List of central banks

This is a list of central banks. Countries that are only partially recognized internationally are marked with an asterisk (*).

Central banks by jurisdiction[]

A[]

•  Abkhazia* – National Bank of the Republic of Abkhazia (Аҧсны Аҳәынҭқарра Амилаҭтә Банк, 1991)
•  Afghanistan – Da Afghanistan Bank (د افغانستان بانک / بانک مرکزی افغانستان 1939)
•  Albania – Bank of Albania (Banka e Shqipërisë, 1925)
•  Algeria – Bank of Algeria (بنك الجزائر 1962 / Banque d'Algérie)
•  Andorra – no central bank; uses the euro as its domestic currency
•  Angola – National Bank of Angola (Banco Nacional de Angola, 1926)
•  Anguilla – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983) as part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
•  Antigua and Barbuda – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983) as part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
•  Argentina – Central Bank of Argentina (Banco Central de la República Argentina, 1935)
•  Armenia – Central Bank of Armenia (Հայաստանի Կենտրոնական Բանկ / Hayastani Kentronakan Bank, 1991)
•  Artsakh* – no central bank; uses the Armenian Dram as its domestic currency
•  Aruba – Central Bank of Aruba (Centrale Bank van Aruba, 1986)
•  Australia – Reserve Bank of Australia (1960)
•  Austria ��� Oesterreichische Nationalbank (1816), within the Eurosystem since 1999
•  Azerbaijan – Central Bank of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan Mərkəzi Bankı, 1992); the short-lived Azerbaijan Democratic Republic had set up a central bank, the  [az] in 1919-1920

B[]

•  Bahamas – Central Bank of The Bahamas (1974)
•  Bahrain – Central Bank of Bahrain (1973 مصرف البحرين المركزي)
•  Bangladesh – Bangladesh Bank (বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক, 1971)
•  Barbados – Central Bank of Barbados (1972)
•  Belarus – National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (Нацыянальны банк Рэспублікі Беларусь, 1992)
•  Belgium – National Bank of Belgium (Nationale Bank van België / Banque nationale de Belgique / Belgische Nationalbank , 1850), within the Eurosystem since 1999
•  Belize – Central Bank of Belize (1982)
•  Benin – Central Bank of West African States as part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
•  Bermuda – Bermuda Monetary Authority (1969)
•  Bhutan – Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan (བྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཞུང་དངུལ་ལས་དབང་འཛིན་, 1982)
•  Bolivia – Central Bank of Bolivia (Banco Central de Bolivia, 1928)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina – Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Centralna Banka Bosne i Hercegovine / Централна банка Босне и Херцеговине, 1997)
•  Botswana – Bank of Botswana (1975)
•  Brazil – Central Bank of Brazil (Banco Central do Brasil, 1964); Banco do Brasil performed central banking roles from 1821 to 1964
•  Brunei – Monetary Authority of Brunei Darussalam (Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam, 2011)
•  Bulgaria – Bulgarian National Bank (Българска народна банка, 1879)
•  Burkina Faso – Central Bank of West African States as part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
•  Burundi – Bank of the Republic of Burundi (Banque de la République du Burundi / Ibanki ya Republika Y'UBurundi, 1966)

C[]

