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n. The part of France located in Europe
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Metropolitan France ( or la Métropole) is the part of France in Europe. It comprises mainland France and nearby islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel , and the Mediterranean Sea, including Corsica. Overseas France (la France d'outre-mer) is the collective name for the part of France outside Europe: French overseas regions (départements et régions d'outre-mer or DROM), territories (territoires d'outre-mer or TOM), collectivities (collectivités d'outre-mer or COM), and the sui generis collectivity (collectivité sui generis) of New Caledonia.
Metropolitan France and Overseas France together form the French Republic. Metropolitan France accounts for 82.2% of the land territory, 3.3% of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and 95.9% of the population of the French Republic.
The five overseas regions— Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, French Guiana, and Mayotte—have the same political status as metropolitan France's regions. Metropolitan France and these five overseas regions together are sometimes called la France entière ("the whole of France") by the French administration, although in reality this France entière does not include the French overseas collectivities and territories which have more autonomy than the overseas departments.
In overseas France, a person from metropolitan France is often called a métro, short for métropolitain.
Usage examples of "metropolitan france".
Argoud's was the flair, the talent, the inspiration behind the offensive the OAS launched on Metropolitan France from then on.
In the streets outside and over the clandestine radios in metropolitan France, millions more heard his words.
He knew that it controlled most organized crime throughout metropolitan France and her colonies - protection rackets, smuggling, prostitution and the suppression of rival gangs.
Camus spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he began writing and doing work in the theater before he was twenty, and then journalism took him to metropolitan France.