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Countries Most-Visited By Queen Elizabeth II

Name the countries that have been most-visited by Queen Elizabeth II as part of an official state or commonwealth visit.
Source: Wikipedia
Not counting the United Kingdom, obviously
Try also: Countries most visited by King Charles III - https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/169898/countries-most-visited-by-king-charles-iii
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Continent
Country
28
North America
Canada
20
Oceania
Australia
10
Oceania
New Zealand
9
North America
United States
7
Europe
Germany
6
North America
Bahamas
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Continent
Country
6
North America
Barbados
6
Oceania
Fiji
6
Europe
France
6
North America
Jamaica
6
Europe
Malta
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Level 89
Dec 9, 2016
What a great and well travelled queen she has been!!
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Level 79
Mar 27, 2020
Indeed. A great, well-travelled and hardworking queen.
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Level 76
Sep 10, 2022
hehe
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Level 82
Jul 13, 2018
I bombed this one. Looks like she's taken a few Caribbean cruises.
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Level 77
Jan 16, 2024
Bamahas, Barbados, and Jamaica are all part of the British Commonwealth.
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Level 76
Jul 13, 2018
Surprisingly difficult
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Level 75
Jul 13, 2018
Much harder than I expected.
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Level 69
Jul 14, 2018
I'm just pumped that Nelly Furtado is doing something productive with her post-musical career.
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Level 90
Jul 14, 2018
Her Majesty does enjoy a nice island vacation, does she not?
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Level 80
Jul 22, 2018
Yes, a lot to tourist spots globally. Maybe those visits show her political priorities in the ex-British empire - little regard for India and the sub-continent, and in Africa. Might be too much unwashed, unclean riff-raff in those places for Her Majesty to tolerate, eh what. But lots of visits to Anglo and European countries. Surprising to see Canada at no 1.
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Level 82
Sep 9, 2022
Well, the political priorities are unsurprisingly countries that have the UK monarch as head of state - which Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Bahamas and Jamaica still do, and Barbados did until 2021. Queen Elizabeth II was never head of state of India.
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Level 65
Sep 17, 2022
Yeah, really want to see her prioritize Burkina Faso over Ukraine. Totally pragmatic use of time.
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Level 74
Jul 15, 2018
Considering her age and the number of countries the royals visit on their trips, I would have expected a greater number of visits for each.
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Level 69
Oct 13, 2018
Interesting that she hasn't gone to Greece to visit Philip's relatives or to Germany to visit hers. She has gone mainly to warm weather countries except Canada (because we largely pay for her junkets). But not to Africa?
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Level 79
Oct 13, 2018
As Queen she was in Africa before she was anywhere else.
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Level 75
Oct 13, 2018
Which made me think of trying Kenya.
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Level 75
Sep 9, 2022
She would never be welcome in Greece after what her relatives did to the country. Where to even begin?! Firstly, her hubby's dad was one of the main people responsible for the expulsion of one million Greeks from Asia Minor when he wanted to play "British Empire" and together with the monarchist government were crushed in the greco-turkish war. He was never tried for his crimes.

The rest of the family ended up contributing to a civil war, a military junta which plagued the country for 7 years (1967-1974) and the turkish invasion of Cyprus for which the British were extremely culpable.

Not to mention, Lizzy is largely viewed as the perpetrator of Diana's murder and she had been revered in Greece.

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Level 23
Sep 17, 2022
germany is one of the answers tho
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Level 71
Oct 13, 2018
Wow she must really like us in Canada.
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Level 73
Oct 13, 2018
"When you really want to visit the USA but must go to a place instead with your own face on the money"
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Level 84
Apr 2, 2019
Well, you're so polite. How can she refuse when you ask her over for Boxing Day?
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Level 67
Apr 3, 2019
Yeah, why would she want to go to America
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Level 50
May 23, 2019
Fair point. Lots of people are feeling that way right now.
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Level 75
Sep 9, 2022
Why wouldn't she, you are her subjects. Most of the world views Canada as something between a British colony and a U.S puppet state anyway. Well, except Quebec, of course.
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Level 45
Feb 7, 2024
Mostly just some poor country people getting saucy over the fact that a supposed "puppet" country is ten times better off than the shite holes they're living right now. (Speaking from personal experience)

