Why France Hides Countries Outside Its Borders

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Why France Hides Islands Outside Its Borders

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Fun fact: if youre from a country belonging to the Schengen zone, so nearly all of EU countries, you can go to Bora Bora, Madera, Reunion, Azores and many more French or Portugal overseas territories without the passport, just with your ID.

Weisior
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Looked into the Children of the Creuse case and I was surprised to find that the French National Assembly actually took responsibility and guilt for it in 2014.

maxbuster
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Good thing about france territory is they have same right as france citizen, unlike some US territory

masterbait
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Every thing is fun and games until Penguins start speaking french

andyc
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A positive point (yeah France as many country is sometimes fucked up: nukes, chloredecones etc.) is that the government now protects these areas a lot, like Guyana forest against illegal gold extractions, island reefs, etc.

gnougnougnou
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Very good video, but "wards of the state" has never meant in any way, that those childrends "belonged" to the state. "Pupilles de la Nation" (orphan from war) or "Pupille de l'État" are under the responsability of the State, more specificaly the "ASE" (Childhood Proetction ). The Childrens of Creuse was a terrible, misguided action done by the French governement exposing those kids to racism, exclusion and worse, but the childrens never "belonged" to the State. As a french social worker, thois was my 2 cents ;)

zagrebvolgograd
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ne soyez pas jaloux de la France, je suis métis-vièt, j'habite en nouvelle-calédonie, je me sent complètement français et içi c'est la france nous sommes français et nous leresteront

francoisferey
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great video, just one thing moruroa is 1500 km away from bora bora, same distance that chernobyl is from france ( fukushima is only 230 km away from tokyo. I just mean Bora bora is safe come and enjoy !!!

arthurdep
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I travelled from South Africa to Reunion just 4 hours from Johannesburg and found it so interesting this French European sizeable island so close so far out of its way thriving like a little piece of France on my doorstep in the Southern Hemisphere. I have been to Paris only in France so it added to some of the atmosphere.
Don't forget the former size of the empire had included Vietnam / Indo-french china and Mauritius, Rodrigue etc

erichpizer
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him: concerned about bora bora being few hundred KM away from those atolls
me: what about vegas?

tristanmignon
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So, even more than England, France can truly say that the Sun never set on his territory, not just it's Empire.

Kualinar
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This was a great video.
Now I require part 2.

Been looking into France lately, and the more you dig into it, the more fascinating it becomes. Especially in the modern era.
They are a classic case where everyone mainly due to the English has given them a bad reputation for surrendering.
When you look at it from above, makes you question. Did they really lose? And to be frank. When it comes to old empires, out of all of them, I think I would have declared France the winner.
Being the only one that still maintains large areas of territories.

Not only that, consider their history, and time and time again with a change of government and system, rebellions and occupations.
They somehow still manage to cling to these territories.

And then in the current era, France is the only nation that outright does mostly whatever it feels like.
And something you could have mentioned in the video:
French Guiana is one of the main bases for training the French Foreign Legion.

Talking about the Foreign Legion, you should make a video about that one day!

Kameeho
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I hate to inform you but French Guiana 🇬🇫 is literally in the same hemisphere as France, according to your map.

thewatching
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What a silly headline title for this video. These parts of France are in no way hidden, and they are actually within the borders of France, not outside them. You may not have heard of them, in which case you should learn more about the world before making these videos, but they are not hidden and are well known to many other people. As for whether it's strange to include Pacific islands as an integrated part of a main country, isn't that what the US of A does with Hawaii and Guam? Bora Bora is only 20% further from Paris than Guam is from Washington DC.

robertbowers
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As an inhabitant of French Guiana I’m quite surprise It’s featured here. We’re so unknown in the UE apart the occasional mention from the space industry.

Alf
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Everyone was testing nukes in the Pacific. The US blew up the Bikini atoll, the UK tested in Australia. Of those three the US would actually be the only one that has enough empty space to do it at home.

tobiwan
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If you really think that remote oceanic islands inhabited by enormous flocks of birds have no strategic importance, then you have never heard of bird guano, which was used as fertilizer before we figured out how to manufacture the stuff from crude oil.

deusexaethera
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The children were all "born under X", their mother decided to give them away at their birth...Orfans with no family. Most of them do have a family now, and are actively searching for their real mother. I know, I live in la Reunion.

jaystst
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So you can take a flight from Paris to the south Pacific and it'll still be considered domestic.

jakobachenrainer
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Growing up in Newfoundland I remember the French class taking a trip to st pierre miquolon every year

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