Republics in the Commonwealth of Nations

The republics in the Commonwealth of Nations are sovereign state members of the international organisation with a republican form of government. As of June 2022, 36 out of the 56 member states were republics. While King Charles III is the titular Head of the Commonwealth, he is not the head of state of the republican members. The King is, however, the reigning monarch in the Commonwealth realms. The Head of the Commonwealth role does not carry with it substantive power (what power it does have is probably exercisable by the Crown only on advice); instead, it is a symbol of the free association of Commonwealth members.

Except for the former Portuguese possession of Mozambique, the former Belgian trust territory of Rwanda and the former French possessions of Gabon and Togo, they are all former British (or partly British) colonies or self-governing colonies that have evolved into republics. Most of the Commonwealth's members achieved independence while keeping the British monarch as their own individual head of state (in a form of personal union) and later became republics within the Commonwealth when they removed the crown from their government arrangements. In some other instances, such member countries became republics after achieving independence from other former British colonies (as, for example, Bangladesh did from Pakistan in 1971 as a result of the Bangladesh Liberation War).