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Does Indian Ocean belong to India?

Why not Pacific Ocean belongs to US/ Canada then ?
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badminton · 61-69, MVIP Best Comment
According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), international maritime borders generally extend up to 200 nautical miles from a country's coastline, defining an area known as the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), where a coastal nation has sovereign rights over resources like fish and minerals. The first 12 nautical miles from the coastline is where a nation has full sovereignty.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@badminton Interesting.