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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.
The United States has the world's second-largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The total size is 11,351,000 km 2 (4,383,000 sq mi) 2. [1] Areas of its EEZ are located in three oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Most notable areas are Alaska, Hawaii, the East Coast, West Coast and Gulf Coast of the United States.
The exclusive economic zone of the Philippines shown in blue lines, [14] eleven dash-line claim by China shown in red lines, treaty line of the Treaty of Paris (1898) shown in green line. Map prepared by the NAMRIA, with the green line showing the maximum extent of the EEZ (ignoring landmass of neighboring countries) and the theoretical EEZ ...
Pages in category "Exclusive economic zones" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The exclusive economic zone of Italy shown in green. Italy has the world's 48th largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ), with an area of 541,915 km 2 (209,235 sq mi). [1] It claims an EEZ of 200 nmi (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) from its shores, which has long coastlines with the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west, the Ionian Sea to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east.
Claimed Exclusive Economic Zone of Greece. Greece forms the southernmost part of the Balkan peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. It includes many small islands which vary between 1,200 and 6,000 in the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea. [2] The largest islands are Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios.
Russia's exclusive economic zone. The EEZ borders with Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland to the west, the United States to the east, Japan, North Korea and South Korea to the south east and Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine to the south.
Canada's exclusive economic zone and territorial waters. The exclusive economic zone of Canada is the area of the sea in which Canada has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. [1] Canada's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is the 7th-largest ...