List of Commonwealth visits made by Elizabeth II explained

Queen Elizabeth II became Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952 and remained Head of the Commonwealth until her death on 8 September 2022. During that time, she toured the Commonwealth of Nations widely. She visited all member states except for Cameroon, and the three most recently joined member states, Rwanda, Togo and Gabon.^{[1] [2] [3]} Her first foreign tour was before her accession when she accompanied her parents to the countries of Southern Africa in 1947.

Tours of the British Islands are excluded from the list below.

1950s

Date	Country	Host
nowrap	6 February 1952^[4]	Kenya	Governor Mitchell
nowrap	24–25 November 1953	Bermuda	Governor Hood
nowrap	25–27 November 1953	Jamaica	Governor Foot
nowrap	17–19 December 1953	Fiji	Governor Garvey
nowrap	19–20 December 1953	Tonga	Queen Sālote Tupou III
nowrap	23 December 1953 – 30 January 1954	New Zealand	Governor-General Norrie
nowrap	3 February 1954 – 1 April 1954	Australia	Governor-General Slim
nowrap	5 April 1954	Cocos Islands	Governor Nicoll
nowrap	10–21 April 1954		Governor-General Ramsbotham
nowrap	27 April 1954		Tom Hickinbotham	Governor Hickinbotham
nowrap	28–30 April 1954	Uganda	Governor Cohen
nowrap	3–7 May 1954	Malta	Governor Creasy
nowrap	10 May 1954	Gibraltar	Governor MacMillan
nowrap	28 January – 16 February 1956^[5]	Nigeria	Governor-General Robertson
nowrap	12–16 October 1957	Canada	Governor General Massey
nowrap	18 June – 1 August 1959	Canada	Governor General Massey

1960s

Date	Country	Host
nowrap	20 January 1961	Cyprus	President Makarios III
nowrap	20 January 1961^[6]		Administrator MacDonald
nowrap	21 January – 1 February 1961 16–26 February 1961 1–2 March 1961	India	President Prasad
nowrap	1–16 February 1961^[7] ^[8]	Pakistan
nowrap	9–20 November 1961	Ghana	President Nkrumah
nowrap	25 November – 1 December 1961	Sierra Leone	Governor-General Dorman
nowrap	3–5 December 1961	Gambia	Governor Windley
nowrap	30 January – 1 February 1963	Canada	Governor General Vanier
nowrap	2–3 February 1963	Fiji	Governor Maddocks
nowrap	6–18 February 1963	New Zealand	Governor-General Fergusson
nowrap	18 February – 27 March 1963	Australia	Governor-General Sidney
nowrap	5–13 October 1964	Canada	Governor General Vanier
nowrap	1 February 1966	Canada (refueling)	Governor General Vanier
nowrap	1 February 1966	Barbados	Governor Stow
nowrap	4–5 February 1966		Governor Luyt
nowrap	7–10 February 1966	Trinidad and Tobago	Governor-General Hochoy
nowrap	11 February 1966	Grenada	Governor Turbott
nowrap	13 February 1966	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Administrator Graham
nowrap	14–15 February 1966	Barbados	Governor Stow
nowrap	16 February 1966	Saint Lucia	Administrator Bryan
nowrap	18 February 1966	Dominica	Administrator Guy
nowrap	19 February 1966	Montserrat	Administrator Gibbs
nowrap	20 February 1966	Antigua	Administrator Rose
nowrap	22 February 1966		Administrator Howard
nowrap	23 February 1966		Administrator Staveley
nowrap	25 February 1966	Turks and Caicos Islands		Roger Tutt
nowrap	27–28 February 1966	Bahamas	Governor Grey
nowrap	3–6 March 1966	Jamaica	Governor-General Campbell
nowrap	29 June – 5 July 1967	Canada	Governor General Michener
nowrap	14–17 November 1967	Malta	Governor-General Dorman

