This polity currently controls the uninhabited Pacific Clipperton Island, site of a disastrously failed Mexican colony, as well as Howe Island and the Cloudy Islands, located in its Atlantic Kerguelen Archipelago, near its islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul.
This polity currently controls the uninhabited Pacific Clipperton Island, site of a disastrously failed Mexican colony, as well as Howe Island and the Cloudy Islands, located in its Atlantic Kerguelen Archipelago, near its islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul. Another of its colonies formerly consisted mainly of its territory Inini, and now contains a namesake Space Centre near the Equator. Mount Pelee catastrophically erupted on a Caribbean holding of this country in 1902, while another former colony saw cities such as Gonaives devastated by a 2010 earthquake. For 10 points, name this polity which controls Martinique, a namesake Guyana, and St. Pierre and Miquelon from Paris.
This polity currently controls the uninhabited Pacific Clipperton Island, site of a disastrously failed Mexican colony, as well as Howe Island and the Cloudy Islands, located in its Atlantic Kerguelen Archipelago, near its islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul.
Republic of {France} (or {French Republic} or La {France} or {République française})