Mongolian tögrög

Also known as Mongolian tugrik, Mongolian tughrik

currency of Mongolia

AI overview

The Mongolian tögrög is the official money used in Mongolia for buying and selling goods and services. It matters because it's essential to Mongolia's economy, allowing people and businesses to conduct daily transactions and trade both within the country and internationally.

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Encyclopedic overview

The tögrög (Mongolian: ᠲᠥᠭᠦᠷᠢᠭ төгрөг [ˈtʰɵɣ.rɵk]; sign: ₮; code: MNT), also spelt tugrug or tugrik, is the official currency of Mongolia.

It was historically subdivided into 100 möngö (ᠮᠥᠩᠭᠦ мөнгө [mɵŋk]). Currently, the lowest denomination in regular use is the 10-tögrög note, and the highest is the 20,000-tögrög note. In Unicode, the currency sign is U+20AE ₮ TUGRIK SIGN.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mongolian tögrög” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.