Overseas territory (France)


The term overseas territory is an administrative division of France and is currently only applied to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
The division differs from that of overseas departments, but because of some common peculiarities, DOMs, TOMs and other overseas possessions under other statuses are often referred to collectively as les DOM/TOM. Unlike the British Overseas Territories, which are not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom or its national territory, they are integral parts of the French Republic.

Former overseas territories