පොදු රාජ්ය මණ්ඩලය යනු, පොදු රාජ්ය මණ්ඩලීය රටවල් ලෙස හැඳින්වෙන ස්වෛරී රාජ්ය 56 ක වෙයි. ඒවායින් බොහොමයක් හෝ ඒවායේ වෙයි.
වත්මන් සාමාජිකයෝ
පහත දැක්වෙන සියලුම දින පොදු රාජ්ය මණ්ඩලීය ජාතීන්ගේ ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ සාමාජික ලැයිස්තුවෙන්, වන අතර ජනගහන සංඛ්යා 2020 පෙබරවාරි 1 වන දිනට අදාළව වෙයි.
රට | ප්රථම වරට සාමාජික වීම | සටහන්[A] | ||||
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1981 නොවැම්බර් 1 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 94,298 | ||||
Australia | 1926 නොවැම්බර් 19 | ඕෂිනියාව | Australia and New Zealand | 26,256,970 | Federal Commonwealth realm | Australia was one of the original Dominions at the time of the and the , although the statute was not adopted in Australia until (with retroactive effect from 1939). The eliminated the remaining possibilities for the UK to legislate with effect in Australia, for the UK to be involved in Australian government, and for an appeal from any Australian court to a British court. |
Bahamas | 1973 ජූලි 10 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 412,623 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | ||
Bangladesh | 1972 අප්රේල් 18 | Asia | Southern Asia | 172,954,319 | Unitary | Declared independence from Pakistan in 1971. |
1966 නොවැම්බර් 30 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 281,995 | Unitary Westminster republic | Barbados removed Elizabeth II as its head of state and on 30 November 2021. | ||
1981 සැප්තැම්බර් 21 | ඇමෙරිකාව | Central America | 410,825 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | ||
Botswana | 1966 සැප්තැම්බර් 30 | අප්රිකාව | 2,675,352 | Unitary | ||
Brunei | 1984 මැයි 7 | Asia | South-eastern Asia | 452,524 | Unitary | |
Cameroon | 1995 නොවැම්බර් 1 | අප්රිකාව | 28,647,293 | Unitary | Most of the country was the formerly French territory (later ) of , which gained independence from France on 1 January 1960. It united with the much smaller former British mandate/trust territory of , which gained independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1961. | |
Canada | 1926 නොවැම්බර් 19 | ඇමෙරිකාව | North America | 39,244,168 | Federal Commonwealth realm | Canada was the first among the several original Dominions at the time of the and the . Incorporated another original Dominion, , on 31 March 1949. The formally ended the "request and consent" provisions of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in relation to Canada, whereby the British parliament had a general power to pass laws extending to Canada at its own request. |
Cyprus[D] | 1961 මාර්තු 13 | යුරෝපය | ගිණිකොණදිග යුරෝපය | 1,260,138 | Unitary republic | Gained independence from the United Kingdom on 16 August 1960. Britain retains military bases at . is not recognised by the Commonwealth. |
Dominica | 1978 නොවැම්බර් 3 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 73,040 | Unitary Westminster republic | Dominica has always been a republic since independence. | |
Eswatini | 1968 සැප්තැම්බර් 6 | අප්රිකාව | 1,210,822 | Unitary absolute monarchy | Joined as Swaziland, subsequently changing its name to Eswatini on 19 April 2018. | |
[B] | 1970 ඔක්තෝබර් 10 | ඕෂිනියාව | 936,375 | Unitary Westminster republic | Suspended in 1987; rejoined in 1997; suspended on 6 June 2000; suspension lifted on 20 December 2001; again suspended on 8 December 2006 because of the . Suspension lifted on 26 September 2014. | |
[B] | 2022 ජූනි 25 | අප්රිකාව | 2,436,566 | Unitary presidential republic | Gained independence from France on 17 August 1960. The third (after and ) to be admitted to the Commonwealth without any former colonial or constitutional links with the United Kingdom. Partially suspended on 18 September 2023 following the military coup that ousted President Ali Bongo the previous month, with two years given by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group for the country to hold new elections before a full suspension of membership would be considered. | |
