(incl.
overseas regions)
(incl. overseas departments)
The French overseas collectivities (French 'collectivités d'outre-mer' or COM), like the French regions (French régions), themselves, are first-order administrative divisions of France. The French overseas collectivities include some former French overseas territories and other French overseas entities with a particular status, all of which were given the name collectivités d'outre-mer by constitutional reform on 28 March 2003.
As of 22 February 2007, there were six French overseas collectivities
