Departmental collectivity () was a legal designation used to describe the particular status of the
French overseas collectivity
The French overseas collectivities ( 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 ...
of
Mayotte
Mayotte ( ; , ; , ; , ), officially the Department of Mayotte (), is an Overseas France, overseas Overseas departments and regions of France, department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is one of the Overseas departm ...
between 2001 and 2011. The term is used to indicate that Mayotte at the time was similar to a
French department
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 101 ...
but not yet an
overseas department
The overseas departments and regions of France (, ; DROM) are the five departments and regions of the French Republic which are located outside European France (also known as " metropolitan France"). These overseas entities have exactly the s ...
. The term was made official by Law No. 2001-616 on 11 July 2001.
[ Hugues Beringer, "La collectivité départementale de Mayotte: principaux aspects de la loi statutaire no. 2001-616 du 11 juillet 2001," ''Revue juridique et politique'' (2002), 56 no. 3, p382–391.][Mayotte on "Statoids"](_blank)
/ref> Mayotte became a department in 2011.
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Subdivisions of France
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