Map Showing Monaco’s Territorial Waters

Map created by Sovereign LimitsThe map above shows Monaco’s Territorial Waters with France as agreed in the Convention on maritime delimitation (with map). Signed atParis on 16 February 1984.

Here’s what Sovereign Limits has to say about them:

The boundary follows a series of loxodromes and an equidistance segment to create an enclosed corridor that extends in a southerly direction from Monaco’s coast into the central Mediterranean Sea.

The corridor is two nautical miles wide and extends seaward for 100 nautical miles from Monaco’s coast.

The two States agreed to establish this narrow corridor to provide Monaco with more equitable maritime space given its diminutive coastal front, which would otherwise have been quickly cut off by equidistance lines controlled on both sides by France’s mainland coast.

Monaco’s land territory

• Size of Monaco proper (land area): about 2.084km2 (0.805 sq mi) (as of 2024, after land reclamation).
• Borders France on three sides, Mediterranean Sea to the south.

Monaco’s territorial waters

• In 1984, Monaco and France signed a treaty delimiting Monaco’s territorial waters.
• The treaty, effective in 1985, granted Monaco a territorial sea of about 12 nautical miles (19 km) with width of 2 miles (3.2 km), though in practice it is highly constrained by French waters to the east and west.
• When looking at the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Monaco has an area of 290 km2 or 139 times bigger than the country itself.

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