Collectivité d'outre-mer
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A collectivité d'outre-mer (in English Overseas Community) or COM, is 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 a constitutional reform on 28 March 2003.
There are currently four 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 the Comores in 1976. Its current status closely resembles that of a département - it has an elected conseil général - and it has the additional designation of collectivité départementale.
- Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, which also has a conseil général.
- Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean, which is the only inhabited part of France that is not divided into communes.
See also
External links
- [Official site]
- [past and current developments of France's overseas administrative divisions like collectivité d'outre-mer (French language)]
Overseas French departments and territories |
| Département d'outre-mer>Departments : Guadeloupe1 · French Guiana · Martinique · Réunion These overseas departments are also overseas regions. 1Guadeloupe currently includes Saint-Barthélemy and Saint Martin, who have voted to become separate collectivités d'outre-mer in 2003; the change will be implemented in early 2007. |
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Overseas community : Mayotte (collectivité départementale) · French Polynesia (pays d'outre-mer) · Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (collectivité territoriale) · Wallis and Futuna (territoire) Each overseas community has its own status. |
| Special status : New Caledonia |
| Uninhabited lands : French Southern Territories (Amsterdam Island, Saint-Paul Island, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Adélie Land) · Clipperton · Scattered islands in the Indian Ocean |
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