Can you name the countries the United Kingdom borders...by sea? by Jam1

Can you name the countries the United Kingdom borders...by sea?

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A country owns the seas 200 nautical miles from its shore. If you went 200 miles from the UK's shore, it would border other countries' 200 miles of sea. Can you name these countries?
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Countries the UK borders Quiz

by Jam1

Created Feb 21, 2010 in Geography
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	iceman1731:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 15:56 GMT		-3 points
	Actually a country only owns 10 miles off shore

	Jam1:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 16:11 GMT		5 points
	Well, all the sources I've checked say 200 nautical miles. If you can find a reliable source that says 10 miles, then post the link.

	Hamburger:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 21:28 GMT		-3 points
	regardless, your quiz is faulted by the fact that several territories of the UK are not included. Just for example, Gibraltar should mean that Spain and Morocco are included in your quiz.......

	Jam1:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 21:40 GMT		7 points
	Well, on most sporcle quizzes, territories are not included. However, I did think about including them as bonuses, since the UK uses and fishes in their waters. If you think I should, vote this comment up, and if you think I shouldn't, vote this comment down.

	Secret_Asian_Man:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 22:46 GMT		1 point
	@Jam1: A nation has territorial rights for twelve miles off of its shores. The 200 miles you used refer to the exclusive economic zone, which grant economic and exploratory rights only and are not considered part of the sovereign territory of the state.

	Secret_Asian_Man:	Feb 21st, 2010 at 22:47 GMT		2 points
	And so if you're going to use EEZ as the definition for your "sea borders," then you must include territories as those are included in EEZ (which is why France has the second largest EEZ in the world behind only the United States).

	Jam1:	Feb 22nd, 2010 at 08:12 GMT		0 points
	OK, I've added them as bonuses.

	awesomeguy2204:	Apr 17th, 2010 at 06:41 GMT		-2 points
	Countries only have rights to a much smaller area of sea and the reason is that as many points (e.g Spain and Morocco) have extremly narrow gaps between them. From spain to mainland Africa there is a gap of a meer 7.7 miles much less than the 200 miles you have suggested.

	Chipmunkdavis:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 14:51 GMT		-3 points
	Iceland may be a tad far, same with norway

	Jam1:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 20:38 GMT		3 points
	@awesomeguy: If the gap between countries is less than 400 miles then they split it in half, 3.85 miles each for Spain and Morocco. The EEZ of countries is definitly 200 miles.

	Toby404:	Jul 17th, 2010 at 17:11 GMT		1 point
	so if you drew straight lines from the uk what would you hit...

	Jam1:	Aug 9th, 2010 at 09:37 GMT		1 point
	@Toby: These countries, of course!

	satyadasa:	Jan 5th, 2011 at 03:22 GMT		3 points
	Check out my games on EEZ of France and the USA. I didn't see you'd done this one before I made these.

	Cheeselord:	Dec 4th, 2011 at 11:02 GMT		1 point
	@chipmunkdavis: Norway counts because of the Shetland islands-closer to norway than they are to Scotland. however, I thought that the distance between the Shetlands and Iceland would still be greater than the distance between Lowestoft and Sweden.

	longboard:	Aug 6th, 2012 at 06:09 GMT		1 point
	you really need to allow a bit more time

	rierie81:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 20:48 GMT		1 point
	Totally forgot Ireland, feel like a right wally!