What are the countries of the British Union and what are the member countries of the Commonwealth?

The Commonwealth has its roots in the British Empire after World War II. After World War II, the British Empire began to fall apart, and the colonies became independent from Britain. From the 1920s, Britain began to consider giving the colonies autonomy, and in 1931 it was enacted as the Westminster Abbey Bill.

The Commonwealth was founded on the basis of the common historical background among the member states, so that everyone could continue to maintain a free and equal relationship after independence.

Commonwealth Member (53) :

Antigua and Barbuda|Australia |Bahamas |Bangladesh |Barbados |Belize |Botswana |Brunei |Cameroon |Canada |Cyprus |Commonwealth of Dominica |Fiji |Gambia |Ghana |Grenada |Guyana |India |Jamaica |Kenya |Kiribati |Lesotho |Malawi |Malaysia |Maldives |Malta |Mauritius |Mozambique |Namibia |Nauru |New Zealand |Nigerlia |Pakistan |Papua New Guinea |Saint Kitts and Nevis |Saint Lucia |Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |Samoa |Seychelles |Sierra Leone |Singapore |Solomon Islands |South Africa |Sri Lanka |Eswatini |Tanzania |Tonga |Trinidad and Tobago |Tuvalu |Uganda |United Kingdom |Vanuatu.

In December 2003, the 34th Commonwealth Summit was held in Abuja, Nigeria. During the meeting, Zimbabwe officially announced its withdrawal from the British Commonwealth. It was decided that the Commonwealth Summit in 2005 and Uganda in 2007 would be held in Malta and Uganda respectively.

In May 2004, the Commonwealth decided to reinstate Pakistan's membership, which had been suspended for more than four years.

4 in Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Canada. These seven are the main ones, and I don't know the others.

Today, there are 16 constitutional monarchies headed by the King of the United Kingdom, 5 have their own monarchies, and the Commonwealth has 32 republics. Of the 16 Commonwealth kingdoms, 14 were once self-governing British colonies. It is worth mentioning that although Fiji recognizes the British Crown as the supreme chief, this is not a title of head of state, so Fiji is not a Commonwealth Kingdom.

The 16 constitutional monarchies are:

1.United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

2.Canada |

3.Australia |

4.New Zealand (the King of England is also the head of the Cook Islands).

5.Antigua and Barbuda|

6.Bahamas |

7.Barbados |

8.Belize |

9.Grenada |

10.Jamaica |

1.Papua New Guinea |

2.Saint Kitts and Nevis |

13.Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |

14.Saint Lucia.

15.Solomon Islands |

16.The five monarchies in which Tuvalu has its own monarchy are:

Brunei Darussalam.

2.Federation of Malaysia.

3.Lesotho.

4.Swaziland.

5.The 32 republics of the Kingdom of Tonga have their own heads of state, and they are:

Seven in Asia.

1.Cyprus.

2.Bangladesh.

3.India.

4.Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

5.Maldives.

6.Singapore.

7.Sri Lanka has 16 democratic socialist republics in Africa (many of which also have royal chiefs).

1.Botswana.

2.Cameroon.

3.Gambia.

4.Ghana.

5.Kenya.

6.Malawi.

7.Republic of Mauritius.

8.Mozambique.

9.Namibia.

10.Nigeria.

1.Seychelles.

2.Sierra Leone.

3.South Africa.

14.United Republic of Tanzania.

5.Uganda.

16.Republic of Zambia, three in the United States.

1.Dominica.

2.Cooperative Republic of Guyana.

3.Five in Oceania, Trinidad and Tobago.

1.Republic of the Fiji Islands (Supreme Chief of the United Kingdom).

2.Kiribati.

3.Nauru.

4.Samoa.

5.Republic of Vanuatu, one of Europe.

1.Malta.

The 53 member states of the Commonwealth are:

The nine Commonwealth members in Asia are India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and Cyprus.

The 18 Commonwealth member states in Africa are: Botswana, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Lesotho and Eswatini.

The 13 Commonwealth member states in the Americas are Canada, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.

The 11 member states of the Commonwealth in Oceania are Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

Europe is Ireland and Malta.

Origin

Speaking to Canada on Dominion Day in 1959, Queen Elizabeth II noted that Canada's formation of the Commonwealth on 1 July 1867 meant the birth of "the first independent state in the British Empire".

"It also represents the beginning of the free association of independent nations now known as the Commonwealth," she said. However, as early as 1884, when Lord Rosebury visited Australia, he had the idea of changing the British Empire into an Imperial Confederation as some of the British Empire's colonies became more independent.

The first meeting of the heads of state of Britain and the colonies was held in 1887 to lay the groundwork for the establishment of the Imperial Conference in 1911.

The Commonwealth grew out of the Imperial Conference. A specific proposal was made by Jan Scott in 1917, when he coined the term "Commonwealth" and envisioned "future constitutional relations and spiritual adjustments" at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

The term "British Commonwealth" was first legally recognized by the United Kingdom in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, when the Irish Free State members used the term "British Commonwealth" instead of the "British Empire" when they were sworn in as Members of Parliament.