Central banks and currencies of the Caribbean

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This is a list of the central banks and currencies of the Caribbean.

There are a number of currencies serving multiple territories; the most widespread are the East Caribbean dollar (8 countries and territories), the United States dollar (5) and the euro (4).

Country/territory	Currency	Code	Central bank	Peg
Anguilla	East Caribbean dollar	XCD	Eastern Caribbean Central Bank	2.70 XCD = 1.00 USD
Antigua and Barbuda
Dominica
Grenada
Montserrat
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Aruba	Aruban florin	AWG	Central Bank of Aruba	1.79 AWG = 1.00 USD
Bahamas	Bahamian dollar	BSD	Central Bank of The Bahamas	1.00 BSD = 1.00 USD
Barbados	Barbadian dollar	BBD	Central Bank of Barbados	2.00 BBD = 1.00 USD
Caribbean Netherlands	United States dollar	USD	De Nederlandsche Bank (monetary authority) Federal Reserve Bank (U.S. dollar)	float
Cayman Islands	Cayman Islands dollar	KYD	Cayman Islands Monetary Authority	1.00 KYD = 1.20 USD
Cuba	Cuban peso	CUP	Central Bank of Cuba	24.00 CUP = 1.00 USD
Sint Maarten	Netherlands Antillean guilder	ANG	Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten	1.79 ANG = 1.00 USD
Curaçao	Netherlands Antillean guilder	ANG	Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten	1.79 ANG = 1.00 USD
Dominican Republic	Dominican peso	DOP	Banco Central de la República Dominicana	float
Guadeloupe	Euro	EUR	European Central Bank	float
Martinique
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Martin
French Guiana
Haiti	Haitian gourde	HTG	Banque de la République d'Haïti	float
Jamaica	Jamaican dollar	JMD	Bank of Jamaica	float
Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago dollar	TTD	Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago	float
Turks and Caicos Islands	United States dollar	USD	Federal Reserve Bank	float
United States Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
British Virgin Islands

Surrounding countries and territories

Country/territory	Currency	Code	Central bank	Peg
Bermuda	Bermudian dollar	BMD	Bermuda Monetary Authority	1.00 BMD = 1.00 USD
United States	United States dollar	USD	Federal Reserve Bank	float
Mexico	Mexican peso	MXN	Bank of Mexico	float
Belize	Belize dollar	BZD	Central Bank of Belize	2.00 BZD = 1.00 USD
Guatemala	Guatemalan quetzal	GTQ	Bank of Guatemala	float
Honduras	Honduran lempira	HNL	Central Bank of Honduras	crawling peg to USD
Nicaragua	Nicaraguan córdoba	NIO	Central Bank of Nicaragua	crawling peg to USD
Costa Rica	Costa Rican colón	CRC	Central Bank of Costa Rica	float
Panama	US dollar / Panamanian balboa	USD / PAB	Federal Reserve Bank / National Bank of Panama	1.00 PAB = 1.00 USD
Colombia	Colombian peso	COP	Banco de la República	float
Venezuela	Venezuelan bolívar soberano	VEF	Banco Central de Venezuela	Disputed, ostensibly pegged to the Petro (cryptocurrency)
Guyana	Guyanese dollar	GYD	Bank of Guyana	float
Suriname	Surinamese dollar	SRD	Central Bank of Suriname	float

References

The Caribbean guilder is to replace the Netherlands Antillean guilder (by an unspecified date).

Currencies of the Caribbean

West
Indies

Antilles

Greater
Antilles

Hispaniola	Dominican Republic Haiti

Lesser
Antilles

Leeward
Islands

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Les Saintes
- Marie-Galante
Montserrat
Saba
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Eustatius

Saint Martin	Collectivity of Saint Martin Sint Maarten
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean

Leeward
Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire Curaçao

Windward
Islands

Lucayan
Archipelago

Bahamas

Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea

Aves Island
San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank
- Serranilla Bank

Caribbean
continental
zone

Quintana Roo
- Cozumel

Central America	Belize Honduras Bay Islands Izabal Limón Corn Islands North Caribbean Coast South Caribbean Coast Panama
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba Tigri Area Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

Disputed territories administered by Guyana. Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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