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Overseas collectivity
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The Overseas collectivities (French: collectivité d'outre-mer or COM), are an administrative division of France. These territories include some former overseas territories and other French overseas holdings with a particular status, which were given the name collectivités d'outre-mer by constitutional reform on 28 March 2003.
As of 22 February 2007, there are six of these communities:
- French Polynesia, with a great degree of autonomy, two symbolic manifestations of which are the title of the President of French Polynesia (Le président de la Polynésie française) and the territory's additional designation as a pays d'outre-mer. Legislature: Assembly of French Polynesia.
- Mayotte, an island in the Indian Ocean, which was detached from Comoros in 1976. Its current status closely resembles that of a department - it has an elected General Council - and it has the additional designation of departmental collectivity.
- Saint Barthélemy, a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles.
- Saint Martin, the northern part of the island of Saint Martin in the Lesser Antilles.
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, which has a Territorial Council.
- Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean, which is the only inhabited part of France that is not divided into communes.
- Official site
- past and current developments of France's overseas administrative divisions like collectivité d'outre-mer (French language)
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| Overseas departments1 | French Guiana · Guadeloupe · Martinique · Réunion |
| Overseas collectivities | French Polynesia · Mayotte2 · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Martin · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Wallis and Futuna |
| Special status | New Caledonia |
| Uninhabited lands | Clipperton Island French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Amsterdam Island • Saint Paul Island • Crozet Islands • Kerguelen Islands • Adélie Land Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean: Bassas da India3 • Europa Island3 • Glorioso Islands2, 3, 4 • Juan de Nova Island3 • Tromelin Island5) |
| 1 Also known as overseas regions • 2 claimed by Comoros • 3 claimed by Madagascar • 4 claimed by Seychelles • 5 claimed by Mauritius | |
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