euro: Cape Verdian escudo,CFA franc, CFP franc, Comorian franc, Bulgarian lev, Estonian kroon, Lithuanian litas, the Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark of Bosnia and Herzegovina
F-M
- Forint - Hungary
- Franc
- Swiss franc - Switzerland, Liechtenstein.
- CFA franc - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo
- CFP franc - France's Pacific territories of New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna.
- Comorian franc - Comoros (pegged to the French franc, then the euro).
- Congolese franc - Democratic Republic of Congo (suppressed in 1967 by Mobutu, re-established in 1998 by Laurent Kabila)
- Burundi franc - Burundi
- Rwandan franc - Rwanda
- Djiboutian franc - Djibouti (pegged to the US dollar since 1973)
- Guinean franc - Guinea (suppressed in 1972 by dictator Sékou Touré, re-established in 1986 by his successor Lansana Conté)
- Malagasy franc - Madagascar (the Malagasy franc did disappear by the end of 2004, replaced by the more national sounding Ariary; this controversial decision was taken by the new president of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana)
- Formerly using French franc: Andorra, Monaco (the French mint was also minting some Monaco Franc coins with the head of the prince of Monaco on them; no Monaco franc banknotes), France (including French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and Mayotte).
- Formerly using Belgian franc: Belgium, Luxembourg.
- Formerly using Luxembourg franc: Luxembourg (1 Luxembourg franc was equal to 1 Belgian franc; Belgian francs were legal tender inside Luxembourg, but Luxembourg francs were not legal tender in Belgium).
- Gourde - Haiti
- Guaraní - Paraguay
- Guilder - Aruba, Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands now uses euro)
- Hryvnia - Ukraine
- Kina - Papua New Guinea
- Kip - Laos
- Koruna (Crown) - Czech Republic, Slovakia
- Kroon - Estonia
- Króna - Faroe Islands, Iceland
- Faroese króna
- Icelandic króna
- Krona - Sweden
- Krone - Denmark, Greenland, Norway
- Danish krone - Denmark, Greenland
- Norwegian krone - Norway
- Kuna - Croatia
- Kwacha
- Malawian kwacha - Malawi
- Zambian kwacha - Zambia
- Kwanza - Angola
- Kyat - Myanmar
- Lat - Latvia
- Lari - Georgia
- Lek - Albania
- Lempira - Honduras
- Leone - Sierra Leone
- Leu
- Romanian Leu - Romania
- Moldovan Leu - Moldova
- Lev - Bulgaria
- Lilangeni - Swaziland
- Lira
- Italian lira (obsolete, replaced by Euro) - Italy
- San Marino lira (obsolete, replaced by Euro) - San Marino
- Vatican City lira (obsolete, replaced by Euro) - Vatican City
- Cyprus lira - Cyprus (more often referred to as Cyprus pound)
- Maltese lira - Malta
- Turkish lira (replaced by the New Turkish lira) - Turkey
- Litas - Lithuania
- Loti - Lesotho
- Manat
- Azerbaijani Manat - Azerbaijan
- Turkmen Manat - Turkmenistan
- Mark - (Germany now uses euro)
- Mark, Convertible - Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Markka - (Finland now uses euro)
- Metical - Mozambique
N-R
- Nafka - Eritrea
- Naira - Nigeria
- Ngultrum - Bhutan
- Ouguiya - Mauritania
- Pa'anga - Tonga
- Pataca - Macau
- Peseta - (Andorra, Spain now use euro)
- Peso
- Argentine peso - Argentina
- Chilean peso - Chile
- Colombian peso - Colombia
- Cuban peso - Cuba
- Dominican peso - Dominican Republic
- Mexican peso - Mexico
- Philippine peso - Philippines
- Uruguayan peso - Uruguay
- Pound - Cyprus, Egypt, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man, Saint Helena, South Sudan, United Kingdom (Ireland now uses euro)
- Cyprus pound - Cyprus
- Egyptian pound - Egypt
- Falkland Islands pound - Falkland Islands
- Gibraltar pound
- Saint Helenian pound - Saint Helena
- (New) Sudanese pound - Southern Sudan
- Irish pound (obsolete, replaced by Euro) - Ireland
- Israeli pound - obsolete. Used in Israel until 1980.
- Lebanese pound - Lebanon
- Pound sterling - United Kingdom
- Syrian pound - Syria
- Pula - Botswana
- Quetzal - Guatemala
- Rand - South Africa
- Real - Brazil
- Renminbi - People's Republic of China
- Rial
- Iranian rial - Iran
- Omani rial - Oman
- Yemeni rial - Yemen
- Riel - Cambodia
- Ringgit - Malaysia
- Riyal
- Qatari riyal - Qatar
- Saudi riyal - Saudi Arabia
- Ruble
- Belarusian ruble - Belarus
- Russian ruble - Russia
- Transnistrian ruble - Transnistria
- Rufiyah - Maldives
- Rupee
- Indian Rupee - India
- Mauritian Rupee - Mauritius
- Nepalese Rupee - Nepal
- Pakistani Rupee - Pakistan
- Seychelles Rupee - Seychelles
- Sri Lankan Rupee - Sri Lanka
- Rupiah - Indonesia
S-Z
- Schilling - (Austria now uses euro)
- Shekel
- New Israeli sheqel - Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank
- Shilling
- Irish ten shilling - Ireland
- Kenyan shilling - Kenya
- Somali shilling - Somalia
- Tanzanian shilling - Tanzania
- Ugandan shilling - Uganda
- Sol - Peru
- Som - Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstani som - Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistani som - Uzbekistan
- Somomi - Tajikistan
- Sucre - (Ecuador now uses the United States dollar)
- Taka - Bangladesh
- Tala - Samoa
- Tenge - Kazakhstan
- Tolar - Slovenia
- Tugrik - Mongolia
- Vatu - Vanuatu
- Won - North Korea, South Korea
- Yen - Japan
- Yuan - People's Republic of China
- Zaire - obsolete. Used in Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
- Złoty - Poland
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| ► | Modern currencies |
| ► | Currency names |
| ► | Privately-issued currencies |
| ► | Local currencies |
| ► | World currency |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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