1965 පෙබරවාරි 18 | අප්රිකාව | 2,773,168 | Unitary presidential republic | Withdrew on 3 October 2013 citing "neocolonialism". Following the of as President of Gambia in 2016, it submitted an application to rejoin the Commonwealth on 22 January 2018, and rejoined on 8 February 2018. | ||
Ghana | 1957 මාර්තු 6 | අප්රිකාව | 34,121,985 | Unitary presidential republic | ||
Grenada | 1974 පෙබරවාරි 7 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 126,183 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | ||
Guyana | 1966 මැයි 26 | ඇමෙරිකාව | South America | 813,834 | Unitary presidential republic | |
India | 1947 අගෝස්තු 15 | Asia | Southern Asia | 1,428,627,663 | Federal Westminster republic | former ( from 2 May 1950 and , , and from 1 November 1954), former (, and from 19 December 1961 and formally from 1961) and (from 16 May 1975). |
Jamaica | 1962 අගෝස්තු 6 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 2,825,544 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | ||
Kenya | 1963 දෙසැම්බර් 12 | අප්රිකාව | 55,100,586 | Unitary presidential republic | ||
Kiribati | 1979 ජූලි 12 | ඕෂිනියාව | Micronesia | 133,515 | Unitary parliamentary republic with an executive presidency | |
Lesotho | 1966 ඔක්තෝබර් 4 | අප්රිකාව | 2,330,318 | Unitary Westminster monarchy[E] | ||
Malawi | 1964 ජූලි 6 | අප්රිකාව | 20,931,751 | Unitary presidential republic | ||
Malaysia | 1957 අගෝස්තු 31 | Asia | South-eastern Asia | 34,308,525 | Federal Westminster monarchy[E] | Joined as the in 1957; reformed as Malaysia on 16 September 1963 with its federation with (which became a separate country on 9 August 1965), , and . |
Maldives | 1982 ජූලි 9 | Asia | Southern Asia | 521,021 | Unitary presidential republic | Gained independence from the United Kingdom on 26 July 1965. A from 9 July 1982 until 20 July 1985. Withdrew on 13 October 2016. Rejoined on 1 February 2020. |
[F] | 1964 සැප්තැම්බර් 21 | යුරෝපය | දකුණු යුරෝපය | 532,616 | Unitary Westminster republic | Gained independence from the United Kingdom on 21 September 1964 as the . Became a republic on 13 December 1974. |
Mauritius | 1968 මාර්තු 12 | අප්රිකාව | 1,263,939 | Unitary Westminster republic | Became a republic on 12 March 1992. | |
Mozambique | 1995 නොවැම්බර් 13 | අප්රිකාව | 33,897,354 | Unitary semi-presidential republic | Former dependency of until 1752. Gained independence from Portugal on 25 June 1975. The first country to be admitted to the Commonwealth without any former colonial or constitutional links with the United Kingdom. | |
Namibia | 1990 මාර්තු 21 | අප්රිකාව | 2,604,172 | Unitary semi-presidential republic | Gained independence from South Africa. Includes and the transferred by South Africa at midnight 28 February 1994. | |
Nauru[B] | 1968 නොවැම්බර් 29 | ඕෂිනියාව | Micronesia | 12,780 | Unitary parliamentary republic with an executive presidency | Gained independence on 31 January 1968 from joint trusteeship of Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom. A from 29 November 1968 until 1 May 1999, when it became a full member, before reverting to special status in January 2006. A full member again since June 2011. |
New Zealand | 1926 නොවැම්බර් 19 | ඕෂිනියාව | Australia and New Zealand | 5,163,908 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | Granted nominal independence ( status) on 26 September 1907. One of the original Dominions at the time of the and the , although the Statute was not adopted in New Zealand until . Removed final links with the British Parliament in . Removed the final link with the British legal system () in . |
1960 ඔක්තෝබර් 1 | අප්රිකාව | 223,804,632 | Federal presidential republic | Incorporated the former British mandate/trust territory of on 31 May 1961. Suspended in 1995, suspension lifted in 1999. | ||
Pakistan | 1947 අගෝස්තු 14[C] | Asia | Southern Asia | 240,485,658 | Federal Westminster republic | Includes the city of , transferred from on 8 September 1958. Included Bangladesh (then known as ) until 1971. Left Commonwealth in 1972, rejoined 1990, effective retroactively from October 1989; suspended in 1999, suspension lifted in 2004; again suspended in 2007, suspension lifted in 2008. |