•  Cambodia – National Bank of Cambodia (ធនាគារជាតិ នៃ កម្ពុជា, 1954)
•  Cameroon – Bank of Central African States as part of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
•  Canada – Bank of Canada (Banque du Canada, 1935)
•  Cape Verde – Bank of Cape Verde (Banco de Cabo Verde, 1975)
•  Cayman Islands – Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (1997)
•  Central African Republic – Bank of Central African States as part of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
• Communauté Financière du Pacifique (CFP) – Overseas Issuing Institute (Institut d'émission d'outre-mer, 1966); this jurisdiction includes French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna
•  Chad – Bank of Central African States as part of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
•  Chile – Central Bank of Chile (Banco Central de Chile, 1925)
•  China – People's Bank of China (中国人民銀行 / Zhōngguó Rénmín Yínháng, 1948); preceded by the Ta-Ching Government Bank (1905-1924) and the Central Bank of China (1924-1949). Hong Kong and Macau have separate currencies and central banks, as does Taiwan
•  Colombia – Bank of the Republic (Banco de la República, 1923); preceded by the Banco Nacional (1880-1894) and the Banco Central de Colombia (1905-1910)
•  Comoros – Central Bank of the Comoros (Banque Centrale des Comores, 1981)
•  Congo, Democratic Republic of – Central Bank of the Congo (Banque Centrale du Congo, 1964 as Banque Nationale du Congo; received current name in 1971)
•  Congo, Republic of – Bank of Central African States as part of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
•  Costa Rica – Central Bank of Costa Rica (Banco Central de Costa Rica, 1950)
•  Cote d'Ivoire – Central Bank of West African States as part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
•  Croatia – Croatian National Bank (Hrvatska narodna banka, 1990)
•  Cuba – Central Bank of Cuba (Banco Central de Cuba, 1948 as Banco Nacional de Cuba; restructured and renamed in 1997)
•  Curaçao – Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten (Centrale bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten, 1828 as Bank Nederlandse Antillen, renamed in 2010); joint with Sint Maarten
•  Cyprus – Central Bank of Cyprus (Κεντρική Τράπεζα της Κύπρου / Kıbrıs Merkez Bankası, 1963), within the Eurosystem since 2008; preceded by the Cyprus Currency Board (1927-1960) and the Issuing Bank (1960-1963)
•  Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus* – Central Bank of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Merkez Bankası, 1983)
•  Czech Republic – Czech National Bank (Česká národní banka, 1993)

D[]

•  Denmark – Danmarks Nationalbank (1818)
•  Djibouti – Central Bank of Djibouti (Banque Centrale de Djibouti, 1979)
•  Dominica – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983) as part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
•  Dominican Republic – Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (Banco Central de la República Dominicana, 1947)
•  Donetsk People's Republic* – Central Republican Bank (Центральный Республиканский Банк, 2015)

E[]

•  East Timor – East Timor Central Bank (Banco Central de Timor-Leste / Banku Sentrál Timor-Leste, 2011)
• Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa – Bank of Central African States (BEAC - Banque des États de l'Afrique Centrale, 1972), preceded by the Institut d'émission de l'Afrique équatoriale française et du Cameroun (1955-1959)^[1] and the Banque centrale des états de l'Afrique équatoriale et du Cameroun (1959-1972);^[2] this jurisdiction includes Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon
•  Ecuador – Central Bank of Ecuador (Banco Central del Ecuador, 1927)
•  Egypt – Central Bank of Egypt (1961 البنك المركزي المصري), preceded by the National Bank of Egypt between 1951 and 1960^[3]
•  El Salvador – Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador, 1934)
•  Equatorial Guinea – Bank of Central African States as part of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
•  Eritrea – Bank of Eritrea (1993)
•  Estonia – Bank of Estonia (Eesti Pank, 1990), within the Eurosystem since 2011; a first Bank of Estonia existed under the first Republic of Estonia from 1919 to 1940
•  Eswatini – Central Bank of Eswatini (Umntsholi Wemaswati, 1974)
•  Ethiopia – National Bank of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ብሔራዊ ባንክ, 1906 as Bank of Abyssinia; received its current name in 1963)
•  European Union – European Central Bank (1998), forming the Eurosystem together with the euro area's National Central Banks since 1 January 1999

F[]

•  Fiji – Reserve Bank of Fiji (1984)
•  Finland – Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki / Finlands Bank, 1812)
•  France – Bank of France (Banque de France, 1800), within the Eurosystem since 1999; preceded by John Law's Banque Générale (1716-1718), Banque Royale (1718-1720) and Mississippi Company (1720-1721) and by the  [fr] (1767-1769, 1776-1793) and the  [fr] (1797-1803). The French overseas collectivities of French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are in the technically separate CFP

G[]

•  Gabon – Bank of Central African States as part of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
•  The Gambia – Central Bank of The Gambia (1971)
•  Germany – Deutsche Bundesbank (1957), within the Eurosystem since 1999; preceded by the Reichsbank (1876-1945) and the Bank deutscher Länder (1948-1957)
•  Georgia – National Bank of Georgia (საქართველოს ეროვნული ბანკი / Sakartvelos Erovnuli Bank’i, 1991)
•  Ghana – Bank of Ghana (1957)
•  Greece – Bank of Greece (Τράπεζα της Ελλάδος, 1928), within the Eurosystem since 2001
•  Grenada – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983) as part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
•  Guatemala – Bank of Guatemala (Banco de Guatemala, 1945)
•  Guinea – Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea (Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée, 1960)
•  Guinea-Bissau – Central Bank of West African States as part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
•  Guyana – Bank of Guyana (1965)

