French Southern Territories

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved on 5 August 2026.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of French Southern Territories. French Southern Territories is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 5 contested areas are marked with hatching: Bassas da India (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Europa Island (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Glorioso Is. (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Juan De Nova I. (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Tromelin I. (marked at minimum size, not to scale). 17 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 36.2°E to 81.1°E and 53.2°S to 8.1°S. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Bassas da India — status contested; see the list below.Europa Island — status contested; see the list below.Glorioso Is. — status contested; see the list below.Juan De Nova I. — status contested; see the list below.Tromelin I. — status contested; see the list below.

French Southern Territories is filled. The 10 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The 5 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 5 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.

17 parts of French Southern Territories in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 30.6°S — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 36.2°E–81.1°E, 53.2°S–8.1°S.

Disputed areas involving French Southern Territories

5 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    not yet researchedNo news source from this country is in Aletheia's registry yet. Nobody has assessed the media landscape here — that is a gap in our work, not a finding about this country.

    Know a news source for French Southern Territories? Tell us where to look.

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  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.

  4. Local time

    2 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Port-aux-Français, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:12 AM · sunset 6:13 PM12h 01m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    ATFuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    No source assessed yet
    Capital
    Port-aux-Françaisuncited
    Official language
    Frenchuncited
    Plug type
    No source assessed yet
    Official website
    taaf.fr ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    GDP
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    GDP per capita
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Life expectancy at birth
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Exports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Imports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    Coverage limitedWe hold no World Heritage entry for this country, but our read of the register is not known to be complete, so this is not a finding of none. 6 inscribed sites are in the register and reach no page here — the source records no country for them, so they could belong to any country. That is why an empty result anywhere cannot be read as an absence.

  10. Emergency numbers

    No source assessed yet for emergency numbers in this country.

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  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    EUR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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