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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 | Kiribati | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Marshall Islands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | East Timor | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | South Korea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Vanuatu | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Nauru | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Indonesia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Malaysia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Australia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Tuvalu | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Thailand | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Taiwan | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Fiji | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Papua New Guinea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Cambodia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Samoa | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | New Zealand | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Solomon Islands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Vietnam | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Japan | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Brunei | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Tonga | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | China | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Federated States of Micronesia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Burma | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | North Korea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=27 | Palau | 3 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=27 | Singapore | 3 nautical mile | 2013 |