Below is the
list of Countries, sub-divided into Territories, Disputed Areas, Far
off-shore group of Islands, Exclaves, Enclaves and Special Administration
areas. To collect coins of different Countries and Territories, one should
have a good knowledge about geographically location, how to read and
intercept languages written on them, various dating systems, old and new
currencies used. At least 15% which you spend on coins, should be used in
purchasing reference books on coins and related information. To me coin is a
piece of history in your hand. It reminds you of historical events,
personality, rise and fall of a nation, endanger flora and fauna and much
more. Have a look on the links below, containing images and information of
coins in my collection:
KOUALOU VILLAGE [disputed
between Burkina Faso and Benin]
BURUNDI
CAMBODIA
(KAMPUCHEA)
CAMEROON
BAKASSI [An
area of around 665 km² as part of Nigerian state of Cross River was
awarded by the International Court of Justice on 22 November 2007 to
Cameroon. The Nigerian Senate rejected the transfer but was formally
transferred to Cameroon on 14 August 2008]
SEVERAL ISLANDS IN THE
RIVER NTEM [disputed
between Cameroon and Eq. Guinea]
CANADA
PROVINCES
ALBERTA
BRITISH COLUMBIA
MANITOBA
NEW BRUNSWICK
NEWFOUNDLAND and
LABRADOR
NOVA SCOTIA
ONTARIO
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
QUEBEC
SASKATCHEWAN
TERRITORIES
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
YUKON TERRITORY
NUNAVUT
CAPE VERDE
CAYMAN ISLANDS
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
CHAD
CHILE
ARCHIPIELAGO DE LOS
CHONOS
ATACAMA CORRIDOR [claimed
by Bolivia]
EASTER ISLAND (ISLA DE PASCUA)
ISLA DE CHILOE
ISLA GUAFO
ISLA NUEVA
(uninhabited island - region Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, near
Navarino)
ISLA NAVARINO
(XII
the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica)
ISLA PICTON
(uninhabited island - region Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, near
Navarino)
ISLA LENNOX
(uninhabited island - region Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, near
Navarino)
ISLA GRANDE DE
TIERRA DEL FUEGO
(shared with Argentina)
ISLA SALA Y GOMEZ
ISLAS DE LOS
DESVENTURADOS
JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS
ALEXANDER SELKIRK ISLAND
JUANANGA
SANTA CLARA
ROBINSON CRUSOE ISLAND
(MAS A TIERRA)
MAGELLAN REGION AND
CHILEAN ANTARCTCA
SAN AMBROSIO ISLAND
SAN FELIX ISLAND
CHINA
PROVINCES
ANHUI
FUJIAN
GANSU
GUANGDONG
GUIZHOU
HAINAN
HEBEI
HEILONGJIANG
HENAN
HUBEI
HUNAN
JIANGSU
JIANGXI
JILIN
LIAONING
QINGHAI
SHAANXI
SHANDONG
SHANXI
SICHUAN
TAIWAN
YUNNAN
ZHEJIANG
AUTONOMOUS REGIONS
GUANGXI ZHUANG
INNER MONGOLIA
NINGXIA
TIBET
XINJIANG UYGHUR
AKSAI CHIN
(claimed
by India as part of Jammu and Kashmir)
MUNICIPALITIES
BEIJING
CHONGQING
SHANGHAI
TIANJIN
SPECIAL
ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS
HONG KONG
MACAU
OFF-SHORE ISLANDS
(claimed
by other Far-east Countries)
KAUIRIK
LAPTHAL
PA-LT-CHIA-SSU
PARCEL ISLANDS
SANG
SPRATLY ISLANDS
COLOMBIA
BARU ISLAND
ISLA DE MALPELO
[located
314 miles off Colombia's Pacific coast]
ISLA DE PROVIDENCIA
(Providencia
Island with Santa Catalina Island - part of San Andres y Providencia,
Honduras does not actively pursue its claim)
ALICE SHOAL (BANCO
ALICIA) [reef
claimed by Jamaica from its coast of 260 kms, 740 kms from Colombian
coast]
BAJO NUEVO BANK
(PETREL ISLANDS) [claimed
by the US under the Guano Act of 1856 including Low Cay]
QUITA SUENO BANK [returned
by the United States to Colombia in 1982]
RONCADOR BANK [returned
by the United States to Colombia in 1981]
SERRANA BANK [returned
by the United States to Colombia in 1981]
SERRANILLA BANK [claimed
by the US under the Guano Act of 1856]
ISLA DE SAN ANDRES
[part
of San Andres y Providencia]