H[]

•  Haiti – Bank of the Republic of Haiti (Banque de la République d'Haïti, 1979); preceded by the National Bank of the Republic of Haiti (1910-1979)
•  Hong Kong – Hong Kong Monetary Authority (香港金融管理局, 1993); preceded by the Office of the Exchange Fund (1935-1993)
•  Honduras – Central Bank of Honduras (Banco Central de Honduras, 1950)
•   Holy See – Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (Amministrazione del Patrimonio della Sede Apostolica, 1967); an earlier central bank, the  [it], had existed between 1850 and 1870
•  Hungary – Hungarian National Bank (Magyar Nemzeti Bank, 1924)

I[]

•  Iceland – Central Bank of Iceland (Seðlabanki Íslands, 1961)
•  India – Reserve Bank of India (भारतीय रिज़र्व बैंक, 1935); preceded by the Imperial Bank of India from 1921 to 1935 (the latter was acquired by RBI in 1935 nationalised on Jan 01 ,1949
•  Indonesia – Bank of Indonesia (Bank Indonesia, 1953)
•  Iran – Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (بانک مرکزی ایران / Bank Markazi, 1960); preceded by the Imperial Bank of Persia (1889-1929) and by Bank Melli Iran (1930-1960),^[3] the latter reorganized in 1960 as a commercial bank
•  Iraq – Central Bank of Iraq (1947 البنك المركزي العراقي)
•  Republic of Ireland – Central Bank of Ireland (Banc Ceannais na hÉireann, 1943), within the Eurosystem since 1999
•  Israel – Bank of Israel (בנק ישראל / بنك إسرائيل 1954)
•  Italy – Bank of Italy (Banca d'Italia, 1893), within the Eurosystem since 1999; preceded by the  [it] (1861-1893)

J[]

•  Jamaica – Bank of Jamaica (1961)
•  Japan – Bank of Japan (日本銀行, 1882)
•  Jordan – Central Bank of Jordan (البنك المركزي الاردني 1964)

K[]

•  Kazakhstan – National Bank of Kazakhstan (Қазақстан Ұлттық Банкі / Qazaqstan Ulttyq Banki, 1993)
•  Kenya – Central Bank of Kenya (Benki Kuu ya Kenya, 1966)
•  Kiribati – no central bank; uses the Australian dollar as its domestic currency
•  Korea, Democratic People's Republic of – Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (조선민주주의인민공화국중앙은행, 1947)
•  Korea, Republic of – Bank of Korea (한국은행, 1950)
•  Kosovo* – Central Bank of Kosovo (Banka Qendrore e Republikës së Kosovës, 2008)
•  Kuwait – Central Bank of Kuwait (بنك الكويت المركزي 1969)
•  Kyrgyzstan – National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (Кыргыз Республикасынын Улуттук Банкы / Kyrgyz Respublikasynyn Uluttuk Banky, 1991)

L[]

•  Laos – Bank of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (ທະນາຄານ ແຫ່ງ ສ. ປ. ປ. ລາວ, 1968)
•  Latvia – Bank of Latvia (Latvijas Banka, 1991), within the Eurosystem since 2014; a first Bank of Latvia existed under the first Republic of Latvia from 1922 to 1940
•  Lebanon – Banque du Liban (مصرف لبنان 1963)
•  Lesotho – Central Bank of Lesotho (Banka e Kholo ea Lesotho, 1978)
•  Liberia – Central Bank of Liberia (2000), preceded by the National Bank of Liberia from 1974 to 2000
•  Libya – Central Bank of Libya (مصرف ليبيا المركزي 1956)
•  Liechtenstein – National Bank of Liechtenstein (Liechtensteinische Landesbank, 1861), mostly a commercial bank but with some public policy duties
•  Lithuania – Bank of Lithuania (Lietuvos Bankas, 1990), within the Eurosystem since 2015; a first Bank of Lithuania existed under the first Republic of Lithuania from 1922 to 1943
•  Luhansk People's Republic* – Gosbank (Государственный банк, 2015)
•  Luxembourg – Central Bank of Luxembourg (Banque centrale du Luxembourg, 1998), within the Eurosystem since 1999; preceded by the Institut Monétaire Luxembourgeois from 1983 to 1998^[4]

