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This list contains the 158 or 159 legal or de-facto currencies of the 191 UN member states (one of which -  Serbia and Montenegro - is split up into Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo), the  Vatican City,  Taiwan, Transnistria Transnistria, and 39 dependencies (in italics). After all the likely changes have been made, the number will be reduced by 25 or 26 and  Timor-Leste will have adopted its own currency, making the probable total 134.

Africa

Central Africa (5)

East Africa (7)

South Africa (13)

West Africa (9)

America

Caribbean (13-14)

Central America (7)

North America (6)

South America (14)

Arabian States

Gulf (13)

North Africa (9)

Asia

Central Asia (7)

East Asia (7)

South Asia (7)

South-East Asia (11)

Europe

Eurozone (1)

Northwest Europe (9)

Central Europe (6)

East Europe incl. Baltic States (8)

Balkans (7)

Mediterranean (4)

Caucasus (3)

Pacific

Oceania (12)

Non-Continental (3)

Notes

Technical notes:
Template:Fnb country not internationally recognized.

Near future:
Template:Fnb will change to Romanian new leu (RON) on 1 July 2005.
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EU members: Denmark is eligible to join the Euro, but has an opt-out, as does the United Kingdom. Estonia, Lithuania, and Slovenia will be eligible to join the Euro on or after 29 June 2006. Cyprus, Latvia, and Malta will be eligible to join the Euro on or after 3 May 2007. Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden are obliged to join the Euro, but not yet members of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism II; Sweden deliberately fails to meet this criterion for adopting the Euro without having an opt-out. Andorra is in negotiations to formally adapt the Euro as its legal tender.
Accession countries/candidates: Once Bulgaria and Romania have joined the EU, they are also obliged to join the Euro, which will most likely happen at the earliest date possible for Bulgaria, owing to their extremely tight monetary policy. Should Croatia and Turkey ultimately join, they too will probably join the Euro. The same holds true for Macedonia. Furthermore, Cape Verde has considered officially changing its currency to the Euro.
Template:Fnb changing from Cuban peso and United States dollar to Cuban convertible peso.
Template:Fnb supposedly introducing their own currency, the centavos.

Remote future:
Template:Fnb These countries want to introduce a common currency by 2009, among other political integration plans. Template:Fnb Should the United Kingdom eventually join the Euro, it is not decided what will happen to the related pound currencies (Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Guernsey pound, Isle of Man pound, Jersey pound, and Saint Helenian pound), which could remain in existence with a fixed exchange rate to the Euro (like the CFP franc), or which could be replaced by the Euro as well, possibly with their own national obverse side.
Template:Fnb These countries are set to introduce the Eco on 1 December 2009, with the exception of Liberia, which will join later on. Eventually, the West African CFA franc and the WAMZ Eco are planned to be merged into a single West African currency.
Template:Fnb supposedly no new Salvadoran colones are being produced and El Salvador will eventually become entirely dollarized.
Template:Fnb in the proposed Union of Russia and Belarus, the Belarusian ruble and the Russian ruble would be merged into a single currency.