Bangladeshi taka : Ask Biography

Currency

Local name

টাকা

ISO 4217 Code

BDT

Official user

Bangladesh

Inflation

5.39 %

Subunit

1/100

paisa

Coins and Banknotes

Freq. used coins

1, 2, 5 Taka

Rarely used coins

1, 5, 10, 25 & 50 poisha

Freq. used banknotes

2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 & 1000 Taka

Rarely used banknotes

1 Taka

Central bank

Bangladesh Bank

Printer

The Security Printing Corporation Bangladesh Ltd.

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The Taka (Bengali:টাকা, sign: ৳ or Tk, code: BDT) is the currency of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of the country controls the issuance of the currency except one taka and two taka notes, which are the responsibility of Ministry of Finance of the government of Bangladesh. The most commonly used symbol for the Taka is Tk and ৳, used on receipts while purchasing goods and services. One taka is subdivided into 100 poisha.

In Bengali, the word "taka" is also commonly used generically to mean any money, currency, or notes. Thus, colloquially, a person speaking Bengali may use "taka" to refer to money regardless of what currency it is denominated in. The currency sign is encoded in Unicode at .