page_title: Shilling
section_title: East African shillings
hierarchical_section_title: Shilling / British Empire / East African shillings
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Africa highlighting countries using a currency known as "shilling" in English.
context_page_description: The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in Austria, and in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other British Commonwealth countries.
  Currently the shilling is used as a currency in four east African countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Somalia. The East African Community additionally plans to introduce an East African shilling.
context_section_description: The East African shilling was in use in the British colonies and protectorates of British Somaliland, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar from 1920, when it replaced the rupee, until after those countries became independent, and in Tanzania after that country was formed by the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964. Upon independence in 1960, the East African shilling in the State of Somaliland (former British Somaliland) and the Somali somalo in the Trust Territory of Somalia (former Italian Somaliland) were replaced by the Somali shilling.
  In 1966, the East African Monetary Union broke up, and the member countries replaced their currencies with the Kenyan shilling, the Ugandan shilling and the Tanzanian shilling, respectively. Though all these currencies have different values at present, there were plans to reintroduce the East African shilling as a new common currency by 2009, although this has not come about.
caption: Countries in Africa where the currency is called shilling.
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