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This is a list of islands of France, including both metropolitan France and French overseas islands. [1] Ranking of French islands. By area. All ...
See also List of islands of France. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. ...
Dominica is a former French and British colony in the Eastern Caribbean, located about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe (to the north) and Martinique (to the south). Christopher Columbus named the island after the day of the week on which he spotted it, a Sunday (domingo in Spanish), 3 November 1493. [3]
The Marquesas Islands (/ m ɑːr ˈ k eɪ s ə s / mar-KAY-səss; French: Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te Henua ʻEnana (North Marquesan) and Te Fenua ʻEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Islands of Île-de-France (2 C, 4 P) M. Islands of Mayotte (5 P) N. Islands of Normandy (6 P) Islands of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (1 C, 2 P) P. Islands of Pays de la Loire ...
"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 regions have exactly the same administrative status as the thirteen metropolitan regions; the five overseas collectivities are semi-autonomous; and New Caledonia is an autonomous ...
List of islands of France; G. Grande-Île (Normandy) I. Îles Saint-Marcouf This page was last edited on 21 December 2016, at 04:36 (UTC). Text is available ...
The territory includes the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and the Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands in the southern Indian Ocean near 43°S, 67°E, along with Adélie Land, the sector of Antarctica claimed by France. Adélie Land, named by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville after his wife, covers about 432,000 km 2 (167,000 sq mi).