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Each inhabited French territory, metropolitan or overseas, is represented in both the French National Assembly and the French Senate . Départements D'outre-mer or Régions D'outre-mer (Overseas departments (Overseas '' Département s'') and since 2003 also additionally Overseas regions (Overseas '' Régions ''))
Territoires D'outre-mer (Overseas territories)
Collectivités D'outre-mer (Overseas collectivities) This category was created with the constitutional reform on 28 march 2003. Each collectivity has its own statutory law.
Nouvelle-Calédonie (Collectivity of its own type/unique status)
Pays D'outre-mer (Overseas country) The status of ''pays d'outre-mer'', projected for French Pacific dependencies, was finally never created. Since its status has no name and since its congress can make ''lois de pays'', New Caledonia is sometimes called a ''pays d'outre-mer''. The 2004 status of French Polynesia gives it this designation, but also recalls that it belongs to the category of ''collectivités d'outre-mer''. The conseil constitutionnel has confirmed the designation of ''pays d'outre-mer'' had no legal consequences. Minor territories France also claims or controls a number of small, uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean ( Îles Éparses ) and one remote island in the Pacific Ocean ( Clipperton Island ): Indian Ocean Îles Éparses Many of these islands are contested with Madagascar . Pacific Ocean Further reading
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