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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 ...
The Francophone Caribbean is a part of the wider French America, which includes all the French-speaking countries in the Americas. The term varies in meaning by its usage and frame of reference. It is not used much in France, unless the speaker wants to refer to every French dependency in the Caribbean region.
Map of the exclusive economic zone of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. France claimed a 200-nautical-mile (370 km; 230 mi) exclusive economic zone for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, and in August 1983 the naval ship Lieutenant de vaisseau Le Hénaff and the seismic ship Lucien Beaufort were sent to explore for oil in the disputed zone. [40]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:36, 2 November 2023: 2,560 × 1,314 (1.28 MB): Salvabl: The standard on Wikipedia's world maps is the existence of a border between Morocco and Western Sahara, which is in accordance with the internationally recognized Moroccan borders.
Réunion (/ r iː ˈ juː n j ə n /; French: [la ʁe.ynjɔ̃] ⓘ; Reunionese Creole: La Rényon; known as Île Bourbon before 1848) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located approximately 679 km (422 mi) east of the island of Madagascar and 175 km (109 mi ...
"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 ...
An island with model homes on the westernmost edge of the "Greenland" group. The World islands map, annotated with existing developments as of 2014. These are some of the developments which were scheduled for construction on various islands of The World in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Map of the Comoros Union (three islands on the left) and the Mayotte French department (right) Mayotte was the only island in the archipelago that voted in referendums in 1974 and 1976 to retain its link with France and forgo independence (with 63.8% and 99.4% of votes respectively).