1970s

Date	Country	Host
nowrap	2–3 March 1970	Canada	Governor General Michener
nowrap	4–5 March 1970	Fiji	Governor Foster
nowrap	7 March 1970	Tonga	King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
nowrap	12–30 March 1970	New Zealand	Governor-General Porritt
nowrap	30 March – 3 May 1970	Australia	Governor-General Hasluck
nowrap	3–4 May 1970	Canada (refueling)	Governor General Michener
nowrap	5–15 July 1970	Canada	Governor General Michener
nowrap	3–12 May 1971	Canada	Governor General Michener
nowrap	18–20 February 1972	Singapore	President Sheares
nowrap	22–26, 28 February 1972	Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdul Halim of Kedah
nowrap	29 February 1972		Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
nowrap	2 March 1972	Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdul Halim of Kedah
nowrap	5 March 1972	Singapore	President Sheares
nowrap	6, 8 March 1972	Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdul Halim of Kedah
nowrap	19–20 March 1972	Seychelles	Governor Greatbatch
nowrap	24–26 March 1972	Mauritius	Governor-General Williams
nowrap	26 March 1972	Kenya	President Kenyatta
nowrap	25 June – 5 July 1973	Canada	Governor General Michener
nowrap	31 July – 4 August 1973	Canada (for 2nd CHOGM)	Governor General Michener
nowrap	15 October 1973	Canada (refueling)	Governor General Michener
nowrap	16–17 October 1973	Fiji	Governor-General Cakobau
nowrap	17–22 October 1973	Australia	Governor-General Hasluck
nowrap	27 January 1974	Canada (refueling)	Governor-General Léger
nowrap	28–29 January 1974	Cook Islands	Governor-General Blundell
nowrap	30 January – 8 February 1974	New Zealand (for 1974 British Commonwealth Games)	Governor-General Blundell
nowrap	11 February 1974	Norfolk Island	Administrator Pickerd
nowrap	15–16 February 1974		Resident Commissioner Houssemayne de Boulay
nowrap	18–21 February 1974	Solomon Islands	Governor Luddington
nowrap	22–27 February 1974	Papua New Guinea	High Commissioner Wilson Johnson
nowrap	27–28 February 1974	Australia	Governor-General Hasluck
nowrap	16–18 February 1975	Bermuda	Governor Leather
nowrap	18–20 February 1975	Barbados	Governor-General Scott
nowrap	20–21 February 1975	Bahamas	Governor-General Butler
nowrap	1 March 1975	Bermuda (refueling)	Governor Leather
nowrap	26–30 April 1975	Jamaica (for 3rd CHOGM)	Governor-General Glasspole
nowrap	4–7 May 1975		Governor MacLehose
nowrap	13–25 July 1976	Canada (for 1976 Summer Olympics)	Governor General Léger
nowrap	10–11 February 1977		O le Ao o le Malo Malietoa Tanumafili II
nowrap	14 February 1977	Tonga	King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
nowrap	16–17 February 1977	Fiji	Governor-General Cakobau
nowrap	22 February – 7 March 1977	New Zealand	Governor-General Blundell
nowrap	7–23 March 1977	Australia	Governor-General Kerr
nowrap	23–26 March 1977	Papua New Guinea	Governor-General Lokoloko
nowrap	26–30 March 1977	Australia	Governor-General Kerr
nowrap	14–19 October 1977	Canada	Governor-General Léger
nowrap	19–20 October 1977	Bahamas	Governor-General Butler
nowrap	26 October 1977		Governor Wallace
nowrap	28 October 1977	Antigua and Barbuda	Governor Jacobs
nowrap	31 October – 2 November 1977	Barbados	Governor-General Ward
nowrap	26 July – 6 August 1978	Canada	Governor General Léger
nowrap	19–22 July 1979		President Nyerere
nowrap	22–25 July 1979	Malawi	President Banda
nowrap	25–27 July 1979	Botswana	President Khama
nowrap	27 July – 4 August 1979	Zambia (for 5th CHOGM)	President Kaunda

