Editing Departments of France (section)

====Departments in former French colonies====
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!scope="col"|Department
!scope="col"| Named after
!scope="col"|Current location
!scope="col"|Dates in existence
|-
|{{Interlanguage link|Département du Sud (Saint-Domingue)|lt=Département du Sud|fr|Département du Sud (Saint-Domingue)}}
|[[South]] cardinal direction
|[[Haiti]]
| rowspan="8" |1795–1800
|-
|{{Ill|Département d'Inganne|lt=Département d'Inganne|fr|Département d'Inganne}} 
|
|[[Dominican Republic]], [[Haiti]]
|-
|{{Ill|Département du Nord (Saint-Domingue)|lt=Département du Nord|fr|Département du Nord (Saint-Domingue)}}
|[[North]] cardinal direction
| rowspan="2" |[[Haiti]]
|-
|{{Interlanguage link|Département de l'Ouest (Saint-Domingue)|lt=Département de l'Ouest|fr|Département de l'Ouest (Saint-Domingue)}}
|[[West]] cardinal direction
|-
|{{Ill|Département de Samana|lt=Département de Samana|fr|Département de Samaná}}
|[[Samaná Bay]]
|[[Dominican Republic]]
|-
|[[Saint Lucia#French Colony|Saint Lucia]]
|Island of [[St Lucia]]
|[[Saint Lucia]], [[Tobago]]
|-
|[[Isle de France (Mauritius)|Île de France]]
|Island of [[Mauritius]]
|[[Mauritius]], [[Seychelles]]
|-
|[[French India|Indes-Orientales]]
|India and East cardinal direction 
|India: 
:[[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondicherry Union Territory]] (<small>[[Pondicherry district|Pondichéry]], [[Karikal district|Karikal]], [[Yanam district|Yanaon]], [[Mahé district|Mahé]]</small>)
: [[West Bengal]] (<small>[[Chandernagore]]</small>)
|}