Limits Established by the UNCLS national ESPAÇO AÉREO airspace NACIONAL international airspace ESPAÇO AÉREO INTERNACIONAL pre-salt PRÉ-SAL LINHA DE BASE baseline CHAPTER 2 — THE 21st CENTURY STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT ALTO-MAR High seas MAR TERRITORIAL Territorial waters (MT) (12MN) (MT) (12 NM) ZONA CONTÍGUA contiguous zone (ZC) (Zc)(12MN) (12 NM) EXTENSÃO PLEITEADA claimed area (150 MN) (150 NM) ZONA ECONÔMICA EXCLUSIVA exclusive economic zone (ZEE) (188MN) (ZEE) (188 NM) ÁGUAS JURISDICIONAIS jurisdictional waters (200 MN) (200 NM) Continental shelf limits (1 NM = 1.85 km) The Brazilian ZEE, which has an external limit of 200 nautical miles, has an ocean area close to 3.54 million km2. The referred area combined with the continental platform (PC), of around 960 thousand km2, located beyond the 200 nautical miles and claimed by Brazil in the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf totals around 4.5 million km2. This extensive ocean area makes up the so-called “Blue Amazon”, which is contiguous to the continent and corresponds to approximately 52% of the Brazilian continental area. 46 DEFENSE WHITE PAPER