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DEFINITION:
territorial sea - the sovereignty of a coastal State extends beyond its land territory and internal waters to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea in the LOS Convention (Part II); this sovereignty extends to the air space over the territorial sea as well as its underlying seabed and subsoil; every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles. A full and definitive definition can be found in the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Peru | 200 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Venezuela | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Mexico | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Lithuania | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Argentina | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Pakistan | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | India | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Russia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Bulgaria | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Romania | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | South Africa | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Latvia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Brazil | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Chile | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Poland | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | China | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Ukraine | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Indonesia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Malaysia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Thailand | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Estonia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=2 | Colombia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
23 | Turkey | 6 nautical mile | 2013 |