| Commonwealth of Nations | ||||||
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| Headquarters | Marlborough House London, UK | |||||
| Official language | English | |||||
| Leaders | ||||||
| - | Head of the Commonwealth | Queen Elizabeth II
(since 6 February 1952) | ||||
| - | Secretary-General | Kamalesh Sharma
(since 1 April 2008) | ||||
| - | Chairperson-in-Office | Julia Gillard
(since 28 October 2011) | ||||
| Establishment | ||||||
| - | Balfour Declaration | 18 November 1926 | ||||
| - | Statute of Westminster | 11 December 1931 | ||||
| - | London Declaration | 28 April 1949 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 31,462,574 sq km 12,147,768 sq mi | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2013 estimate | 2.3 billion | ||||
| - | Density | 61.09/sq km 158.2/sq mi | ||||
The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 55 independent member states. All members except Mozambique and Rwanda were part of the British Empire, out of which the Commonwealth developed.
The Commonwealth nations have been involved in space independently from the Americans and the European Space Agency since 1986.
List of current member nations:
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bostwana
- Brunei
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Fiji
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guyana
- India
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Rwanda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Island
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- United Kingdom
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe