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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 | ||
=1 | Ecuador | 200 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Chile | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Dominica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Dominican Republic | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Barbados | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Panama | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Costa Rica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | El Salvador | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Belize | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Colombia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Suriname | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Venezuela | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Trinidad and Tobago | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Mexico | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Aruba | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Argentina | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Guatemala | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | The Bahamas | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Jamaica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Saint Lucia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Bermuda | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Brazil | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Cayman Islands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Cuba | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Honduras | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Guyana | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Nicaragua | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Antigua and Barbuda | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Uruguay | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Grenada | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Haiti | 12 nautical mile | 2013 |