Overseas collectivity

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The French overseas collectivities (French: collectivités d'outre-mer or COM), like the French regions, themselves, are first-order administrative divisions of France. The collectivities include some former French overseas territories and other French overseas entities with a particular status, all of which were given the name collectivités d'outre-mer by constitutional reform on 28 March 2003.

As of 22 February 2007, there were six French overseas collectivities:

• Mayotte, an island in the Indian Ocean, which was detached from Comoros in 1976. Its current status closely resembles that of a department. The entity has an elected general council and the additional designation of departmental collectivity.
  • Mayotte has elected to become an overseas department starting 2011 in a referendum in March 2009 (see Mahoran status referendum, 2009).
• Saint Barthélemy, an island 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. The entity has a territorial council.
• Wallis and Futuna, three small islands in the Pacific Ocean and the only inhabited part of France that is not divided into communes.
• French Polynesia : In 2003 it became an overseas collectivity. Its statutory law of 27 February 2004 gives it the particular designation of overseas country inside the Republic (French: pays d'outre-mer au sein de la République, or POM), but without legal modification of its status. The French Polynesia has 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.

[edit] See also

• French overseas departments and territories
• Administrative divisions of France
• Outremer

[edit] External links

• (French) Official site
• (French) past and current developments of France's overseas administrative divisions like collectivités d'outre-mer

v • d • e Overseas departments and territories of France   Inhabited areas 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 areas Pacific Ocean Clipperton Island French Southern and Antarctic Lands Île Amsterdam · Île Saint-Paul · 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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