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Metropolitan France ((フランス語:France métropolitaine) or ''la Métropole'') is the part of France located in Europe. It includes mainland France and nearby islands in the Atlantic Ocean, in the English Channel ((フランス語:la Manche)), and in the Mediterranean Sea, including Corsica. By contrast, Overseas France (''la France d'outre-mer'') is the collective name for the part of France located outside Europe: French overseas regions (''départements et régions d'outre-mer'' or ''DROM''),〔Since 2003, the constitutional term for an overseas department is overseas region (French: ''région d'outre-mer'').〕 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 what is officially called 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, especially by INSEE, although in reality this ''France entière'' does not include the French overseas collectivities and territories which have more autonomy than the overseas departments (read the Origin of the name section below). Until its independence in 1962, Algeria was a part of metropolitan France. In overseas France, a person from metropolitan France is often called a ''métro,'' short for ''métropolitain''. ==Origin of the name== The term "metropolitan France" dates from the country's colonial period (from the 16th through the 20th centuries), when France was referred to as ''la Métropole'' (literally "the Metropolis") as distinguished from its colonies and protectorates, known as ''les colonies'' or ''l'Empire''. Similar terms existed to describe other European colonial powers (e.g., "metropolitan Britain", "España metropolitana"). This usage of the words "metropolis" and "metropolitan" itself came from Ancient Greek "metropolis" (from μήτηρ ''mētēr'' "mother" and πόλις ''pólis'' "city, town") which was the name for a city-state from which originated colonies across the Mediterranean (e.g., Marseille was a colony of the city-state of Phocaea, therefore Phocaea was the "metropolis" of Marseille). By extension "metropolis" and "metropolitan" came to mean "motherland", a nation or country as opposed to its colonies overseas. Today there are some people in overseas France who object to the use of the term ''la France métropolitaine'' due to its colonial origins. They prefer to call it "the European territory of France" (''le territoire européen de la France''), as the Treaties of the European Union do. Likewise, they oppose treating overseas France and metropolitan France as separate entities. For example, INSEE used to calculate its statistics (demography, economy, etc.) for metropolitan France only, and then treat the overseas departments and territories separately, but people in the overseas departments opposed this separate treatment, arguing that the five overseas departments are fully part of France. As a result, since the end of the 1990s INSEE has included the five overseas departments in its figures for France (such as total population or GDP). INSEE refers to metropolitan France and the five overseas departments as ''la France entière'' ("the whole of France"); "the whole of France" includes the five overseas departments, but does not include the other overseas collectivities and territories. Other branches of the French administration may have different definitions of what ''la France entière'' is. For example, when the Ministry of the Interior releases election results, they use the name ''la France entière'' to refer to the entire French Republic, including all of overseas France and not just the five overseas departments contrary to INSEE. Note that since INSEE now calculates statistics for ''la France entière'', this practice has spread to international institutions so that, for instance, the French GDP published by the World Bank includes metropolitan France and the five overseas departments. The World Bank refers to this as "France" only, and not "the whole of France" as INSEE does. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Metropolitan France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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