A collectivité d'outre-mer (in English Overseas Community) or COM, is an administrative division of France. These territories include some former Overseas Territories and other French overseas holdings with a particular status, which were given the name collectivités d'outre-mer by a constitutional reform on 28 March 2003.

There are currently four 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 the Comores in 1976. Its current status closely resembles that of a département - it has an elected conseil général - and it has the additional designation of collectivité départementale.
• Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, which also has a conseil général.
• Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean, which is the only inhabited part of France that is not divided into communes.

See also

• French overseas departments and territories
• Administrative divisions of France
• Outremer

External links

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

Subdivisions of France | French overseas departments, territories and collectivities

Col·lectivitat d'ultramar | Colectividad de ultramar | Transmaraj kolektivoj (Francio) | Collectivités d'outre-mer | Collectivités d'outre-mer | Collectivité d'outre-mer | Collettività d'Oltremare | Franciaország tengerentúli területei | Zbiorowość zamorska