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Geography Statistics > Maritime claims > Territorial sea (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1  Benin: 200 nm  
#2  Peru: 200 nm  
#3  Congo, Republic of the: 200 nm  
#4  Liberia: 200 nm  
#5  Ecuador: 200 nm  
#6  Somalia: 200 nm  
#7  Togo: 30 nm  
#8  Sudan: 12 nm  
#9  United Kingdom: 12 nm  
#10  Norfolk Island: 12 nm  
#11  Jamaica: 12 nm  
#12  Malta: 12 nm  
#13  Qatar: 12 nm  
#14  Nicaragua: 12 nm  
#15  Aruba: 12 nm  
#16  Seychelles: 12 nm  
#17  Antigua and Barbuda: 12 nm  
#18  Tokelau: 12 nm  
#19  Algeria: 12 nm  
#20  Namibia: 12 nm  
#21  Albania: 12 nm  
#22  Christmas Island: 12 nm  
#23  Angola: 12 nm  
#24  Monaco: 12 nm  
#25  American Samoa: 12 nm  
#26  Malaysia: 12 nm  
#27  Argentina: 12 nm  
#28  Norway: 12 nm  
#29  Australia: 12 nm  
#30  Panama: 12 nm  
#31  Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 12 nm  
#32  Russia: 12 nm  
#33  Bahrain: 12 nm  
#34  Slovenia: 12 nm  
#35  Barbados: 12 nm  
#36  United Arab Emirates: 12 nm  
#37  Bermuda: 12 nm  
#38  East Timor: 12 nm  
#39  Belgium: 12 nm  
#40  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 12 nm  
#41  Bahamas, The: 12 nm  
#42  Yemen: 12 nm  
#43  Bangladesh: 12 nm  
#44  Korea, North: 12 nm  
#45  Burma: 12 nm  
#46  Lebanon: 12 nm  
#47  Solomon Islands: 12 nm  
#48  Madagascar: 12 nm  
#49  Navassa Island: 12 nm  
#50  Mauritius: 12 nm  
#51  Brazil: 12 nm  
#52  Maldives: 12 nm  
#53  Bulgaria: 12 nm  
#54  New Caledonia: 12 nm  
#55  Brunei: 12 nm  
#56  Nigeria: 12 nm  
#57  Canada: 12 nm  
#58  Suriname: 12 nm  
#59  Cambodia: 12 nm  
#60  Pakistan: 12 nm  
#61  Sri Lanka: 12 nm  
#62  Papua New Guinea: 12 nm  
#63  Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 12 nm  
#64  Romania: 12 nm  
#65  China: 12 nm  
#66  Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 12 nm  
#67  Chile: 12 nm  
#68  Senegal: 12 nm  
#69  Cayman Islands: 12 nm  
#70  Spain: 12 nm  
#71  Cocos (Keeling) Islands: 12 nm  
#72  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: 12 nm  
#73  Cameroon: 12 nm  
#74  Thailand: 12 nm  
#75  Comoros: 12 nm  
#76  São Tomé and Príncipe: 12 nm  
#77  Colombia: 12 nm  
#78  Taiwan: 12 nm  
#79  Northern Mariana Islands: 12 nm  
#80  United States: 12 nm  
#81  Costa Rica: 12 nm  
#82  Vietnam: 12 nm  
#83  Cuba: 12 nm  
#84  Wake Island: 12 nm  
#85  Cape Verde: 12 nm  
#86  Iraq: 12 nm  
#87  Cook Islands: 12 nm  
#88  Kenya: 12 nm  
#89  Cyprus: 12 nm  
#90  Kiribati: 12 nm  
#91  Denmark: 12 nm  
#92  Kuwait: 12 nm  
#93  Djibouti: 12 nm  
#94  Latvia: 12 nm  
#95  Dominica: 12 nm  
#96  Libya: 12 nm  
#97  Egypt: 12 nm  
