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Bangladesh
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Member of the *Commonwealth since 1972. After the partition of *India it was part of *Pakistan, but in 1971 it declared independence as Bangladesh (the name means the 'Bengal nation'). Its freedom was achieved after India's intervention in the resulting civil war.
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