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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.
Spain's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) (Spanish: Zona económica exclusiva de España) is the 30th largest in the world with 1,039,233 km 2 (401,250 sq mi). [1] It is mostly in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. This is approximately double the entire Spanish land area. Together the land and sea surface would account for approximately ...
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.
Exclusive economic zone of France. France has, due to its Overseas departments and regions that are scattered in all the oceans of Earth, the largest exclusive economic zone of the world. The total EEZ of France is 11,691,000 km 2 (4,514,000 sq mi). [1]
Canada's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is the 7th-largest in the world. [2] It is unusual in that its EEZ, covering 5,599,077 km 2 (2,161,816 sq mi), is slightly smaller than its territorial waters. [3] The latter generally extend only 12 nautical miles from the shore, but also include inland marine waters such as Hudson Bay —about 300 ...
New Zealand 's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers at least 4,083,744 square kilometres (1,576,742 sq mi), [1] [2] which is approximately 15 times the land area of the country. Sources vary significantly on the size of New Zealand's EEZ; for example, a recent government publication gave the area as roughly 4,300,000 km 2. [3]
The total land and sea area (including the EEZ) of Indonesia is about 8,063 million km 2. The five main islands are: Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Papua. There are two major island groups (Nusa Tenggara and the Maluku Islands) and sixty smaller island groups.
The United Kingdom's exclusive economic zone is the fifth largest in the world at 6,805,586 km 2 (2,627,651 sq mi). [2] It comprises the exclusive economic zones surrounding the United Kingdom, [3] the Crown Dependencies, and the British Overseas Territories. The figure does not include the EEZ of the British Antarctic Territory .