what is meant by the commonwealth of nations?is it a special class of countries?
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The Commonwealth of Nations ("British Commonwealth" or "Commonwealth") refers to the family of countries of the former British Empire.\n\nMember states enjoy preferential trade and visa relations with  the UK and eachother. See the Wikipedia link below.
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the commonwealth, residents of or the good folk.
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There 192 countries... here is a full list.  191 of these countries are part of the united nations, and the 1 country that is seperate is vatican city.\n\nA | Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Andorra | Angola | Antigua and Barbuda | Argentina | Armenia | Australia | Austria | Azerbaijan | \nB | Bahamas | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Barbados | Belarus | Belize | Belgium | Benin | Bhutan | Bolivia | Botswana | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Brazil | Brunei | Bulgaria | Burkina Faso | Burundi | \nC | Cambodia | Cameroon | Canada | Cape Verde | Central African Republic | Chad | Chile | China | China: Hong Kong | China: Macau | China: Taiwan | Colombia | Comoros | Congo | Costa Rica | Côte d'Ivoire | Croatia | Cuba | Cyprus | Czech Republic | \nD | Denmark | Djibouti | Dominica | Dominican Republic | \nE | East Timor | Ecuador | Egypt | El Salvador | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Estonia | Ethiopia | \nF | Fijii | Finland | France | French Guiana | \nG | Gabon | The Gambia | Gaza Strip | Germany | Georgia | Ghana | Greece | Grenada | Guatemala | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Guyana | \nH | Haiti | Holy See (Vatican City) | Honduras | Hong Kong | Hungary | \nI | Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland (Eire) | Ireland (Northern) | Israel | Italy | \nJ | Jamaica | Japan | Jordan | \nK | Kazakhstan | Kenya | Korea, North | Korea, South | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | \nL | Laos - | Latvia - | Lebanon - | Lesotho - | Liberia - | Libya - | Lithuania | Luxembourg - | \nM | Macao | Macedonia | Malawi | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Malta | Marshall Islands | Mauritania | Mauritius | Micronesia | Moldova | Monaco | Mongolia | Morocco | Mexico | Mozambique | Myanmar (Burma) | \nN | Namibia (1) | Nauru | Nepal (1) | Netherlands (11+5) | New Zealand (10) | Nicaragua | Niger (1) | Nigeria (1) | Norway (4) | \nO | Oman (1) | \nP | Panama | Peru | Pakistan | Papua New Guinea | Palau | Poland | Portugal | \nQ | Qatar (1) | \nR | Romania | Russia | Rwanda | \nS | St. Kitts and Nevis - | Saint Lucia - | St. Vincent and the Grenadines - | Samoa (1) | San Marino - | São Tomé and Príncipe - | Saudi Arabia (1) | Senegal (2) | Serbia and Montenegro (2) | Seychelles - | Sierra Leone - | Singapore (4) | Slovakia (2) | Slovenia (2) | Solomon Islands - | Somalia - | South Africa (23) | Spain (3) | Sri Lanka (3) | Sudan (2) | Suriname - | Swaziland (1) | Sweden (10) | Switzerland (10) | Syria - | \nT | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Togo | Thailand | Trinidad and Tobago | Tunisia | Turkey | Turkmenistan | Tuvalu | \nU | Uganda (2) | Ukraine (8) | United Arab Emirates (1) | United Kingdom (72) | United States of America (317) | Uruguay (2) | Uzbekistan (1) | \nV | Venezuela | Vietnam | Vatican City\nW | West Bank (3) | Western Sahara | \nX | \nY | Yemen | Yugoslavia now Serbia & Montenegro | \nZ | Zaire now Congo, Democratic Republic of | Zambia (1) | Zimbabwe (1) |
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not many countries have a government UK style. It's pretty unique. It's quite an undemocratic democracy. Find out more from the House of Commons website. I think the only other country that has a similar system is Japan. Definitely not Canada/Australia/India. I repeat! Definitely not Canada/Australia/India!The UK gov has special intricacies that mark it out as v.unique, for e.g. we have no written constitution. Check out the uk.gov. website!
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the country formally known as GB
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On this list are 243 entities considered to be countries. This corresponds to:\n\n202 sovereign states\n\n36 inhabited dependent territories\nand\n5 areas of special sovereignty
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Of the fifty separate bodies which we commonly know as "states," there are four states which officially designate themselves as Commonwealths: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.\n\nThat makes the answer to your question    46\n\n\nPlease take time to select the best answer.
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Technically, the term West Indies doesn't actually refer to a specific place. But rather to the people of the Caribbean islands and some parts of South America, who were joined together by Colonial governments. Is that what you're referring to?
