Baseline (sea)

This article is about the nautical concept of baselines. For other uses, see Baseline (disambiguation).

A baseline, as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is the line along the coast from which the outer limits of a state's territorial sea and certain other maritime zones of jurisdiction are measured, such as a state's exclusive economic zone.

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