1980s

Date	Country	Host
nowrap	24–28 May 1980	Australia	Governor-General Cowen
nowrap	26 September – 12 October 1981	Australia (for 6th CHOGM)	Governor-General Cowen
nowrap	12–20 October 1981	New Zealand	Governor-General Beattie
nowrap	20–21 October 1981	Australia	Governor-General Cowen
nowrap	21–25 October 1981	Sri Lanka	President Jayawardene
nowrap	15–18 April 1982	Canada	Governor General Schreyer
nowrap	5–13 October 1982	Australia	Governor-General Stephen
nowrap	13–14 October 1982	Papua New Guinea	Governor-General Lokoloko
nowrap	18 October 1982	Solomon Islands	Governor-General Devesi
nowrap	21 October 1982	Nauru	President DeRoburt
nowrap	23 October 1982	Kiribati	President Tabai
nowrap	26–27 October 1982	Tuvalu	Governor-General Teo
nowrap	30 October – 1 November 1982	Fiji	Governor-General Cakobau
nowrap	13 February 1983	Bermuda	Governor Posnett
nowrap	13–16 February 1983	Jamaica	Governor-General Glasspole
nowrap	16–17 February 1983	Cayman Islands	Governor Lloyd
nowrap	8–11 March 1983	Canada	Governor General Schreyer
nowrap	9–10 November 1983	Cyprus	President Kyprianou
nowrap	10–14 November 1983^[9]	Kenya	President Moi
nowrap	14–17 November 1983	Bangladesh	President Chowdhury
nowrap	17–26 November 1983	India (for 7th CHOGM)	President Singh
nowrap	25–26 March 1984		President Kyprianou
nowrap	24 September – 7 October 1984		Governor General Sauvé
nowrap	9–11 October 1985		Governor-General Gordon
nowrap	11–18 October 1985	Bahamas (for 8th CHOGM)	Governor-General Cash
nowrap	20 October 1985	Inagua (private)
nowrap	23 October 1985	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Governor-General Arrindell
nowrap	24 October 1985	Antigua and Barbuda	Governor-General Jacobs
nowrap	25 October 1985	Dominica	President Seignoret
nowrap	26 October 1985	Saint Lucia	Governor-General Lewis
nowrap	27 October 1985	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Governor-General Eustace
nowrap	28–29 October 1985	Barbados	Governor-General Springer
nowrap	31 October 1985	Grenada	Governor-General Scoon
nowrap	1–3 November 1985	Trinidad and Tobago	President Clarke
nowrap	22 February – 2 March 1986	New Zealand	Governor-General Reeves
nowrap	2–13 March 1986	Australia	Governor-General Stephen
nowrap	21–23 October 1986		Governor Youde
nowrap	9–24 October 1987	Canada (for 10th CHOGM)	Governor General Sauvé
nowrap	19 April – 10 May 1988	Australia	Governor-General Stephen
nowrap	8–11 March 1989	Barbados	Governor-General Springer
nowrap	9–11 October 1989	Singapore	President Wee
nowrap	14–17 October 1989	Malaysia (for 11th CHOGM)	Yang di-Pertuan Agong Azlan Shah of Perak

1990s

Date	Country	Host
nowrap	1–16 February 1990	New Zealand	Governor-General Reeves
nowrap	27 June – 1 July 1990	Canada	Governor General Hnatyshyn
nowrap	7 October 1991	Kenya (overnight stop)	President Moi
nowrap	8–10 October 1991	Namibia	President Nujoma
nowrap	10–15 October 1991	Zimbabwe (for 12th CHOGM)	President Mugabe
nowrap	18–25 February 1992	Australia	Governor-General Hayden
nowrap	28–30 May 1992	Malta	President Tabone
nowrap	30 June – 2 July 1992	Canada	Governor General Hnatyshyn
nowrap	18–24 October 1993	Cyprus (for 13th CHOGM)	President Clerides
nowrap	23 October 1993^[10]		Administrator Harley
nowrap	18 February 1994	Anguilla	Governor Shave
nowrap	19 February 1994	Dominica	President Sorhaindo
nowrap	19–22 February 1994	Guyana	President Jagan
nowrap	22–24 February 1994	Belize	Governor-General Young
nowrap	26–27 February 1994	Cayman Islands	Governor Gore
nowrap	1–3 March 1994	Jamaica	Governor-General Cooke
nowrap	6–8 March 1994	Bahamas	Governor-General Darling
nowrap	8–10 March 1994	Bermuda	Governor Waddington
nowrap	13–22 August 1994	Canada	Governor General Hnatyshyn
nowrap	19–25 March 1995	South Africa	President Mandela
nowrap	30 October – 11 November 1995	New Zealand (for 14th CHOGM)	Governor-General Tizard
nowrap	23 June – 2 July 1997	Canada	Governor General LeBlanc
nowrap	6–12 October 1997	Pakistan	President Leghari
nowrap	12–18 October 1997	India	President Narayanan
nowrap	17–20 September 1998		Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
nowrap	20–23 September 1998	Malaysia	Yang di-Pertuan Agong Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan
nowrap	7–9 November 1999	Ghana	President Rawlings
nowrap	9–15 November 1999	South Africa (for 16th CHOGM)	President Mbeki
nowrap	15 November 1999	Mozambique	President Chissano

