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America quietly grew 400,000 square miles last month - nearly twice the size of SPAIN
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The US Department of State (DOS) added six regions' submerged offshore areas, or extended continental shelf (ECS), to the total landmass, allowing the country to claim more surrounding ocean-floor territory.The seven regions included the Arctic, the Atlantic (east coast), the Bering Sea, the Pacific (west coast), the Mariana Islands, and two areas in the Gulf of Mexico. DOS said the US shifted geographic coordinates defining the outer limits of the continental shelf in areas beyond 200 nautical miles from the coast. The largest area of America's ECS is in the Arctic, while all ECS regions span about twice the size of California. Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-13 |
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