#98  Mayotte: 12 nm  
#99  Ireland: 12 nm  
#100  Morocco: 12 nm  
#101  Equatorial Guinea: 12 nm  
#102  Mauritania: 12 nm  
#103  Estonia: 12 nm  
#104  Oman: 12 nm  
#105  Eritrea: 12 nm  
#106  Mexico: 12 nm  
#107  El Salvador: 12 nm  
#108  Mozambique: 12 nm  
#109  Finland: 12 nm  
#110  Niue: 12 nm  
#111  Fiji: 12 nm  
#112  Vanuatu: 12 nm  
#113  Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): 12 nm  
#114  Netherlands: 12 nm  
#115  Micronesia, Federated States of: 12 nm  
#116  Nauru: 12 nm  
#117  French Polynesia: 12 nm  
#118  Netherlands Antilles: 12 nm  
#119  France: 12 nm  
#120  New Zealand: 12 nm  
#121  French Southern and Antarctic Lands: 12 nm  
#122  Poland: 12 nm  
#123  Gambia, The: 12 nm  
#124  Portugal: 12 nm  
#125  Gabon: 12 nm  
#126  Guinea-Bissau: 12 nm  
#127  Georgia: 12 nm  
#128  Marshall Islands: 12 nm  
#129  Ghana: 12 nm  
#130  Puerto Rico: 12 nm  
#131  Grenada: 12 nm  
#132  Saudi Arabia: 12 nm  
#133  Germany: 12 nm  
#134  Saint Kitts and Nevis: 12 nm  
#135  Guam: 12 nm  
#136  South Africa: 12 nm  
#137  Greece: 12 nm  
#138  Saint Helena: 12 nm  
#139  Guatemala: 12 nm  
#140  Sierra Leone: 12 nm  
#141  Guinea: 12 nm  
#142  Saint Lucia: 12 nm  
#143  Guyana: 12 nm  
#144  Sweden: 12 nm  
#145  Haiti: 12 nm  
#146  Syria: 12 nm  
#147  Heard Island and McDonald Islands: 12 nm  
#148  Trinidad and Tobago: 12 nm  
#149  Honduras: 12 nm  
#150  Turks and Caicos Islands: 12 nm  
#151  Croatia: 12 nm  
#152  Tonga: 12 nm  
#153  Iceland: 12 nm  
#154  Tunisia: 12 nm  
#155  Indonesia: 12 nm  
#156  Tuvalu: 12 nm  
#157  Man, Isle of: 12 nm  
#158  Tanzania: 12 nm  
#159  India: 12 nm  
#160  Ukraine: 12 nm  
#161  Clipperton Island: 12 nm  
#162  Uruguay: 12 nm  
#163  Iran: 12 nm  
#164  Venezuela: 12 nm  
#165  Israel: 12 nm  
#166  Virgin Islands: 12 nm  
#167  Italy: 12 nm  
#168  Wallis and Futuna: 12 nm  
#169  Côte d'Ivoire: 12 nm  
#170  Samoa: 12 nm  
#171  Lithuania: 12 nm  
#172  Dominican Republic: 6 nm  
#173  Bouvet Island: 4 nm  
#174  Jan Mayen: 4 nm  
#175  Svalbard: 4 nm  
#176  Pitcairn Islands: 3 nm  
#177  British Indian Ocean Territory: 3 nm  
#178  Jordan: 3 nm  
#179  Anguilla: 3 nm  
#180  Singapore: 3 nm  
#181  Coral Sea Islands: 3 nm  
#182  Hong Kong: 3 nm  
#183  Faroe Islands: 3 nm  
#184  Jersey: 3 nm  
#185  Gibraltar: 3 nm  
#186  Montserrat: 3 nm  
#187  Guernsey: 3 nm  
#188  Palau: 3 nm  
#189  Greenland: 3 nm  
#190  British Virgin Islands: 3 nm  
Weighted average: 17.2 nm   


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: CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

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