Papua New Guinea | 1975 සැප්තැම්බර් 16 | ඕෂිනියාව | 10,329,931 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | Gained independence from Australia. | |
Rwanda | 2009 නොවැම්බර් 29 | අප්රිකාව | 14,094,683 | Unitary presidential republic | Gained independence from on 1 July 1962. The second country (after Mozambique) to be admitted to the Commonwealth without any former colonial or constitutional links with the United Kingdom. Admitted despite the (CHRI) finding that "the state of governance and does not satisfy Commonwealth standards", and that it "does not therefore qualify for admission". | |
Saint Kitts and Nevis[B] | 1983 සැප්තැම්බර් 19 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 47,755 | Federal Commonwealth realm | ||
Saint Lucia | 1979 පෙබරවාරි 22 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 180,251 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | ||
1979 ඔක්තෝබර් 27 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 103,698 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | A from 27 October 1979 until 1 June 1985. | ||
Samoa[B] | 1970 අගෝස්තු 28 | ඕෂිනියාව | 225,681 | Unitary Westminster republic | Gained independence from New Zealand on 1 January 1962. Joined as Western Samoa, subsequently changing its name to Samoa on 4 July 1997. | |
Seychelles | 1976 ජූනි 28 | අප්රිකාව | 120,622 | Unitary presidential republic | ||
Sierra Leone | 1961 අප්රේල් 27 | අප්රිකාව | 8,791,092 | Unitary presidential republic | ||
Singapore[B] | 1965 ඔක්තෝබර් 15 | Asia | South-eastern Asia | 5,673,743 | Unitary Westminster republic | Gained independence from the United Kingdom and joined Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963. Became independent on 9 August 1965. While joining in 1966, the effective date is from its date of independence. |
1978 ජූලි 7 | ඕෂිනියාව | 740,424 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | |||
South Africa | 1926 නොවැම්බර් 19 | අප්රිකාව | 60,414,495 | Unitary parliamentary republic with an executive presidency | Granted nominal independence ( status) on 31 May 1910. One of the original Dominions at the time of the and . Left on 31 May 1961; rejoined 1 June 1994. | |
Sri Lanka | 1948 පෙබරවාරි 4 | Asia | Southern Asia | 22,037,000 | Unitary semi-presidential republic | Joined as the Dominion of Ceylon, subsequently changing its name in 1972. Became a republic in 1972 |
Tanzania | 1961 දෙසැම්බර් 9 | අප්රිකාව | 67,438,106 | Unitary presidential republic | joined the Commonwealth on 9 December 1961, with the island of following suit later. The two subsequently merged to form on 26 April 1964. | |
[B] | 2022 ජූනි 25 | අප්රිකාව | 9,053,799 | Unitary presidential republic | The country was the formerly French and British territory (later ) of after the First World War in 1919; (which would be attached to the in 1956 and become on 6 March 1957) and . Independence of French Togoland as Togo from France on 27 April 1960. | |
1970 ජූනි 4 | ඕෂිනියාව | 107,773 | Unitary | |||
Trinidad and Tobago | 1962 අගෝස්තු 31 | ඇමෙරිකාව | 1,534,937 | Unitary Westminster republic | Granted independence on 31 August 1962. Became a republic on 1 August 1976 under the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Constitution Act 1976, passed by the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. | |
Tuvalu[B] | 1978 ඔක්තෝබර් 1 | ඕෂිනියාව | 11,396 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | A from 1 October 1978 until 1 September 2000. | |
Uganda | 1962 ඔක්තෝබර් 9 | අප්රිකාව | 48,582,334 | Unitary presidential republic | ||
United Kingdom | 1926 නොවැම්බර් 19 | යුරෝපය | උතුරු යුරෝපය | 67,184,072 | Unitary Commonwealth realm | and the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted the . Has four individual nations within the UK: England, Northern Ireland, , and Wales. |
[B] | 1980 ජූලි 30 | ඕෂිනියාව | 334,506 | Unitary Westminster republic | Gained independence from joint rule () of France and the United Kingdom. | |
Zambia | 1964 ඔක්තෝබර් 24 | අප්රිකාව | 20,569,737 | Unitary presidential republic |
^ A. Unless otherwise noted, independence was gained from the United Kingdom on the date (shown in column 2) of joining the Commonwealth.
