page_title: Metropolitan France
hierarchical_section_title: Metropolitan France
context_page_description: Metropolitan France, also known as European France, is the area of the French Republic which is geographically in Europe. It comprises mainland France and Corsica, as well as other islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel and the Mediterranean Sea.
  Overseas France is the collective name for the part of France outside Europe: French overseas regions, territories, collectivities and the sui generis collectivity of New Caledonia. Metropolitan and Overseas France together form the French Republic. Metropolitan France accounts for 82.0% of the land territory, 3.3% of the exclusive economic zone, and 95.9% of the French Republic's population.
  The five overseas regions — French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte and Réunion — have the same political status as metropolitan France's regions. Metropolitan France and these five overseas regions together are sometimes called la France entière by the French administration. But this France entière does not include the French overseas collectivities and territories that have more autonomy than do the overseas departments. In Overseas France, a person from metropolitan France is often called a métro, short for métropolitain.
context_section_description: Metropolitan France (French: France métropolitaine or la Métropole), also known as European France, is the area of the French Republic which is geographically in Europe. It comprises mainland France and Corsica, as well as other islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel (French: la Manche) and the Mediterranean Sea.
  Overseas France (la France d'outre-mer, l'Outre-mer or colloquially les DOM-TOM) is the collective name for the part of France outside Europe: French overseas regions (départements et régions d'outre-mer or DROM), territories (territoires d'outre-mer or TOM), collectivities (collectivités d'outre-mer or COM) and the sui generis collectivity (collectivité sui generis) of New Caledonia. Metropolitan and Overseas France together form the French Republic. Metropolitan France accounts for 82.0% of the land territory, 3.3% of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and 95.9% of the French Republic's population.
  The five overseas regions (departments) — French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte and Réunion — have the same political status as metropolitan France's regions. Metropolitan France and these five overseas regions together are sometimes called la France entière ("the whole of France") by the French administration. But this France entière does not include the French overseas collectivities and territories that have more autonomy than do the overseas departments. In Overseas France, a person from metropolitan France is often called a métro, short for métropolitain.
caption: Metropolitan France
exif: {}