ISLA GORGONA [Colombian
island in the Pacific Ocean]
COMOROS, THE
MWALI (MOHELI)
NGAZIDJA (GRANDE COMORO)
NZWANI (ANJOUAN or NZDUANI)
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
RUKWANZI ISLAND [disputed
between D.R. of Congo and Uganda]
STRIP OF LAND IN
SEMLIKI RIVER [disputed
between D.R. of Congo and Uganda]
TROMELIN ISLAND
[claimed
by Mauritius and The Seychelles]
VICTOR HUGO's HOUSE
[Victor Hugo's
house in St Peter Port, Guernsey ceded to the city of Paris]
WALLIS AND FUTUNA
GABON
MBANIE ISLAND, COCOTIERS
and CONGAS ISLAND [claimed
by Equatorial Guinea]
GAMBIA
GEORGIA
ABKHAZIA [officially
recognized by Russian Federation on 26 August 2008]
AJARIA
SOUTH OSSETIA [officially
recognized by Russian Federation on 26 August 2008]
GERMANY
STATES
BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG
BAVARIA (BAYERN)
BERLIN
BRANDENBURG
BREMEN
HAMBURG
HESSE (HESSEN)
MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN
LOWER SAXONY (NIEDERSACHSEN)
NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA
(NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN)
RHINELAND-PALATINATE (RHEINLAND-PFALZ)
SAARLAND
SAXONY (SACHSEN)
SAXONY-ANHALT (SACHSEN-ANHALT)
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN
THURINGIA (THÜRINGEN)
EXCALVES and OTHER
FOREIGN ISLAND
BÜSINGEN-AM-HOCHRHEIN (in
canton of Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland)
ERNST THALMANN ISLAND (a
Cuban Island ceded by Fidel Castro to DR Germany in 1972, now status is
unclear)
VENNBANN [a
group of 5 enclaves (Munsterbildchen, RötgenerWald, Rückschlag,
Mützenich & Rüitzhof) created by a railway track between the towns of
Röetgen and Monschau (south of Aachen) that was granted Belgian
sovereignty]
DISTRICT OF
PANCHAGARH, NILPHAMARI, LALMONIRHAT and KURIGRAM
(103 exclaves
in Bangladesh Districts)
SHALBARI
(2nd
largest exclave with 5 villages - contains 4 Bangladesh
exclaves)
DISTRICT OF
COOCH BEHAR, INDIA
(3 enclaves)
BALAPARA KHAGRABARI
KOT BHAJNI
DAHALA KHAGRABARI
UPANCHOWKI BHAJNI
(enclave within an enclave within an
enclave)
INDONESIA
(17,508
islands, about 6,000 of which are inhabited)
GROUP OF PROVINCES
JAVA
[Jakarta,
Banten, West Java (Jawa Barat), Central Java (Jawa Tengah), Yogyakarta
Special Region & East Java (Jawa Timur)]
KALIMANTAN [West
(Barat) Kalimantan, Central (Tengah) Kalimantan, South (Selatan)
Kalimantan & East (Timur) Kalimantan]
LESSER SUNDA ISLANS [Bali,
West (Barat) Nusa Tenggara & East (Timur) Nusa Tenggara]
MALUKU ISLANDS (SPICE
ISLAND)
[Maluku
& North (Utara) Maluku]
SULAWESI [North
(Utara) Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Central Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, South
Sulawesi & South East (Tenggara) Sulawesi]
SUMATRA
[Aceh,
North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau, Riau Islands, Jambi, South Sumatra,
Bangka-Belitung, Bengkulu & Lampung]
PAPUA (WESTERN NEW
GUINEA) [West Papua
(Papua Barat) & Papua]
IRAN
ABU MUSA
GREATER AND LESSER TUNB
ISLANDS
KISH ISLAND (area
of 91.5 km²,
is part of the
Hormozgān Province and an island in the Persian Gulf of Iran. Due to
its free trade zone status it is touted as a consumer's paradise,
with numerous malls, shopping centers, tourist attractions, and
resort hotels.)
TANUSEVCI (A
remote and strategically unimportant village claimed by Serbia &
Kosovo)
MADAGASCAR
BANC DU GEYSER [Claimed
by Madagascar, France and the Comoros]
MALAWI
CHISUMULU ISLAND [Malawi
Island in Lake Malawi near Mozambique]
LIKOMA ISLAND [Malawi
Island in Lake Malawi near Mozambique]
MALAYSIA
STATES
JOHORE
On May 23, 2008, the International
Court of Justice decided that PEDRA BRANCA is under the
sovereignty of Singapore while the MIDDLE ROCKS (MIDDLE LEDGE)
belong to Malaysia. The status of SOUTH LEDGE remained
unresolved.
