Exclusive economic zone of France

France has, due to its Overseas departments and regions that are scattered in all the oceans of Earth, the second largest exclusive economic zone of the world, after the exclusive economic zone of the United States. Depending on the calculation method, the total EEZ of France is 10,2 millions km².[1] When territorial claims unchallenged by any other State are taken into account, its size grows to 11,691,000 km2 (4,514,000 sq mi).[2]

It covers approximately 9% of the surface of all the EEZs of the world, while the French Republic is only 0.45% of the world's land surface.

Geography
Metropolitan France and the overseas départements "départements d'outre-mer" make up the whole of France "France entière". "France entière" plus Saint-Martin are part of the EU. Continental France is in green and italics.

Monaco's waters are enclaves in the French EEZ.[3] The situation is more unclear for the Channel Islands. Some maps show the EEZ being enclaved by the French EEZ,[3] while others show the Guernsey EEZ extending to the border with the UK EEZ.[4][5][6][7]

Outside of mainland France and overseas departments or communities (Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion and Saint Martin), none of the territories below, and therefore their EEZ, is part of the European Union.

EEZ of mainland France, overseas departments and overseas communities[1]
EEZArea of the EEZ (km2)Representation
France métropolitaine 334,604
The EEZ of France.
Guyane 133,949
Guadeloupe 95,978
Martinique 47,640
La Réunion 315,058
Polynésie française 4,771,088
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon 12,334
Mayotte 63,078
Wallis-et-Futuna 258,269
Saint Martin 1,066
Saint Barthélemy 4,295
Nouvelle-Calédonie 1,422,596
Île de Clipperton 431,263
Îles Crozet 574,558
Îles Kerguelen 567,732
Île Saint-Paul and Île Amsterdam 509,015
Îles Éparses (without Tromelin Island) 352,117
Tromelin Island 270,455
Total 11,691,000 km2 (4,514,000 sq mi)

Disputes

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References
  1. Bouron, Jean-Benoît (March 2017). "Mesurer les Zones Économiques Exclusives". Géoconfluences (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-12.
  2. Antoinette, Jean-Étienne; Guerriau, Joël; Tuheiava, Richard (2014). Zones économiques exclusives (ZEE) ultramarines : le moment de vérité, (in French). French Senate. p. 132.
  3. European French EEZ website miscellanees01.files.wordpress.com
  4. "fisheries - House of Lords European Union Committee". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  5. Flanders Marine Institute (2019), Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM), version 11. at http://www.marineregions.org/ & https://doi.org/10.14284/386
  6. mpatlas.org https://mpatlas.org/countries/GGY/map. Retrieved 2021-05-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "United Kingdom commercial sea fisheries landings by Exclusive Economic Zone of capture 2012-2019" (PDF). UK Government Marine Management Organisation. 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "Treaty of Paris". 1814. Art. VIII. «His Britannic majesty stipulating for himself and his allies, engages to restore to his most Christian majesty, within the term which shall be hereafter fixed, the colonies, fisheries, factories, and establishments of every kind, which were possessed by France on the 1 January 1792, in the seas and on the continents of America, Africa, and Asia, with the exception however of the islands of Tobago and St. Lucie, and of the Isle of France and its dependencies, especially Rodrigues and Les Sechelles, which several colonies and possessions his most Christian majesty cedes in full right and sovereignty to his Britannic majesty, and also the portion of St. Domingo ceded to France by the treaty of Basle, and which his most Christian majesty restores in full right and sovereignty to his Catholic majesty»
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