Title: 27 Countries That Accept U.S. Dollars as Currency
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27 Countries That Accept U.S. Dollars as Currency
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27 Countries That Accept U.S. Dollars as Currency
By Daniel Avery On 10/15/18 at 12:21 PM EDT
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One of the biggest hassles of traveling internationally is having to exchange money. But the U.S. dollar (USD) is widely accepted in many countries, both officially and unofficially. Some nations have adopted our currency as their own while others use dollars in addition to their own accepted legal tender. Plagued by hyperinflation, Zimbabwe ditched its currency in April 2009. ( Customers got tired of trying to break 100 trillion-dollar bills.). And while South African rands, Botswana pulas, Chinese yuans and British pounds all used, prices are marked in dollars in the capital city of Harare. As U.S. territories, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands all use the U.S. dollar as their official tender. But so do two British Overseas Territories—Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands. Some countries have pegged their currency to the dollar at a set ratio, a process called "dollarization":