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The Queen visits the Pung family on the Toa Payoh housing complex in Singapore during a two-day visit to the Commonwealth country in March 2006
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VISITS BY THE QUEEN TO OVERSEAS COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES

The following is a list of visits undertaken by The Queen and Prince Philip to Commonwealth countries since 1952. Please note, CHOGM refers to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which takes place every two years:

6 February 1952 Kenya (visiting Sagana Lodge, Kiganjo, where The Queen learned of her Accession)
24 November 1953 Canada (refuelling in Newfoundland)
24-25 November 1953 Bermuda
25-27 November 1953 Jamaica
17-19 December 1953 Fiji
19-20 December 1953 Tonga
23 December 1953 – 30 January 1954 New Zealand
3 February – 1 April 1954 Australia (New South Wales, ACT, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia)
5 April 1954 Cocos Islands
10-21 April 1954 Ceylon
27 April 1954 Aden
28-30 April 1954 Uganda
3-7 May 1954 Malta
10 May 1954 Gibraltar
28 January – 16 February 1956 Nigeria
12-16 October 1957 Canada (Ontario)
18 June – 1 August 1959 Canada (opening of St. Lawrence Seaway, Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia) 
20 January 1961 Cyprus (refuelling)
21 January – 1 February 1961 India
1-16 February 1961 Pakistan
16-26 February 1961 India
1-2 March 1961 India
9-20 November 1961 Ghana
25 November – 1 December 1961 Sierra Leone
3-5 December 1961 Gambia
30 January – 1 February 1963 Canada (refuelling in Edmonton and overnight stop in Vancouver)
2-3 February 1963 Fiji
6-18 February 1963 New Zealand
18 February – 27 March 1963 Australia (ACT, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia)
28 March 1963 Fiji (refuelling)
29 March 1963 Canada (refuelling in Vancouver)
5-13 October 1964 Canada (Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ottawa)
1 February 1966 Canada (refuelling in Newfoundland)
1 February 1966 Barbados
2 February 1966 Mustique (private)
4-5 February 1966 British Guiana
7-9 February 1966 Trinidad
10 February 1966 Tobago
11 February 1966 Grenada
13 February 1966 St. Vincent
14-15 February 1966 Barbados
16 February 1966 St. Lucia
17 February  1966 Antigua (private visit)
18 February 1966 Dominica
19 February 1966 Montserrat
20 February 1966 Antigua
21 February 1966 Antigua (private visit)
22 February 1966 St. Kitts
22 February 1966 Nevis
23 February 1966 British Virgin Islands (Tortola, Beef Island, Virgin Gorda)
25 February 1966 Turks and Caicos Islands (Grand Turk, South Caicos)
26 February 1966 Conception Island (private visit)
27-28 February 1966 The Bahamas (Nassau)
1 March 1966 Conception Island (private visit)
3-6 March 1966 Jamaica
29 June – 5 July 1967 Canada (Centennial celebrations and EXPO at Montreal)
14-17 November 1967 Malta
2-3 March 1970 Canada (Ottawa for refuelling and Vancouver for overnight stop)
4-5 March 1970 Fiji
7 March 1970 Tonga
12-30 March 1970 New Zealand
30 March – 3 May 1970 Australia (NSW, Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland)
3 May 1970 Fiji (refuelling)
3-4 May 1970 Canada (Vancouver and Gander for refuelling)
5-15 July 1970 Canada (Northwest Territories and Manitoba)
3-12 May 1971 Canada (British Columbia)
18-20 February 1972 Singapore
22-26, 28 February 1972 Malaysia
29 February 1972 Brunei
2 March 1972 Malaysia
5 March 1972 Singapore
6, 8 March 1972 Malaysia
19-20 March 1972 Seychelles
24-26 March 1972 Mauritius
26 March 1972 Kenya (Nairobi)
25 June – 5 July 1973 Canada (Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Regina, Calgary)
31 July – 4 August 1973 Canada (Ottawa – Commonwealth Conference)
15 October 1973 Canada (Vancouver for refuelling)
16-17 October 1973 Fiji
17-22 October 1973 Australia (ACT and Sydney for the opening of the opera house)
23 October 1973 Singapore (refuelling)
27 January 1974 Canada (Ottawa and Vancouver for refuelling)
28-29 January 1974 Cook Islands (opening of Rarotonga International Airport)
30 January – 8 February 1974 New Zealand (visit to Commonwealth Games)
11 February 1974 Norfolk Island
15-16 February 1974 New Hebrides
18-21 February 1974 British Solomon Islands (San Cristobal Honiara, Gizo)
22-27 February 1974 Papua New Guinea
27-28 February 1974 Australia (ACT; The Queen returned to London on 28 Feburary for a General Election in the UK, cutting short the tour, which The Duke of Edinburgh completed)
28 February 1974 Singapore (refuelling)
14 March 1974 Singapore (refuelling)
22 March 1974 Singapore (refuelling)
16-18 February 1975 Bermuda
18-20 February 1975 Barbados
20-21 February 1975 Bahamas
1 March 1975 Bermuda (refuelling)
26-30 April 1975 Jamaica (Commonwealth Conference)
4-7 May 1975 Hong Kong
13-25 July 1976 Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Montreal for Olympic Games)
10-11 February 1977 Western Samoa (Apia, Tiafau)
14 February 1977 Tonga
16-17 February 1977 Fiji
22 February – 7 March 1977 New Zealand
7-23 March 1977 Australia (ACT, NSW, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia)
23-26 March 1977 Papua New Guinea
26-30 March 1977 Australia (Northern Territory, Western Australia)
14-19 October 1977 Canada (Ontario)