^ B. Not a member of the .
^ C. Though Pakistan celebrates 14 August 1947 as its independence day, independence was officially granted at midnight, 15 August 1947. Therefore, its date of joining the Commonwealth would be 15 August 1947.
^ D. Geographically a part of Asia, considered a European country in .
^ E. Constitutional monarchy that operates under a Westminster system. The monarch is not the same individual as the , hence making it not a Commonwealth realm.
^ F. In geology, the Maltese Islands are located on the . The island group lies approx. 200 km (120 mi) south of the boundary between the African Plate and the . In , Malta is considered a European country.
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- "Nauru back as full Commonwealth member". . 26 June 2011. 24 July 2020 දින පැවති මුල් පිටපත වෙතින් සංරක්ෂිත පිටපත. සම්ප්රවේශය 23 October 2011.
- "New Zealand – History". Commonwealth Secretariat. 2 March 2008 දින මුල් පිටපත වෙතින් සංරක්ෂණය කරන ලදී. සම්ප්රවේශය 15 February 2008.
- "Nigeria | The Commonwealth". thecommonwealth.org (ඉංග්රීසි බසින්). සම්ප්රවේශය 2017-06-05.
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- "Commonwealth lifts Pakistan suspension". Commonwealth Secretariat. 12 May 2008. 20 January 2012 දින මුල් පිටපත වෙතින් සංරක්ෂණය කරන ලදී. සම්ප්රවේශය 15 June 2008.
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ප ද ර ජ ය මණ ඩලය යන ප ද ර ජ ය මණ ඩල ය රටවල ල ස හ ඳ න ව න ස ව ර ර ජ ය 56 ක ස ව ච ඡ ස ගමයක ව ය 1 ඒව ය න බ හ මයක බ ර ත න ය යටත ව ජ ත හ ඒව ය පර යත ත ර ජ ය ව ය Current member states Partially suspended member state Former member states British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies පට න 1 වත මන ස ම ජ කය 2 අමතර අවධ නයට 3 ම ල ශ ර 4 භ හ ර සබ ඳ වත මන ස ම ජ කය ස ස කරණයපහත ද ක ව න ස යල ම ද න ප ද ර ජ ය මණ ඩල ය ජ ත න ග ල කම ක ර ය ලය ස ම ජ ක ල ය ස ත ව න 2 වන අතර ජනගහන ස ඛ ය 2020 ප බරව ර 1 වන ද නට අද ළව ව ය රට ප රථම වරට ස ම ජ ක ව ම එක සත ජ ත න ග මහ ද ව ප ක කල පය එක සත ජ ත න ග භ ග ල ය උප කල පය ජනගහණය 3 ආණ ඩ ක රමය සටහන A nbsp Antigua and Barbuda 1981 න ව ම බර 1 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 94 298 Unitary Commonwealth realm nbsp Australia 1926 න ව ම බර 19 ඕෂ න ය ව Australia and New Zealand 26 256 970 Federal Commonwealth realm Australia was one of the original Dominions at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster 1931 although the statute was not adopted in Australia until 1942 with retroactive effect from 1939 4 The Australia Act 1986 eliminated the remaining possibilities for the UK to legislate with effect in Australia for the UK to be involved in Australian government and for an appeal from any Australian court to a British court 5 nbsp Bahamas 1973 ජ ල 10 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 412 623 Unitary Commonwealth realm nbsp Bangladesh 1972 අප ර ල 18 6 Asia Southern Asia 172 954 319 Unitary Westminster republic Declared independence from Pakistan in 1971 7 nbsp Barbados 1966 න ව ම බර 30 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 281 995 Unitary Westminster republic Barbados removed Elizabeth II as its head of state and became a republic on 30 November 2021 8 9 nbsp Belize 1981 ස ප ත ම බර 21 ඇම ර ක ව Central America 410 825 Unitary Commonwealth realm nbsp Botswana 1966 ස ප ත ම බර 30 අප ර ක ව Southern Africa 2 675 352 Unitary parliamentary republic with an executive presidency nbsp Brunei 1984 ම ය 7 Asia South eastern Asia 452 524 Unitary Islamic absolute monarchy Cameroon 1995 න ව ම බර 1 10 අප ර ක ව Middle Africa 28 647 293 Unitary semi presidential republic Most of the country was the formerly French mandate territory later UN trust territory of Cameroun which gained independence from France on 1 January 1960 It united with the much smaller former British mandate trust territory of Southern Cameroons which gained independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1961 nbsp Canada 1926 න ව ම බර 19 ඇම ර ක ව North America 39 244 168 Federal Commonwealth realm Canada was the first among the several original Dominions at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster 1931 11 Incorporated another original Dominion Newfoundland on 31 March 1949 12 The Canada Act 1982 formally ended the request and consent provisions of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in relation to Canada whereby the British parliament had a general power to pass laws extending to Canada at its own request nbsp Cyprus D 1961 ම ර ත 13 13 ය ර පය ග ණ ක ණද ග ය ර පය 1 260 138 Unitary presidential republic Gained independence from the United Kingdom on 16 August 1960 Britain retains military bases at Akrotiri and Dhekelia Northern Cyprus is not recognised by the Commonwealth nbsp Dominica 1978 න ව ම බර 3 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 73 040 Unitary Westminster republic Dominica has always been a republic since independence nbsp Eswatini 1968 ස ප ත ම බර 6 අප ර ක ව Southern Africa 1 210 822 Unitary absolute monarchy Joined as Swaziland subsequently changing its name to Eswatini on 19 April 2018 nbsp Fiji B 1970 ඔක ත බර 10 ඕෂ න ය ව Melanesia 936 375 Unitary Westminster republic Suspended in 1987 rejoined in 1997 suspended on 6 June 2000 14 suspension lifted on 20 December 2001 15 again suspended on 8 December 2006 because of the 2006 Fijian coup d etat 16 17 Suspension lifted on 26 September 2014 nbsp Gabon B 2022 ජ න 25 අප ර ක ව Middle Africa 2 436 566 Unitary presidential republic Gained independence from France on 17 August 1960 The third after Mozambique and Rwanda to be admitted to the Commonwealth without any former colonial or constitutional links with the United Kingdom 18 Partially suspended on 18 September 2023 following the military coup that ousted President Ali Bongo the previous month with two years given by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group for the country to hold new elections before a full suspension of membership would be considered 19 20 nbsp Gambia 1965 ප බරව ර 18 අප ර ක ව Western Africa 2 773 168 Unitary presidential republic Withdrew on 3 October 2013 citing neocolonialism 21 22 Following the election of Adama Barrow as President of Gambia in 2016 it submitted an application to rejoin the Commonwealth on 22 January 2018 23 and rejoined on 8 February 2018 24 nbsp Ghana 1957 ම ර ත 6 අප ර ක ව Western Africa 34 121 985 Unitary presidential republic nbsp Grenada 1974 ප බරව ර 7 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 126 183 Unitary Commonwealth realm nbsp Guyana 1966 ම ය 26 ඇම ර ක ව South America 813 834 Unitary presidential republic nbsp India 1947 අග ස ත 15 Asia Southern Asia 1 428 627 663 Federal Westminster republic Incorporated former French India Chandannagar from 2 May 1950 and Puducherry Karaikal Yanam and Mahe from 1 November 1954 former Portuguese India Goa Daman and Diu from 19 December 1961 and Dadra and Nagar Haveli formally from 1961 and Sikkim from 16 May 1975 nbsp Jamaica 1962 අග ස ත 6 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 2 825 544 Unitary Commonwealth realm nbsp Kenya 1963 ද ස ම බර 12 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 55 100 586 Unitary presidential republic nbsp Kiribati 1979 ජ ල 12 ඕෂ න ය ව Micronesia 133 515 Unitary parliamentary republic with an executive presidency nbsp Lesotho 1966 ඔක ත බර 4 අප ර ක ව Southern Africa 2 330 318 Unitary Westminster monarchy E nbsp Malawi 1964 ජ ල 6 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 20 931 751 Unitary presidential republic nbsp Malaysia 1957 අග ස ත 31 25 26 Asia South eastern Asia 34 308 525 Federal Westminster monarchy E Joined as the Federation of Malaya in 1957 reformed as Malaysia on 16 September 