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A 'crore' (Devanagari: करोड़, Urdu alphabet: کروڑ) is a unit in the Indian numbering system, still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It was also used in Iran for many centuries until some decades ago.
An Indian crore is equal to 100 lakh or 10 million (10⁷). An Iranian crore (کرور ''korur'' in Persian) is half a million (500,000).
The unit is also known as ''koti'' in the Bengali (), Telugu, Kannada, Konkani and Marathi language speaking areas while ''kodi'' (Tamil : கோடி) is used in Tamil and Malayalam.
The Mumbai underworld slang for a crore is a ''khokha''.
Note that Sri Lanka does not refer to the term ''crore'' when referring to money to terms in millions. ''Lakh'' is used quite commonly in Sri Lanka, but not ''crore''.
The word is used in the Indian title of the popular ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' game show, ''Kaun Banega Crorepati'' - literally "Who will be a ten-millionaire?".

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See also

★ Lakh (= 0.01 crore)

★ Indian numbering system

★ Names of numbers in English

★ Names of large numbers

External links

★ ''Crore'' at LoveToKnow