Former British colonies 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	Somalia	200 nautical mile	2013
=2	Canada	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Dominica	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Tanzania	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Bahrain	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Bangladesh	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Malaysia	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Barbados	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Nigeria	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Australia	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Tuvalu	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Belize	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Sierra Leone	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Fiji	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Qatar	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Sudan	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Maldives	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Israel	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Trinidad and Tobago	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	The Gambia	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Ghana	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	The Bahamas	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Pakistan	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	New Zealand	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Yemen	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Jamaica	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	United Arab Emirates	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	India	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Kenya	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Saint Lucia	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Brunei	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Grenada	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Egypt	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Antigua and Barbuda	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Kuwait	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Guyana	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Burma	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Sri Lanka	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Saint Kitts and Nevis	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	Namibia	12 nautical mile	2013
=2	United States	12 nautical mile	2013
=42	Singapore	3 nautical mile	2013
=42	Jordan	3 nautical mile	2013

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