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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.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
=1	Ecuador	200 nautical mile	2013
=1	Somalia	200 nautical mile	2013
=1	Benin	200 nautical mile	2013
=1	Liberia	200 nautical mile	2013
5	Togo	30 nautical mile	2013
=6	Cameroon	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Dominica	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Tanzania	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Madagascar	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Nauru	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Virgin Islands	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Dominican Republic	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Bahrain	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Indonesia	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Libya	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Bangladesh	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Mauritius	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Malaysia	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Barbados	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Guinea	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Panama	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Costa Rica	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Nigeria	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Australia	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	El Salvador	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Tuvalu	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Thailand	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Belize	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Sierra Leone	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Colombia	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Fiji	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Qatar	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Sudan	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Maldives	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Suriname	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Venezuela	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Senegal	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Papua New Guinea	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Mauritania	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Trinidad and Tobago	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Mexico	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Cambodia	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Ghana	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Saudi Arabia	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Cape Verde	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Guatemala	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	The Bahamas	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Pakistan	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Oman	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Gabon	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Niue	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Samoa	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Yemen	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Jamaica	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Equatorial Guinea	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	India	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Kenya	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Eritrea	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Solomon Islands	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Saint Lucia	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Bermuda	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Cote d'Ivoire	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Cook Islands	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Vietnam	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Angola	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Mozambique	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Brazil	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Brunei	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Algeria	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Marshall Islands	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Kiribati	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Haiti	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Iraq	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Guinea-Bissau	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Grenada	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Seychelles	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Egypt	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Djibouti	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Antigua and Barbuda	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Nicaragua	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Democratic Republic of the Congo	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Kuwait	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	New Caledonia	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Guyana	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Burma	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Honduras	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Sri Lanka	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Cuba	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Tonga	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Comoros	12 nautical mile	2013
=6	Martinique	12 nautical mile	2006
=6	Guadeloupe	12 nautical mile	2006
=6	Reunion	12 nautical mile	2006
=6	French Guiana	12 nautical mile	2006
=6	Bassas da India	12 nautical mile	2006
=98	Anguilla	3 nautical mile	2013
=98	Montserrat	3 nautical mile	2013
=98	Singapore	3 nautical mile	2013
=98	Hong Kong	3 nautical mile	2013

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