What is the national currency of Sudan?
Answer: A
It is the Sudanese pound.
The pound returned in 2007 under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, replacing the dinar. South Sudan issued its own pound on independence in 2011.
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What is the national currency of Switzerland?
Answer: A
It is the Swiss franc.
The franc is treated as a safe-haven currency, so it rises in crises - which is why the Swiss National Bank capped it against the euro from 2011 to 2015. It is the only franc still used in western Europe.
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What is the national currency of Syria?
Answer: B
It is the Syrian pound.
The pound replaced the Egyptian pound in 1919 under the French mandate and is called the lira in Arabic. It lost the greater part of its value during the civil war.
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What is the national currency of Taiwan?
Answer: C
It is the New Taiwan dollar.
It replaced the old Taiwan dollar in 1949 at forty thousand to one, at the end of the hyperinflation that accompanied the Nationalist retreat to the island.
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What is the national currency of Tajikistan?
Answer: D
It is the Tajikistani somoni.
The somoni, introduced in 2000, is named after Ismail Samani, founder of the Samanid dynasty, whom the state adopted as its national figure after independence.
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What is the national currency of Tanzania?
Answer: B
It is the Tanzanian shilling.
The shilling replaced the East African shilling in 1966 and is divided into 100 cents, though the cent has long been out of use.
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What is the national currency of Thailand?
Answer: D
It is the Thai baht.
The baht was a unit of weight before it was a currency, and gold is still traded in Thailand by the baht weight of about 15 grams. Its collapse in July 1997 set off the Asian financial crisis.
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What is the national currency of Turkey?
Answer: A
It is the Turkish lira.
The lira was redenominated in 2005 at a million to one, ending a period when a loaf of bread cost hundreds of thousands. Its symbol, adopted in 2012, was chosen by public competition.
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What is the national currency of Turkmenistan?
Answer: C
It is the Turkmenistani manat.
The manat replaced the Soviet rouble in 1993 and was redenominated in 2009 at five thousand to one. The name comes from the Russian moneta, coin, and is shared with Azerbaijan.
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What is the national currency of Uganda?
Answer: A
It is the Ugandan shilling.
The shilling replaced the East African shilling in 1966 and was reissued in 1987 at a hundred to one with a thirty per cent levy, after years of inflation under Amin and the wars that followed.
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