!!!Clipperton Island: Government
||Country name|''conventional long form'': none \\ ''conventional short form'': Clipperton Island \\ ''local long form'': none \\ ''local short form'': Ile Clipperton \\ ''former'': sometimes referred to as Ile de la Passion or Atoll Clipperton \\ ''etymology'': named after an 18th-century English pirate who supposedly used the island as a base \\ 
||Dependency status|possession of France; administered directly by the Minister of Overseas France
||Legal system|the laws of France apply
||Flag description|the flag of France is used