Departmental collectivity (french: collectivité départementale) was a legal designation used to describe the particular status of French

overseas collectivity The French overseas collectivities (''collectivité d'outre-mer'' or ''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 ...

Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loca ...

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 (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the regions of France, admin ...

but not yet an overseas department. 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"
/ref> Mayotte became a department in 2011.

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