African Countries with their Currencies

In SSC, Banking, LIC, Railways, and other competitive exams, the General Awareness section plays an important role nowadays since it is a very scoring section. In this article, we will cover one of the topics of this section i.e “Countries and their Currencies”. This is a very easy topic and if students read it comprehensively they will score good marks and the possibility of their selection will increase.

African Currencies: An Introduction

• Africa has 54 sovereign states, the most of any continent. 
  
• Egypt is the most popular tourist destination in Africa, attracting around 10 million visitors annually. While Egypt is best known for its pyramids, the Republic of Sudan has 223 of its pyramids, twice as many as Egypt. 
  
• Four of the five fastest land animals live in Africa: the cheetah, the wildebeest, the lion, and the Thomson’s gazelle. All of these animals can run at speeds more than 50 miles per hour, with the cheetah reaching a top speed of around 70 miles per hour. 
  
• Africa is home to the world’s largest living land animal, the African elephant, which can weigh between 6 and 7 tons. 
  
• In 1974, scientists discovered the oldest known human ancestor in Ethiopia. The 3.2 million-year-old skeleton was named “Lucy” after the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was played at the expedition camp. 
  
• The Trans-Saharan slave trade developed in the 7th and 8th centuries when Muslim Arabs conquered most of North Africa. 
  Between the 7th and 20th centuries, the Arab slave trade (also known as slavery in the East) captured and exported 18 million slaves from Africa. 
  
• The ancient Greeks and Romans originally used the term “Africa”  only for the northern region of the continent. The word Africa means “sunny” in Latin and the word phrase means “without cold” in Greek.” 
  
• Ethiopia features prominently in several ancient Greek dramas and poems. The Greek poet Homer mentions the Ethiopians in both the Iliad and the Odyssey as “a race without blame” and “among the noblest of men. 
  
• Islam is currently the largest religion in Africa,  closely followed by Christianity. These two religions represent 85% of the continent’s population, while only 15% of the population are non-religious or follow traditional African religions. 
  
• Although Africa is the second largest of the seven continents on earth, it has the shortest coastline as there are very few protruding ridges and bays in its landscape.   The deadliest animal in all of Africa is the hippopotamus. 
  
• Barbarian pirates captured more than 1 million Europeans between the 16th and 19th centuries and sold them into slavery in North Africa. 
  
• Tigers only live in Asia, not in Africa. 
  
• The United States, China, India, New Zealand, Argentina, and Europe could find a place in Africa. 
  
• The world’s largest frog, the Goliath frog, is found in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon. 
  
• Almost half of all gold ever mined in history comes from the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third largest in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic. Located in North Africa, it is slightly larger than the continental US.

List of Countries and their currencies: Africa

Serial No.	Country	Currency
1	Algeria	Algerian dinar
2	Angola	Angolan kwanza
3	Ascension Island	Saint Helena pound
4	Benin	West African CFA franc
5	Botswana	Botswana pula
6	Burkina Faso	West African CFA franc
7	Burundi	Burundi franc
8	Cape Verde	Cape Verdean escudo
9	Cameroon	Central African CFA franc
10	The central African Republic	Central African CFA franc
11	Chad	Central African CFA franc
12	Comoros	Comorian franc
13	Congo, Democratic Republic	Congolese franc
14	Congo, Republic	Central African CFA franc
15	Cote d’Ivoire	West African CFA franc
16	Djibouti	Djiboutian franc
17	Egypt	Egyptian pound
18	Equatorial Guinea	Central African CFA franc
19	Eritrea	Eritrean nakfa
20	Eswatini	Swazi lilangeni
21	Ethiopia	Ethiopian birr
22	Gabon	Central African CFA franc
23	The Gambia	Gambian dalasi
24	Ghana	Ghanaian cedi
25	Guinea	Guinean franc
26	Guinea-Bissau	West African CFA franc
27	Kenya	Kenyan shilling
28	Lesotho	Lesotho loti
29	Liberia	Liberian dollar
30	Libya	Libyan dinar
31	Madagascar	Malagasy ariary
32	Malawi	Malawian kwacha
33	Mali	West African CFA franc
34	Mauritania	Mauritanian ouguiya
35	Mauritius	Mauritian rupee
36	Mayotte	European euro
37	Morocco	Moroccan dirham
38	Mozambique	Mozambican metical
39	Namibia	Namibian dollar
40	Niger	West African CFA franc
41	Nigeria	Nigerian Naira
42	Reunion	European euro
43	Rwanda	Rwandan franc
44	Saint Helena	Saint Helena pound
45	Sao Tome and Principe	Sao Tome and Principe dobra
46	Senegal	West African franc
47	Seychelles	Seychellois rupee
48	Sierra Leone	Sierra Leonean leone
49	Somalia	Somali shilling
50	South Africa	South African rand
51	South Sudan	South Sudanese pound
52	Sudan	Sudanese pound
53	Tanzania	Tanzanian shilling
54	Togo	West African franc
55	Tristan da Cunha	Pound sterling
56	Tunisia	Tunisian dinar
57	Uganda	Ugandan shilling
58	Zambia	Zambian kwacha
59	Zimbabwe	United States dollar

Frequently Asked Questions:

Que1. What is the currency of Togo?
Ans. West African franc

Que2. What is the currency of Uganda
Ans.  Ugandan shilling

Que3. What is the currency of Zambia?
Ans. Zambian kwacha

Que4. What is the currency of Zimbabwe?
Ans. United States dollar

Que5. What is the currency of Sudan?
Ans.  Sudanese pound

Que6. What is the currency of Tunisia?
Ans. Tunisian dinar 

Que7. What is the currency of Sao Tome and Principe
Ans. Sao Tome and Principe dobra

Que8. What is the currency of the Reunion?
Ans. European euro

Que9. What is the currency of Lesotho?
Ans.  Lesotho loti

Que10. What is the currency of Cote d’Ivoire?
Ans.  West African CFA franc