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Zambian kwacha

Index Zambian kwacha

The Kwacha (ISO 4217 code: ZMW) is the currency of Zambia. [1]

109 relations: Adansonia, Africa, African buffalo, African elephant, African fish eagle, Anthony Barber, Bank of Zambia, Bank of Zambia K100 note, Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, Cassava, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chaplin's barbet, Chewa language, Circulation (currency), Coat of arms of Zambia, Columbidae, Commercial bank, Consumer price index, Copper, Counterfeit money, Currency, De La Rue, Decimalisation, Depreciation, Devaluation, Economy of Zambia, Engraving, EURion constellation, Exchange rate, Face value, Ficus sycomorus, Fixed exchange-rate system, Floating exchange rate, Food and Agriculture Organization, Frederick Chiluba, Germany, Giesecke & Devrient, Gold standard, Holography, Inflation, Intaglio (printmaking), Iridescence, ISO 4217, Joh. Enschedé, Kabwe, Kafue Flats, Kenneth Kaunda, Kwacha, Lechwe, Legal tender, ..., Leopard, Levy Mwanawasa, Lion, Lusaka, Malawian kwacha, Michael Sata, Microprinting, Miner, Mining, Mopane, National Assembly of Zambia, Netherlands, Northern Rhodesia, Notaphily, Obverse and reverse, One-party state, Overprint, Ox, Paper, Polymer banknote, Porcupine, Portrait, Pound sterling, President of Zambia, Printer (publishing), Printing, Protectorate, Pterocarpus, Redenomination, Rhodesia and Nyasaland pound, Roan antelope, Rupiah Banda, Sans-serif, Security hologram, Security thread, Serial code, Specimen banknote, Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Sterling area, Sun, Taurotragus, Teak, Toronto Star, Tractor, Transparency and translucency, Tuber, Uapaca kirkiana, Underprint, United Kingdom, United States dollar, Victoria Falls, Wheat, Wildlife, Zambezi, Zambezi indigobird, Zambia, Zambian pound, 20th century, 21st century. Expand index (59 more) »

Adansonia

Adansonia is a genus of deciduous trees known as baobabs.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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African buffalo

The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large African bovine.

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African elephant

African elephants are elephants of the genus Loxodonta.

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African fish eagle

The African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), or to distinguish it from the true fish eagles (Ichthyophaga), the African sea eagle, is a large species of eagle found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply occur.

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Anthony Barber

Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, TD, PC, DL (4 July 1920 – 16 December 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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Bank of Zambia

The Bank of Zambia (BoZ), is the central bank of Zambia.

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Bank of Zambia K100 note

The Bank of Zambia K100 note is a denomination of the Zambian currency.

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Bradbury Wilkinson and Company

Bradbury Wilkinson & Co were an English engraver and printer of banknotes, postage stamps and share certificates.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, yuca, mandioca and Brazilian arrowroot, is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.

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Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Her Majesty's Exchequer, commonly known as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or simply the Chancellor, is a senior official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of Her Majesty's Treasury.

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Chaplin's barbet

The Chaplin's barbet or Zambian barbet (Lybius chaplini) is a bird species in the family Lybiidae, which was until recently united with the other barbets in the Capitonidae.

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Chewa language

Chewa, also known as Nyanja, is a language of the Bantu language family.

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Circulation (currency)

In monetary economics, circulation is the continuing use of individual units of a currency for transactions.

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Coat of arms of Zambia

The coat of arms of Zambia was adopted on 24 October 1964 when the Republic of Zambia reached its independence.

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Columbidae

Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.

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Commercial bank

A commercial bank is an institution that provides services such as accepting deposits, providing business loans, and offering basic investment products.

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Consumer price index

A consumer price index (CPI) measures changes in the price level of of and purchased by households.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Counterfeit money

Counterfeit money is imitation currency produced without the legal sanction of the state or government.

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Currency

A currency (from curraunt, "in circulation", from currens, -entis), in the most specific use of the word, refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.

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De La Rue

De La Rue plc is a British banknote manufacturing, security printing of passports and tax stamps, brand authentication and paper-making company with headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.

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Decimalisation

Decimalisation is the process of converting a currency from its previous non-decimal denominations to a decimal system (i.e., a system based on one basic unit of currency and one or more sub-units, such that the number of sub-units in one basic unit is a power of 10, most commonly 100).

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Depreciation

In accountancy, depreciation refers to two aspects of the same concept.

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Devaluation

In modern monetary policy, a devaluation is an official lowering of the value of a country's currency within a fixed exchange rate system, by which the monetary authority formally sets a new fixed rate with respect to a foreign reference currency or currency basket.

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Economy of Zambia

Zambia is one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most highly urbanized countries.

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Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it.

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EURion constellation

The EURion constellation (also known as Omron rings or doughnuts) is a pattern of symbols incorporated into a number of banknote designs worldwide since about 1996.

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Exchange rate

In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another.

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Face value

The face value is the value of a coin, stamp or paper money, as printed on the coin, stamp or bill itself by the issuing authority.

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Ficus sycomorus

Ficus sycomorus, called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry (because the leaves resemble those of the mulberry), sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since ancient times.

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Fixed exchange-rate system

A fixed exchange rate, sometimes called a pegged exchange rate, is a type of exchange rate regime where a currency's value is fixed against either the value of another single currency, to a basket of other currencies, or to another measure of value, such as gold.

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Floating exchange rate

A floating exchange rate (also called a fluctuating or flexible exchange rate) is a type of exchange-rate regime in which a currency's value is allowed to fluctuate in response to foreign-exchange market mechanisms.

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Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

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Frederick Chiluba

Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba (April 30, 1943 – June 18, 2011) was a Zambian politician who was the second President of Zambia from 1991 to 2002.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Giesecke & Devrient

Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) is a German company headquartered in Munich that provides banknote and securities printing, smart cards, and cash handling systems.

