Watch the fascinating story behind why France hides certain countries and territories outside its official borders. This video explores the historical, political, and strategic reasons behind France’s ...

The White House's list also includes the French overseas departments and regions of French Guiana, Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Mayotte—all of which are legally part of France proper ...

(Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images) On April 24, the day of the final round of France’s presidential election, many woke up to a chilling development: Majorities in the overseas departments ...

The problems in France’s departments go all the way back to ... rid of additional pay for civil servants who work in the overseas regions, and to give overseas citizens preference for local ...

an island off the eastern coast of Africa that is one of France’s overseas regions and departments. The measure is meant to make Mayotte less attractive as a destination for migrants ...

But the country’s 101st department remained very different to the hundred that came before. The islands are poorer than any other part of mainland or overseas France, with smaller incomes ...

A banana plantation in Capesterre Belle-Eau, Fond Cacao, in the French overseas ... mayor of Fort de France, Martinique, in 1945, famously used to ask of those in France’s departments who ...

On Jan. 20, a group of labour unions in the French department of Guadeloupe in the ... can cost over twice as much as they do on mainland France.

Willys Ramirez Diaz Interreg IV ‘Caribbean Space’ programme, which proposes stronger trans-border cooperation between the French Departments ... American Euro-regions that will benefit from ...

France's overseas departments are among the poorest in the country, with extreme poverty five to 15 times more frequent there than the mainland, according to national statistics agency Insee.

In France's overseas departments and regions, the situation is doubly critical: between 3.3 and 4.4 deaths per 1,000 births were recorded, depending on the year, during the decade observed.