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The British Commonwealth is an obsolete name for what is now called the Commonwealth of Nations. It is an association of some 54 independent, sovereign nations, most (but not all) of whom were once part of the British Empire

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Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a community formed to protect or advance the common good.

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