Overseas territory (France)

The term overseas territory (French: Territoire d'outre-mer or TOM) 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 (French: Département d'outre-mer or DOM), but because of some common peculiarities, DOMs, TOMs and other overseas possessions under other statuses are often referred to collectively as 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.^[1]

Former overseas territories

• French India, from 1946 to 1954, now the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry
• New Caledonia, from 1946 to 1999, now a special collectivity
• French Polynesia, from 1946 to 2003, now an overseas collectivity
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon, from 1946 to 1976 and 1985 to 2003, now an overseas collectivity
• Wallis and Futuna, from 1961 to 2003, now an overseas collectivity
• Mayotte, from 1974 to 2003, now an overseas department

See also

• Administrative divisions of France
• Outremer
• Overseas department
• Overseas departments and territories of France
• Overseas region
• Special member state territories and their relations with the European Union

References

External links

• (in French) Official government website
• (in French) Past and current developments of France's overseas administrative divisions like DOMs and TOMs