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  1. A territorial collectivity ( French: collectivité territoriale, previously collectivité locale ), or territorial authority, [1] in many francophone countries, is a legal entity governed by public law that exercises within its territory certain powers devolved to it by the State as part of a decentralization process.

  2. France portal. v. t. e. The French overseas collectivities ( French: collectivité d'outre-mer abbreviated as COM) are first-order administrative divisions of France, like the French regions, but have a semi-autonomous status. The COMs include some former French overseas colonies and other French overseas entities with a particular status, all ...

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  4. Outside of Europe, four broad classes of overseas French territorial administration currently exist: overseas departments/regions, overseas collectivities, the sui generis territory of New Caledonia, and uninhabited territories.

  5. Since December 2015, both the region and department have been ruled by a single assembly within the framework of a single territorial collectivity, the French Guiana Territorial Collectivity (French: collectivité territoriale de Guyane ).

  6. Dec 25, 2023 · There are 18 administrative regions in France, 13 of them in Europe (including the territorial collectivity of Corsica having the powers of a region and a departement ), 2 overseas regions (each comprising a single overseas department ), as well as 3 overseas unique territorial collectivities (having the powers of a region and a departement ...

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