n. 25B6; noun
foreign countries : NATION, (sovereign) state, kingdom, realm, territory, province, principality, palatinate, duchy. See list.
he risked his life for his country : HOMELAND, native land, fatherland, motherland, the land of one's fathers.
the whole country took to the streets : PEOPLE, public, population, populace, citizenry, nation, body politic; electors, voters, taxpayers, grass roots; Brit. informal Joe Public.
thickly forested country : TERRAIN, land, territory, parts; landscape, scenery, setting, surroundings, environment.
she hated living in the country : COUNTRYSIDE, green belt, great outdoors; provinces, rural areas, backwoods, back of beyond, hinterland; Austral./NZ outback, bush, back country, backblocks, booay; informal sticks, middle of nowhere; N. Amer. informal boondocks, boonies, tall timbers; Austral. informal beyond the black stump.
25B6; adjective country pursuits : RURAL, countryside, outdoor, rustic, pastoral, bucolic; poetic/literary sylvan, Arcadian, georgic.
urban.
Countries
country adjective/noun capital currency
Afghanistan Afghan Kabul afghani = 100 puls
Albania Albanian Tirana lek = 100 qindarka
Algeria Algerian Algiers dinar = 100 centimes
America (see United States)
Andorra Andorran Andorra la Vella euro = 100 cents (formerly French franc and Spanish peseta)
Angola Angolan Luanda kwanza = 100 lwei
Antigua and Barbuda Antiguan, Barbudan St John's dollar = 100 cents
Argentina Argentinian or Argentine Buenos Aires peso = 100 centavos
Armenia Armenian Yerevan dram = 100 luma
Australia Australian Canberra dollar = 100 cents
Austria Austrian Vienna (euro = 100 cents, formerly schilling = 100 groschen)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijani Baku manat = 100 gopik
Bahamas Bahamian Nassau dollar = 100 cents
Bahrain Bahraini Manama dinar = 1,000 fils
Bangladesh Bangladeshi Dhaka taka = 100 poisha
Barbados Barbadian Bridgetown dollar = 100 cents
Belarus Belarusian or Belarussian Minsk rouble = 100 kopeks
Belgium Belgian Brussels euro = 100 cents (formerly franc = 100 centimes)
Belize Belizean Belmopan dollar = 100 cents
Benin Beninese Porto Novo African franc
Bermuda Bermudan Hamilton dollar
Bhutan Bhutanese Thimphu ngultrum = 100 chetrum, Indian rupee
Bolivia Bolivian La Paz boliviano = 100 centavos
Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian Sarajevo dinar = 100 paras
Botswana Botswanan/Tswana Gaborone pula = 100 thebe
Brazil Brazilian Brasilia real = 100 centavos
Britain (see United Kingdom)
Brunei Bruneian Bandar Seri Begawan dollar = 100 sen
Bulgaria Bulgarian Sofia lev = 100 stotinki
Burkina Faso Burkinese Ouagadougou African franc
Burma (officially Myanmar) Burmese Rangoon kyat = 100 pyas
Burundi Burundian Bujumbura franc = 100 centimes
Cambodia Cambodian Phnom Penh riel = 100 sen
Cameroon Cameroonian Yaoundé African franc
Canada Canadian Ottawa dollar = 100 cents
Cape Verde Islands Cape Verdean Praia escudo = 100 centavos
Central African Republic Bangui African franc
Chad Chadian N'Djamena African franc
Chile Chilean Santiago peso = 100 centavos
China Chinese Beijing yuan = 10 jiao or 100 fen
Colombia Colombian Bogotá peso = 100 centavos
Comoros Comoran Moroni African franc
Congo Congolese Brazzaville African franc
Congo, Democratic Republic of (Zaire) Congolese Kinshasa Congolese franc
Costa Rica Costa Rican San José colón = 100 centimos
Croatia Croat or Croatian Zagreb kuna = 100 lipa
Cuba Cuban Havana peso = 100 centavos
Cyprus Cypriot Nicosia pound = 100 cents
Czech Republic Czech Prague koruna = 100 haleru
Denmark Danish/Dane Copenhagen krone = 100 øre
Djibouti Djiboutian Djibouti franc = 100 centimes
Dominica Dominican Roseau dollar = 100 cents
