What do they call french territories? provinces? states?

Question

i should totally know this... i did a whole semester of french on french provinces... i mean... territories... i mean... man, your answer might make my life a little easier lol

Answer 1

I think you mean what they are broken into? For example, Bretagne, Alsace, Normandie...etc..? They are called regions, and in France there are 22 different regions. Here's a website you can check out if necessary.

Answer 2

You have the departments (100 of them) which are administrative areas - those departments are then grouped into regions (22 metropolitan and 4 overseas). All regions have identical legal status as integral parts of France.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:D%C3%...

For the territories and departments outside of continental France the names and status are slightly different. It was called DOM-TOM (Départements d'Outre Mer et Territoires d'Outre Mer), the name was used to cover the whole lot, territories, departments, semi independent non autonomous this and that...

The name is still in use by habit though this is not the real legal term anymore since 2003 when the Constitution was modified to give the Territories a new legal status.

So now you have :

DOM-ROM - Départements et régions d'outre mer (equal to the departments of continental France)

# Guadeloupe

# Martinique

# Guyane

# Réunion

COM - Collectivités d'outre mer:

# French Polynesia

# Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ;

# Wallis-et-Futuna

# Mayotte

# Saint-Martin

# Saint-Barthélemy

New Caledonia (that's both name and status)

the TAAF (terres australes et antartiques Françaises):

Antartic territories

Propriétés domaniales de l'État.(land owned by the French state):

Island of Clipperton

My, that was fun :DDD

Answer 3

Departments

Answer 4

France is composed of 96 metropolitan and 4 overseas départements grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas regions.

There are also 6 overseas collectivities, 1 sui generis collectivity (New Caledonia), 1 overseas territory (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) and one uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean (Clipperton Island) which is directly under the authority of the Minister of Overseas France.

Answer 5

Overseas territories are called Départements d'outre-mer, usually abbreviated to DOM.