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why didnt countries annex the sea?
why didnt they just annex the sea to be bigger?
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- .Lv 72 years ago
Maritime borders are established by treaty and custom. If a county wants to claim an entire ocean, those claims would probably require military force. Most countries don't want to go to war about that.
- Anonymous2 years ago
Some countries are building islands or peninsulas into the sea to increase their land mass as well as increase their territorial water.
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