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UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION 

ON THE LAW OF THE SEA

PART IV

ARCHIPELAGIC STATES

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Article 46

USE OF TERMS

For the purposes of this Convention:

(a) "archipelagic State" means a State constituted wholly by one or more archipelagos and may include other islands;

(b) "archipelago" means a group of islands, including parts of islands, interconnecting waters and other natural features which are so closely interrelated that such islands, waters and other natural features form an intrinsic geographical, economic and political entity, or which historically have been regarded as such.

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