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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 | Grenada | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Belgium | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Puerto Rico | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Canada | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Dominica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Netherlands | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | France | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Portugal | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Barbados | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Ireland | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Belize | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Morocco | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Lebanon | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Italy | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Sudan | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Israel | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | United Kingdom | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Greece | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Sao Tome and Principe | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Cape Verde | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Spain | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Jamaica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Eritrea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Saint Lucia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Cyprus | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Japan | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | United States | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Sri Lanka | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Germany | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Iceland | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Malta | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Antigua and Barbuda | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Egypt | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Seychelles | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=37 | Jordan | 3 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=37 | Singapore | 3 nautical mile | 2013 |