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# Currency

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A currency is a unit of money? (or monetary unit). Typically, each country has given monopoly to a single currency, controlled by a governmental central bank, although exceptions from this rule exist. Several countries can use the same name, each for their own currency (e.g. Candian dollars and US dollars).

Each currency typically has one fraction currency, valued at 1/100 of the main currency: 100 cent?s = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc. These fractions are not listed below.

To find out which currency is used in a particular country, start at the countries of the world.

Currency names of the world in alphabetic order by currency name:

- Afgani? - Afghanistan
- Birr? - Ethiopia
- Boliviano? - Bolivia
- Cedi? - Ghana
- Colon? - Costa Rica, El Salvador
- Crown - see Koruna, Kroon, Krona, Krone below
- Dalasi? - Gambia
- Dinar? - Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait
- Dollar - Antigua And Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Canada, Cayman Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Cook Island, Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kiribati, United States, Zimbabwe
- Dong? - Vietnam
- Drachma? - Greece
- Dram? - Armenia
- Escudo? - Cape Verde, Portugal
- Euro - European Union
- Forint? - Hungary
- Franc - Andorra, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, French Guiana, French Guinea, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Republic of the Congo, Switzerland
- Gourde? - Haiti
- Guilder? - Netherlands
- Kina? - Papua New Guinea
- Koruna? - Czech republic
- Kroon? - Estonia
- Krona - Iceland, Sweden
- Krone - Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Norway
- Kuna? - Croatia
- Kwanza? - Angola
- Kyat? - Burma
- Lari? - Georgia
- Lek? - Albania
- Lempira? - Honduras
- Lev? - Bulgaria
- Lira? - Cyprus, Italy, Vatican City
- Manat? - Azerbaijan
- Mark - Germany
- Marka? - Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Markka - Finland
- Nafka? - Eritrea
- Ngultrum? - Bhutan
- Pesetas? - Spain
- Peso? - Argentina,Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico
- Pound - Cyprus, Egypt, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey, United Kingdom
- Pula? - Botswana
- Quetzal? - Guatemala
- Real? - Brazil
- Riel? - Cambodia
- Rouble? - Belarus, Russia
- Rupee? - India
- Rupiah? - Indonesia
- Shekel? - Gaza Strip, Israel
- Shilling? - Austria, Kenya
- Som? - Kyrgyzstan
- Sucre? - Ecuador
- Taka? - Bangladesh
- Tenge? - Kazakhstan
- Toman? - Iran
- Won? - North Korea, South Korea
- Yen? - Japan
- Yuan? - Peoples Republic of China
- Zloty? - Poland

International three letter currency codes are, in alphabetic order by code:

- ATS - Austrian schilling
- BEF - Belgian franc
- CHF - Swiss Franc
- DEM - Deutch mark
- DKK - Danish Krone
- EUR - Euro
- ESP - Spanish peseta
- FRF - French Franc
- FIM - Finnish Markka
- GBP - United Kingdom Pound
- IEP - Irish pound
- ITL - Italian lire
- LUF - Luxemburg franc
- NLG - (Dutch) Netherlands guilder
- NOK - Norwegian Krone
- PTE - Portugese escudo
- SEK - Swedish Krona
- USD - United States Dollar

Wouldn't it be better if the currency codes appeared in parentheses after each country name in the first table? --Pinkunicorn

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