NationMaster - Maritime claims > Contiguous zone (most recent) by country

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

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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