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SOURCE
CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
DEFINITION
Contiguous zone - according to the LOS Convention (Article 33), this is a zone contiguous to a coastal State's territorial sea, over which it may exercise the control necessary to: prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration, or sanitary laws and regulations within its territory or territorial sea; punish infringement of the above laws and regulations committed within its territory or territorial sea; the contiguous zone may not extend beyond 24 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured (e.g. the US has claimed a 12-mile contiguous zone in addition to its 12-mile territorial sea). A full and definitive definition can be found in the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention.
Geography Statistics > Maritime claims > Contiguous zone (most recent) by country
Showing latest available data.
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #1 |
Vanuatu: |
24 nm
|
|
| #2 |
Burma: |
24 nm
|
|
| #3 |
New Zealand: |
24 nm
|
|
| #4 |
Syria: |
24 nm
|
|
| #5 |
Jamaica: |
24 nm
|
|
| #6 |
Madagascar: |
24 nm
|
|
| #7 |
India: |
24 nm
|
|
| #8 |
El Salvador: |
24 nm
|
|
| #9 |
Ghana: |
24 nm
|
|
| #10 |
Brazil: |
24 nm
|
|
| #11 |
Honduras: |
24 nm
|
|
| #12 |
Finland: |
24 nm
|
|
| #13 |
Haiti: |
24 nm
|
|
| #14 |
Cameroon: |
24 nm
|
|
| #15 |
Iran: |
24 nm
|
|
| #16 |
Gabon: |
24 nm
|
|
| #17 |
Portugal: |
24 nm
|
|
| #18 |
Tuvalu: |
24 nm
|
|
| #19 |
Korea, South: |
24 nm
|
|
| #20 |
Cyprus: |
24 nm
|
|
| #21 |
Maldives: |
24 nm
|
|
| #22 |
Bulgaria: |
24 nm
|
|
| #23 |
Japan: |
24 nm
|
|
| #24 |
Marshall Islands: |
24 nm
|
|
| #25 |
Angola: |
24 nm
|
|
| #26 |
Argentina: |
24 nm
|
|
| #27 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis: |
24 nm
|
|
| #28 |
Australia: |
24 nm
|
|
| #29 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: |
24 nm
|
|
| #30 |
Belgium: |
24 nm
|
|
| #31 |
Morocco: |
24 nm
|
|
| #32 |
Sri Lanka: |
24 nm
|
|
| #33 |
Mauritania: |
24 nm
|
|
| #34 |
East Timor: |
24 nm
|
|
| #35 |
Nauru: |
24 nm
|
|
| #36 |
France: |
24 nm
|
|
| #37 |
Mexico: |
24 nm
|
|
| #38 |
Senegal: |
24 nm
|
|
| #39 |
Namibia: |
24 nm
|
|
| #40 |
Trinidad and Tobago: |
24 nm
|
|
| #41 |
Samoa: |
24 nm
|
|
| #42 |
Egypt: |
24 nm
|
|
| #43 |
Nicaragua: |
24 nm
|
|
| #44 |
Cambodia: |
24 nm
|
|
| #45 |
Seychelles: |
24 nm
|
|
| #46 |
Canada: |
24 nm
|
|
| #47 |
Panama: |
24 nm
|
|
| #48 |
Chile: |
24 nm
|
|
| #49 |
Oman: |
24 nm
|
|
| #50 |
Dominican Republic: |
24 nm
|
|
| #51 |
Pakistan: |
24 nm
|
|
| #52 |
Cuba: |
24 nm
|
|
| #53 |
Sierra Leone: |
24 nm
|
|
| #54 |
Antigua and Barbuda: |
24 nm
|
|
| #55 |
Russia: |
24 nm
|
|
| #56 |
Bahrain: |
24 nm
|
|
| #57 |
Qatar: |
24 nm
|
|
| #58 |
Malta: |
24 nm
|
|
| #59 |
Romania: |
24 nm
|
|
| #60 |
China: |
24 nm
|
|
| #61 |
Spain: |
24 nm
|
|
| #62 |
Cape Verde: |
24 nm
|
|
| #63 |
Yemen: |
24 nm
|
|
| #64 |
United Arab Emirates: |
24 nm
|
|
| #65 |
Saint Lucia: |
24 nm
|
|
| #66 |
Uruguay: |
24 nm
|
|
| #67 |
South Africa: |
24 nm
|
|
| #68 |
Denmark: |
24 nm
|
|
| #69 |
United States: |
24 nm
|
|
| #70 |
Djibouti: |
24 nm
|
|
| #71 |
Vietnam: |
24 nm
|
|
| #72 |
Dominica: |
24 nm
|
|
| #73 |
Tunisia: |
24 nm
|
|
| #74 |
Gambia, The: |
18 nm
|
|
| #75 |
Saudi Arabia: |
18 nm
|
|
| #76 |
Bangladesh: |
18 nm
|
|
| #77 |
Sudan: |
18 nm
|
|
| #78 |
Venezuela: |
15 nm
|
|
| #79 |
Christmas Island: |
12 nm
|
|
| #80 |
Ashmore and Cartier Islands: |
12 nm
|
|
| #81 |
Jan Mayen: |
10 nm
|
|
| #82 |
Norway: |
10 nm
|
|
| |
Weighted average: |
23.0 nm
|
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DEFINITION: Contiguous zone - according to the LOS Convention (Article 33), this is a zone contiguous to a coastal State's territorial sea, over which it may exercise the control necessary to: prevent infringement of its customs, fiscal, immigration, or sanitary laws and regulations within its territory or territorial sea; punish infringement of the above laws and regulations committed within its territory or territorial sea; the contiguous zone may not extend beyond 24 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured (e.g. the US has claimed a 12-mile contiguous zone in addition to its 12-mile territorial sea). 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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