Each country uses currency (any form of money) as a medium of exchange of value for goods and services. Currencies are usually in the forms of paper bills (notes) and metal coins. It is issued by a government or a central bank of a country and is used as legal tender and a basis for trade where it is circulated within an economy. Currencies of different monetary unit are given a fixed value and are represented by a name and/or a symbol.


Most countries create their own currency (money) however, there are those countries that use the currency of other nations as their official currency or interchangeably at a rate of change of 1:1 with that other country’s currency. This process is known as official dollarization. Some countries for example that use the U.S. dollar as their official currency are Ecuador (2000) - uses its own coins, El Salvador (2001), East Timor (2000), the British Virgin Islands (1959), Turks and Caicos Islands (1973), the Marshall Islands (1944) and others. Countries for example, like Panama, Bermuda and the Bahamas, even though they mint and circulate their own legal tender, they also interchangeably use the U.S. currency which is equivalent in value to the U.S. dollar.
Another exception of countries not using its own currency, would be the euro. This is a currency that is used as the currency for several European countries.

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Currencies of the World

Country	Currency	Sub Currency
A Afghanistan	afghani	100 puls
Algeria	dinar	100 centimes
Andorra	euro	100 cents
Argentina	austral	100 centavos
Australia	dollar	100 cents
Austria	euro	100 cents
B Bahamas	dollar	100 cents
Bahrain	dinar	1,000 fils
Barbados	dollar	100 cents
Belgium	euro	100 cents
Belize	dollar	100 cents
Benin	franc	100 centimes
Bolivia	boliviano	100 centavos
Brazil	real	100 centavos
Brunei	dollar	100 cents or sen
Bulgaria	lev	100 stotinki
C Cameroon	franc	100 centimes
Canada	dollar	100 cents
Cayman Islands	dollar	100 cents
Central African Rep.	franc	100 centimes
Chad	franc	100 centimes
Chile	peso	100 centavos
China	yuan	10 fen
Columbia	peso	100 centavos
Congo	franc	100 centimes
Costa Rica	colon	100 centimos
Cuba	peso	100 centavos
Czechoslovakia	koruna	100 halers
D Denmark	krone	100 ore
Djibouti	franc	100 centimes
Dominican Rep.	peso	100 centavos
E Ecuador	dollar	100 cents
Egypt	pound	100 piastres
El Salvador	colon	100 centavos
Ethiopia	birr	100 cents
F Fiji	dollar	100 cents
Finland	euro	100 cents
France	euro	100 cents
G Gabon	franc	100 centimes
Gambia	dalasi	100 bututs
Germany	euro	100 cents
Ghana	cedi	100 pesewas
Greece	euro	100 cents
Guatemala	quetzal	100 centavos
Guinea	franc	100 centimes
Guyana	dollar	100 cents
H Haiti	gourde	100 centimes
Honduras	lempira	100 centavos
Hong Kong	dollar	100 cents
Hungary	forint	100 filler
I Iceland	Krona	100 aurar
India	rupee	100 paise
Indonesia	rupiah	100 sen
Iraq	dinar	1,000 fils
Ireland	euro	100 cents
Israel	shekel	100 agorot
Italy	euro	100 cents
Ivory Coast	franc	100 centimes
J Jamaica	dollar	100 cents
Japan	yen	100 cen
Jordan	dinar	1,000 fils
K Kenya	shilling	100 cents
Kuwait	dinar	1,000 fils
L Lebanon	pound	100 piastres
Luxembourg	euro	100 cents
M
Malawi	kwacha	100 tambala
Malaysia	ringgit	100 sen
Maldives	rufiyaa	100 laari
Malta	lira or pound	100 cents
Mauritania	ouguiya	5 khoums
Mauritius	rupee	100 cents
Mexico	peso	100 centavos
Mongolia	tugrik	100 mongo
Montenegro	euro	100 cents
Morocco	dirham	100 centimes
N Nepal	rupee	100 paisa
Netherlands	euro	100 cents
New Zealand	dollar	100 cents
Nicaragua	cordoba	100 centavos
Niger	franc	100 centimes
Norway	krone	100 ore
O Oman	riyal-omani	1,000 baiza
P Pakistan	rupee	100 paisa
Papua New Guinea	kina	100 toea
Paraguay	guarani	100 centimos
Peru	inti	100 centimes
Philippines	peso	100 centavos
Poland	zloty	100 groszy
Portugal	euro	100 cents
Q Qatar	riyal	100 dirhams
R Romania	leu	100 bani
S Saudi Arabia	riyal	100 dirhams
Senegal	franc	100 centimes
Serbia	dinar	100 paras
Seychelles	rupee	100 cents
Sierra Leone	leone	100 cents
Singapore	dollar	100 cents
Slovakia	koruna
Slovenia	euro	100 cents
Solomon Islands	dollar	100 cents
Somalia	shilling	100 cents
South Africa	rand	100 cents
South Korea	won	100 chon
Spain	euro	100 cents
Sri Lanka	rupee	100 cents
Sudan	dinar
Suriname	guilder	100 cents
Sweden	krona	100 ore
Switzerland	franc	100 centimes
Syria	pound	100 piastres
T Taiwan	dollar	100 cents
Tanzania	shilling	100 cents
Thailand	baht	100 satang
Togo	franc	100 centimes
Trinidad & Tobago	dollar	100 cents
Tunisia	dinar	1,000 millimes
Turkey	lira	100 kurus
U Uganda	shilling	100 cents
United Arab Emir.	dirham	1,000 fils
United Kingdom	pound	100 pence
United States	dollar	100 cents
Uruguay	peso	100 centesimos
V Venezuela	bolivar	100 centimos
Vietnam	dong	100 xu
W Western Samoa	tala	100 sene
Z Zambia	kwacha	100 ngwee
Zimbabwe	dollar

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