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** Prefect: Thierry Devimeux
** President of the Territorial Council: Stéphane Lenormand

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* '''Area:''' 242 km

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* '''Area:''' 242 kmsq km (93 sq mi)
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The French ceded their North American possessions with the Treaty of Paris at the end of the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar in 1763, but Saint-Pierre and Miquelon were returned to France. The entire population of the colony was kicked out back to France in 1778 after the British attacked it due to France being allied with the Americans in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, and the British landed in the territory in 1793 and tried to install British settlers there. The French then retaliated and sacked the colony in 1796, and the 1802 Treaty of Amiens returned the islands to France, but Britain reoccupied them next year when hostilities recommenced. The Treaty of Paris in 1814 gave them back to France again, though Britain soon occupied them [[UpToEleven yet again]] during the Hundred Days War.

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The French ceded their North American possessions with the Treaty of Paris at the end of the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar in 1763, but Saint-Pierre and Miquelon were returned to France. The entire population of the colony was kicked out back to France in 1778 after the British attacked it due to France being allied with the Americans in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, and the British landed in the territory in 1793 and tried to install British settlers there. The French then retaliated and sacked the colony in 1796, and the 1802 Treaty of Amiens returned the islands to France, but Britain reoccupied them next year when hostilities recommenced. The Treaty of Paris in 1814 gave them back to France again, though Britain soon occupied them [[UpToEleven yet again]] again during the Hundred Days War.

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The local government pledged it's allegiance to Vichy France in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but despite opposition from Canada, Britain and the United States, Charles de Gaulle seized the territory, with the population endorsing the takeover by Free France in a referendum the following day. After the 1958 French constitutional referendum, the islands were given the option of becoming fully integrated with France, becoming a self-governing state within the French Community, or preserving the status of overseas territory, with them deciding to remain a territory.

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The local government pledged it's its allegiance to Vichy France in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but despite opposition from Canada, Britain and the United States, Charles de Gaulle UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle seized the territory, with the population endorsing the takeover by Free France in a referendum the following day. After the 1958 French constitutional referendum, the islands were given the option of becoming fully integrated with France, becoming a self-governing state within the French Community, or preserving the status of overseas territory, with them deciding to remain a territory.



* '''ISO-3166-1 Code:''' PM

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* '''ISO-3166-1 Code:''' PMPM
* '''Country calling code:''' 508

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** President of the Territorial Council: Stéphane Lenormand

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* '''Capital and largest city:''' Saint-Pierre
* '''Population:''' 5,997
* '''Area:''' 242 km² (93 sq mi)
* '''Currency''': Euro (€) (EUR)
* '''ISO-3166-1 Code:''' PM
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** President of France: Emmanuel Macron

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** President of France: President: Emmanuel Macron
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->Allons enfants de la patrie,
->Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
->Contre nous, de la tyrannie
->L'étendard sanglant est levé.
->L'étendard sanglant est levé.
->Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
->Mugir ces féroces soldats?
->Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
->Égorger vos fils et vos compagnes!

->Aux armes, citoyens!
->Formez vos bataillons!
->Marchons, marchons,
->Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons!

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->Let us go, children of the motherland,
->The day of glory has come!
->Against us, the tyranny's
->bloody flag has been raised.
->Bloody flag has been raised.
->Can you hear in the countryside,
->These ferocious soldiers bellowing?
->They come all the way into your arms
->[[KickTheDog To cut your sons and wives' throats!]]

->To arms, citizens!
->Form your batallions!
->Let us march, let us march,
->[[{{Squick}} And let an impure blood flow into our furrows!]]
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* Devolved parliamentary dependency
** President of France: Emmanuel Macron
** Prefect: Thierry Devimeux
** President of the Territorial Council: Stéphane Lenormand
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A set of islands next to [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Newfoundland]], Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] overseas collectivity and the only part of New France still under French control, with Saint-Pierre on the smaller island being the territory's capital and largest city. They use the Euro as their currency, but Canadian dollars are also widely accepted and used.

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A set of islands next to [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Newfoundland]], Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] overseas collectivity in Northern America and the only part of New France still under French control, with Saint-Pierre on the smaller island being the territory's capital and largest city. They use the Euro as their currency, but Canadian dollars are also widely accepted and used.
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->The territory officially uses the flag of France, but this unofficial flag was also designed in 1982. The flag is blue with a yellow ship, said to be Grande Hermine, which brought Jacques Cartier to Saint-Pierre on 15th of June, 1536, and the three square fields placed along the hoist recall the origin of most inhabitants of the islands: Basques, Bretons, and Normans, from top to bottom.

