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The British Commonwealth

For those who live there - or those who are considering moving there - this information will be informative and helpful.

History of the Commonwealth

Commonwealth Web Sites

British Commonwealth A-I British Commonwealth J-S British Commonwealth S-Z
Anguilla Jamaica St. Vincent
Antigua & Barbuda Kenya Solomon Islands
Australia Kiribati South Georgia Island
Bahamas Lesotho Swaziland
Bangladesh Malawi Tanzania
Barbados Malaysia Togoland
Belize Maldive Islands Tonga
Bermuda Malta Trinidad & Tobago
Botswana Mauritius Turks & Caicos Islands
British Virgin Islands Montserrat Tuvalu
Brunei Namibia Uganda
Cameroon New Zealand Vanuatu
Canada Nigeria West Samoa
Cayman Islands Pakistan Zambia
Cyprus Papua New Guinea Zimbabwe
Dominica Pitcairn Islands Commonwealth Office
Falkland Islands Seychelles Commonwealth Foundation
Fiji Sierra Leone More African Sites
Gambia Singapore More South African Sites
Ghana South Africa More Australian Sites
Gibraltar Sri Lanka More Canadian Sites
Grenadines St. Helena More Caribbean Sites
Guyana St. Lucia Virtual Britain
India St. Kitts-Nevis

List of Commonwealth Members by Continent

Date of membership in (parentheses).

Europe

United Kingdom (1931)

Cyprus (1961)

Malta (1964)

North America and Central America

Canada (1931)

Jamaica (1962)

Trinidad and Tobago (1962)

Barbados (1966)

The Bahamas (1973)

Grenada (1974)

Dominica (1978)

St Lucia (1979)

St Vincent and The Grenadines (1979)

Antigua and Barbuda (1981)

Belize (1981)

St Kitts and Nevis (1983)

South America

Guyana (1966)

Africa

South Africa (1931 and left in 1961 but rejoined 1994)

Ghana (1957)

Nigeria (1960 and suspended in 1995 but readmitted 1999)

Sierra Leone (1961)

Tanzania (1961)

Uganda (1962)

Kenya (1963)

Malawi (1964)

Zambia (1964)

The Gambia (1965)

Botswana (1966)

Lesotho (1966)

Mauritius (1968)

Swaziland (1968)

Seychelles (1976)

Namibia (1990)

Mozambique (1995)

Cameroon (1995)

Zimbabwe (left in 2003)

Asia

India (1947)

Pakistan (1947 and left in 1972 but rejoined 1989)

Sri Lanka (1948)

Malaysia (1957)

Singapore (1965)

Bangladesh (1972)

Maldives (1982)

Brunei (1984)

Australia and Oceania

Australia (1931)

New Zealand (1931)

Samoa (1970)

Tonga (1970)

Fiji (1970 and left in 1987 but rejoined 1997)

Papua New Guinea (1975)

Solomon Islands (1978)

Vanuatu (1980)

Tuvalu (1978)

Kiribati (1979)

Nauru (1999)