Overseas territory (France)

The term overseas territory (French: territoire d'outre-mer, 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 department and region (French: Départements et régions d'outre-mer or DROM), 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 parts of the United Kingdom or its national territory, they are integral parts of the French Republic.

• New Caledonia, from 1946 to 1999, now a sui generis 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

• French Territory of the Afars and the Issas, from 1967 to 1977, now the independent state of Djibouti

• 2009 Mahoran status referendum

• Administrative divisions of France

• Overseas collectivity

• Overseas country of France

• Overseas department and region

• Overseas France

• Special member state territories and the European Union

• (in French) Official government website

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