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Five Kyrgyzstani Som Note (1997)
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Five Kyrgyzstani Som Note (1997)
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100 Kyrgystani Som Notes (2002)

The Kyrgyzstani Som (sometimes transliterated "Sum" or "Soum") is the currency of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. There are note denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 Som. There are no coins. Note designs have famous historical Kyrgyz individuals on one side and famous buildings on the other. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File links 100 Som notes. ... Image File history File links 100 Som notes. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


The word Som means "pure" in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uigur, Uzbek as well as many other Turkic languages. The word implies pure gold. The Soviet ruble was called Som in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek which are written on the back of the notes. Kazak, also Kazakh and Qazaq (Қазақ тілі, Qazaq tilî) is a Turkic language with ISO 639 codes of kaz and kk. ... Kyrgyz language edition of Wikipedia Kyrgyz, also Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили), is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. ... Uyghur (in Uyghur: ئۇيغۇرچه, new spelling: Uyƣurqə or ئۇيغۇر تىلى, Uyƣur tili; in Chinese: 维吾尔语 Wéiwúěryǔ) is a Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people in Xinjiang (also called East Turkestan or Uyghuristan), China. ... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthems: The Internationale (1922-1944) / Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics/ Communist state Last Premier Ivan Silayev Last President Mikhail Gorbachev Area... 1997 Russian Federation one rouble coin. ...


There are 41 soms to the US dollar, and 49 soms to the euro. This makes the som the second highest-valued currency unit in Central Asia.


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The economy of Kyrgyzstan was severely affected by the collapse of the Soviet trading block. ... SOM may be an acronym with any of the following meanings: Look up som on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Currencies of Asia and the Pacific
Central Afghan afghani | Kazakstani tenge | Kyrgyzstani som | Mongolian tugrug | Russian ruble | Tajikistani somoni | Turkmenistani manat | Uzbekistani som
East Chinese renminbi | Hong Kong dollar | Japanese yen | Macanese pataca | North Korean won | South Korean won | New Taiwan dollar
South-East Brunei dollar | Cambodian riel | Indonesian rupiah | Laos kip | Malaysian ringgit | Myanmar kyat | Philippine peso | Singapore dollar | Thai baht | US Dollar (East Timor) | Vietnamese dong
South Bangladeshi taka | Bhutanese ngultrum | Indian rupee | Maldives rufiyaa | Nepalese rupee | Pakistani rupee | Sri Lankan rupee
West Armenian dram | Azeri manat | Bahraini dinar | Egyptian pound | Georgian lari | Iranian rial | Iraqi dinar | New Israeli sheqel | Jordanian dinar | Kuwaiti dinar | Lebanese pound | Omani rial | Qatari riyal | Saudi riyal | Syrian pound | New Turkish lira | UAE dirham | Yemeni rial
Pacific Australian dollar (Kiribati, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Tuvalu) | CFP franc (French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna) | Fijian dollar | New Zealand dollar (Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Pitcairn Islands) | Papua New Guinean kina | Samoan tala | Solomon Islands dollar | Tongan pa'anga | US dollar (American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau) | Vanuatu vatu
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Kyrgyzstani som at AllExperts (220 words)
The Kyrgyzstani som (sometimes transliterated "sum" or "soum") is the currency of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.
The som was introduced in May 10, 1993, replacing the Soviet/Russian ruble at a rate of 1 som = 200 rubles.
Kyrgyzstani som is the second highest-valued currency unit in Central Asia.
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