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The English noun Commonwealth dates originally from the fifteenth century. The original phrase "common wealth" or "the common weal" comes from the old meaning of 'wealth' which is 'well-being'. The term literally meant "common well-being". Thus commonwealth originally meant a state governed for the common good (as opposed to a tyrannical state).\n\nToday the term is more general and means a political community.\n\nThe type of community indicated by the term commonwealth varies. For instance, in different contexts it might indicate:\n\na political unit founded in law by agreement of the people for the common good; \na federated union of constituent states; \na community of sovereign states; \na republic; \na democratic constitutional monarchy; \na Co-operative Commonwealth is a society based on cooperative and socialist principles. \n\nFour states in the United States officially designate themselves "commonwealths": Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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EU countries have to let u in, because that's the law so we're told as justification for the UK's immigration recently. The Commonwealth is different, you need to get enough points, IE you need to be of worth to the country you want to go to. I'm not sure about the rest, but i bet it isn't that difficult to get into an African country.
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My guess is that some countries are administratively part of a larger unit. \n\nI'll give you the example I'm familiar with: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are all individual members of FIFA, however, they are all part of the United Kingdom and that is the body which has UN membership.\n\nI don't know which other countries this would apply to.
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There are 243 entities considered to be countries. \nThis corresponds to:\n\n    * 201 sovereign and/or independent states:\n          o 191 member states of the United Nations (UN).\n          o 1 UN recognized non-member state governed by the Holy See (a UN permanent observer): the Vatican City.\n          o 1 state not recognized by the UN since late 1971, recognized by 25 other states and currently with de facto international relations with most states, the Republic of China (popularly referred to as Taiwan).\n          o 8 states not recognized by the UN and not recognized by a significant portion of its individual member-states:\n                + 1 de facto independent state, diplomatically recognized by only Turkey; Northern Cyprus[1]\n                + 5 de facto independent states; namely Abkhazia[2], Nagorno-Karabakh[3] Somaliland[4], South Ossetia[5], and Transnistria[6]; all recognized by no states.\n                + 2 entities recognized by many countries as sovereign, but not de facto independent; namely Palestine and Western Sahara.\n    * 37 inhabited dependent territories:\n          o 3 overseas territories of Australia (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island)\n          o 2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland and Faroe Islands)\n          o 5 dependent territories of France:\n                + 1 sui generis (unique) dependency of France (New Caledonia)\n                + 4 overseas collectivities of France (Mayotte, French Polynesia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna)\n          o 2 overseas countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Aruba and Netherlands Antilles)\n          o 3 dependent territories of New Zealand:\n          o 2 states in free association with New Zealand (Cook Islands and Niue)\n          o 1 New Zealand overseas territory (Tokelau)\n          o 17 dependent territories of the United Kingdom:\n                + 3 British Crown dependencies (Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man)\n                + 12 overseas territories of the United Kingdom (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena [and its dependencies Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha] and the Turks and Caicos Islands)\n                + 2 Sovereign Base Areas on the island of Cyprus (Akrotiri and Dhekelia)\n          o 5 unincorporated territories of the United States (US) (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands)\n    * 4 special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (Åland in Finland, Svalbard in Norway, as well as the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau in the People's Republic of China)\n    * 1 UN protectorate inside the de jure territory of a sovereign state (Kosovo in Serbia and Montenegro under UN interim civilian administration).\n\n    * Abkhazia Abkhazia - Republic of Abkhazia (de facto independent state inside Georgia)\n    * Afghanistan Afghanistan - Islamic Republic of Afghanistan\n    * United Kingdom Akrotiri - Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)\n    * Åland Åland - Åland Islands (autonomous province of Finland recognized by international treaty)\n    * Albania Albania - Republic of Albania\n    * Algeria Algeria - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria\n    * American Samoa American Samoa - Territory of American Samoa (unincorporated unorganized territory of the United States)\n    * Andorra Andorra - Principality of Andorra (co-principality with the President of the French Republic and the Bishop of Urgell, Spain as ex officio heads of state)\n    * Angola Angola - Republic of Angola\n    * Anguilla Anguilla (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)\n    * Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda (Commonwealth Realm)\n    * Argentina Argentina - Argentine Republic (federal state, also named Argentine Nation for purposes of legislation)
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Since India is in the Commonwealth, it is called a high commission, not an embassy: http://www.hcilondon.net/
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Basically what we now call nation-building.  League of Nations - global economic realities.  Love this quote:  "A progressive country would be one where the people were able to take care of themselves."
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The Third World was a term coined during the Cold War. At the time the world was divided into two major power blocs, the Communist Bloc represented mainly by the USSR and China and the Western Bloc represented by the USA and Western Europe. \n\nThe Third World simply referred to countries like India or Egypt that were not strongly aligned with either power block. \n\nAlmost all of those countries were also non-industrialised nations with small economies. As a result ‘Third World’ came to refer non-industrialised or underdeveloped nations, and within 15 years everyone had forgotten what the term had originally meant.\n\n\nSorry sandworm, nothing at all to do with the ‘New World’. It was never explicitely stated, but if we had to name them then the First World nations were the westernised capitalist countries such as the NATO nations, Australia and Japan.  The second world were the Communist countries such as the Warsaw Pact countries, China and Cuba.
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Monaco, Barbados, Grenada, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Tuvalu, Palau, San Marino, Marshall Islands, Seychelles\n\nall these great mighty powerfull nations.
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The Commonwealth refers to countries that were once under British rule, but are independent today. One interesting fact is that the sport of Cricket is very popular in most Commonwealth countries. More information in the source below.