Currency
Currency
South America
Country Capital Currency
1 Argentina Buenos Aires Argentine peso
2 Bolivia Sucre Bolivian Boliviano
3 Brazil Brasilia Brazilian real
4 Chile Santiago Chilean peso
5 Colombia Bogota Colombian peso
6 Ecuador Quito United states dollar
7 Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar
8 Paraguay Asuncion Paraguayan guarani
9 Peru Lima Peruvian Nuevo sol
10 Suriname Paramaribo Surinamese dollar
11 Uruguay Montevideo Uruguayan peso
12 Venezuela Caracas Venezuelan bolivar
Europe
Country Capital Currency
1 Aland Islands Mariehamn Euro
2 Albania Tirana Albanian lek
3 Andorra Andorra La Vella Euro
4 Austria Vienna Euro
5 Belarus Minsk Belarusian ruble
6 Belgium Brussels Euro
7 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark
8 Bulgaria Sofia Bulgarian lev
9 Croatia Zagreb Croatian kuna
10 Czech Republic Prague Czech koruna
11 Denmark Copenhagen Danish Krone
12 Estonia Tallinn Euro
13 Faroe Islands Torshavn Faroese krona
14 Finland Helsinki Euro
15 France Paris Euro
16 Germany Berlin Euro
17 Gibraltar Gibraltar Pound sterling
18 Greece Athens Euro
19 Guernsey Saint Peter Port Guernsey pound
20 Hungary Budapest Hungarian forint
21 Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic krona
22 Ireland Dublin Euro
23 Isle of Man Douglas Manx pound
24 Italy Rome Euro
25 Jersey Saint Helier Jersey pound
26 Kosovo Pristina Euro
27 Latvia Riga Euro
28 Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc
29 Lithuania Vilnius Euro
30 Luxembourg Luxembourg Euro
31 Macedonia Skopje Second Macedonian dinar
32 Malta Valletta Euro
33 Moldova Chisinau Moldovan Leu
34 Monaco Monaco Euro
35 Montenegro Podgorica Euro
36 Netherlands Amsterdam Euro
37 Norway Oslo Norwegian krone
38 Poland Warsaw Polish zloty
39 Portugal Lisbon Euro
40 Romania Bucharest Fourth Romanian Leu
41 Russia Moscow Russian Ruble
42 San Marino San Marino Euro
43 Principality of Sealand HM Fort Roughs Sealand dollar
44 Slovakia Bratislava Euro
45 Sweden Stockholm Swedish krona
46 Slovenia Ljubljana Euro
47 Spain Madrid Euro
48 Transnistria Tiraspol Transnistrian ruble
49 Svalbard Longyearbyen Norwegian krone
50 Switzerland Bern Swiss franc
51 Ukraine Kiev Ukranian hryvnia
52 Vatican City/Holy See Vatican City Euro
53 United Kingdom London Pound sterling
54 Serbia Belgrade Serbian dinar
Asia
Country Capital Currency
1 Afghanistan Kabul Afghan afghani
2 Armenia Yerevan Armenian dram
3 Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijani manat
4 Bahrain Manama Bahraini dinar
5 Bangladesh Dhaka Taka
6 Bhutan Thimphu Bhutanese ngultrum
7 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei dollar
8 Cambodia Phnom Penh Combodian reil
9 China Beijing Renminbi (Yuan)
10 Cyprus Nicosia Euro
11 Georgia Tbilisi/T’bilisi Lari
12 India New Delhi Indian rupee
13 Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah
14 Iran Tehran Iranian rial
15 Israel Jerusalem Israeli new shekel
16 Japan Tokyo Yen
17 Jordon Amman Jordonian dinar
18 Kazakhstan Nur Sultan Kazakhstani tenge
19 Korea, North Pyongyang North Korean won
20 Korea, South Seoul South Korean won
21 Kuwait Kuwait city Kuwaiti dinar
22 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstani som
23 Laos Vientiane Lao kip
24 Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound
25 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Ringgit
26 Maldives Male’ Maldivian rufiyaa
27 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mongolian togrog
28 Myanmar Nay Pyi Taw Kyat
29 Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese rupee
30 Oman Muscat Omani rial
31 Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani rupee
32 Philippines Manila Philippine peso
33 Qatar Doha Qatari riyal
34 Russia Moscow Russian ruble
35 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi riyal
36 Singapore Singapore Singapore dollar
37 Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Co Sri Lankan rupee
38 Syria Damascus Syrian pound
39 Tajikistan Dushanbe Somoni
40 Thailand Bangkok Baht
41 Timor-Leste/East Timor Dili US dollar
42 Turkey Ankara Turkish lira
43 Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmen new manat
44 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi UAE dirham
45 Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistan som
46 Vietnam Hanoi Dong
47 Yemen Sana’a Yemeni rial
Africa
Country Capital Currency
1 Algeria Algiers Algerian dollars
2 Angola Luanda Kwanza
3 Benin Porto-Novo CFA franc
