Isn’t it legally just a perfectly ordinary département of France, formally indistinguishable from Île-de-France or similar? France has a weird fetish for insisting that its most far-flung possessions are not one iota less quintessentially French than anywhere in l’Hexagone
French Guinea has EU license plates (upper right corner), pointing it out so you or anyone else can compare it with the mercosur ones.
Isn’t it legally just a perfectly ordinary département of France, formally indistinguishable from Île-de-France or similar? France has a weird fetish for insisting that its most far-flung possessions are not one iota less quintessentially French than anywhere in l’Hexagone
It’s a region of France but it has a specific status given the distance, and their own parliament of 55 elected officials
Afaik, Mayotte, Martinique, and Corsica also have the same status and their own parliament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_territorial_collectivity
Ask people in those “far-flung possessions” whether they agree!