Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous...

"International waters" is not a defined term in international law. It is an informal term, which sometimes refers to waters beyond the "territorial sea" of any...

The territorial waters of Indonesia are defined according to the principles set out in Article 46 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea...

(980 and 2,950 feet; 160 and 490 fathoms). The strait lies in the territorial waters of Morocco, Spain, and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar...

This is a list of recorded fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters, in reverse chronological order, including cases that were immediately...

(370 km) from the baseline from which the territorial sea is measured. Whaling in Australian Antarctic territorial waters is controversial and has received international...

water area. The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters. Glaciers and intermittent bodies of water are...

coastal and territorial waters for the United States but exclude coastal and territorial waters for China. China's coastal and territorial water figures...

territorial waters, exclusive economic zones, or the high seas. The law of the sea regulates these limits. Most MPAs have been located in territorial...

territory as part of a larger one. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters.: 60  Enclave is sometimes used improperly to denote a territory that...

Law of the Sea, a nation's internal waters include waters on the side of the baseline of a nation's territorial waters that is facing toward the land, except...

Danish waters with tacit British acceptance, despite the fact that Denmark was obliged under international law to keep its territorial waters open. The...

entered Iranian territorial waters after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits. The...

its territorial sea to 12 nmi (22 km) by decree. Thus, by mid-1972, the Strait of Hormuz was completely "closed" by the combined territorial waters of...

firearms and petrol bombs. In 1987, the United Kingdom extended its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, which places the platform in British territory...

Territorial disputes have occurred throughout history, over lands around the world. Bold indicates one claimant's full control; italics indicates one...

modern disputes or wars began in 1952 after Iceland expanded its territorial waters from 3 to 4 nautical miles (7 kilometres) based on a decision by the...

stations broadcasting to Israel were operating from within Israeli territorial waters under a strange arrangement that attempted to prevent intrusion by...

waters are international waters. Generally, a state's exclusive economic zone is an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, extending seaward to...

"Reagan Extends Territorial Waters to 12 Miles". New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2014. Carol Elizabeth Remy (1992). "U.S. Territorial Sea Extension:...

atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the...

for the land area of the bank, and does not include the surrounding territorial waters. This figure includes the total land area of the Serranilla Bank and...

in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places and has a long and troubled history with...

considered a success, it left open the important issue of breadth of territorial waters. In 1960, the United Nations held the second Conference on the Law...

China's coastal and territorial waters. However, the CIA World Factbook includes the United States coastal and territorial waters, while Encyclopædia...

carrying out covert amphibious operations close to North Vietnamese territorial waters, which triggered a response from North Vietnamese forces. The United...

in international waters, and within Soviet territorial waters to the north of Moneron Island. The area within Soviet territorial waters was off-limits to...

to delimit precisely the territorial waters boundary in accordance with the Straits Settlement and Johore Territorial Waters Agreement 1927 as being straight...

underlying the ocean within the territorial waters or continental shelf or exclusive economic zone of India. The territorial waters, continental shelf, exclusive...

New Zealand's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers at least 4,083,744 square kilometres (1,576,742 sq mi), which is approximately 15 times the land area...