How Many Countries & Territories will Participate at the Commonwealth Games 2022
Birmingham 2022 CWG is supposed to highlight 72 groups, including the 54 Commonwealth of countries and 18 territories. Begun in 1930 as the British Empire Games, the present-day Commonwealth Games is a multi-sport contest, planned like the Olympics, where just the Commonwealth of Nations and their domains are qualified to partake.
The Commonwealth of Nations or just the Commonwealth, the way things are currently, is an intentional gathering of 54 sovereign countries, the majority of which were previous provinces of the past British Empire or its dependants. The individuals, however, have changed throughout the years because of worldwide political ramifications and willful withdrawals for increments to the gathering. For instance, unified India, under British rule, took part at the 1934 and 1938 Games as one group.
After India’s parcel in 1947,
India and Pakistan both took part at the 1954 CWG. Likewise, Bangladesh began contending at the Commonwealth Games from 1978 after its freedom from Pakistan in 1971. Hamilton 1930, the debut Commonwealth Games version, saw 11 nations and regions – has Canada, Australia, Bermuda, British Guiana, Canada, England, Ireland, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales – partake.
The quantity of taking part nations and regions have consistently gone up since. Six countries, Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales, have been essential for all the 21 Commonwealth Games releases up to this point.
A sum of 71 unique groups partook in the last Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast, Australia in 2018. Other than the actual countries, various ward domains of these nations contend under their own banner, raising the all out number of groups.
Anguilla, for example, is an inside self-overseeing an abroad area of the United Kingdom yet contends at the Commonwealth Games as a different group. A sum of 72 nations and regions are supposed to highlight at the impending 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The sole expansion will be the Maldives, who left the Commonwealth in 2016 and subsequently, missed Gold Coast 2018. The Asian nation, notwithstanding, rejoined the Commonwealth of Nations in 2020 and is supposed to contend at Birmingham.
The Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, UK begins on July 28 and closures on August 8
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Botswana
- English Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Cook Islands
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Britain
- Eswatini
- Falkland Islands
- Fiji
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Grenada
- Guernsey
- Guyana
- India
- Isle of Man
- Jamaica
- Jersey
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Montserrat
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Ireland
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Scotland
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- St Helena
- St Kitts and Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Ridges
- Zambia
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