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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 | Libya | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Morocco | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Lebanon | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Qatar | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Israel | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Syria | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Saudi Arabia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Oman | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Yemen | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | United Arab Emirates | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Iran | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Algeria | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Iraq | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Egypt | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Kuwait | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Tunisia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Bahrain | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
18 | Jordan | 3 nautical mile | 2013 |