FACTOID # 12: Australia has more than 28 times the land area of New Zealand, but its coastline is not even twice as long.
 
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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
= 1   Benin: 200 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 1   Peru: 200 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 1   Congo, Republic of the: 200 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 1   Liberia: 200 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 1   Ecuador: 200 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 1   Somalia: 200 nautical mile  2008 Time series
# 7   Togo: 30 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Nigeria: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Johnston Atoll: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Marshall Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   United Kingdom: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Sweden: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Montenegro: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Aruba: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Maldives: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Antigua and Barbuda: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Pakistan: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Algeria: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   South Africa: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Albania: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Tokelau: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Angola: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Namibia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   American Samoa: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Kingman Reef: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Argentina: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Libya: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Australia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Midway Islands: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   New Caledonia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Bahrain: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Suriname: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Barbados: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Papua New Guinea: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Bermuda: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Saudi Arabia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Belgium: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Sierra Leone: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Bahamas, The: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Trinidad and Tobago: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Bangladesh: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   East Timor: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Burma: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Solomon Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Yemen: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Navassa Island: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Kenya: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Brazil: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Christmas Island: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Bassas da India: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Lithuania: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Bulgaria: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Martinique: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Brunei: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Morocco: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Canada: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Malta: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Cambodia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Malaysia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Sri Lanka: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Norfolk Island: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Norway: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   China: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Nicaragua: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Chile: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Panama: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Cayman Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Qatar: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Cocos (Keeling) Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Puerto Rico: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Cameroon: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Saint Kitts and Nevis: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Comoros: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Saint Helena: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Colombia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Saint Lucia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Northern Mariana Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Syria: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Costa Rica: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Thailand: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Cuba: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   São Tomé and Príncipe: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Cape Verde: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Taiwan: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Cook Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   United States: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Cyprus: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Vietnam: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Denmark: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Wake Island: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Djibouti: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Jamaica: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Dominica: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Juan de Nova Island: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Jarvis Island: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Korea, North: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Egypt: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Kiribati: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Ireland: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Kuwait: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Equatorial Guinea: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Latvia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Estonia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Palmyra Atoll: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Eritrea: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Madagascar: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   El Salvador: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Mayotte: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Europa Island: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Monaco: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   French Guiana: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Mauritius: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Finland: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Mauritania: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Fiji: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Oman: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Mexico: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Micronesia, Federated States of: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Mozambique: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   French Polynesia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Niue: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Baker Island: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Vanuatu: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   France: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Netherlands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   French Southern and Antarctic Lands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Nauru: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Gambia, The: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Netherlands Antilles: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Gabon: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   New Zealand: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Georgia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Poland: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Ghana: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Portugal: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Grenada: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Guinea-Bissau: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Germany: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Réunion: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Glorioso Islands: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Romania: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Guadeloupe: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Russia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Guam: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Greece: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Seychelles: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Guatemala: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Senegal: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Guinea: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Slovenia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Guyana: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Spain: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Haiti: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Sudan: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Heard Island and McDonald Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Honduras: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   United Arab Emirates: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Howland Island: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Tromelin Island: 12 nautical mile  2006 Time series
= 8   Croatia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Turks and Caicos Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Iceland: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Tonga: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Indonesia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Tunisia: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Man, Isle of: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Tuvalu: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   India: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Tanzania: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Clipperton Island: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Ukraine: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Iran: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Uruguay: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Israel: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Venezuela: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Italy: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Virgin Islands: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Côte d'Ivoire: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Wallis and Futuna: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Iraq: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Samoa: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 8   Lebanon: 12 nautical mile  2008 Time series
# 189   Dominican Republic: 6 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 190   Bouvet Island: 4 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 190   Jan Mayen: 4 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 190   Svalbard: 4 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Pitcairn Islands: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   British Indian Ocean Territory: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Jordan: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Anguilla: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Singapore: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Coral Sea Islands: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Hong Kong: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Faroe Islands: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Jersey: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Gibraltar: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Montserrat: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Guernsey: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Palau: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   Greenland: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
= 193   British Virgin Islands: 3 nautical mile  2008 Time series
Weighted average: 16.7 nautical mile  



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.

SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008

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