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  2. Maritime boundary - Wikipedia

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    A maritime boundary is a conceptual division of Earth's water surface areas using physiographical or geopolitical criteria. As such, it usually bounds areas of exclusive national rights over mineral and biological resources, [ 1 ] encompassing maritime features, limits and zones. [ 2 ]

  3. List of countries and territories by maritime boundaries

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    "Potential" maritime boundaries are included; that is, the lack of a treaty or other agreement defining the exact location of the maritime boundary does not exclude the boundary from the list. In numbering maritime boundaries, three separate figures are included for each country and territory.

  4. Border control - Wikipedia

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    Border control comprises measures taken by governments to monitor [1] and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across land, air, and maritime borders.While border control is typically associated with international borders, it also encompasses controls imposed on internal borders within a single state.

  5. Border - Wikipedia

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    A maritime border is a division enclosing an area in the ocean where a nation has exclusive rights over the mineral and biological resources, [12] encompassing maritime features, limits and zones. [13] Maritime borders represent the jurisdictional borders of a maritime nation [14] and are recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law ...

  6. Territorial waters - Wikipedia

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    Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones [1]). In a narrower sense, the term ...

  7. World Court backs Colombia in maritime border dispute with ...

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    The World Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by Nicaragua seeking to define and expand its deep sea economic rights beyond those previously established in a long-running maritime border dispute ...

  8. Borders of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Exclusive economic zone maritime boundaries in the Caribbean Sea and equatorial Atlantic Ocean EEZ maritime boundaries in the Pacific Ocean. The United States has land borders with Canada to the North, and Mexico to the South and a maritime boundary with Russia to the West, as well as maritime boundaries with several countries of the extensive exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

  9. KUWAIT (Reuters) -Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the United States on Wednesday called for the complete demarcation of Kuwaiti-Iraqi maritime borders, as a ruling by Iraq's top court ...