Of the remaining, 167, 000 were from inside the European Union, and 201, 000 from Commonwealth nations.
The Games will see 11 days of sporting competitions between 71 Commonwealth nations and territories.
In 1977, the Commonwealth nations added a sporting ban to their campaign against apartheid in South Africa.
Also next year, the couple will join other senior members of the Royal Family in undertaking tours to the Queen's realms and Commonwealth nations to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
The queen will still attend Monday evening's Commonwealth Reception at Marlborough House, the statement said, where she will sign a new charter calling for equal rights in all Commonwealth nations.
Chretien said he would discuss elements of his Monday talks with Bush at an upcoming meeting of Commonwealth nations in Australia, and a subsequent summit of "Francophone, " or French-speaking and influenced nations, later in the year in Lebanon.
Fledgling democracies also routinely ban it as a way of proving their fitness to join the commonwealth of nations.
The Commonwealth does help nations within its family as well as states that have chosen to go it alone.
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Tributes will be also be paid in the Commonwealth's 71 nations and territories.
These can focus on the games themselves or Scotland's links to the 71 nations and territories of the Commonwealth.
But most of these nations opted to join the Commonwealth, a club of countries all tied through history to the UK and the monarchy.
Over the past few years, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, the American and British governments, the United Nations, the European Union and the Commonwealth have made similar calls.
Meeting as the Commonwealth of Independent States, the leaders spoke out in support of enhancing the role of the United Nations in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq.
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