Question

What is the importance of territorial water?

Please answer this question soon..

Answer 1

A state's territorial sea extends up to 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from its baseline. ... Conflicts have occurred whenever a coastal nation claims an entire gulf as its territorial waters while other nations only recognize the more restrictive definitions of the UN convention.

Answer 2

The term territorial waters is sometimes used informally to refer to any area of water over which a state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea (see below), the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone and potentially the continental shelf. In a narrower sense, the term is used as a synonym for the territorial sea.