******Suggested citation for this dataset***** UNEP-WCMC (2015). Dataset combining Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ; VLIZ 2014) and terrestrial country boundaries (World Vector Shoreline, 3rd edition, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency). Cambridge (UK): UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. *****Background***** The EEZv8_WVS_DIS_V3_base_layer is a base layer including global Land, EEZ and ABNJ areas with ISO3 country codes and their corresponding region under GEO/UNEP and IPBES classification. Created by Yara Shennan-Farpon and Diego Juffe-Bignoli at UNEP-WCMC, May 2015. The column entitled 'Comments' contains information on the decisions made by Authors about disputed territories or territories with more than one ISO3 country code assigned, as well as decisions regarding allocation of countries and territories that are not included on any of the regiones mentioned above. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan were added as GEO&UNEP region Europe after recent change in UNEP's regionalisations. The EEZv8_WVS_DIS original layer used was created as per the documentation saved in this folder; _Processing_wvs_to_fit_with_EEZ_V8_FINAL.doc (created by Symon Blyth at UNEP-WCMC, 2015)