4 Botswana Gaborone Pula
5 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou CFA franc
6 Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc
7 Cameroon Yaounde CFA franc
8 Cape Verde Praia Cape Verdean escudo
9 Central African Republic Bangui CFA franc
10 Chad N’Djamena CFA franc
11 Comoros Moroni Comorian franc
12 Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa Congolese franc
13 Republic of the Congo Brazzaville CFA franc
14 Djibouti Djibouti City Djiboutian franc
15 Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound
16 Equatorial Guinea Malabo CFA franc
17 Eritrea Asmara Nakfa
18 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian birr
19 Gabon Libraville CFA franc
20 Gambia Banjul Dalasi
21 Ghana Accra Ghanaian cedi
22 Guinea Conakry Guinean franc
23 Guinea Bissau Bissau CFA franc
24 Ivory Coast Yamoussou CFA franc
25 Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling
26 Lesotho Maseru Loti
27 Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar
28 Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar
29 Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy ariary
30 Malawi Lilongwe Malawian kwacha
31 Mali Bamako CFA franc
32 Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya
33 Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee
34 Morocco Rabat Moroccan dirham
35 Mozambique Maputo Mozambican metical
36 Namibia Windhoek Namibian dollar
37 Niger Niamey CFA franc
38 Nigeria Abuja Naira
39 Rwanda Kigali Rwandan franc
40 Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome Dobra
41 Senegal Dakar CFA franc
42 Seychelles Victoria Seychellois rupee
43 Sierra Leone Freetown Sierra Leonean Leone
44 Somalia Mogadishu Shilling
45 South Africa Bloemfontein South African Rand
46 South Sudan Juba South Sudanese pound
47 Sudan Khartoum Sudanese pound
48 Swaziland Lobamba Lilangeni
49 Tanzania Dodoma Tanzanian shilling
50 Togo Lome CFA franc
51 Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar
52 Uganda Kampala Ugandan shilling
53 Zambia Lusaka Zambian kwacha
54 ‘Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwean dollar
Australia/Oceania
Country Capital Currency
1 Australia Canberra Australian dollar
2 Federated States of MicronesPalikir US dollar
3 Fiji Suva Fiji dollar
4 Kiribati Tarawa Australian dollar
5 Marshall Islands Majuro US dollar
6 Nauru Yaren Australian dollar
7 New Zealand Wellington New Zealand dollar
8 Palau Ngerulmud US dollar
9 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Kina
10 Samoa Apia Tala
11 Solomon Islands Honiara Solomon Islands dollar
12 Tonga Nuku’alofa Pa’anga
13 Tuvalu Funafuti Australian dollar
14 Vanuatu Port Vila Vatu
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Commonly used acronyms
Acronyms Meaning
AFK Away From Keyboard
ASAP As Soon As Possible
AWOL Absent Without Leave
BRB Be Right Back
DIY Do It Yourself
EOBD End Of Business Day
EOD End Of Day
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FYI For Your Information
HR Human Resources
IDK I Don’t Know
IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly
ILY I Love You
IMO In My Opinion
IRL In Real Life
LOL Laughing Out Loud
MBA Masters of Business Administration
MIA Missing In Action
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NSFW Not Safe For Work
NVM Never mind
OMG Oh My God
OMW On My Way
POS Point Of Service
POV Point Of View
SWAT Special Weapons And Tactics
TBA To Be Announced
TGIF Thank God It’s Friday
TMI Too Much Information
TTYL Talk To You Later
TYVM Thank You Very Much
Name of Famous Book Famous Author
[B]
Babbit Sinclair Lewis
Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw
Bandicoot Run Manohar Malgaonkar
Beginning of the Beginning Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh
Being Digital Nicholas Negroponte
Beloved Toni Morrison
BenHur Lewis Wallace
Beyond the Horizon Eugene O' Neill
Bharat Bharati Maithili Saran Gupta
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[N]
Nana Emile Zola
Never At Home Dom Moraes
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy A. B. Vajpayee
Nice Guys Finish Second B. K. Nehru
Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
Nisheeth Uma Shankar Joshi
No Full Stops in India Mark Tully
Nostradamus and his Prophecies Edgar Leoni
Nostromo Joseph Conrad
[O]
'O' Jerusalem Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Odakkuzhal G. Shankara Kurup
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
On The Threshold of Hope Pope John Paull II
