Crore


A crore karor or koti denotes ten million and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local style of digit group separators.

Money

Large amounts of money in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal are often written in terms of crore.
For example, 150,000,000 is written as 'fifteen crore rupees', '15crore' or 'Rs 15 crore'. In the abbreviated form, usage such as "15cr" is common.
Trillions of money are often written or spoken of in terms of lakh crore. For example, one trillion rupees is:

Lakh is also used in Sri Lanka; however, most Sri Lankans use the term koatiya or koti for crore when referring to money.
The word crore is a borrowing from the Prakrit word kroḍi, is in turn from the Sanskrit koṭi, denoting ten million in the Indian numbering system, which has separate terms for most powers of ten from 100 up to 1019. The crore is known by various regional names.

Indian languages