United States Exclusive Economic Zone

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/United_States_Exclusive_Economic_Zone

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	Exclusive Economic Zone
gptkbp:adjacentTo	gptkb:Bahamas gptkb:British_Virgin_Islands gptkb:Canada gptkb:Cuba gptkb:Dominican_Republic gptkb:Haiti gptkb:Japan gptkb:Kiribati gptkb:Marshall_Islands gptkb:Mexico gptkb:Micronesia gptkb:Palau gptkb:Russia gptkb:Samoa gptkb:Tonga gptkb:Turks_and_Caicos_Islands gptkb:Venezuela Cook Islands Niue France (via French territories)
gptkbp:area	11,351,000 square kilometers
gptkbp:contains	gptkb:fish coral reefs oil and gas reserves mineral resources marine protected areas deep-sea ecosystems
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:establishedBy	gptkb:Presidential_Proclamation_5030
gptkbp:establishedIn	March 10, 1983
gptkbp:extendsDistance	200 nautical miles
gptkbp:extendsTo	U.S. coastline
gptkbp:governedBy	gptkb:National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration gptkb:U.S._Department_of_Commerce
gptkbp:hasResource	exploration and use of marine resources
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	United States Exclusive Economic Zone
gptkbp:includes	gptkb:Arctic_Ocean gptkb:Atlantic_Ocean gptkb:Bering_Sea gptkb:Caribbean_Sea gptkb:Gulf_of_Mexico gptkb:Pacific_Ocean waters around U.S. Pacific island territories
gptkbp:legalBasis	gptkb:United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
gptkbp:rank	largest exclusive economic zone in the world
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:U.S._territorial_waters gptkb:U.S._contiguous_zone gptkb:U.S._internal_waters
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:continental_shelf_of_North_America gptkb:NOAA_Office_of_Law_Enforcement gptkb:National_Marine_Fisheries_Service gptkb:United_States_(Bering_Sea)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6