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One World and India Arnold Toynbee
One World Wendelll Wilkie
Operation Bluestar: The True Story Lt. Gen. K.S. Brar
Operation Shylock Phillip Roth
Othello William Shakespeare
Our Films, Their Fiims Satyajit Ray
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen
[R]
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Rangbhoomi Prem Chand
Rape of Bangladesh Anthony Mascarenhas
Ravan & Eddie Kiran Nagarkar
Rebel, The Albert Camus
Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Red Earth and Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra
Red Star Over China Edgar Snow
Reflections on the French Revolution Edmund Burke
Remembering Babylon David Malouf
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clark
Revolution from Within Gloria Steinem
Riding the Storm Harold MacMillan
Riot: A Novel Shashi Tharoor
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shierer
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Room at the Top John Braine
Rubaiyati Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald
[S]
Saket Maithili Sharan Gupta
Sanctuary William Faulkner
Scam, The: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal
Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Seven Lamps of Architecture John Ruskin
Seven Summers Mulk Raj Anand
Sexual Behaviour in the American Male Alfred Kinsey
Shadow and Act Ralph Ellison
Shadow from Ladakh Bhavani Bhattacharya
Shape of Things to Come H. G. Wells
She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith
Siddharta Hermann Hesse
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Piradello
Six Easy Pieces Richard P. Feynman
Slaughter House Five Kurt Vonnegut
Small is Beautiful: A study of Economics as if People Mattered Ernst Schumacher
Snakes and Ladders: Essays on India Gita Mehta
Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata
Sohrab and Rustam Mathew Arnold
Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence
Sophie's Choice William Styron
Story of My Life Moshe Dayan
Strangers and Brothers C. P. Snow
Strife John Galsworthy
Stupid White Men Michael Moore
Sun Stone Octavio Paz
Sunny Days Sunil Gavaskar
Swami and Friends R. K. Naravan
[T]
Talisman Sir Walter Scott
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tempest William Shakespeare
Tender is the Night E. Scott Fitzgerald
Tenth Insight James Redfield
Thank You, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sheriock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith
The Age of Reason Jean Paul Sartre
The Agenda Bob Woodward
The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone
The Ambassadors Henry James
The Applecart George Bernard Shaw
The Arrangement Elia Kazan
The Banyan Tree Hugh Tinker
The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam
The Better Man Anita Nair
The Big Fisherman Lloyd Douglas
The Bride's Book of Beauty Mulk Raj Anand
The Bridges of Madison Country R. J. Waller
The Cancer Ward Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
The Captive of the Caucasus Alexander Pushkin
The Cardinal Henry Morton Robinson
The Caretaker Harold Pinters
The Castle Franz Kafka
The Cat and Shakespeare Raja Rao
The Changing World of the Executive Peter Drucker
The Civil War Shelby Foote
The Clown Heinrich Boll
The Coup John Updike
The Court Dancer Rabindra Nath Tagore
The Crucible Arthur Miller
The Day of the Locust Nathaniel West
The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri
The Degeneration of India T. N. Seshan
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
The Double Helix James D. Watson
The End of a Beautiful Era Joseph Brodsky
The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama
The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer
The Eye of the Storm Patrick White
The Far Pavilions M. M. Kaye
The Faraway Music Svetlana Allilueva
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan
The Fifth Horseman Larry Collins and Domnique Lapierre
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin
The Forbidden Sea Tara Ali Baig
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
The Fury Salman Rushdie
The Ginger Man J. P. Donleavy
The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
The Godfather Mario Puzo
The Golden Gate Vikram Seth
The Grapes and the Wind Pablo Neruda
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Great Challenge Louis Fischer
The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor
