Commonwealth of Nations Member Countries Map

A map of the 56 member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, drawn from the roster as it stood in September 2026, in four map styles and free to download at high resolution.

Members
56
Founded
1949 (London Declaration)
Headquarters
Marlborough House, London, United Kingdom
Roster as of
September 2026
Map of the 56 Commonwealth of Nations member countries shaded in colour on a flat Natural Earth political map, as of September 2026
Commonwealth of Nations member countries as of September 2026 — download PNG · SVG

About the Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth has 56 member countries across every inhabited continent, together home to around 2.7 billion people — a little under a third of humanity, with more than half of that in India alone. It is the most geographically scattered of the organisations mapped here, which is why the marker layer matters: a great many members are small island states that cannot be shaded at world scale.

Most members are former territories of the British Empire, but that is no longer a requirement. Mozambique joined in 1995 with no such history, followed by Rwanda in 2009 and Gabon and Togo in 2022. Membership is voluntary and reversible: Zimbabwe withdrew in 2003, the Maldives left in 2016 and rejoined in 2020.

The association is a free one, with no treaty obligations and no defence commitments. King Charles III is Head of the Commonwealth, a symbolic role that is not hereditary and was confirmed for him by the members in 2018; he is separately head of state in 14 members besides the United Kingdom. The other 41 are republics or have their own monarchs — a distinction the map cannot show, but which explains why 'Commonwealth realm' and 'Commonwealth member' are different lists.

The same membership in four map styles

Every map on this page shows the identical roster — only the base layer and the projection change. Pick whichever reads best for what you are making, and download it at 3200 pixels wide.

Map of the 56 Commonwealth of Nations member countries shaded in colour on a flat Natural Earth political map, as of September 2026
Classic political Flat colours on the Natural Earth projection — the clearest read of who is in and who is out, and the version to use in a document or on a slide. Download: PNG (3200 px) · SVG (vector)
Map of the 56 Commonwealth of Nations member countries shaded in colour over satellite imagery on a globe, as of September 2026
Satellite globe Esri World Imagery under a translucent membership shading, on an orthographic globe turned to face the bloc. Download: JPG (3200 px)
Map of the 56 Commonwealth of Nations member countries shaded in colour on a Mercator projection map, as of September 2026
Mercator projection The same membership on Web Mercator, the projection every online map uses. It stretches everything far from the equator — compare Canada and Russia here against the Equal Earth version below. Download: PNG (3200 px)
Map of the 56 Commonwealth of Nations member countries shaded in colour on an Equal Earth equal-area map, as of September 2026
Equal Earth projection An equal-area projection: every country covers the share of the image that it covers of the planet. The honest choice when a map is making a point about size. Download: PNG (3200 px)

The 56 Commonwealth member countries

  1. Antigua and Barbuda
  2. Australia
  3. Bangladesh
  4. Barbados
  5. Belize
  6. Botswana
  7. Brunei
  8. Cameroon
  9. Canada
  10. Cyprus
  11. Dominica
  12. Eswatini
  13. Fiji
  14. Gabon
  15. Ghana
  16. Grenada
  17. Guyana
  18. India
  19. Jamaica
  20. Kenya
  21. Kiribati
  22. Lesotho
  23. Malawi
  24. Malaysia
  25. Maldives
  26. Malta
  27. Mauritius
  28. Mozambique
  29. Namibia
  30. Nauru
  31. New Zealand
  32. Nigeria
  33. Pakistan
  34. Papua New Guinea
  35. Rwanda
  36. Saint Kitts and Nevis
  37. Saint Lucia
  38. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  39. Samoa
  40. Seychelles
  41. Sierra Leone
  42. Singapore
  43. Solomon Islands
  44. South Africa
  45. Sri Lanka
  46. Tanzania
  47. The Bahamas
  48. The Gambia
  49. Togo
  50. Tonga
  51. Trinidad and Tobago
  52. Tuvalu
  53. Uganda
  54. United Kingdom
  55. Vanuatu
  56. Zambia

Shown as markers: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Nauru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Tonga, Tuvalu. The boundary data behind these maps is Natural Earth's 1:110m world geometry, which carries no polygon for states this small — at world scale they are smaller than a single pixel. Rather than drop them from a membership map, each is drawn as a marker at its true position.

Colour your own version of this map

The link below opens this exact roster in the world map maker, already shaded. From there you can change the colours, relabel the legend, switch projection, add pins or annotations, and export your own version as PNG or SVG.

Open the Commonwealth map in the editor →

Source for the roster: thecommonwealth.org, checked September 2026.

Using these maps

All four downloads are free for personal, classroom, academic and editorial use — a school project, a lecture slide, a blog post, a news graphic. Boundaries come from Natural Earth, which is public domain. The satellite, street and terrain versions are drawn over Esri basemap imagery, credited in the corner of each image; keep that credit visible when you reuse them.

Please keep the "September 2026" date on the map. Membership changes, and a membership map without a date is the single most common way an out-of-date roster ends up being republished as current.

Questions about Commonwealth membership

How many countries are in the Commonwealth?

56 as of September 2026. Gabon and Togo were the most recent to join, both in June 2022.

Do all Commonwealth countries have King Charles as head of state?

No. He is Head of the Commonwealth, a symbolic role covering all 56, but head of state in only 15 of them. The rest are republics or have their own monarchies.

Which countries have left the Commonwealth?

Ireland (1949), Zimbabwe (2003) and the Maldives (2016) all left; the Maldives rejoined in 2020. Members may withdraw at any time, and none of the departures required a vote.

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