East Asia and Pacific Compared by Geography > Maritime claims > Territorial sea

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	Kiribati	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Marshall Islands	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	East Timor	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	South Korea	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Vanuatu	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Nauru	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Indonesia	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Malaysia	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Australia	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Tuvalu	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Thailand	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Taiwan	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Fiji	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Papua New Guinea	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Cambodia	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Samoa	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	New Zealand	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Solomon Islands	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Vietnam	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Japan	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Brunei	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Tonga	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	China	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Federated States of Micronesia	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	Burma	12 nautical mile	2013
=1	North Korea	12 nautical mile	2013
=27	Palau	3 nautical mile	2013
=27	Singapore	3 nautical mile	2013

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