Dominican Republic Dominican Santo Domingo peso = 100 centavos
Ecuador Ecuadorean Quito sucre = 100 centavos
Egypt Egyptian Cairo pound = 100 piastres or 1,000 milliemes
El Salvador Salvadorean San Salvador colón = 100 centavos
Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinean Malabo African franc
Eritrea Eritrean Asmara nakfa = 100 cents
Estonia Estonian Tallinn kroon = 100 sents
Ethiopia Ethiopian Addis Abada birr = 100 cents
Fiji Fijian Suva dollar = 100 cents
Finland Finnish/Finn Helsinki euro = 100 cents (formerly markka = 100 penniä)
France French/Frenchman, Frenchwoman Paris euro = 100 cents (formerly franc = 100 centimes)
Gabon Gabonese Libreville African franc
Gambia, the Gambian Banjul dalasi = 100 butut
Georgia Georgian Tbilisi lari = 100 tetri
Germany German Berlin euro = 100 cents (formerly Deutschmark = 100 pfennigs)
Ghana Ghanaian Accra cedi = 100 pesewas
Greece Greek Athens euro = 100 cents (formerly drachma = 100 leptae)
Grenada Grenadaian St George's dollar = 100 cents
Guatemala Guatemalan Guatemala City quetzal = 100 centavos
Guinea Guinean Conakry franc = 100 centimes
Guinea-Bissau Bissau peso = 100 centavos
Guyana Guyanese Georgetown dollar = 100 cents
Haiti Haitian Port-au-Prince gourde = 100 centimes
Holland (see Netherlands)
Honduras Honduran Tegucigalpa lempira = 100 centavos
Hungary Hungarian Budapest forint = 100 filler
Iceland Icelandic/Icelander Reykjavik krona = 100 aurar
India Indian New Delhi rupee = 100 paisa
Indonesia Indonesian Djakarta rupiah = 100 sen
Iran Iranian Tehran rial = 100 dinars
Iraq Iraqi Baghdad dinar = 1,000 fils
Ireland, Republic of Irish Dublin euro = 100 cents (formerly pound (punt) = 100 pence)
Israel Israeli Jerusalem shekel = 100 agora
Italy Italian Rome euro = 100 cents (formerly lira = 100 centesemi)
Ivory Coast Ivorian Yamoussoukro African franc
Jamaica Jamaican Kingston dollar = 100 cents
Japan Japanese Tokyo yen = 100 sen
Jordan Jordanian Amman dinar = 1,000 fils
Kazakhstan Kazakh Astana tenge = 100 teins
Kenya Kenyan Nairobi shilling = 100 cents
Kiribati Bairiki Australian dollar
Kuwait Kuwaiti Kuwait City dinar = 1,000 fils
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz Bishkek som = 100 tiyin
Laos Laotian Vientiane kip = 100 ats
Latvia Latvian Riga lat = 100 santims
Lebanon Lebanese Beirut pound = 100 piastres
Lesotho Lesothan/Mosotho, plural Basotho Maseru loti = 100 lisente
Liberia Liberian Monrovia dollar = 100 cents
Libya Libyan Tripoli dinar = 1,000 dirhams
Liechtenstein /Liechtensteiner Vaduz Swiss franc
Lithuania Lithuanian Vilnius litas = 100 centas
Luxembourg /Luxembourger Luxembourg euro = 100 cents (formerly franc = 100 centimes)
Macedonia Macedonian Skopje denar
Madagascar Malagasy or Madagascan Antananarivo franc = 100 centimes
Malawi Malawian Lilongwe kwacha = 100 tambala
Malaysia Malaysian Kuala Lumpur dollar (ringgit) = 100 sen
Maldives Maldivian/Maldive or Maldivian Male rufiyaa = 100 laris
Mali Malian Bamako African franc
Malta Maltese Valletta lira = 100 cents
Marshall Islands Marshallese Majuro US dollar
Mauritania Mauritanian Nouakchott ouguiya = 5 khoums
Mauritius Mauritian Port Louis rupee = 100 cents
Mexico Mexican Mexico City peso = 100 centavos
Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesian Kolonia US dollar
Moldova Moldovan Chi 015F; in 0103; u leu = 100 bani
Monaco Monégasque Monaco euro = 100 cents (formerly French franc)
Mongolia Mongolian Ulan Bator tugrik = 100 mongos
Morocco Moroccan Rabat dirham = 100 centimes
Mozambique Mozambican Maputo metical = 100 centavos
Myanmar (see Burma)
Namibia Namibian Windhoek rand = 100 cents
Nauru Nauruan Australian dollar
Nepal Nepalese or Nepali Kathmandu rupee = 100 paisa
