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The exclusive economic area ("economic water"), as set in the Sea Law, is a maritime area stretching up to 200 nautical miles (370.4 km) from the coast of the country, with special rights for the protection of nature, exploration and use of marine resources, including the production of water and wind energy. In the use of speech, the term may expand the economic water area until beyond the continental shelf - beyond the 200-mile border.

Prior to 1982, territorial water has been expanded uncontrolled many times to annex activities such as mining in deep water, sea drilling, fishing rights (see the Bokale War) and prevent pirate radio broadcasts from artificial marine facilities and anchored ships.

The coastal country has full control over its internal waters, less control over its territorial waters, less control than that of the “next region” and certain economic rights in the exclusive economic region and the continental shelf.

Often, an exclusive economic area ruled by a certain country is also sued by another country.

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In general, the country’s exclusive economic area extends up to 200 nautical miles (370 km) from the coastline. Such maximum distance occurs when the coastlines of the neighboring countries are more than 400 nautical miles (about 740 km) from each other. In other situations, the countries must determine the actual maritime border, when the default is to be the closest shore.

According to the establishment of the country’s exclusive economic zone, the remote boundary from the coast of its territorial waters reaches 200 nautical miles (370.4 km) from the coastline. The exclusive economic area is much wider than the territorial water, which ends 12 nautical miles (about 22 km) from the coastline (according to the rules set forth in the sea law). States also have rights on the seabed of the continental shelf up to 350 nautical miles (about 648 kilometers) from the coastline, an area beyond the exclusive economic zone, but such places are not considered part of the exclusive economic area. The legal definition of the terrestrial shelf is not the same as the geologic meaning of the term, because it also includes the rise to the mainland and the slope from it, as well as the entire seabed within the exclusive economic area (which is done, as in the case of Israel, to be much deeper than the continental shelf).

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The initial definition of the country’s sovereign territorial waters was 3 nautical miles or about 6km (as a range of artillery shots) across the coast. In the modern era, the sovereign territorial waters of the country were expanded to 12 nautical miles (about 22 km) from the coastline.

One of the first claims of exclusive jurisdiction beyond the traditional territorial waters was made by the United States in a statement by Harry Truman on September 28, 1945. However, Chile and Peru were the first to be prepared for marine areas of 200 nautical miles with the presidential declaration of the Continental shelf on June 23, 1947 (Al Mercuryo, Santiago de Chile, June 29, 1947) and the presidential order No. 781 on 1 August 1947 (Diario oficial El Peruano, Volume 107, 1983, November 11, 1947).

This topic is mostly done in Latin America as well as in Asia- Africa. Thus, in May 1949, 10 Arab states have unilaterally declared certain rights (especially oil) in “infected lands.” On 18 August 1952, Chile, Ecuador and Peru issued a statement condemning the 200 nautical emails. However, these proclamations did not gain greater support for the first conferences on the Sea Act in 1958 and 1960, and the issue gained momentum in the 1960s.

In 1970, when the General Assembly began preparations for the next nine American states from Latin America have already established similar powers on all other countries