The world's national currencies cluster into a surprisingly small number of shared zones. The euro (EUR) is used across 20+ European Union members, while the US dollar (USD) is legal tender well beyond the United States — from Ecuador and El Salvador to several Pacific and Caribbean states. In Africa, the CFA franc binds 14 countries across two monetary unions, and the East Caribbean dollar links eight island nations.
This interactive currency map colours every country by the money in its pockets, so you can see the zones at a glance, compare how many people each currency serves, and open any country for its full profile. Use the list on the left to jump to a currency, filter by continent, or search by name or ISO 4217 code.
The world's 201 countries and territories share just 145 currencies between them. The table below lists every currency in use with its ISO 4217 code, its symbol, its current value against the US dollar and each country where it is legal tender. Select any currency on the map above to highlight its zone, or open a country for its full profile.
Money does not stop at borders. 66 of the 201 countries and territories on this map spend a currency they share with someone else, which is why the map resolves into a handful of large blocks rather than 201 separate colours. Some of those blocks are formal monetary unions with a shared central bank — the eurozone, and the two CFA franc zones in West and Central Africa. Others are unilateral: Ecuador, El Salvador and Timor-Leste simply adopted the US dollar without asking Washington, a practice usually called dollarisation. A third group pegs a national currency to a bigger one at a fixed rate, so the note in your pocket says something local but tracks the euro or the dollar day for day.
Codes follow ISO 4217, which gives every currency three letters. Most are the two-letter country code plus the first letter of the currency — JP + Y for the Japanese yen, GB + P for the British pound. Codes starting with X sit outside that scheme and are reserved for currencies with no single home country, such as the East Caribbean dollar (XCD) and both CFA francs (XOF and XAF), plus the precious metals (XAU for gold).
Exchange rates are European Central Bank reference rates and refresh when the page loads. The ECB publishes rates for the major traded currencies only, so smaller currencies show no value.