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However, it does not include lake or river boundaries. "Potential" maritime boundaries are included; that is, the lack of a treaty or other agreement defining the exact location of the maritime boundary does not exclude the boundary from the list. In numbering maritime boundaries, three separate figures are included for each country and territory.
South African straight baselines from Government Notice No. R. 543 of 2004; Mozambique straight baselines from Law No. 4/96; Outer limits of maritime zones calculated from coastlines and baselines; South Africa–Namibia maritime boundary from 1976 photogrammetric determination; South Africa–Mozambique maritime boundary from 1993 survey ...
Land borders and maritime boundaries are included and are tabulated separately and in combination. For purposes of this list, "maritime boundary" includes boundaries that are recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which includes boundaries of territorial waters, contiguous zones, and exclusive economic zones.
The world's exclusive economic zones by boundary types and EEZ types. An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Schematic map of maritime zones (aerial view). Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones [1]).
Tuvalu and its 11,000 people, who live on nine atolls scattered across the Pacific, are running out of time. Tuvalu, whose mean elevation is just 2 m (6.56 ft), has experienced a sea-level rise of ...
South Africa: 4,862 3,021 7 6 ... List of countries and territories by maritime boundaries; List of countries that border only one other country;