US dollar (USD) British pound (GBP) exchange rate

ll➤ 12 Dec 2018 【$ 1 = £ 0.7995】, The converter shows the conversion of 1 US dollar to British pound as of Wednesday, 12 December 2018. It has been updated today with the official exchange rate published by central banks or market places. Click on the following link if you want to reverse the British pound to US dollar conversion. You can go back to the home page of the currency converter.

The US Dollar is the currency used in the following 21 countries: American Samoa, British Virgin Islands, Ecuador, Guam, Micronesia, Palau, Puerto Rico, Turks & Caicos Islands, United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Zimbabwe, U.S. Outlying Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Diego Garcia, Haiti, British Indian Ocean Territory, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, El Salvador, Timor-Leste. The British Pound is the currency of 8 countries: British Indian Ocean Territory, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Guernsey, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands, Isle of Man, Jersey, Tristan da Cunha.

The code of US dollar is USD, GBP is the ISO code of British pound. We use $ as symbol of US dollar and £ as symbol of British pound. The US Dollar is divided in 100 cents. One British pound is composed of 100 pence. Both currencies are regulated by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Bank of England

Did you know:

• The most popular conversions of US dollar are USD/Indian rupee USD/South African rand USD/Ghanaian cedi The most asked changes of British pound are: GBP/Pakistani rupee GBP/Bangladeshi taka GBP/Nigerian naira
• the US dollar was introduced in 1 Jan 1791 (226 years ago).
• There are 6 coins for the US dollar ( 1¢ , 5¢ , 10¢ , 25¢ , 50¢ and $1 ), the British pound has 12 coins ( 1p , 2p , 3p , 4p , 5p , 10p , 20p , 25p , 50p , £1 , £2 and £5 ),
• the US dollar has 7 banknotes ( $1 , $2 , $5 , $10 , $20 , $50 and $100 ) there are 6 banknotes for the British pound ( £1 , £5 , £10 , £20 , £50 and £100 ).