A report on Commonwealth of Nations and Guyana

The prime ministers of five members at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. (L-R) Mackenzie King (Canada), Jan Smuts (South Africa), Winston Churchill (United Kingdom), Peter Fraser (New Zealand) and John Curtin (Australia)

Kaieteur Falls is the world's largest single-drop waterfall by volume.

Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth

Marlborough House, London, the headquarters of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Commonwealth's principal intergovernmental institution

The members of the Commonwealth shaded according to their political status. Commonwealth realms are shown in blue, while republics are shaded pink, and members with their own monarchies are displayed in green.

Flags of the members of the Commonwealth in Parliament Square, London

Anomaloglossus beebei (Kaieteur), specific to the Guianas

The Commonwealth flag flying at the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa

The hoatzin is the national bird of Guyana.

The Commonwealth Games are the third-largest multi-sport event in the world, bringing together globally popular sports and peculiarly "Commonwealth" sports, such as rugby sevens, shown here at the 2006 Games.

A tractor in a rice field on Guyana's coastal plain

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission serves to commemorate 1.7 million Commonwealth war dead and maintains 2,500 war cemeteries around the world, including this one in Gallipoli.

A proportional representation of Guyana exports, 2019

Draft of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, with "British Empire" crossed out and "British Commonwealth of Nations" added by hand.

Guyana's population density in 2005 (people per km2)

A graph showing the population of Guyana from 1961 to 2003. The population decline in the 1980s can be clearly seen.

The State House, Guyana's presidential residence

Map of Guyana, showing the Essequibo River and (shaded dark) the river's drainage basin. Venezuela claims territory up to the western bank of the river. The historical claim by the UK included the river basin well into current-day Venezuela.

Cross-border bridge from Guyana to Brazil near Lethem

Providence Stadium as seen from the East Bank Highway

It gained independence in 1966, and officially became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970.

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Some other Commonwealth countries that have since become republics have chosen to leave, while others, such as Guyana, Mauritius and Dominica, have remained members.

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Composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

A replica of the Matthew, John Cabot's ship used for his second voyage to the New World

African slaves working in 17th-century Virginia, by an unknown artist, 1670

Fort St. George was founded at Madras in 1639.

Robert Clive's victory at the Battle of Plassey established the East India Company as a military as well as a commercial power.

British territories in the Americas, 1763–1776, extending much further than the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic coast

James Cook's mission was to find the alleged southern continent Terra Australis.

The Battle of Waterloo in 1815 ended in the defeat of Napoleon and marked the beginning of Pax Britannica.

An 1876 political cartoon of Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) making Queen Victoria Empress of India. The caption reads "New crowns for old ones!"

British cavalry charging against Russian forces at Balaclava in 1854

The Rhodes Colossus—Cecil Rhodes spanning "Cape to Cairo"

A poster urging men from countries of the British Empire to enlist

The British Empire at its territorial peak in 1921

George V with British and Dominion prime ministers at the 1926 Imperial Conference

During the Second World War, the Eighth Army was made up of units from many different countries in the British Empire and Commonwealth; it fought in North African and Italian campaigns.

About 14.5 million people lost their homes as a result of the partition of India in 1947.

Eden's decision to invade Egypt in 1956 revealed Britain's post-war weaknesses.

British decolonisation in Africa. By the end of the 1960s, all but Rhodesia (the future Zimbabwe) and the South African mandate of South West Africa (Namibia) had achieved recognised independence.

The fourteen British Overseas Territories

Cricket being played in India. Sports developed in Britain or the former empire continue to be viewed and played.

After independence, many former British colonies joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states.

Britain was again the beneficiary of peace treaties: France ceded the Ionian Islands, Malta (which it had occupied in 1798), Mauritius, St Lucia, the Seychelles, and Tobago; Spain ceded Trinidad; the Netherlands ceded Guyana, Ceylon and the Cape Colony, while the Danish ceded Heligoland.