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# Collectivité d'outre mer

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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. all of these were given the name collectivités d'outre-mer because of a 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
- Saint-Martin
- 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.

## [edit] 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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