M[]

•  Macau – Autoridade Monetária de Região Administrativa Especial de Macau (澳門特別行政區金融管理局 / Monetary Authority of Macao Special Administrative Region)
•  Madagascar – Central Bank of Madagascar (Banque Centrale de Madagascar / Banky Foiben'i Madagasikara, 1974)
•  Malawi – Reserve Bank of Malawi (1964)
•  Malaysia – Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia, 1959)
•  Maldives – Maldives Monetary Authority (1981)
•  Mali – Central Bank of West African States as part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
•  Malta – Central Bank of Malta (Bank Ċentrali ta’ Malta, 1968), within the Eurosystem since 2008
•  Marshall Islands - no central bank; uses the United States dollar as its domestic currency
•  Mauritania – Central Bank of Mauritania (Banque Centrale de Mauritanie, 1973)
•  Mauritius – Bank of Mauritius (1967)
•  Mexico – Bank of Mexico (Banco de México, 1925); the Banco Nacional de Mexico performed some central-bank functions from its formation in 1884 to 1925
•  Micronesia - no central bank; uses the United States dollar as its domestic currency
•  Moldova – National Bank of Moldova (Banca Naţională a Moldovei, 1991); N.B. Transnistria maintains its own central bank
•  Monaco - no central bank; uses the euro as its domestic currency
•  Mongolia – Bank of Mongolia (Монгол банк Дэлгэрсайхан, 1991), preceded by another entity also named Bank of Mongolia (1924-1954) then renamed State Bank of Mongolia (1954-1991)
•  Montenegro – Central Bank of Montenegro (Centralna Banka Crne Gore, 2001)
•  Montserrat – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983) as part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
•  Morocco – Bank Al-Maghrib (بنك المغرب 1959)
•  Mozambique – Bank of Mozambique (Banco de Moçambique, 1975)
•  Myanmar – Central Bank of Myanmar (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်ဗဟိုဘဏ်, 1948 as Union Bank of Burma)

N[]

•  Namibia – Bank of Namibia (1990)
•  Nauru – no central bank; uses the Australian dollar as its domestic currency
•    Nepal – Nepal Rastra Bank (नेपाल राष्ट्र बैंक, 1956); from 1937 to 1956 Nepal Bank performed central banking functions
•  Netherlands – De Nederlandsche Bank ("The Dutch Bank", 1814), within the Eurosystem since 1999
•  New Caledonia – Overseas Issuing Institute as part of the CFP
•  New Zealand – Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Te Pūtea Matua, 1934)
•  Nicaragua – Central Bank of Nicaragua (Banco Central de Nicaragua, 1960)
•  Niger – Central Bank of West African States as part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
•  Nigeria – Central Bank of Nigeria (1958)
•  North Macedonia – National Bank of North Macedonia (Народна банка на Република Северна Македонија, 1991)
•  Norway – Norges Bank (1816)

O[]

•  Oman – Central Bank of Oman (البنك المركزي العماني 1974)
• Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983); this jurisdiction includes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; the British Virgin Islands do not use the Eastern Caribbean dollar despite being a member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

P[]

•  Pakistan – State Bank of Pakistan (بینک دولت پاکستان 1948)
•  Palau - no central bank; uses the United States dollar as its domestic currency
•  Palestine – Palestine Monetary Authority (سلطة النقد الفلسطينية 1994)
•  Panama – no central bank; uses the United States dollar as its domestic currency, and the Panamanian balboa pegged to the U.S. dollar
•  Papua New Guinea – Bank of Papua New Guinea (1973)
•  Paraguay – Central Bank of Paraguay (Banco Central del Paraguay, 1952)
•  Peru – Central Reserve Bank of Peru (Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, 1922)
•  Philippines – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (1949 as Central Bank of the Philippines, renamed in 1993)
•  Poland – National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski, 1945); preceded by the first  [pl] (1828-1885), the second Bank of Poland (1924-1939) and the Bank of Issue in Poland (1940-1945)
•  French Polynesia – Overseas Issuing Institute as part of the CFP
•  Portugal – Bank of Portugal (Banco de Portugal, 1846), within the Eurosystem since 1999

