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List of high commissioners of the United Kingdom to Malawi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6573126 ↗
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The high commissioner of the United Kingdom to Malawi is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Republic of Malawi, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Malawi.

As fellow members of the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Kingdom and Malawi exchange high commissioners rather than ambassadors.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of high commissioners of the United Kingdom to Malawi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.