Netherlands, the Dutch/Dutchman, Dutchwoman Amsterdam euro = 100 cents (formerly guilder = 100 cents)
New Zealand /New Zealander Wellington dollar = 100 cents
Nicaragua Nicaraguan Managua cordoba = 100 centavos
Niger Nigerien Niamey African franc
Nigeria Nigerian Abuja naira = 100 kobo
North Korea North Korean Pyongyang won = 100 jun
Norway Norwegian Oslo krone = 100 øre
Oman Omani Muscat rial = 1,000 baiza
Pakistan Pakistani Islamabad rupee = 100 paisa
Panama Panamanian Panama City balboa = 100 centésimos
Papua New Guinea Papuan, Guinean, or Papua New Guinean Port Moresby kina = 100 toea
Paraguay Paraguayan Asunción guarani = 100 centimos
Peru Peruvian Lima neuvo sol = 100 cents
Philippines Filipino or Philippine Manila peso = 100 centavos
Poland Polish/Pole Warsaw zloty = 100 groszy
Portugal Portuguese Lisbon euro = 100 cents (formerly escudo = 100 centavos)
Qatar Qatari Doha riyal = 100 dirhams
Romania Romanian Bucharest leu = 100 bani
Russia Russian Moscow rouble = 100 copecks
Rwanda Rwandan Kigali franc = 100 centimes
St Kitts and Nevis Kittsian or Nevisian Basseterre dollar = 100 cents
St Lucia St Lucian Castries dollar = 100 cents
St Vincent and the Grenadines Vincentian or St Vincentian or Grenadian Kingstown dollar = 100 cents
Samoa Samoan Apia tala = 100 sene
San Marino San Marino euro = 100 cents (formerly Italian lira)
Saudi Arabia Saudi or Saudi Arabian Riyadh riyal = 20 qursh or 100 halalas
Senegal Senegalese Dakar African franc
Seychelles, the Seychellois Victoria rupee = 100 cents
Sierra Leone Sierra Leonean Freetown leone = 100 cents
Singapore Singaporean Singapore dollar = 100 cents
Slovakia Slovak Bratislava koruna = 100 haleru
Slovenia Slovene or Slovenian Ljubljana tolar = 100 stotins
Solomon Islands /Solomon Islander Honiara dollar = 100 cents
Somalia Somali or Somalian Mogadishu shilling = 100 cents
South Africa South African Pretoria rand= 100 cents
South Korea South Korean Seoul won = 100 jeon
Spain Spanish/Spaniard Madrid euro = 100 cents (formerly peseta = 100 centimos)
Sri Lanka Sri Lankan Colombo rupee = 100 cents
Sudan Sudanese Khartoum dinar = 10 pounds
Suriname Surinamese Paramaribo guilder = 100 cents
Swaziland Swazi Mbabane lilangeni = 100 cents
Sweden Swedish/Swede Stockholm krona = 100 öre
Switzerland Swiss Berne franc = 100 centimes
Syria Syrian Damascus pound = 100 piastres
Taiwan Taiwanese Taipei New Taiwan dollar = 100 cents
Tajikistan Tajik Dushanbe somoni = 100 dirams
Tanzania Tanzanian Dodoma shilling = 100 cents
Thailand Thai Bangkok baht = 100 satangs
Togo Togolese Lomé African franc
Tonga Tongan Nuku'alofa pa'anga = 100 seniti
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidadian, Tobagan or Tobagonian Port-of-Spain dollar = 100 cents
Tunisia Tunisian Tunis dinar = 1,000 milliemes
Turkey Turkish/Turk Ankara lira = 100 kurus
Turkmenistan Turkmen or Turkoman Ashgabat manat = 100 tenge
Tuvalu Tuvaluan Funafuti dollar = 100 cents
Uganda Ugandan Kampala shilling = 100 cents
Ukraine Ukrainian Kiev hryvna = 100 kopiykas
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi dirham = 100 fils
United Kingdom British/Briton London pound = 100 pence
United States of America American Washington, DC dollar = 100 cents
Uruguay Uruguayan Montevideo peso = 100 centésimos
Uzbekistan Uzbek Tashkent som
Vanuatu Vanuatuan Vila vatu = 100 centimes
Vatican City Vatican/ euro = 100 cents (formerly Italian lira)
Venezuela Venezuelan Caracas bolívar = 100 centimos
Vietnam Vietnamese Hanoi dong = 10 hao or 100 xu
Yemen Yemeni Sana'a riyal = 100 fils
Yugoslavia Yugoslav or Yugoslavian Belgrade dinar = 100 paras
Zaire Zairean (see Congo, Democratic Republic of)
Zambia Zambian Lusaka kwacha = 100 ngwee
Zimbabwe Zimbabwean Harare dollar = 100 cents