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{{Administrative divisions of France}}
'''Overseas France''' ({{lang-fr|France d'outre-mer}}, also ''France ultramarine''){{NoteTag|Also ''les Outre-mer'', ''les outre-mers'', or colloquially ''les DOM-TOM'' (''départements d'outre-mer et territoires d'outre-mer'') or ''les DROM-COM'' (''départements et régions d'outre-mer et collectivités d'outre-mer'').}} consists of 13 [[France|French]]
"Overseas France" is a collective name; while used in everyday life in France, it is not an administrative designation in its own right. Instead, the five [[Overseas departments and regions of France|overseas regions]] have exactly the same [[Administrative divisions of France|administrative status]] as the thirteen [[Metropolitan France|metropolitan]] regions; the five [[Overseas collectivity|overseas collectivities]] are semi-autonomous; and [[New Caledonia]] is an autonomous territory. Overseas France includes island territories in the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] and [[Indian Ocean]]s, [[French Guiana]] on the [[South America]]n continent, and several [[list of Antarctic and Subantarctic islands|peri-Antarctic islands]] as well as a claim in [[Antarctica]]. Excluding the district of [[Adélie Land]], where French sovereignty is effective ''de jure'' by French law, but where the French exclusive claim on this part of [[Antarctica]] is frozen by the [[Antarctic Treaty System|Antarctic Treaty]] (signed in 1959), overseas France covers a land area of {{convert|120396|km2|abbr=on}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larousse |first=Éditions |title=Encyclopédie Larousse en ligne - France d'outre-mer |url=http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/autre-region/France_d_outre-mer/136636 |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=www.larousse.fr |language=fr}}</ref> and accounts for 18.0% of the French Republic's land territory.<ref name="French_Republic">Land area of the four old overseas departments ([https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2864136#consulter]), Mayotte, the overseas collectivities, and New Caledonia ([https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/2045658/my_oldcol_01.pdf page 21]), the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and the Scattered Islands ([http://observatoire-outre-mer.interieur.gouv.fr/site/layout/set/print/content/download/166/1067/file/Tdb_TAAF_Novembre17.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619190042/http://observatoire-outre-mer.interieur.gouv.fr/site/layout/set/print/content/download/166/1067/file/Tdb_TAAF_Novembre17.pdf|date=19 June 2018}}), and Clipperton ([http://agriculture.gouv.fr/telecharger/44764?token=428075c480768259a6a7d05a971137ea] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305145908/https://agriculture.gouv.fr/telecharger/44764?token=428075c480768259a6a7d05a971137ea|date=5 March 2020}}).</ref> Its [[exclusive economic zone]] (EEZ) of {{convert|9825538|km2|abbr=on}} accounts for 96.7% of the EEZ of the [[France|French Republic]].<ref name="searoundus">{{cite web |url=http://www.seaaroundus.org/data/#/eez.aspx |title=Sea Around Us – Fisheries, Ecosystems and Biodiversity |access-date=20 June 2018}}</ref>
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