French overseas collectivities

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 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
 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.

 References 

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

Category:Subdivisions of France