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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.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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=1 | Peru | 200 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=1 | Ecuador | 200 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Chile | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Panama | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Costa Rica | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | El Salvador | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Colombia | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Venezuela | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Mexico | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Argentina | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Guatemala | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Equatorial Guinea | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Dominican Republic | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Cuba | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Honduras | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Nicaragua | 12 nautical mile | 2013 | ||
=3 | Uruguay | 12 nautical mile | 2013 |