Currency

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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