This is a list of Commonwealth Members by name. As of 2005, there are 53 states that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and 6 former members. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. ...

The date of joining the Commonwealth is given in parentheses. In rhetoric, a parenthesis (plural: parentheses; from the Greek word παρενθεσις) is (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) An explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage with which it has not necessarily any grammatical connexion, and from which it is usually marked off by round or square...

Current members

Notes 

¹ Australia was invited to join in 1931 but did not ratify until 1942.

² Fiji left in 1987, rejoined in 1997, was suspended in 2000, and was readmitted in 2001.

³ New Zealand was invited to join in 1931 but did not ratify until 1947.

⁴ Nigeria was suspended in 1995 and readmitted in 1999.

⁵ Pakistan left in 1972, rejoined in 1989, was suspended in 1999, and was readmitted in 2004.

⁶ South Africa left in 1961 and rejoined in 1994.

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Former members

• Irish Free State (1931; left in 1949)
• Newfoundland (joined in 1931; became a province of Canada in 1949)
• Tanganyika (joined in 1961; merged with Zanzibar to form Tanzania in 1964)
• Zanzibar (joined in 1963; merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania in 1964)
•  Zimbabwe (joined in 1980; suspended in 2002; left in 2003)
• Hong Kong 1931-1997

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See also

• List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by continent
• List of members of the Commonwealth of Nations by date joined

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References

• Commonwealth Secretariat