Assertion: nautical mile | /r/HasProperty | 22 km
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text: Other nations extended their territorial seas to 12 nautical miles (22 km).
text: Territorial waters Out to 12 nautical miles (22 kilometres;
text: Territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state.
text: This will typically be 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) wide, but could be more (if a state has chosen to claim a territorial sea of less than 12 nautical miles), or less, if it would otherwise overlap another state's contiguous zone.
text: The United Kingdom extended its territorial waters from three to twelve nautical miles (22 km) in 1987.
text: Contiguous zone Beyond the 12-nautical-mile (22 km) limit, there is a further 12 nautical miles (22 km) from the territorial sea baseline limit, the contiguous zone, in which a state can continue to enforce laws in four specific areas: customs, taxation, immigration, and pollution; if the infringement started within the state's territory or territorial waters, or if this infringement is about to occur within the state's territory or territorial waters.
text: Commonly these maritime territories extend 12 nautical miles (22 km) from a coastline, and this was eventually established as the international norm by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.