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Overseas France

collective grouping of all French-administered territories and collectivities outside Europe
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Summary

Overseas France is an administrative territorial entity[1]. It ranks in the top 0.62% of administrative territorial entity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,252 views/month, #6 of 975).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: France[3]
  • Subclass of: territorial collectivity of France[4], dependent territory[5]
  • Commons category: Overseas France[6]
  • Opposite of: metropolitan France[7]
  • Official website: https://outre-mer.gouv.fr/[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Overseas France[9]
  • Population: 2,584,794[10]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Overseas France[11]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox French territory[12], Q25942829[13], Template:Overseas France[14]
  • Code: 7225[15]
  • Category for maps or plans: Category:Maps of Overseas France[16]

Why It Matters

Overseas France has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 109 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . legal categories in France. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . insee.fr. insee.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . legal categories in France. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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