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Meanings of french overseas department in English

Russian
заморский департамент
Portuguese
departamentos ultramarinos franceses
Spanish
departamentos de ultramar
Catalan
departament d'ultramar

Overseas departments and regions of France that are outside metropolitan France.

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заморский департамент
Usage of french overseas department in English
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Maybe Turkey should become a French Overseas Department and get into the EU that way.
The Irish Times
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Réunion is a French overseas department, so the debris was sent to a lab in France.
Wired
3
Reunion is one of four French overseas departments.
BBC
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France's justice department is investigating the flaperon because the piece was found on La Reunion Island, a French overseas department.
Reuters
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PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy meets leaders of the French overseas departments of French Guiana and Martinique (1400 GMT).
Reuters
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The 2018 outbreak of dengue in the French overseas department of Réunion was unprecedented in size and spread across the island.
Pubmed
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Martinique's accession to the status of French overseas department in the late 1940s merely, in his eyes, reinforced this sense of alienation.
The Guardian
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These children, from the island of Réunion, a French overseas department, were resettled in rural parts of France where populations were in decline.
BBC