1963 with its federation with Singapore which became a separate country on 9 August 1965 North Borneo and Sarawak 27 nbsp Maldives 1982 ජ ල 9 Asia Southern Asia 521 021 Unitary presidential republic Gained independence from the United Kingdom on 26 July 1965 28 A special member from 9 July 1982 until 20 July 1985 29 Withdrew on 13 October 2016 30 31 Rejoined on 1 February 2020 32 nbsp Malta F 1964 ස ප ත ම බර 21 ය ර පය දක ණ ය ර පය 532 616 Unitary Westminster republic Gained independence from the United Kingdom on 21 September 1964 as the State of Malta Became a republic on 13 December 1974 nbsp Mauritius 1968 ම ර ත 12 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 1 263 939 Unitary Westminster republic Became a republic on 12 March 1992 nbsp Mozambique 1995 න ව ම බර 13 33 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 33 897 354 Unitary semi presidential republic Former dependency of Portuguese India until 1752 Gained independence from Portugal on 25 June 1975 The first country to be admitted to the Commonwealth without any former colonial or constitutional links with the United Kingdom 34 nbsp Namibia 1990 ම ර ත 21 අප ර ක ව Southern Africa 2 604 172 Unitary semi presidential republic Gained independence from South Africa 35 Includes Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands transferred by South Africa at midnight 28 February 1994 nbsp Nauru B 1968 න ව ම බර 29 ඕෂ න ය ව Micronesia 12 780 Unitary parliamentary republic with an executive presidency Gained independence on 31 January 1968 from joint trusteeship of Australia New Zealand and United Kingdom A special member from 29 November 1968 until 1 May 1999 when it became a full member 36 before reverting to special status in January 2006 37 A full member again since June 2011 38 nbsp New Zealand 1926 න ව ම බර 19 ඕෂ න ය ව Australia and New Zealand 5 163 908 Unitary Commonwealth realm Granted nominal independence Dominion status on 26 September 1907 One of the original Dominions at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster 1931 although the Statute was not adopted in New Zealand until 1947 39 Removed final links with the British Parliament in 1986 Removed the final link with the British legal system Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 2003 nbsp Nigeria 1960 ඔක ත බර 1 අප ර ක ව Western Africa 223 804 632 Federal presidential republic Incorporated the former British mandate trust territory of Northern Cameroons on 31 May 1961 Suspended in 1995 suspension lifted in 1999 40 nbsp Pakistan 1947 අග ස ත 14 C Asia Southern Asia 240 485 658 Federal Westminster republic Includes the city of Gwadar transferred from Muscat and Oman on 8 September 1958 Included Bangladesh then known as East Pakistan until 1971 7 Left Commonwealth in 1972 rejoined 1990 effective retroactively from October 1989 suspended in 1999 suspension lifted in 2004 again suspended in 2007 41 suspension lifted in 2008 42 nbsp Papua New Guinea 1975 ස ප ත ම බර 16 ඕෂ න ය ව Melanesia 10 329 931 Unitary Commonwealth realm Gained independence from Australia nbsp Rwanda 2009 න ව ම බර 29 43 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 14 094 683 Unitary presidential republic Gained independence from Belgium on 1 July 1962 The second country after Mozambique to be admitted to the Commonwealth without any former colonial or constitutional links with the United Kingdom 34 Admitted despite the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative CHRI finding that the state of governance and human rights in Rwanda does not satisfy Commonwealth standards and that it does not therefore qualify for admission 44 nbsp Saint Kitts and Nevis B 1983 ස ප ත ම බර 19 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 47 755 Federal Commonwealth realm nbsp Saint Lucia 1979 ප බරව ර 22 