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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 | France | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Norway | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Portugal | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Denmark | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Estonia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Italy | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | United Kingdom | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Greece | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Lithuania | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Slovenia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Spain | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Albania | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Bulgaria | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Romania | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Latvia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Belgium | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Croatia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Iceland | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Germany | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Poland | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Canada | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Netherlands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
23 | Turkey | 6 nautical mile | 2013 |