Mauritanian Ouguiya Wiki
The Mauritanian Ouguiya is the official currency of Mauritania. Including its external territories: Western Sahara, Mauritania. The currency code for Mauritanian Ouguiya is MRU and the currency symbol is UM.
The Mauritanian Ouguiya (sign: UM; code: MRU) is the currency of Mauritania.
The Mauritanian Ouguiya (MRU) is used as the official currency in Mauritania, Western Sahara.
The capital of Mauritania, El Aaiún, uses the Mauritanian Ouguiya as its currency. Additionally, there are several other cities that use MRU either as their official currency or as an accepted form of payment El Aaiún, Nouakchott.
About the Mauritanian Ouguiya
The ouguiya (Arabic: أوقية موريتانية (IPA: [uɡija]); sign: UM; code: MRU), at one time spelled "ougiya", is the currency of Mauritania. Each ouguiya constitutes five khoums (meaning "one fifth"). As such it is one of two circulating currencies, along with the Malagasy ariary, whose division units are not based on a power of ten.
The current ouguiya was introduced in 2018, replacing the old ouguiya at a rate of 1 new ouguiya = 10 old ouguiya, which in turn replaced the CFA franc at a rate of 1 old ouguiya = 5 francs.
The name ouguiya (أوقية) is the Hassaniya Arabic pronunciation of uqiyyah أُوقِية), meaning "ounce".
With currencyconverts.com, you can convert Mauritanian Ouguiya (UM) to any other foreign currency. To convert a certain amount of Mauritanian Ouguiya, use the currency converter. This page provides free online information about currency conversion or exchange rates for world fiat currencies. The exchange rate for Mauritanian Ouguiya is calculated from the mid-market real price and updates daily. Usually, people search for the MRU exchange rate before business travel to Mauritania or during a trip to other countries, and want to check the rate of Mauritanian Ouguiya in local money. On this page, you can convert Mauritanian Ouguiya to main foreign currencies, get fast access to the most commonly used amounts of MRU, or alternatively calculate any amount of Mauritanian Ouguiya in other fiat money.