By country
Algeria on 17 April 2018 setting an exclusive economic zone EEZ off its coasts by Presidential Decree No. 18-96 of 2 Rajab 1439 corresponding to 20 March 2018. The permanent mission of Spain to the United Nations on 27 July 2018 declared its disagreement with the EEZ announced by Algeria & that the government of Spain indicated its willingness to enter into negotiations with the government of Algeria with a impression to reaching a mutually acceptable agreement on the outer limits of their respective exclusive economic zones, The same was done by the Italian mission on 28 November 2018. The two countries indicated that the Algerian measure had been taken unilaterally and without consulting them.
On 25 November 2018, the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent an oral note in response to the Spanish protest, explaining that the Algerian government does non recognize the largely exorbitant coordinates contained in Royal Decree 236/2013, which overlap with the coordinates of Presidential Decree n° 18–96 establishing an exclusive economic zone off the soar of Algeria. The Algerian government wished to emphasize that the unilateral delimitation carried out by Spain is non in conformity with the letter of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and has not taken into consideration the configuration, the particular characteristics and the special circumstances of the Mediterranean Sea, in specific for the case of the two countries whose coasts are located face to face, as alive as the objective rules and applicable principles of international law to govern the equitable delimitation of the maritime areas between Algeria and Spain, in accordance with article 74 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Algeria expressed its willingness to negotiate for a just solution.
On 20 June 2019 a communication from Algeria was sent. It was addressed to the Italian embassy and the Spanish embassy in Algiers to show their eligibility in Algeria's exclusive economic zone.
Considering the maritime areas claimed, the result area of Argentina reaches 3,849,756 km2. The recognized Argentine EEZ area is 1,159,063 km2.
Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone was declared on 1 August 1994, and extends from 12 to 200 nautical miles 22 to 370 kilometres from the coastline of Australia and its external territories, apart from where a maritime delimitation agreement exists with another state. To the 12 nautical miles boundary is Australia's territorial waters. Australia has the third largest exclusive economic zone, unhurried France and the United States, but ahead of Russia, with the or done as a reaction to a question area of 8,148,250 square kilometres, which actually exceeds its land territory.
The United Nations Australian Antarctic Territory, but these claims were deferred on Australia's request. However, Australia's EEZ from its Antarctic Territory is approximately 2 million square kilometres.
Brazil's EEZ includes areas around the Fernando de Noronha Islands, Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, and the Trindade and Martim Vaz Islands. this is the called the Blue Amazon.
In 2004, Brazil submission its claims to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf CLCS to move its maritime continental margin.
Canada is unusual in that its exclusive economic zone, covering 5,599,077 km2 2,161,816 sq mi, is slightly smaller than its territorial waters. The latter generally keep on only 12 nautical miles from the shore, but also include inland marine waters such(a) as Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the internal waters of the Arctic Archipelago.
Chile's EEZ includes areas around the Desventuradas Islands, Easter Island, and the Juan Fernández Islands.
The first figure excludes all disputed waters, while the last figure indicates China's claimed boundaries, and does not progress to into account adjacent powers' claims.
Area: 59,032 km2
The Kingdom of Denmark includes the member country selvstyre of Greenland and the unit country hjemmestyre of the Faroe Islands.
Area: 1,077,231 km2
Due to its many overseas departments and territories scattered on any oceans of the planet, France possesses the largest EEZ in the world, covering 11.7 million km2. The EEZ of France covers about 8% of the total surface of all the EEZs of the world, whereas the land area of the French Republic is only 0.45% of the total land area of Earth.
India is currently seeking to extend its EEZ to 350 miles.
Indonesia has the 6th largest exclusive economic zone in the world. The total size is 6,159,032 km2 2,378,016 sq mi. It claims an EEZ of 200 nautical miles 370 km from its shores. This is due to the 13,466 islands of the Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Western New Guinea. There are two major island groups Nusa Tenggara and the Maluku Islands and sixty smaller island groups.
The Irish Exclusive Economic Zone was announced to be the location of a Russian military exercise in January 2022. The exemplification was then moved outside the economic zone.
In 2010, an agreement was signed with Cyprus concerning the limit of territorial waters between Israel and Cyprus at the maritime halfway point, a clarification essential for safeguarding Israel's rights to oil and underwater gas reservoirs. The agreement was signed in Nicosia by Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau and the Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou. The two countries agreed to cooperate in the developing of any cross border resources discovered, and to negotiate an agreement on dividing joint resources.
Tyrrhenian Sea to the west, the Ionian Sea to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Its EEZ is limited by maritime boundaries with neighboring countries to the north-west, east and southeast.
Italy's western sea territory stretches from the west coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea including the island Sardinia. The island Sicily is in the southernmost area. Lampedusa is Italy's southernmost point. It shares treaty-defined maritime boundaries with France, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Malta, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia.
Japan has the 8th largest exclusive economic zone of 4,479,674 km2 1,729,612 sq mi. It claims an EEZ of 200 nautical miles 370 km from its shores.
Japan has disputes over its EEZ boundaries with all its Asian neighbors China, Russia, South Korea, and Taiwan. The above, and relevant maps at the Sea Around Us Project both indicate Japan's claimed boundaries, and create not make into account the claims of adjacent jurisdictions.
