00:00In France, a local authority is a legal entity under public law that exercises certain powers within its territory which
00:06are delegated to him by the State.
00:07We also refer to it as a local community.
00:10Its existence is provided for by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic in its Title XII, which defines five types of
00:15local authorities, municipalities, departments, regions, special status authorities, CSP, and overseas collectivities,
00:24as.
00:24In 2026, France has 14 regions, 12 in metropolitan France and 2 overseas, and 94 departments, 92 in metropolitan France.
00:32including the European Collectivity of Alsace, and 2 overseas, 34,874 municipalities, 6 CSP and 5 COM.
00:40The 6 CSPs are the department-region of Mayotte, the territorial collectivity of Martinique, the territorial collectivity of French Guiana, the
00:47the Corsican regional authority, the Lyon metropolitan area and the city of Paris.
00:51The five overseas collectivities (COMs) as defined in Article 74 of the Constitution are Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna,
00:57French Polynesia, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin.
01:00Furthermore, two communities can be described as sui generis.
01:04New Caledonia, whose constitutional regime is defined by Title XIII of the Constitution, and the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
01:10and French Antarctica, TAF.
01:11New Caledonia, whose constitutional regime is defined by Title XIII of the Constitution.
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