Currency Spotlight: Africa (3)
5 More African Currencies
There are 41 currencies in use across the 54 countries of the second largest continent in the world. In this article, the spotlight is on 5 more African currencies.
1. Congolese Francs (CDF): official currency of the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩
Denominations: 1, 5, 10, 20 & 50 centimes, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000 & 20000 francs.
DR Congo is the second-largest country by area in Africa, after Algeria, and home to over 100 million people. Also known as Congo-Kinshasa, it is one of two central-African that have the same name (the other one is often referred to as Congo-Brazaville). Both countries share a border in part and are separated by The Congo river, the second-longest one on the continent. The river also runs through most of DR Congo, which also shares borders with the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.
The country gained independence from Belgium in 1960 and has since had a complex political…
