What is French overseas collectivities?
The '''Overseas collectivities''' ([[French language|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 March 28, 2003. As of March 31, 2011, there are five 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. * [[Saint-Barthélemy]] * [[Saint Martin (France)|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 of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon|Territorial Council]]. * [[Wallis and Futuna]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]], which is the only inhabited part of France that is not divided into communes. == Other websites == *[http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/outremer/front?id=outremer/decouvrir_outre_mer Official site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051012070337/http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/outremer/front?id=outremer%2Fdecouvrir_outre_mer |date=2005-10-12 }} *[http://www.vie-publique.fr/decouverte_instit/instit/instit_3_7_0_q0.htm past and current developments of France's overseas administrative divisions like collectivité d'outre-mer (French language)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929093246/http://www.vie-publique.fr/decouverte_instit/instit/instit_3_7_0_q0.htm |date=2006-09-29 }} {{France-geo-stub}} [[Category:Subdivisions of France]]