Q[]

•  Qatar – Qatar Central Bank (مصرف قطر المركزي 1973)

R[]

•  Romania – National Bank of Romania (Banca Națională a României, 1880)
•  Russia – Central Bank of Russia (Центральный банк Российской Федерации, 1990); preceded by the State Bank of the Russian Empire (1860-1917) and the institutions of the Soviet Union
•  Rwanda – National Bank of Rwanda (Banque Nationale du Rwanda / Banki Nkuru y'u Rwanda, 1964)

S[]

•  Saint Kitts and Nevis – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983) as part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
•  Saint Lucia – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983) as part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1983) as part of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
•  Samoa – Central Bank of Samoa (Faletupe Tutotonu o Samoa, 1984)
•  San Marino – Central Bank of the Republic of San Marino (Banca Centrale della Repubblica di San Marino, 2005), preceded by the Istituto di Credito Sammarinese
•  São Tomé and Príncipe – Central Bank of São Tomé and Príncipe (Banco Central de São Tomé e Príncipe, 1975)
•  Saudi Arabia – Saudi Central Bank (مؤسسة النقد العربي السعودي 1952)
•  Senegal – Central Bank of West African States as part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
•  Serbia – National Bank of Serbia (Народна банка Србије / Narodna banka Srbije; 1884 as Privileged National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, last renamed in 2003)
•  Seychelles – Central Bank of Seychelles (Banque centrale des Seychelles / Labank santral Sesel, 1983)
•  Sierra Leone – Bank of Sierra Leone (1963)
•  Singapore – Monetary Authority of Singapore (1971)
•  Sint Maarten – Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten (Centrale bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten, 1828 as Bank Nederlandse Antillen, renamed in 2010); joint with Curaçao
•  Slovakia – National Bank of Slovakia (Národná banka Slovenska, 1993), within the Eurosystem since 2009; a central bank of the same name had existed during the Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
•  Slovenia – Bank of Slovenia (Banka Slovenije, 1991), within the Eurosystem since 2007
•  Solomon Islands – Central Bank of Solomon Islands (1983)
•  Somalia – Central Bank of Somalia (Bankiga Dhexe ee Soomaaliya / البنك المركزي الصومالي‎, 1960)
•  Somaliland* – Bank of Somaliland (Baanka Somaliland, 1994)
•  South Africa – South African Reserve Bank (1921)
•  South Ossetia* – National Bank of South Ossetia (2013)
•  South Sudan – Bank of South Sudan (2011)
•  Spain – Bank of Spain (Banco de España, 1782), within the Eurosystem since 1999
•  Sri Lanka – Central Bank of Sri Lanka (ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව / இலங்கை மத்திய வங்கி, 1950 as Central Bank of Ceylon, renamed in 1985; preceded by a Currency Board 1885-1950)^[3]
•  Sudan – Central Bank of Sudan (بنك السودان المركزي 1960)
•  Suriname – Central Bank of Suriname (Centrale Bank van Suriname, 1957)
•  Sweden – Sveriges Riksbank ("Swedish Royal Bank", 1668), preceded by Stockholms Banco (1657-1667); the world's oldest surviving central bank
•   Switzerland – Swiss National Bank (Schweizerische Nationalbank / Banque Nationale Suisse / Banca Nazionale Svizzera / Banca Naziunala Svizra, 1906)
•  Syria – Central Bank of Syria (مصرف سورية المركزي 1953)

T[]

•  Taiwan* – Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (中華民國中央銀行, 1961); the Bank of Taiwan was the island's central bank from 1899 to 1961
•  Tajikistan – National Bank of Tajikistan (Бонки миллии Тоҷикистон, 1991)
•  Tanzania – Bank of Tanzania (Benki Kuu ya Tanzania, 1965)
•  Thailand – Bank of Thailand (ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย, 1942)
•  Timor-Leste – Banco Central de Timor-Leste (Banco Central de Timor-Leste, 2011)
•  Togo – Central Bank of West African States as part of the West African Economic and Monetary Union
•  Tonga – National Reserve Bank of Tonga (1989)
•  Transnistria* – Transnistrian Republican Bank (Приднестровский Республиканский Банк, 1992)
•  Trinidad and Tobago – Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (1964)
•  Tunisia – Central Bank of Tunisia (البنك المركزي التونسي / Banque Centrale de Tunisie, 1958)
•  Turkey – Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası, 1930); preceded by the Ottoman Bank which acted as central bank from 1863 to 1931
•  Turkmenistan – Central Bank of Turkmenistan (Türkmenistanyň Merkezi Banky, 1991)
•  Tuvalu – no central bank; uses the Australian dollar as its domestic currency, and the Tuvaluan dollar pegged to the Australian dollar

