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by dghf 2619 days ago
> You know that the Queen is still the head of state for most of the commonwealth countries?

The Commonwealth has 53 member states, only 16 of which have the Queen as the head of state. And those 16 contain only 6% of the Commonwealth's population (144 million out of 2.4 billion).

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You're right, I'm rustier than I thought, the only exception that sprang to mind was India. I thought plenty of African states had her as head, which is completely wrong!

List here for everyone else https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm