Nautical Miles
Territorial Sea	12
Contiguous Zone	24
Exclusive Economic Zone	200

Historic Waters	Square Kilometers	21,500
Continental Shelf	Square Kilometers	30,000
EEZ	Square Kilometers	517,000
(The EEZ is 8 times the land extent of the country)

Extended Seabed Area beyond the EEZ

Square Kilometers

1,000,000

Under the UN Law of Sea Conventions , Sri Lanka can claim an additional seabed area that has a sediment layer of 1 km in thickness and contiguous to the EEZ. This claim has to be submitted before 2008