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Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations

  • TanzaniaTanzania does not have an official language by law, yet over 100 languages are spoken inside its borders, more than any other country in East Africa.
  • United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland sits off the northwestern coast of continental Europe, home to over 69 million people in 2024.
  • The BahamasThe Bahamas sits at an unusual crossroads of geography and identity. Officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, it comprises 700 islands and more than 2,500…
  • TuvaluTuvalu sits roughly midway between Hawaii and Australia, a scattering of nine islands so flat that the highest point anywhere in the country rises just 4.6…
  • Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda sits where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Caribbean Sea, a nation of two main islands and dozens of smaller ones covering just 440 square…
  • GrenadaGrenada is the smallest of the eastern Caribbean's spice nations, and yet its national flag carries a nutmeg. That single image hints at how much one tree…
  • Saint LuciaSaint Lucia holds a distinction unlike almost any other place on earth. This small island, covering just 617 square kilometres in the eastern Caribbean, has…
  • DominicaDominica is the only eastern Caribbean island that still has a population of pre-Columbian native Kalinago, the people who once called the island Wai'tu…
  • Saint Kitts and NevisSaint Kitts and Nevis holds a distinction that most people never think to wonder about: at just 261 square kilometres and roughly 48,000 inhabitants, it is…
  • MauritiusMauritius sits roughly 1100 nautical miles off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar, an island country in the Indian Ocean.
  • KenyaIn 1984, at Lake Turkana, the palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey was assisted by Kamoya Kimeu when they uncovered the Turkana Boy, a 1.6-million-year-old…
  • MaltaMalta sits in the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and North Africa, an archipelago 80 km south of Italy, 284 km east of Tunisia, and 333 km north of Libya.
  • AustraliaAustralia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent, a land area of 7,688,287 square kilometres that ranks sixth-largest among all countries.
  • GuyanaGuyana sits on the northern coast of South America, the only country on the mainland that holds English as its official language.
  • CanadaCanada is the second-largest country in the world by total area, yet most of its people cluster in a thin band near a single neighbour.
  • JamaicaThe Ciboney people who first lived here called the island Xaymaca, a word meaning the Land of Wood and Water, or the Land of Springs.
  • PakistanPakistan takes its name from an acronym a student activist coined in a pamphlet. In January 1933, Choudhry Rahmat Ali published the word, first spelling it…
  • MalaysiaMalaysia sits split in two, divided by the South China Sea into Peninsular Malaysia on mainland Southeast Asia and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo.
  • Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands sits at one of the most contested crossroads on Earth, a scatter of more than a thousand islands in Melanesia where some of the bloodiest…
  • New ZealandNew Zealand sits alone in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, a pair of islands so remote that they were the last large habitable land on Earth to be settled by…
  • SingaporeSingapore sits about one degree of latitude north of the equator, roughly 137 kilometres of sea between it and the line that divides the globe.
  • South AfricaA temperature of -20.1 degrees Celsius was recorded at Buffelsfontein in the Eastern Cape in 2013. Far to the north, near Upington in the Kalahari, the…
  • NigeriaNigeria is the most populous country in Africa, with more than 242 million people, making it the sixth-most populous country in the world.
  • BangladeshBangladesh holds almost 176 million people inside just 148,460 square kilometres of land. That makes it the eighth-most populous country on Earth, and one of…
  • IndiaIndia, officially the Republic of India, holds a distinction that no other country on earth can claim: it is simultaneously the world's most populous nation…
  • Sri LankaSri Lanka sits at the southern tip of India, separated from the subcontinent by just a narrow channel of water. It is one of the most ancient inhabited…
  • MaldivesThe Maldives sits an average of just 1.5 metres above the sea that surrounds it. Its highest natural point reaches only 2.4 metres, which makes it the…