Or some reactionary nationalists getting high on sovereignty stuffs. (again, personal experience)

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Level 71
Oct 14, 2018
I get that these are commonwealth countries, but it still seems weird that the queen has prioritized these countries over nations of high political significance like China or Germany
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Level 86
Feb 22, 2020
It's not weird that she has been many times to countries she officially is Queen of (or was in two cases on the list - one of which she lived in for a year). The other 4 in this quiz are, a large commonwealth country that's en-route to Oceania and her frequently-visited realms there (you're going to have to stop en-route, so why not there?), one of the closest Commonwealth countries to the UK with links to her husband, the global superpower that often needs a bit of charm for the UK to get something off them, and a close ally that is also place where her husband grew up. The non-Commonwealth two also have horse racing, and I guess while you have the Queen visiting for her hobby you might want to have her to your presidential palace for dinner as an official sign of friendship between two nations - helping boost their numbers.
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Level 84
Sep 9, 2022
Visits related to political relations are more relevant to the current PM, not so much the royal family, who would be more focused on the commonwealth.
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Level 72
Oct 1, 2023
I didn't realise that she had been turning down invitations from the CCP.
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Level 48
Mar 22, 2019
No Ireland or Argentina?
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Level 59
Jul 2, 2020
Ireland was a major huge visit but rare because of the recentness of the split from UK.
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Level 67
Mar 25, 2021
Well Said.
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Level 57
Dec 29, 2021
Ireland became a republic less than three years before Elizabeth became queen.
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Level 66
Apr 13, 2021
That dramatic drop from 86% to 37% in the answer stats though.
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Level 75
Sep 8, 2022
RIP
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Level 80
Sep 8, 2022
You will be missed :'(
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Level 89
Sep 9, 2022
“I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die.”
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Level 75
Sep 8, 2022
That wikipedia page only lists 5 visits to United States. Also Germany has been visited 7 times - 3 of these are listed as visits to "West Germany", since they were pre-German reunification in 1990.
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Level ∞
Sep 9, 2022
Thank you. I replaced Malaysia with Germany. The US number is correct accounting for 2 visits as "Queen of Canada" and visits to the Panama Canal Zone and American Samoa.
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Level 35
Sep 9, 2022
R.I.P queen elizabeth II, may she rest in peace.
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Level 45
Sep 9, 2022
Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth. You were a remarkable woman.
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Level 51
Sep 10, 2022
I hope Charles doesn't wreck the country
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Level 62
Sep 17, 2022
Why would she visit Malta??
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Level 62
Sep 17, 2022
Why wouldn’t she have visited the former British colony and Commonwealth member of Malta? 🤷‍♂️
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Level 69
Sep 17, 2022
She lived there for a year
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Level 82
Sep 17, 2022
What value is there in deleting threads? Surely this is a community of adults
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Level 82
Sep 18, 2022
If you're getting weepy about the fairy princess who rules your kingdom kicking the bucket in their 90s, even reacting angrily when you spot someone else not with bowed head in awed reverence - pointing out what this person actually was, your adulthood is in question.
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Level 82
Sep 19, 2022
Nope, I merely posted out my preference of constitutional monarchy as a method of governance. It less 'parasitic' that most presidential systems.
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Level 82
Sep 19, 2022
I didn't mean you specifically. I assume some threads were deleted where people said other things. Even though you are wrong. A thread wouldn't be deleted for that alone.
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Level 82
Sep 20, 2022
You said this was a community of adults. I was speaking to the community.
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Level 65
Sep 20, 2022
The list actually makes perfect sense - and it makes equal sense that a list of countries visited most often by UK prime ministers would look very different.

She was head of state of eight of the countries on this list (Malta until 1974, Barbados until last year). The other countries on the list are: Britain's closest ally, the United States, and Britain's two strongest European allies, Germany (where large numbers of British troops have been stationed since 1945) and France.

Official visits by a head of state are incredibly expensive for both the host and guest countries and are typically arranged years in advance. It meant that although she travelled more than most heads of state, she was unlikely to visit most countries the six times required to make this list.