The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
The Horse Whisperer Nicholas Evans
The Green Knight Iris Murdoch
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
The Hot Zone Richard Prelurid
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
The Humboldt Gift Saul Bellow
The Idiot Feodor Dostoyevsky
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
The Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri
The Interpreters Wole Soyinka
The Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
The Joke Milan Kundera
The Judge Steve Martini
The Judgement Kuldip Nayar
The Keeper of the Keys Milan Kundera
The Last Temptation of Christ Kazant Zakis
The Legends of Khasak O. V. Vijayan
The Making of a Midsummer Night's Dream David Selboume
The Mandarin Simon de Beauvoir
The Masters C. P. Snow
The Men Who killed Gandhi Manohar Malgaonkar
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
The Middle Ground Margaret Drabble
The Mind of the CEO Jeffrey E. Garten
The Minister's Wife Amaresh Mishra
The Miser Moliere
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham
The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie
The Night Manager Johnle Cane
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
The Origin of Species Charles Darwin
The Other Side of Midnight Sidney Sheldon
The Painted Veil W. Somerset Maugham
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale
The Private Life of Chairman Mao Dr. Li Zhisui
The Proper Study of Mankind Isaiah Berlin
The Rain King Saul Bellow
The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope
The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
The Rights of Man Thomas Paine
The Road Ahead Bill Gates
The Robe Lloyd C. Douglas
The Roots Alex Haley
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
The Second World War Winston Churchill
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Deepak Chopra
The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles
The Shoes of the Fisherman Morris L. West
The Social Contract Rousseau
The Songs of India Sarojini Naidu
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
The Spirit of the Age William Hazlitt
The Story of My Experiments with Truth Mahatma Gandhi
The Strange and Sublime Address Amit Chaudhari
The Struggle and the Triumph Lech Walesa
The Struggle in My Life Nelson Mandela
The Sword and the Sickle Mulk Raj Anand
The Testament John Grisham
The Third Wave Alvin Tofler
The Total Zone Martina Navaratilova
The Tree of Man Patrick White
The Trial Franz Kafka
The Trotter-Nama Allan Sealy
The Unfurnished Man Nizzim Ezekiel
The Vendor of Sweets R. K. Narayan
The Victim Saul Bellow
The Volcano Lover Susan Sontag
The Wasteland T.S. Eliot
The Way of all Flesh Samuel Butler
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
Theory of War John Brady
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
The Thirteenth Sun Amrita Pritam
Thorn Birds Collen McCullough
Thousand Cranes Yasunari Kawabata
Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Time Machine H. G. Wells
Tin Drum Gunther Grass
Tinker, Tailor Soldier John Le-Came
Tom Jones Henry Fielding
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Train to Pakistan Khushwant Singh
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Tryst with Destiny S. Gopalan
Twelfth Night W. Shakespeare
Two Leaves and a Bud Mulk Raj Anand
[U]
Ulyssos James Joyce
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Under the Net Iris Murdoch
Unsafe at Any Spoed Ralph Nader
Unto The Last John Ruskm
Untold story General B M Kaul
Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington
Utopia Thomas Moore
[V]
Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann
Vanity Fair William Thackeray
[W]
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
Waiting for the Mahatma R. K. Narayan
Wake Up India Annie Besant
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Westward Ho Charles Kingsley
What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School Mark H. Mc Cormack
[Y]
Yayati V. S. Khandekar
Year of the Upheaval Henry Kissinger
Yesterday and Today K.P.S. Menon
[Z]
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig
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anyone can plz share famous books and author names..? specially sibga sis..plz share some info regrding books and authors...
IMPORTANT BOOKS & THEIR AUTHORS
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