Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth, a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as symbolic head of their association.
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Commonwealth”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Dec. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Commonwealth-association-of-states. Accessed 10 January 2025.
Britannica article about Commonwealth – https://www.britannica.com/topic/Commonwealth-association-of-states
Commonwealth member states since 1930s
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Australia
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- India
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka
- Ghana
- Malaysia
- Nigeria
- Cyprus
- Sierra Leone
- Tanzania
- Jamaica
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Uganda
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Malta
- Zambia
- Gambia
- Singapore
- Guyana
- Botswana
- Lesotho
- Barbados
- Maurititus
- Nauru
- Eswatini
- Fiji
- Tonga
- Samoa
- Bangladesh
- Bahamas
- Grenada
- Papua New Guinea
- Seychelles
- Dominica
- Solomon islands
- Tuvalu
- Kiribati
- Saint Lucia
- St. Vincent and Grenadines
- Vanuatu
- Belize
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Maldives
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- Brunei
- Namibia
- Cameroon
- Mozambique
- Rawanda
- Gabon
- Togo