Title: USD, US Dollar, Used As Currency in These Countries and Territories
Headings: More than two dozen countries and territories use the US dollar as currency
More than two dozen countries and territories use the US dollar as currency
Mark Abadi
US dollars are used in several countries around the world other than the United States, including Ecuador, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar, pictured above.
Countries and territories with USD as official currency
Countries and territories where USD is widely used along with local currency
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Content: The non-US countries whose official currency is the dollar are Ecuador, El Salvador, Zimbabwe, Timor-Leste, Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands. The dollar is also used in all US territories, such as Puerto Rico and Guam, and a couple of British territories in the Caribbean: Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands. On top of those places, there are plenty of countries that regularly use the US dollar alongside their own local currency. Those countries include the Bahamas, Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Liberia, as well as several Caribbean territories. In Ecuador's case, the country adopted the US dollar in 2000 after a financial crisis forced citizens to abandon their own currency, the sucre. In Zimbabwe, the US dollar has become the most widely used of eight official currencies since hyperinflation made the Zimbabwean dollar worthless in the late 2000s. Other currencies accepted there include the euro, the Chinese yuan, the South African rand and the Botswanan pula. As for the three Pacific island nations on the list, Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands, all three were territories administered by the United States from 1947 to 1986. They each decided to continue using the dollar after achieving independence.