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 180 251 Unitary Commonwealth realm nbsp Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1979 ඔක ත බර 27 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 103 698 Unitary Commonwealth realm A special member from 27 October 1979 until 1 June 1985 nbsp Samoa B 1970 අග ස ත 28 ඕෂ න ය ව Polynesia 225 681 Unitary Westminster republic Gained independence from New Zealand on 1 January 1962 Joined as Western Samoa subsequently changing its name to Samoa on 4 July 1997 45 nbsp Seychelles 1976 ජ න 28 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 120 622 Unitary presidential republic nbsp Sierra Leone 1961 අප ර ල 27 අප ර ක ව Western Africa 8 791 092 Unitary presidential republic nbsp Singapore B 1965 ඔක ත බර 15 Asia South eastern Asia 5 673 743 Unitary Westminster republic Gained independence from the United Kingdom and joined Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963 Became independent on 9 August 1965 46 While joining in 1966 the effective date is from its date of independence 47 nbsp Solomon Islands 1978 ජ ල 7 ඕෂ න ය ව Melanesia 740 424 Unitary Commonwealth realm nbsp South Africa 1926 න ව ම බර 19 අප ර ක ව Southern Africa 60 414 495 Unitary parliamentary republic with an executive presidency Granted nominal independence Dominion status on 31 May 1910 One of the original Dominions at the time of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and Statute of Westminster 1931 Left on 31 May 1961 rejoined 1 June 1994 48 nbsp Sri Lanka 1948 ප බරව ර 4 Asia Southern Asia 22 037 000 Unitary semi presidential republic Joined as the Dominion of Ceylon subsequently changing its name in 1972 Became a republic in 1972 nbsp Tanzania 1961 ද ස ම බර 9 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 67 438 106 Unitary presidential republic Tanganyika joined the Commonwealth on 9 December 1961 with the island of Zanzibar following suit later The two subsequently merged to form Tanzania on 26 April 1964 49 nbsp Togo B 2022 ජ න 25 අප ර ක ව Western Africa 9 053 799 Unitary presidential republic The country was the formerly French and British mandate territory later UN trust territory of Togoland after the First World War in 1919 British Togoland which would be attached to the Gold Coast in 1956 and become Ghana on 6 March 1957 and French Togoland Independence of French Togoland as Togo from France on 27 April 1960 50 nbsp Tonga 1970 ජ න 4 ඕෂ න ය ව Polynesia 107 773 Unitary constitutional monarchy nbsp Trinidad and Tobago 1962 අග ස ත 31 ඇම ර ක ව Caribbean 1 534 937 Unitary Westminster republic Granted independence on 31 August 1962 Became a republic on 1 August 1976 under the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Constitution Act 1976 passed by the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago nbsp Tuvalu B 1978 ඔක ත බර 1 ඕෂ න ය ව Polynesia 11 396 Unitary Commonwealth realm A special member from 1 October 1978 until 1 September 2000 51 nbsp Uganda 1962 ඔක ත බර 9 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 48 582 334 Unitary presidential republic nbsp United Kingdom 1926 න ව ම බර 19 ය ර පය උත ර ය ර පය 67 184 072 Unitary Commonwealth realm Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacted the Statute of Westminster 1931 Has four individual nations within the UK England Northern Ireland Scotland and Wales nbsp Vanuatu B 1980 ජ ල 30 ඕෂ න ය ව Melanesia 334 506 Unitary Westminster republic Gained independence from joint rule condominium of France and the United Kingdom nbsp Zambia 1964 ඔක ත බර 24 අප ර ක ව Eastern Africa 20 569 737 Unitary presidential republic A Unless otherwise noted independence was gained from the United Kingdom on the date shown in column 2 of joining the Commonwealth B Not a member of the Commonwealth Foundation C Though Pakistan celebrates 14 August 1947 