Milliard's a French-derived numeral word meaning the number 1,000,000,000 (109; one thousand million; SI prefix giga) and which's used in France, Germany ("Milliarde"), Italy ("Miliardo"), Russia ("миллиард"), the Scandinavian countries (Norway and Denmark) ("Milliard"), (Sweden) ("Miljard"), Finland ("Miljardi"), the Netherlands ("Miljard"), Romania ("Miliard"), Poland, Hungary ("Milliárd"), Iran, and Israel (מילי”… (More on Milliard)