Mapping: National Territory of the Philippines
INTERNATIONAL TREATY
LIMITS
It pertains to the line that
shows a territorial
domain by the country,
which the country has a
control of. This has been
determined in the 1898
Treaty of Paris where the
Philippines was passed
from Spain to USA
These waters, according to
history was already claimed
by a Filipino explorer, Tomas
Cloma in year 1956. These
continues the Philippine
Archipelago and also form
as part of the Philippine
territory in Treaty of Paris in
1898.
These are the waters that
connects the 7,640 islands
of the Philippine
archipelago, which are also
the water that surrounds
the frame of the country.
INTERNAL WATERS
These are the waters that measures
around 12 nautical miles which are
adjacent to the shore of the
Philippine territory, which the
country has a total ownership and
the natural resources are subject to the
regulations of the Philippine
Government
TERRITORIAL WATERS
These are the waters measure at
200 nautical miles adjacent to
Territorial waters of the
Philippines, wherein the country
has only sovereign rights, or the
country did not entirely own the
EEZ, yet allows to control al
KALAYAAN GROUP OF Exclusive Economic Zone economic resources.
ISLANDS
Mapping: National Territory of the Philippines