as its independence day independence was officially granted at midnight 15 August 1947 Therefore its date of joining the Commonwealth would be 15 August 1947 D Geographically a part of Asia considered a European country in political geography E Constitutional monarchy that operates under a Westminster system The monarch is not the same individual as the British monarch hence making it not a Commonwealth realm F In geology the Maltese Islands are located on the African Plate The island group lies approx 200 km 120 mi south of the boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate 52 In political geography Malta is considered a European country අමතර අවධ නයටස ස කරණයCommonwealth of Nations membership criteria List of countries and territories where English is an official language List of countries by English speaking population List of current viceregal representatives of the Crownම ල ශ රස ස කරණය Member countries Commonwealth ඉ ග ර ස බස න සම ප රව ශය 2024 06 05 The Commonwealth Commonwealth Secretariat සම ප රව ශය 7 November 2023 https databank worldbank org source population estimates and projections Australia Commonwealth Secretariat 2008 02 14 ද න ම ල ප ටපත ව ත න ස රක ෂණය කරන ලද සම ප රව ශය 2008 02 15 There is no equivalent provision as to the Commonwealth However for both the Commonwealth and the States constitutional convention effectively excludes the monarch from any personal exercise of governmental power The 1986 proclamation was an exception approved by Australian ministers Kohen Marcelo G 2006 Secession London Cambridge University Press p 122 ISBN 978 0 521 84928 9 a b Wind of Change Commonwealth of Nations 2016 සම ප රව ශය 2016 10 15 Barbados to become a parliamentary republic by November 30 Loop News Barbados 27 July 2021 සම ප රව ශය 30 July 2021 we will make amendments to facilitate that transition to a new president to be sworn in on that day November 30 2021 Barbados elects first ever president ahead of becoming republic BBC News 21 October 2021 සම ප රව ශය 22 October 2021 Pondi Jean Emmanuel October 1997 Cameroon and the Commonwealth of Nations The Round Table 86 344 563 570 doi 10 1080 00358539708454389 Canada History Commonwealth Secretariat 18 April 2008 ද න ම ල ප ටපත ව ත න ස රක ෂණය කරන ලද සම ප රව ශය 15 February 2008 Dominion Status Commonwealth of Nations 2016 සම ප රව ශය 2016 10 15 McIntyre W David January 2000 Britain and the creation of the Commonwealth Secretariat Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 28 1 135 158 doi 10 1080 03086530008583082 S2CID 159673400 Ingram Derek July 2000 Commonwealth Update The Round Table 89 355 311 55 doi 10 1080 00358530050083406 S2CID 219626283 Ingram Derek April 2002 Commonwealth Update The Round Table 91 364 131 59 doi 10 1080 00358530220144148 S2CID 219627051 Ingram Derek Soal Judith February 2007 Commonwealth Update The Round Table 96 388 2 28 doi 10 1080 00358530701189734 S2CID 219623258 Fiji suspended from the Commonwealth ස රක ෂණය කළ ප ටපත 2011 04 29 at the Wayback Machine Commonwealth Secretariat 1 September 2009 retrieved 11 April 2011 Donmez Ahmet Emin 3 January 2022 Gabon set to join British Commonwealth this year President Anadolu Agency සම ප රව ශය 6 February 2022 Gabon partially suspended from the Commonwealth pending restoration of democracy 30 September 2023 ද න ප වත ම ල ප ටපත ව ත න ස රක ෂ ත ප ටපත සම ප රව ශය 1 October 2023 Gabon partially suspended from Commonwealth after coup BBC News බ ර ත න ය ඉ ග ර ස බස න 2023 09 20 4 October 2023 ද න ප වත ම ල ප ටපත ව ත න ස රක ෂ ත ප ටපත සම ප රව ශය 2023 10 03 Statement by Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma on The Gambia The Commonwealth 4 October 2013 සම ප රව ශය 6 October 2013 Gambia quits the Commonwealth The Guardian 2 October 2013 සම ප රව ශය 5 October 2013 The 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