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The Philippines's EEZ (including overlapping claims) is marked by purple line. The Philippines has territorial disputes in the South China Sea, mainly with the People's Republic of China. Nearly the whole South China Sea is claimed by China with its nine-dash line. This contested line cuts half of the Philippines' EEZ.
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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.
Map of the Philippines including territorial and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) claims. As an archipelago, the Philippines shares no land borders with any country, although the country claims a land border with Malaysia as a consequence of its territorial claims over the eastern portion of the Malaysian state of Sabah.
The Philippines claims fifty-two landforms in the Spratly Island group. Of these fifty-two landforms, only five islands, two cays, and three reefs are under Philippine occupation: the Flat Island (), the Loaita Island (), the Nanshan Island (), the Thitu Island (), the West York Island (), the Lankiam Cay (), the Northeast Cay (), the Irving Reef (Balagtas), the Commodore Reef (Rizal), and the ...
The Philippines also claims that as early as the Spanish colonisation of the Philippines, Filipino fishermen were already using the area as a traditional fishing ground and shelter during bad weather. [110] Several official Philippine maps published by Spain and United States in 18th and 20th centuries show Scarborough Shoal as Philippine ...
More recently, a World Ortelius map sold for £4,000 (about $5,000) at an auction in 2012. These maps are celebrated for their artistry and the way they reflect the geographical knowledge of the ...
In Philippine law, the West Philippine Sea refers only to the portions of the South China Sea which the Philippine government claims to be part of the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The naming of the area became official through Administrative Order No. 29 issued by then-President Benigno Aquino III on September 5, 2012.