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The Commonwealth was first officially formed in 1926 when the Balfour Declaration of the Imperial Conference recognised the full sovereignty of Dominions. Known as the "British Commonwealth", the original and therefore earliest members were Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals).
The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was established for pilots from across the Empire and Dominions, created by the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. [27] [28] Troops from Australia, Britain, the British Raj and New Zealand made up the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in post-war Japan. [29]
New Zealand: UN member state None New Zealand is a Commonwealth realm, [ai] and has one dependent territory and one claimed Antarctic dependent territory of: Tokelau Ross Dependency; The Realm of New Zealand has responsibilities for (but no rights of control over) two freely associated states: Cook Islands Niue
ANZ: Australia and New Zealand [2] ANZUK: trilateral relations between Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. APAC: Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim member economies that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region; APJ: Asia Pacific and Japan [3] APMA: Asia Pacific, Middle ...
The monarch of New Zealand, personally represented by the governor-general of New Zealand, is the head of state throughout the Realm of New Zealand.The New Zealand monarchy is unitary throughout all jurisdictions in the realm with the headship of state being a part of all equally. [6]
New Zealand: NU: NIU: 570: ISO 3166-2:NU.nu Norfolk Island: the Territory of Norfolk Island [c] Australia: NF: NFK: 574: ISO 3166-2:NF.nf North Korea – See Korea, The Democratic People's Republic of. North Macedonia [y] the Republic of North Macedonia [12] UN member MK: MKD: 807: ISO 3166-2:MK.mk Northern Mariana Islands (the) the ...
Map depicts sovereign states and a de facto state (tw) fully located on islands: those with land borders shaded green, and those without shaded dark blue. Countries/territories not shown on the map: Antarctica (aq) (continental disputed territory), Australia (au) (continental country), the Cook Islands (ck) and Niue (nu) (free association with New Zealand), Greenland (gl) (constituent country ...