# Why not roll British Overseas Territories into the UK proper?

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**Created:** [February 11, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-roll-british-overseas-territories-into-the-uk-proper/649959 "2013-02-11T10:47:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-roll-british-overseas-territories-into-the-uk-proper/649959/21 "2013-03-18T15:13:34Z")

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> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#):
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> France has made various foreign dependencies full-on departments of metropolitan France.

…and others they haven’t (e.g. French Polynesia, St Pierre et Miquelon). So aren’t they in the same situation as the UK?

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