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Gold standard

A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold.

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Holography

Holography is the science and practice of making holograms.

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Inflation

In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.

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Intaglio (printmaking)

Intaglio is the family of printing and printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface and the incised line or sunken area holds the ink.

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Iridescence

Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear to gradually change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.

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ISO 4217

ISO 4217 is a standard first published by International Organization for Standardization in 1978, which delineates currency designators, country codes (alpha and numeric), and references to minor units in three tables.

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Joh. Enschedé

Royal Joh.

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Kabwe

Kabwe is the capital of the Zambian Central Province with a population estimated at 202,914 at the 2010 census.

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Kafue Flats

The Kafue Flats (locally called Butwa) are a vast area of swamp, open lagoon and seasonally inundated flood-plain on the Kafue River in the Southern, Central and Lusaka provinces of Zambia.

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Kenneth Kaunda

Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda (born 28 April 1924), also known as KK, is a Zambian former politician who served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to 1991.

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Kwacha

Kwacha may refer to.

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Lechwe

The lechwe (Kobus leche), red lechwe or southern lechwe, is an antelope found in wetlands of south central Africa.

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Legal tender

Legal tender is a medium of payment recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five species in the genus Panthera, a member of the Felidae.

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Levy Mwanawasa

Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (3 September 1948 – 19 August 2008) was the third Republican President of Zambia.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae).

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Lusaka

Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia.

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Malawian kwacha

The kwacha (ISO 4217: MWK, official name Malawi Kwacha) is the currency of Malawi as of 1971, replacing the Malawian pound.

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Michael Sata

Michael Charles Chilufya Sata (6 July 1937 – 28 October 2014) was a Zambian politician who was the fifth President of Zambia, from 23 September 2011 until his death on 28 October 2014.

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Microprinting

Microprinting is the production of recognizable patterns or characters in a printed medium at a scale that requires magnification to read with the naked eye.

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Miner

A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, or other mineral from the earth through mining.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Mopane

Colophospermum mopane, commonly called mopane, mophane, mopani, balsam tree, butterfly tree, or turpentine tree, is a tree in the legume family (Fabaceae), that grows in hot, dry, low-lying areas, in elevation, in the far northern parts of southern Africa.

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National Assembly of Zambia

The National Assembly is Zambia's unicameral legislative body.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Northern Rhodesia

Northern Rhodesia was a protectorate in south central Africa, formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia.

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Notaphily

Notaphily is the study and collection of paper currency, and banknotes.

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Obverse and reverse

Obverse and its opposite, reverse, refer to the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags, seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics.

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One-party state

A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of state in which one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution.

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Overprint

An overprint is an additional layer of text or graphics added to the face of a postage stamp, banknote or postal stationery after it has been printed.

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Ox

An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal.

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Paper

Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.

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Polymer banknote

Polymer banknotes are banknotes made from a polymer such as biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP).

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Porcupine

Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that protect against predators.

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Portrait

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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President of Zambia

The President of Zambia is the head of state and the head of government of Zambia.

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Printer (publishing)

In publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses.

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Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.

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Protectorate

A protectorate, in its inception adopted by modern international law, is a dependent territory that has been granted local autonomy and some independence while still retaining the suzerainty of a greater sovereign state.

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Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae.

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Redenomination

Redenomination is the process of changing the face value of banknotes or coins used in circulating currency.

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Rhodesia and Nyasaland pound

The pound was the currency of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

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Roan antelope

The roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) is a savanna antelope found in West, Central, East and Southern Africa.

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Rupiah Banda

Rupiah Bwezani Banda (born 13 February 1937) is a Zambian politician who was President of Zambia from 2008 to 2011.

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Sans-serif

In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes.

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Security hologram

Security holograms are labels with a hologram printed onto it for sale security reasons.

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Security thread

A security thread is a security feature of many banknotes to protect against counterfeiting, consisting of a thin ribbon that is threaded through the note's paper.

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Serial code

A serial code is a unique identifier assigned incrementally or sequentially to an item.

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Specimen banknote

A specimen banknote is printed generally in very limited quantities for distribution to central banks to aid in the recognition of banknotes from a country other than their own.

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Standard Catalog of World Paper Money

The Standard Catalog of World Paper Money is a well-known catalogue of banknotes that is published by Krause Publications in three volumes.

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Sterling area

The sterling area (or sterling bloc, legally scheduled territories) was a group of countries that either pegged their currencies to the pound sterling, or actually used the pound as their own currency.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Taurotragus

Taurotragus is a genus of large antelopes of the African savanna, commonly known as elands.

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Teak

Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species placed in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

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Tractor

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver at a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction.

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Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without being scattered.

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Tuber

Tubers are enlarged structures in some plant species used as storage organs for nutrients.

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Uapaca kirkiana

Uapaca kirkiana or sugar plum or mahobohobo is a species of plant in the Phyllanthaceae family.

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Underprint

An underprint is anything printed underneath the main design of a stamp, banknote or similar item.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls (Tokaleya Tonga: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "The Smoke that Thunders") is a waterfall in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.

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Wildlife

Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

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Zambezi

The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa.

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Zambezi indigobird

The Zambezi indigobird (Vidua codringtoni), also known as the twinspot indigobird or green indigobird, is a species of bird in the Viduidae family.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

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Zambian pound

The Zambian pound was the currency in Zambia from independence in 1964 until decimalization on January 16, 1968.

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20th century

The 20th century was a century that began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000.

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21st century

The 21st century is the current century of the Anno Domini era or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

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Commemorative banknotes of the Zambian kwacha, Ngwee, ZMK, Zambian Kwacha.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambian_kwacha

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