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Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Contiguous Zones (24NM), version 3
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (2019). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Contiguous Zones (24NM), version 3. Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/384
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Description
Contiguous Zones from the VLIZ Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase. The Contiguous Zone is a band of water extending from the outer edge of the territorial sea to up to 24 nautical miles (44.4 km; 27.6 mi) from the baseline. more

In the Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, Marine Regions makes available most of the maritime areas defined in the Law of the Sea Convention: Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), Territorial Seas (TS), Contiguous Zones (CZ), Internal Waters (IW) and Archipelagic Waters (AW).

Scope
Themes:
Boundaries
Keywords:
Contiguous zones, Exclusive economic zones, Law of the sea, World Oceans

Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata ownerdata creatordata manager
Lonneville, Britt
Fernández Bejarano, Salvador Jesús
Oset Garcia, Paula
Schepers, Lennert
Tyberghein, Lennert

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase, version 11
Previous version:
(archived) Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Contiguous Zones (24NM)
Following version:
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Contiguous Zones (24NM), version 4

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: GIS maps
Metadatarecord created: 2019-09-30
Information last updated: 2023-10-12
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