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An overseas department (French: département d'outre-mer or DOM) is a department (county, state) of France that happens to be outside metropolitan France (that ism the part of France in the continent of Europe). They have the same political status as departments within France.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_departments for more information.
An example is Guadeloupe.
For a list see Category:Overseas departments of France.