2000s

Date	Country	Host
nowrap	17 March – 1 April 2000	Australia	Governor-General Deane
nowrap	18–20 February 2002	Jamaica	Governor-General Cooke
nowrap	22–27 February 2002	New Zealand	Governor-General Cartwright
nowrap	27 February – 3 March 2002	Australia (for 17th CHOGM)	Governor-General Hollingworth
nowrap	4–15 October 2002	Canada	Governor General Clarkson
nowrap	3–6 December 2003	Nigeria (for 18th CHOGM)	President Obasanjo
nowrap	17–25 May 2005	Canada	Governor General Clarkson
nowrap	23–26 November 2005	Malta (for 19th CHOGM)	President Fenech Adami
nowrap	11–16 March 2006	Australia	Governor-General Jeffery
nowrap	16–18 March 2006	Singapore	President Nathan
nowrap	20 November 2007		President Fenech Adami
nowrap	21–24 November 2007	Uganda (for 20th CHOGM)	President Museveni
nowrap	24–26 November 2009		Governor Gozney
nowrap	26–28 November 2009	Trinidad and Tobago (for 21st CHOGM)	President Richards

2010s

Date	Country	Host
nowrap	28 June – 6 July 2010	Canada	Governor General Jean
nowrap	19–29 October 2011	Australia (for 22nd CHOGM)	Governor-General Bryce
nowrap	26–28 November 2015^[11]	Malta (for 24th CHOGM)	President Coleiro Preca

Commonwealth countries and territories never visited by Elizabeth II

British overseas territories
British Indian Ocean Territory
, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (never visited as Queen)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Other territories
(external territory of Australia)
(external territory of Australia)
Christmas Island (external territory of Australia)
(external territory of Australia)
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (external territory of Australia)
Niue (Realm of New Zealand)
Ross Dependency (dependency of New Zealand)
Tokelau (dependency of New Zealand)

Commonwealth countries
Cameroon
(never visited as Queen)
Gabon
Lesotho (never visited as Queen)
Maldives (never visited while the country has been a member)
Rwanda
Togo

See also

• List of state visits made by Elizabeth II
• List of state visits received by Elizabeth II
• List of state and official visits by Canada
• Royal tours of Australia
• Royal tours of Canada
• List of official overseas trips made by George VI
• List of official overseas trips made by Charles III
• List of official overseas trips made by William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
• List of official overseas trips made by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

Notes and References

1. Web site: Queen Elizabeth has never visited THESE Commonwealth countries on a state visit. 10 April 2018 . The Queen has yet to visit Cameroon and Rwanda.
2. News: Why hasn't the Queen visited Greece?. BBC News. 4 May 2012. Hebblethwaite. Cordelia . The Queen has made it to every single nation in the Commonwealth, except two of the more recent entrants, Rwanda and Cameroon..
3. Web site: The Royal Family's visits around the Commonwealth. 17 April 2018 . Official website of the British royal family . The Queen has visited every country in the Commonwealth (with the exception of Cameroon, which joined in 1995 and Rwanda which joined in 2009).
4. Web site: Commonwealth visits since 1952. Official website of the British monarchy. 4 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412031035/http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/RoyalVisits/Commonwealthvisitssince1952.aspx. 12 April 2015.
5. Web site: Queen's 1956 Tour of Nigeria . . 6 January 2015.
6. Web site: Cyprus: Akrotiri: Queen Elizabeth Meets Archbishop Makarios .
7. (12–16 February Former East Pakistan, now Bangladesh)
8. News: Sights and Sounds of History. 11 November 2011. The Daily Star (Bangladesh). 1 March 2011.
9. http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/RoyalVisits/OutwardStatevisitssince1952.aspx Outward State visits since 1952
10. Web site: Bolton, Carole (Fl.1994) - the Royal Luncheon, Officers Mess, Royal Air Force, Akrotiri, 23 October 1993 .
11. Web site: State Visit to Malta and CHOGM. The Royal Family . 27 October 2015 . 8 January 2020 .