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====Countries using decimal comma==== Countries where a comma ({{code|,}}) is used as a decimal separator include: {{columns-list|colwidth=15em| * Albania * Algeria * Andorra * Angola * Argentina * Armenia * Austria * Azerbaijan * Belarus * Belgium * Bolivia * Bosnia and Herzegovina * Brazil * Bulgaria{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=bulgaria-mongolia|The national literary convention in Bulgaria and Mongolia is to use the comma as a decimal separator, but many places use the dot instead due to the prevalence of imported technology that internally uses the dot as the decimal separator. This is because the technology usually utilizes the decimal separator conventions of the country it was made in, and most of the technology is made in the United States, countries following the conventions and standards (such as [[ASCII]]) of the United States, or China – all of which use the dot as a decimal separator. Thus, in Bulgaria, the comma is the conventional decimal separator, but both the comma and the dot are used in practice. This is true for Mongolia as well, but the dot is more commonly used instead.}} * Cabo Verde * Cameroon * Canada (when using French) * Chile * Colombia * Costa Rica * Croatia * Cuba * Cyprus * Czech Republic * Denmark * East Timor * Ecuador * Estonia * Faroes * Finland * France * Germany * Georgia * Greece * Greenland * Hungary * Iceland * Indonesia * Italy * Kazakhstan * Kyrgyzstan * Laos * Latvia * Lebanon * Lithuania * Luxembourg * Macau (in Portuguese text) * Mauritania * Moldova * Mongolia{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=bulgaria-mongolia}} * Montenegro * Morocco * Mozambique * Namibia (uses both marks)<ref>{{cite web|title=AirNam board endorses aircraft purchase plan|url=http://www.mpe.gov.na/documents/182025/256446/AirNam+board+endorses+aircraft+purchase+plan.pdf/|website=Republic of Namibia, Ministry of Public Enterprises|access-date=30 January 2018|quote=The cost per aircraft was estimated at between N$19,5 million and N$26 million.|archive-date=31 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131024141/http://www.mpe.gov.na/documents/182025/256446/AirNam+board+endorses+aircraft+purchase+plan.pdf/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * The Netherlands * North Macedonia * Norway * Paraguay * Peru<ref>{{cite web|title=DECRETO SUPREMO Nº 064-84-ITI/IND|url=https://www.inacal.gob.pe/repositorioaps/data/1/1/5/jer/mlegal/files/DS-064-84-ITI-IND.pdf|website=Instituto Nacional de Calidad (INACAL)|access-date=23 March 2019|quote=La escritura de los números se hará utilizando las cifras arábigas y la numeración decimal, y en ella se separará la parte entera de la decimal mediante una coma (,).}}</ref> * Poland * Portugal * Romania * Russia * San Marino * Serbia * Slovakia * Slovenia * Somalia * South Africa<ref name=za>{{cite book |last=GCIS (2011) |url=http://www.gcis.gov.za/sites/default/files/editorial_styleguide_2011.pdf |title=Editorial Style Guide |publisher=Government Communications & Information System |location=Pretoria |page=24 |access-date=2018-01-30|quote=* Write decimal and negative numbers as numerals: 3,3 and –4. Use the decimal comma, not the decimal point: 17,4 million. [...] * Use a space, not commas, to indicate thousands: 3 000, 20 000.}}</ref><ref name=za-sadev>{{cite web|last1=MacLean|first1=Robert|title=How to correctly format currency in South Africa?|url=https://sadev.co.za/content/how-correctly-format-currency-south-africa|access-date=4 February 2018}}<br/></ref> * Spain{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=software-devs}} * Suriname * Sweden{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=software-devs}} * Switzerland{{efn|group=lower-roman|name=switzerland}} * Tunisia * Turkey * Turkmenistan * Ukraine * Uruguay * Uzbekistan * Venezuela * Vietnam * Zimbabwe }} {{anchor|Dot countries}}
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