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AI overview
The Ugandan shilling is the official money used in Uganda for buying and selling goods and services. It matters because it's essential for everyday transactions and economic activity in the country.
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Key facts
- Code
- UGX (numeric: 800 )
- Unit
- shilling
- Plural
- shillings
- Banknotes
- 1,000/ = , 2,000/ = , 5,000/ = , 10,000/ = , 20,000/ = , 50,000/ =
- Freq used
- 100/ = , 200/ = , 500/ = , 1,000/ =
- Rarely used
- 50/ =
- User s
- Uganda
- Central bank
- Bank of Uganda
- Website
- www .bou .or .ug
- Inflation
- 4.7%
- Source
- The World Factbook , 2014 est.
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Encyclopedic overview
The shilling (Swahili: shilingi; abbreviation: USh; ISO code: UGX) is the currency of Uganda. Officially divided into cents until 2013, due to substantial inflation the shilling now has no subdivision.
Notation
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ugandan shilling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.