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The Commonwealth is a unique grouping of 56 developed and developing nations spread over every continent and ocean in the world. Its membership reflects many religions, ethnicities, languages and cultures and its combined population of over two billion people account for approximately 30 per cent of the world's population. More than 60 percent of the Commonwealth population is aged 29 or under ...
Australia lies between the Pacific and Indian oceans. It is the largest island – and one of the largest countries – in the world. Its closest neighbours are New Zealand to the east and Papua New Guinea to the north. It has a large mountain range that runs down its east coast. Most of the centre of the country is covered by desert. The majority of its population live on the coasts.
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Australia is committed to the Commonwealth. It is one of the oldest international organisations and includes 53 member countries with 30 per cent of the world’s population and 20 per cent of the world’s land mass. The Commonwealth is not a community of power, wealth, geography, religion or language, so much as a community of values.
The land area of the Commonwealth nations is about 31,500,000 km 2 (12,200,000 sq mi), or about 21% of the total world land area. The two largest Commonwealth nations by area are Canada at 9,984,670 km 2 (3,855,100 sq mi) and Australia at 7,617,930 km 2 (2,941,300 sq mi).
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Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations. The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of 56 sovereign states. Most of them were British colonies or dependencies of those colonies . No government in the Commonwealth exercises power over the others, as is the case in a political union. Rather, the Commonwealth is an international ...
May 9, 2024 · 1995. Rwanda. 2009. Gabon. 2022. Togo. 2022. The Commonwealth is a a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as a symbolic head of their association.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [15] is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [b] Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.
