History: The Commonwealth is one of the world’s political association of states. Its History goes back to the British Empire when some countries were ruled by Britain. Some of the countries who were ruled by Britain, became self-governing while retaining Britain’s Monarch (hersker) as head of the state.
In 1949 the association – The commonwealth – came into being. Since then, independent countries from all over the world have joined the Commonwealth.
The membership today is based on free and equal voluntary co-operation, The 2 newest members of the commonwealth is Rwanda and Mozambique, and they weren’t even is the British empire.
Queen Elizabeth the second: Under the formula of the London Declaration, Queen Elizabeth the second is the head of the commonwealth. She is still the head leader of the commonwealth. She was appointed as leader in 1952, after George the 6th, who was her father died.
During her reign, The Queen has undertaken more than 200 visits to Commonwealth countries and visited every country of the Commonwealth. One third of The Queen's total overseas visits are to Commonwealth countries.

Sport: Many of the commonwealth nations play similar sports against each other, especially in Cricket, Rugby, and netball. They have tournaments only for the countries in the commonwealth.
There is an event called commonwealth games, it’s a multisport event. As the usual athletic disciplines, as the summer games. The games includes sport particularly popular in the commonwealth. It started in 1930 as the empire games, it was designed to be friendly games, and get a better relationship between the commonwealth countries. The event I held every 4. Year.

Flag: The flag consists of the Commonwealth symbol in gold on a blue field. The symbol centers on a globe, representing the global nature of the Commonwealth and the breadth of its membership.

The British Commonwealth was founded in 1929, when Queen Elizabeth was queen of England.

The official language of the British Commonwealth is English.
In 2013 the population was about 2,328 billion people there are 53 states I the British Commonwealth, that were mostly territories of the former English empire.

Memebers: a high number of the membership in the commonwealth is from the southern Africa, southern Asia, North America, and the islands near Australia.