U[]

•  Uganda – Bank of Uganda (Benki Kuu ya Uganda, 1966)
•  Ukraine – National Bank of Ukraine (Національний банк України, 1991); a short-lived Ukrainian State Bank existed in 1918 under the Ukrainian People's Republic
•  United Arab Emirates – Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (مصرف الإمارات العربية المتحدة المركزي 1980)
•  United Kingdom – Bank of England (1694)
•  United States – Federal Reserve (1913), preceded by the Bank of North America (1781-1785), the First Bank of the United States (1791-1811), and the Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836)
•  Uruguay – Central Bank of Uruguay (Banco Central del Uruguay, 1967)
•  Uzbekistan – Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan (O'zbekiston Respublikasi Markaziy Banki / Ўзбекистон Республикаси Марказий Банки, 1991)

V[]

•  Vanuatu – Reserve Bank of Vanuatu (Reserve Bank blong Vanuatu, 1981)

•  Venezuela – Central Bank of Venezuela (Banco Central de Venezuela, 1939)
•  Vietnam – State Bank of Vietnam (Ngân hàng nhà nước Việt Nam, 1951)

W[]

•  Wallis and Futuna – Overseas Issuing Institute as part of the CFP
• West African Economic and Monetary Union – Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO - Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, 1959); preceded by the Bank of West Africa (Banque d'Afrique Occidentale, 1901-1959). This jurisdiction includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo

Y[]

•  Yemen – Central Bank of Yemen (البنك المركزي اليمني 1971)

Z[]

•  Zambia – Bank of Zambia (1964)
•  Zimbabwe – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (1964 as Reserve Bank of Rhodesia, received current name in 1980)

Disappeared central banking jurisdictions[]

•  City of Amsterdam – Bank of Amsterdam (1609-1791)^[5]
•  City of Barcelona – Taula de canvi de Barcelona (1401-1714)^[5]
•  British East Africa – East African Currency Board (1919-1966)
•  Independent State of Croatia –  [hr] (Hrvatska Državna Banka, 1941-1945)
•  Czechoslovakia –  [cs] (1926–1939 and 1945-1950) and  [cs] (1950–1992)
•  Free City of Frankfurt –  [de] (1854-1875)
•  Republic of Genoa – Bank of Saint George (1407-1805)^[5]
•  German Democratic Republic –  [de] (1948-1968) and Staatsbank der DDR (1968-1990)
•  Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – Hamburger Bank (1619-1875)^[5]
•  Korea under Japanese and American rule – Bank of Korea (1909–1950)
•  Manchukuo – Central Bank of Manchou (1932-1945)
•  Kingdom of Prussia –  [de] (1765-1846) and  [de] (1847-1875)
•  Kingdom of Sardinia –  [it] (1849-1861), itself formed through the merger of Banca di Genova [it] (1846-1849) and Banca di Torino (1847-1849)
•  Kingdom of the Two Sicilies – Banco di Napoli, under different names from 1463 to final end of central banking role in 1926^[5]
•  Grand Duchy of Tuscany – Banca di Firenze (1816-1893), renamed  [it] from 1857
•  Soviet Union – People's Bank (1917-1922) and Gosbank (1922-1991)
•  Republic of Venice – Banco del Giro (1524-1806)^[5]
•  Yugoslavia – the National Bank of Serbia, successively named National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1920-1929), National Bank of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929-1946), and National Bank of Yugoslavia (1946-2003)

See also[]

• Central banks and currencies of Africa
• Central banks and currencies of the Caribbean
• Central banks and currencies of Central America and South America
• Central banks and currencies of Europe
• List of currencies
• International Monetary Fund – Lender of last resort to countries short of liquidity
• Bank for International Settlements – an international organisation which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks.

Notes[]

External links[]

• Centralbanksguide.com: Central Banks of the World website
• BIS.org: Bank for International Settlements−BIS.org: List of Central banks of the World — with links to websites.