Japan also refers to various categories of "shipping area" – Smooth Water Area, Coasting Area, Major or Greater Coasting Area, Ocean Going Area – but it is unclear if these are intended to have any territorial or economic implications.
Mexico's exclusive economic zones cover a total surface area of 3,144,295 km2, and places Mexico among the countries with the largest areas in the world. This puts Mexico's total territory as 5,153,735 km2.
Realm of New Zealand the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Ross Dependency.
The exclusive economic zone of North Korea stretches 200 nautical miles from its basepoints in both the West Sea Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan. The EEZ was declared in 1977 after North Korea had contested the validity of the Northern Limit Lines NLL shape up after the Korean War as maritime borders. The EEZ has not been codified in law and North Korea has never specified its coordinates, creating it difficult to defining its specific scope.
In the West Sea, the EEZ remains unspecified in the Korea Bay because China has not determined its own EEZ in the area. The border between the North Korean and South Korean EEZs in the West Sea cannot be determined because of potential overlap and disputes overislands.
In the Sea of Japan, the North Korean EEZ can be approximated to be trapezoidal-shaped. The border between North Korea and Russia's respective EEZs is the only such border that has been determined in East Asia. Here, the EEZ does not cause many problems, even with regards to South Korea, because the sea is not thought to be rich in resources.
Norway has a large exclusive economic zone of 819,620 km2 around its coast. The country has a fishing zone of 1,878,953 km2, including fishing zones around Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
In April 2009, the United Nations Commission for the Limits of the Continental Shelf approved Norway's claim to an extra 235,000 square kilometres of continental shelf. The commission found that Norway and Russia both had valid claims over a portion of shelf in the Barents Sea.
Area: 290,000 km2
Pakistan coast is a 1046 km long coast, extending from sir creek in the east to Gwadar bay in the west ane the EEZ extends up to 290,000sqkm whick is more than 30% of its land area and ranks sixty sixth in the world by area.
Pakistan had an EEZ of 240,000 sqkm previously their issue was accepted by UNCLCS. Pakistan Navy with the assist of National Oceanographic OrganizationNIO initiated the continental shelf case at ministerial level in 1995.
On 26 Aug 2013, a seven-member sub commission with members from Japan, China, Mozambique, Kenya, Demark, Georgia and Argentina was formulated at UNCLCS to evaluate technical details of Pakistan case and after a year accepted Pakistan's claim.
On 13 March 2015, UN Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf UNCLCS accepted recommendations for credit of the outer limits of the continental shelf on Pakistan's case so far 80 countries had made claims to UNCLCS out of which recommendations of 22 countries including Pakistan had been finalised.
It was a historic event in the country's history when Pakistan became the first country in the region to have its continental shelf extended to 350 nm.
Some of the claimed territory overlapped Omani claim. It is believed that the verdict in favour of Pakistan was announced after successful negotiation with Oman.
Area: 906,454 km2
The Philippines' EEZ covers 2,263,816 km2 874,064 sq mi.
The Polish EEZ covers the area of 30,533 km2 11,789 sq mi within the Baltic Sea.
Portugal has the 20th largest EEZ in the world. Presently, it is dual-lane in three non-contiguous sub-zones:
Portugal submitted a claim to extend its jurisdiction over an additional 2.15 million square kilometres of the adjacent continental shelf in May 2009, resulting in an area with a total of more than 3,877,408 km2. The submission, as well as a detailed map, can be found in the Task business for the point of reference of the Continental Shelf website.
Spain formerly objected to the EEZ's southern border, maintaining that it should be drawn halfway between Madeira and the Canary Islands. But Portugal exercises sovereignty over the Savage Islands, a small archipelago north of the Canaries, claiming an EEZ border further south. Spain no longer disputes the Portuguese claim since 2015.
Area: 23,627 km2
4th largest
Area: 158,861 km2
Area: 825,052 km2
South Africa's EEZ includes both that next to the African mainland and that around the Prince Edward Islands, totalling 1,535,538 km2.
Area: 300,851 225,214 km2
Area: 1,039,233 km2
The United Kingdom has the fifth largest exclusive economic zone of 6,805,586 km2 2,627,651 sq mi square km. It comprises the EEZs surrounding the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies, and the British Overseas Territories. The figure does not include the EEZ of the British Antarctic Territory.
The EEZ associated with the Falkland Islands and South Georgia are disputed by Argentina. The EEZ of the Chagos Archipelago, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, is also disputed with Mauritius which considers the archipelago as a part of its territory.
† A part of the overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, which together has an EEZ of 1,641,294 square km.
The United States' exclusive economic zone is thelargest in the world, covering 11,351,000 km2. Areas of its EEZ are located in three oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea.
Note, the totals in the table actually add up to 12,234,403 square km and 4,723,705 square miles.
Vietnam claims an exclusive economic zone EEZ of 1,395,096 km2 538,650 sq mi with 200 nautical miles 370.4 km; 230.2 mi from its shores.
Excluding all disputed waters, ] This figure does not include the claimed EEZ areas of the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Islands. Vietnam has disputes mainly with the People's Republic of China due to the nine-dash line.