Collectivité d'outre-mer

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

In early 2007, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin (which are currently part of the département d'outre-mer of Guadeloupe) will become separate collectivités d'outre-mer.