page_title: Sealand
section_title: Selling Sealand
hierarchical_section_title: Sealand / Selling Sealand
context_page_description: Sealand is a self-claimed country in the North Sea approximately 12 km from the coast of Suffolk. Sealand is a structure called Roughs Tower it was built in the sea by the British Royal Navy, and later became Sealand. It is very small. There is only room for 300 people on it. Even though a man named Michael Bates says Sealand is a country, no other country has supported this claim.
context_section_description: At the beginning of 2007, the Bates put an ad in the newspaper. They would like to sell Sealand for 65 million pounds.
  National motto: E mare libertas
  (Latin: From the sea, freedom)
caption: A location map with Sealand being marked
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