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The Uzbek som is the official money used in Uzbekistan, a country in Central Asia. It matters because it's what people and businesses in Uzbekistan use for buying and selling goods and services, similar to how dollars work in the United States or euros work in Europe.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- currency
- Country
- Uzbekistan
- Image
- Uzbekistani 10-Som coin from 2002 (both sides).jpg
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- Commons category
- Money of Uzbekistan
- central bank/issuer
- Central Bank of Uzbekistan
- start time
- 1994-07-01
- unit symbol
- Soʻm
- replaces
- Soviet ruble
- applies to jurisdiction
- Uzbekistan
- price
- 0.00008228
- conversion to standard unit
- 0.000679223
- different from
- Kyrgyz som
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Encyclopedic overview
The sum (ISO code: UZS) is the official currency of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan replaced the ruble with the sum at par on 16 July 1994. No subdivisions of this sum were initially issued and only banknotes were produced, in denominations of 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1,000, 5,000, and 10,000 sum. Further series, however, have introduced coins and a subunit, the tiyin. Because it was meant to be a transitional currency, the original design used during the first years of the republic was rather simplistic.
Etymology
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