Collectivité d'outre-mer
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A collectivité d'outre-mer (in English Overseas Collectivity) 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 three of these collectivities:
- 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)
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