Subject: Re: easternmost france one last time<br/>
Date: Jul 08, 2006 @ 11:36<br/>
Author: XML (&quot;XML&quot; &lt;x.maillard@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1612047633"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; first it seems new caledonia is no longer considered outre mer<br/>
&gt; so please forget the specific bits about domtom or ultramarine<br/>
&gt; oops hard to keep track of french territorial categories<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>AFAIK French Overseas currently include:<br/>
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- Collectivités d&#39;Outre-Mer (overseas territories: Corsica, Mayotte, <br/>
Saint-Pierre-&-Miquelon), with some local autonomy. These islands <br/>
used to be counties (departements), but this former status was not <br/>
efficient for them, so it was eventualy changed into collectivité <br/>
départementale or collectivité territoriale. People use Euro as <br/>
currency and these territories are part of France and of the <br/>
European Union.<br/>
<br/>
- Départements d&#39;Outre-Mer (overseas counties, which are fully part <br/>
of France and of the EU - the same as in mainland France - : <br/>
Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane & Réunion island), with the same law <br/>
as in mainland France. Of course, they have the Euro as currency.<br/>
<br/>
- Pays d&#39;Outre-Mer (overseas countries: New Caledonia, French <br/>
Polynesia). They don&#39;t have the Euro as currency (but a Franc <br/>
Pacifique). They are part of France but are considered as «Pays et <br/>
territoires d&#39;outre-mer» (Overseas countries and territories) <br/>
associated to the EU. They are not part of the Schengen agreement. <br/>
In 2014 New Caledonia will have a poll to decide if the inhabitants <br/>
want to get independance or to remain French.<br/>
<br/>
St.Martin and St.Barths, currently part of Guadeloupe, will <br/>
certainly soon become collectivité d&#39;Outre-Mer (like Mayotte and <br/>
SPM).<br/>
<br/>
Iles Éparses (Bassas da India, Europa, îles Glorieuses, Juan de Nova <br/>
et Tromelin) have a specific status (part of France, not part of the <br/>
EU).<br/>
<br/>
So it is not easy to determine which ultramarine COM, POM or DOM do <br/>
constitute the easternmost/westernmost/southernmost points of France <br/>
(nothernmost point being - I assume - Miquelon).<br/>
<br/>
The status of Matthew & Hunter seems to be like Spanish Sahara.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; for some reason i wasnt expecting uninhabitable<br/>
&gt; islands to be used for eez projections <br/>
&gt; but they evidently are fair game<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Clipperton island (with EEZ), which is part of France, is also <br/>
uninhabitated.</div>