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Territorial limit

The limit of coastal waters over which a nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction, which extends 12 nautical miles (22km) from the mean low water mark adjacent to land, or from internal waters (as defined in the 1994 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).

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