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->The territory officially uses the flag of France, but this unofficial local flag was also designed in 1982. The flag is blue with a yellow ship, said to be Grande Hermine, which brought Jacques Cartier to Saint-Pierre on 15th of June, 1536, and the three square fields placed along the hoist recall the origin of most inhabitants of the islands: Basques, Bretons, and Normans, from top to bottom.
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The local government pledged it's allegiance to Vichy France in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but despite opposition from Canada, Britain and the United States, Charles de Gaulle seized the territory, with the population endorsing the takeover by Free France in a referendum the following day. After the 1958 French constitutional referendum, the islands were given the option of becoming fully integrated with France, becoming a self-governing state within the French Community, or preserving the status of overseas territory, with them deciding to remain a territory.

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The local government pledged it's allegiance to Vichy France in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but despite opposition from Canada, Britain and the United States, Charles de Gaulle seized the territory, with the population endorsing the takeover by Free France in a referendum the following day. After the 1958 French constitutional referendum, the islands were given the option of becoming fully integrated with France, becoming a self-governing state within the French Community, or preserving the status of overseas territory, with them deciding to remain a territory.territory.
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->The territory officially uses the flag of France, but this unofficial flag was also designed in 1982. The flag is blue with a yellow ship, said to be Grande Hermine, which brought Jacques Cartier to Saint-Pierre on 15th of June, 1536, and the three square fields placed along the hoist recall the origin of most inhabitants of the islands: Basques, Bretons, and Normans, from top to bottom.
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A set of islands southwest of [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Newfoundland]], Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] overseas collectivity and the only part of New France still under French control, with Saint-Pierre on the smaller island being the territory's capital and largest city. They use the Euro as their currency, but Canadian dollars are also widely accepted and used.

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A set of islands southwest of next to [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Newfoundland]], Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] overseas collectivity and the only part of New France still under French control, with Saint-Pierre on the smaller island being the territory's capital and largest city. They use the Euro as their currency, but Canadian dollars are also widely accepted and used.
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A set of islands southwest of [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Newfoundland]], Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]] overseas collectivity and the only part of New France still under French control, with Saint-Pierre on the smaller island being the territory's capital and largest city. They use the Euro as their currency, but Canadian dollars are also widely accepted and used.

Not permanently settled until the end of the 17th century, the islands were first landed on by the Portugese João Álvares Fagundes, and were made a French possession in 1536 by Jacques Cartier on behalf of the King of France. In 1670, during Jean Talon's tenure as Intendant of New France, a French officer annexed the islands when he found a dozen French fishermen camped there. A series of squabbles between the British and French on the islands started, with the British Royal Navy soon beginning to harass the French, pillaging their camps and ships, and by the early 1700s, the islands were again uninhabited, and were ceded to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht at the end of the UsefulNotes/WarOfTheSpanishSuccession in 1713.

The French ceded their North American possessions with the Treaty of Paris at the end of the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar in 1763, but Saint-Pierre and Miquelon were returned to France. The entire population of the colony was kicked out back to France in 1778 after the British attacked it due to France being allied with the Americans in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, and the British landed in the territory in 1793 and tried to install British settlers there. The French then retaliated and sacked the colony in 1796, and the 1802 Treaty of Amiens returned the islands to France, but Britain reoccupied them next year when hostilities recommenced. The Treaty of Paris in 1814 gave them back to France again, though Britain soon occupied them [[UpToEleven yet again]] during the Hundred Days War.

France soon finally regained the territory for good, but by the time they did, it was uninhabited and the structures and buildings had been destroyed or fallen into disrepair, resulting in the resettling of the islands in 1816. However, by the start of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the colony suffered severely as a result of unprofitable fisheries, the draft imposed on all male inhabitants of conscript age and the adoption of steam trawlers, and large numbers of its people emigrated to Nova Scotia and Quebec as a result. However, in the 1920s, smuggling became a prominent economic activity in the islands as a result of prohibition in the United States, with the territory being reported to have imported 1,815,271 US gallons (1,511,529 imperial gallons; 6,871,550 litres) of whisky from Canada in 12 months, most of it to be smuggled into the United States, though the end of prohibition in 1933 plunged the islands into an economic depression.

The local government pledged it's allegiance to Vichy France in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but despite opposition from Canada, Britain and the United States, Charles de Gaulle seized the territory, with the population endorsing the takeover by Free France in a referendum the following day. After the 1958 French constitutional referendum, the islands were given the option of becoming fully integrated with France, becoming a self-governing state within the French Community, or preserving the status of overseas territory, with them deciding to remain a territory.

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