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Vietnam's currency, so inflated a coffee costs five digits and nobody blinks.
means The đồng is the official unit of money in Vietnam, where prices routinely run into the tens of thousands.
from The name comes from the Vietnamese 'đồng,' meaning 'copper,' tracing back to old copper coins used before the modern currency was introduced in the 20th century — so every price tag is quietly still naming the metal that started it all.
- exchange rate
- roughly 24,000 dong to one US dollar
- largest banknote
- 500,000 dong, still fits in a wallet
- name origin
- means copper, the metal old coins used
- no coins
- Vietnam stopped minting them, too little value