自由区
The territory under the control of the Vichy government was the unoccupied, southern portion of metropolitan France south of the Line of Demarcation, as established by the Armistice of 22 June 1940, and the overseas French territories, such as French North Africa, which was "an integral part of Vichy", and where all antisemitic Vichy's laws were also implemented. This was called the "Unbesetztes Gebiet" (Unoccupied zone) by the Germans, and known as the "Zone libre" (Free Zone) in France, or less formally as the "southern zone" ("zone du sud") especially after Operation Anton, the invasion of the "Zone libre" by German forces in November 1942. Other contemporary colloquial terms for the "Zone libre" were based on abbreviation and wordplay, such as the "zone nono", for the non-occupied Zone.