_#_Type: overseas territory of France

_#_Capital: Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea)

_#_Administrative divisions: none (overseas territory of France)

_#_Independence: none (overseas territory of France)

_#_Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

_#_Legal system: French

_#_National holiday: Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789)

_#_Executive branch: French president, high administrator; note—there are three traditional kings with limited powers

_#_Legislative branch: unicameral Territorial Assembly (Assemblee Territoriale)

_#_Judicial branch: none; justice generally administered under French law by the chief administrator, but the three traditional kings administer customary law and there is a magistrate in Mata-Utu