in
BALOCHISTAN
[Zhob District, Loralai District (excluding Duki Tehsil), Dalbandin
Tehsil of Chagai District, Marri Tribal Territory in Sibi District,
Bugti Tribal Territory in Sibi District]
in NWFP [Chitral
District, Dir District, Swat District (including Kalam), The Tribal Area
in Kohistan District, Malakand Protected Area, The Tribal Area adjoining
(Batagram, Allai and Black Mountain of Hazara) in Mansehra District and
the former state of Amb]
KARIBA POWER STATION AND
SINDABEZI ISLAND [claimed
by Zimbabwe]
LUNCHINDA-PWETO
PROVINCE [claimed by
D.R. of Congo]
ZIMBABWE
The Antarctic Treaty System, formed on
1 December 1959 and entered into force on 23 June 1961, establishes the
legal framework for the management of Antarctica and provides administration
for the continent, which is carried out through consultative member
meetings. It freezes the territorial claims of all signatories (all
claimants have acceded) for as long as the treaty is in force. However, it
is not a final settlement; parties can choose to withdraw from the System at
any time. Furthermore, only a minority of states have signed it, and it is
not formally sanctioned by the United Nations. Thus, Antarctica remains the
only part of the planet any (non-signatory) state can still lay claim to as
terra nullius (on the grounds of it not having been part of any existing
state's legal and effective territory).
COMBINED CURRENCIES
AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR:
It is used in Commonwealth of Australia and
it's territories like: Christmas Island,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands,
and Norfolk Island.
It is as well used in the independent Pacific Island states:
Kiribati,
Nauru and
Tuvalu. These
independent countries are also having their own regular and/or
commemoratives coinage pegged to Australian Dollar.
CFA FRANC - EQUATORIAL AFRICAN STATES
[Cameroon,
Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial
Guinea and
Gabon]
CFA FRANC - WEST AFRICAN STATES
[Benin,
Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and
Togo]
EAST CARIBBEAN STATES DOLLAR
[Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica,
Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia,
and Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines.
The other two are British overseas
territories:
Anguilla
and
Montserrat]
EURO [Austria,
Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia
and Spain.
French overseas possessions: French
Guiana, Réunion, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Guadeloupe, Martinique,
Saint-Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Mayotte,
and the uninhabited Clipperton Island
and the French Southern and Antarctic
Lands; the Portuguese autonomous
regions of the Azores
and Madeira;
and the Spanish Canary Islands.
European microstates: Monaco, San
Marino, and
Vatican City. Beside them, it is used
also by
Andorra, Montenegro, Kosovo,
and Akrotiri and
Dhekelia.]
Currencies pegged to the euro by
French Territories are:
French Polynesia, New Caledonia
and Wallis
and Futuna (using the CFP franc);
Cape Verde;
The Comoros;
and fourteen nations of Central and West Africa (using the CFA franc).
INDIAN RUPEE
is used commonly used in
Bhutan
and
Nepal. These countries have their own currencies pegged to
Indian Rupee.
NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR:
New Zealand Self Governing Territories:
Cook Islands and
Niue. New
Zealand Non-Self-Governing Territory:
Tokelau. All these three territories
are also having their own regular and/or commemoratives coinage. It
also circulates in
Pitcairn Islands.
POUND STERLING:
It is used in United Kingdom. UK Territories and dependencies:
British Antarctic Territories
and British Indian Ocean Territory.
Other UK territories and crown colonies along with their own regular
and/or commemoratives coinage are also pegged and use Pound
Sterling: Alderney
(part of Guernsey), British Antarctica
Territories, Falkland
Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Saint Helena and
dependencies,
Pitcairn Islands
and South George and South Sandwich
Islands.
RUSSIAN RUBLE
is used by Georgia de facto independent states:
Abkhazia and
South Ossetia.
SWISS FRANC
is also used by Liechtenstein.
TURKISH LIRA
is used by Turkish Republish of
Northern Cyprus along with Euro.
US DOLLAR
[USA and all US Territories. The former
members of the U.S. Administered Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands, which included Palau, the
Federated States of Micronesia, and
the Marshall Islands. They chose not to
issue their own currency after becoming independent, having all
using
the U.S. dollar since 1944. Two British dependencies:
The British Virgin Islands
(1959) and Turks
and Caicos Islands (1973). Other
countries also use US Dollar as their officially currency:
East Timor
(2000), Ecuador
(2000) and El Salvador
(2001).]
Currencies pegged to the US Dollar by
Countries are:
The Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados,
Belize, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Macau
(actually pegged to Hong Kong), Oman, Panama, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and
United Arab Emirates.
East Caribbean States
Dollar is also pegged to US Dollar.
