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Countries (A to Z) Description
Albania 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Antigua and Barbuda 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Argentina 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Ashmore and Cartier Islands 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Australia 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Bahrain extending to boundaries to be determined
Bangladesh up to the outer limits of the continental margin
Belgium median line with neighbors
Brazil 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin
Burma 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Cambodia 200 nm
Canada 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Chile 200/350 nm
China 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Colombia 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Cook Islands 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Costa Rica 200 nm
Croatia 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Cyprus 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Côte d'Ivoire 200 nm
Denmark 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Dominican Republic 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Ecuador 100 nm from 2,500 meter isobath
Egypt 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 200 nm
Faroe Islands 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line
Fiji 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation; rectilinear shelf claim added
Finland 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
France 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Gambia, The extent not specified
Germany 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Ghana 200 nm
Greece 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Greenland 200 nm or agreed boundaries or median line
Guatemala 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Guyana 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin
Haiti to depth of exploitation
Honduras natural extension of territory or to 200 nm
Iceland 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
India 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Iran natural prolongation
Iraq not specified
Israel to depth of exploitation
Italy 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Jamaica 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin
Jan Mayen 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Kenya 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Korea, South not specified
Latvia 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Madagascar 200 nm or 100 nm from the 2,500-m deep isobath
Malaysia 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation; specified boundary in the South China Sea
Malta 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Mauritania 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Mauritius 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Mexico 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Morocco 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
New Zealand 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Nicaragua natural prolongation
Nigeria 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Norway 200 nm
Pakistan 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Papua New Guinea 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Peru 200 nm
Philippines to depth of exploitation
Portugal 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Romania 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Russia 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Saint Kitts and Nevis 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Saint Lucia 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 200 nm
Saudi Arabia not specified
Senegal 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Seychelles 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Sierra Leone 200 nm
Solomon Islands 200 nm
South Africa 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin
Sri Lanka 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Sudan 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Sweden 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Thailand 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Tonga 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Trinidad and Tobago 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin
Ukraine 200-m or to the depth of exploitation
United Arab Emirates 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
United Kingdom as defined in continental shelf orders or in accordance with agreed upon boundaries
United States not specified
Uruguay 200 nm or edge of continental margin
Vanuatu 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Venezuela 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Vietnam 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
Yemen 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin


DEFINITION: Continental shelf - the LOS Convention (Article 76) defines the continental shelf of a coastal State as comprising the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance; the continental margin comprises the submerged prolongation of the landmass of the coastal State, and consists of the seabed and subsoil of the shelf, the slope and the rise; it does not include the deep ocean floor with its oceanic ridges or the subsoil thereof. A full and definitive definition can be found in the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention.

SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

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