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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 | Ecuador | 200 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Somalia | 200 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Benin | 200 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Liberia | 200 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
5 | Togo | 30 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Cameroon | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Dominica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Tanzania | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Madagascar | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Nauru | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Virgin Islands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Dominican Republic | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Bahrain | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Indonesia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Libya | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Bangladesh | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Mauritius | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Malaysia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Barbados | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Guinea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Panama | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Costa Rica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Nigeria | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Australia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | El Salvador | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Tuvalu | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Thailand | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Belize | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Sierra Leone | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Colombia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Fiji | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Qatar | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Sudan | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Maldives | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Suriname | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Venezuela | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Senegal | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Papua New Guinea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Mauritania | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Trinidad and Tobago | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Mexico | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Cambodia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Ghana | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Saudi Arabia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Cape Verde | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Guatemala | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | The Bahamas | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Pakistan | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Oman | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Gabon | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Niue | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Samoa | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Yemen | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Jamaica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Equatorial Guinea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | India | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Kenya | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Eritrea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Solomon Islands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Saint Lucia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Bermuda | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Cote d'Ivoire | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Cook Islands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Vietnam | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Angola | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Mozambique | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Brazil | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Brunei | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Algeria | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Marshall Islands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Kiribati | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Haiti | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Iraq | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Guinea-Bissau | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Grenada | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Seychelles | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Egypt | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Djibouti | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Antigua and Barbuda | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Nicaragua | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Kuwait | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | New Caledonia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Guyana | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Burma | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Honduras | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Sri Lanka | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Cuba | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Tonga | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Comoros | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=6 | Martinique | 12 nautical mile | 2006 | ||
=6 | Guadeloupe | 12 nautical mile | 2006 | ||
=6 | Reunion | 12 nautical mile | 2006 | ||
=6 | French Guiana | 12 nautical mile | 2006 | ||
=6 | Bassas da India | 12 nautical mile | 2006 | ||
=98 | Anguilla | 3 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=98 | Montserrat | 3 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=98 | Singapore | 3 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=98 | Hong Kong | 3 nautical mile | 2013 |