19-20 October 1977 Bahamas
22 October 1977 West Plana Cay (private)
23 October 1977 Little Inagua Island (private)
26 October 1977 British Virgin Islands (Tortola, Virgin Gorda)
27 October 1977 Antigua (private)
28 October 1977 Antigua
30 October 1977 Mustique (private)
31 October – 2 November 1977 Barbados
26 July – 6 August 1978 Canada (Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Alberta for Commonwealth Games, Edmonton, accompanied by Prince Andrew and Prince Edward)
19-22 July 1979 Tanzania (Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro)
22-25 July 1979 Malawi (Blantyre, Lilongwe, Zomba Plateau)
25-27 July 1979 Botswana (Gaborone)
27 July – 4 August 1979 Zambia (Lusaka for Commonwealth Conference, Kitwe, Ndola)
24 May 1980 Singapore (refuelling)
24-28 May 1980 Australia (Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne)
29 May 1980 Singapore (refuelling)
26 September 1981 Singapore (refuelling)
26 September – 12 October 1981 Australia (CHOGM in Melbourne, Tasmania, Western Australia, South Australia)
12-20 October 1981 New Zealand
20-21 October 1981 Australia (overnight stop in Perth)
21-25 October 1981 Sri Lanka (Colombo, Anuradhapura, Kandy, Victoria Dam)
15-18 April 1982 Canada (Ottawa, Patriation)
5 October 1982 Singapore (refuelling)
5-13 October 1982 Australia (NWT, Queensland for Commonwealth Games, Brisbane, ACT, NSW)
13-14 October 1982 Papua New Guinea
18 October 1982 Solomon Islands
21 October 1982 Nauru
23 October 1982 Kiribati
26-27 October 1982 Tuvalu
30 October – 1 November 1982 Fiji
13 February 1983 Bermuda (refuelling)
13-16 February 1983 Jamaica
16-17 February 1983 Cayman Islands
8-11 March 1983 Canada (British Columbia)
9-10 November 1983 Cyprus (overnight stop)
10-14 November 1983 Kenya (State visit – Nairobi, Sagana)
14-17 November 1983 Bangladesh (State visit – Dhaka)
17-26 November 1983 India (State visit – New Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune, CHOGM in New Delhi)
25-26 March 1984 Cyprus (overnight stop)
24 September – 7 October 1984 Canada (New Brunswick, Ontario and Manitoba)
9-11 October 1985 Belize
11-18 October 1985 Bahamas (CHOGM)
20 October 1985 Little Inagua Island (private)
23 October 1985 St. Kitts-Nevis
24 October 1985 Antigua
25 October 1985 Dominica
26 October 1985 St. Lucia
27 October 1985 St. Vincent and the Grenadines
28-29 October 1985 Barbados
30 October 1985 Mustique (private)
31 October 1985 Grenada
1-3 November 1985 Trinidad and Tobago
22 February – 2 March 1986 New Zealand
2-13 March 1986 Australia (ACT, NSW, Victoria, South Australia)
21-23 October 1986 Hong Kong
9-24 October 1987 Canada (CHOGM, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Quebec)
19 April – 10 May 1988 Australia (Western Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, NSW and ACT)
8-11 March 1989 Barbados (350th anniversary of Barbados Parliament)
9-11 October 1989 Singapore (State visit)
14-21 October 1989 Malaysia (State visit 14-17, CHOGM 17-21)
31 January 1990 Singapore (refuelling)
1 February 1990 Australia (refuelling in Brisbane)
1-16 February 1990 New Zealand (Commonwealth Games, Auckland, 150th anniversary of Treaty of Waitangi, Wellington, Christchurch)
17 February 1990 Australia (refuelling in Brisbane)
17 February 1990 Singapore (refuelling)
27 June – 1 July 1990 Canada (Alberta, Ontario, Quebec)
7 October 1991 Kenya (overnight stop)
8-10 October 1991 Namibia (State visit)
10-19 October 1991 Zimbabwe (State visit 10-15, CHOGM 15-19)
18-25 February 1992 Australia (Sesqui-centenary of founding of city of Sydney, ACT and Southern Australia)
28-30 May 1992 Malta (State visit)
30 June – 2 July 1992 Canada (celebration of 125th anniversary of Confederation)
18-24 October 1993 Cyprus (CHOGM)
18 February 1994 Anguilla
19 February 1994 Dominica
19-22 February 1994 Guyana
22-24 February 1994 Belize
26-27 February 1994 Cayman Islands
1-3 March 1994 Jamaica
6-8 March 1994 Bahamas
8-10 March 1994 Bermuda
13-22 August 1994 Canada (Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Northwest Territories)
19-25 March 1995 South Africa
30 October – 11 November 1995 New Zealand (visit and CHOGM in Auckland)
23 June – 2 July 1997 Canada (Newfoundland, Ontario, National Capital Region)
6-12 October 1997 Pakistan
12-18 October 1997 India
17-20 September 1998 Brunei Darussalam
20-23 September 1998 Malaysia (closing of Commonwealth Games)
7-9 November 1999 Ghana
9-15 November 1999 South Africa (including CHOGM in Durban)
15 November 1999 Mozambique
17 March – 1 April 2000 Australia (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Northern Territory (Alice Springs), Western Australia
18-20 February 2002 Jamaica (Kingston and Montego Bay)
22-27 February 2002 New Zealand (Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland)
27 February – 3 March 2002 Australia (South Australia and Queensland, including CHOGM in Maroochydore, Queensland)
4-15 October 2002 Canada (Nunavut, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and the National Capital Region)
3-6 December 2003 Abuja, Nigeria (attending CHOGM meeting)
17-25 May 2005 Canada (Saskatchewan and Alberta)
23-26 November 2005 Malta (CHOGM)
11-16 March 2006 Australia
16-18 March 2006 Singapore
20 November 2007 Malta
21-24 November 2007 Uganda (CHOGM)