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France and its possessions

France and Monaco1,2
Andorre3
Guiane française4
Guadeloupe_and_Martinique5
Réunion and Mayotte6,7
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon8
Polynesie française, Caledonie nouvelle and Wallis and Futuna9,10,11

Françaises Southern and antarctiques Lands:
Crozet Islands
the Kerguelen Archipelago
Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands
Adélie Land
Éparses Islands of the indien Ocean

Footnotes

1. France includes Corsica (Corse)
2. Monaco is nominally independent, but a French protectorate.
3. Andorre (Andorra in Spanish and English) is de facto independent, but pays feudal dues to the government of France and to a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Christian church.
4. French Guiana in English. It is an overseas department.
5. Both are overseas departments.
6. Réunion is an overseas department. The resident high commissioner there administers several island groups in the Indian Ocean.
7. Mayotte is an overseas territorial collectivity.
8. Pierre is Peter; 'and' is 'et' in French. The islands constitue an overseas territorial collectivity.
9. Polynesie française is French Polynesia in English. It is an overseas territory. It administers several central island groups, plus the remote Clipperton Island.
10. Caledonie nouvelle is New Caledonia in English. It includes several dependencies. It is an overseas territory.
11. Wallis and Fatuna is an overseas territory.