OVERSEAS COLLECTIVITY

(Redirected from Collectivité d\'outre-mer)

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.

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See also

★ French overseas departments and territories

★ Administrative divisions of France

★ Outremer

External links

★ Official site

★ past and current developments of France's overseas administrative divisions like collectivité d'outre-mer (French language)