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A crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system and was formerly a unit in the Persian numbering system, still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and formerly in Iran. An Indian crore is equal to 100 lakh or 10 million. An Iranian crore is half a million (500,000).

Note that although lakhs are used in Sri Lanka, most Sri Lankans do not use the term crore when referring to money to terms in millions.

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?".

Etymology and regional variants

The word "crore" is derived from Sanskrit word कोटि koṭi, denoting "ten million" in the Indian numbering system, which has separate terms for all powers of ten from 100 up to 1017, however it denotes "five hundred thousand" in the Persian numbering system. The crore is known by various regional names in modern languages, all derived from the Sanskrit word:

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