World money
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World Continents
Africa
South America
North America
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Currencies of the World
What money do you use depends on where are you living or planning to travel. Totally, there are 164 official national currencies circulating around the world. Although the number of the independent countries is 197 plus about five dozen of dependent territories. The matter is, that some of them don't have their own money and officially use the foreign currency.
Caribbean Islands
Continents
Explanation
Currencies of the World
The Continents of the World:
Africa, the Americas, Antarctica, Asia, Australia together with Oceania, and Europe are considered to be Continents.
The term continent is used to differentiate between the various large areas of the earth into which all the land surface of Earth is divided. The 'mountain top' regions of the planet not flooded by water. This also means the shape and borders of the continents are ultimately defined not by conventions, but in the first place by the level of the surrounding water. More water, less land - other outlines.
Thus the European euro is used in 35 independent states and overseas territories, the United States dollar is used in 10 foreign countries and in the USA, the West African CFA franc - in 8 and the Central African CFA franc - in 6 African states, the East Caribbean dollar - in 6 Caribbean nations.
The world's most-traded currency is the US dollar with about 47% share of global payments and 87% of the forex market's daily turnover. On the second place is the Euro, having about 33% of the daily forex transactions and 28% share of the international bank payments.
