Does france or england own the english channel?

Question

Does france or england own the english channel?

Answer 1

Technically, it is owned by neither country.

Answer 2

Neither - it's an international body of water.

Answer 3

neither, at least half of it is international  

Answer 4

IT's a shared waterway (the busiest in the world) but not 50/50.Britain's owns more than half,due to the channel islands.It has only recently been recognised as being called The English Channel.In Europe is has been called by other names but not now.It's called that because the English speaking world is the dominant cultural force in the world and so everyone followed suit.Good question though

Answer 5

Clue's in the title

Answer 6

Not any more, all waterways will belong to the EU once everything is ratified.  Countries usually have a three mile limit around their coast.

Answer 7

There are two sides to the English Channel, a French side, and an English side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Cha...

English side

The walled city of Saint-Malo was a former stronghold of corsairs

The walled city of Saint-Malo was a former stronghold of corsairs

The Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth at night, showing the Tower's uplighting.

The Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth at night, showing the Tower's uplighting.

    * Brighton–Worthing–Littlehampton: 461,181 inhabitants

    * Portsmouth: 442,252

    * Bournemouth & Poole: 383,713

    * Southampton: 304,400

    * Plymouth: 243,795

    * Torbay (Torquay): 129,702

    * Hastings–Bexhill: 126,386

    * Eastbourne: 106,562

    * Bognor Regis: 62,141

    * Folkestone–Hythe: 60,039

    * Weymouth: 56,043

    * Dover: 39,078

    * Exmouth: 32,972

    * Falmouth–Penryn: 28,801

    * Ryde: 22,806

    * Seaford: 21,851

    * Penzance: 20,255

[edit] French side

    * Le Havre: 248,547 inhabitants

    * Calais: 104,852

    * Boulogne-sur-Mer: 92,704

    * Cherbourg: 89,704

    * Saint-Brieuc: 85,849

    * Saint-Malo: 50,675

    * Lannion–Perros-Guirec: 48,990

    * Dieppe: 42,202

    * Morlaix: 35,996

    * Dinard: 25,006

    * Étaples–Le Touquet-Paris-Plage: 23,994

    * Fécamp: 22,717

    * Eu–Le Tréport: 22,019

    * Trouville-sur-Mer–Deauville: 20,406

    * Berck: 20,113

[edit] Channel Islands

    * Saint Helier: 28,310 inhabitants

    * Saint Peter Port: 16,488 inhabitants

Answer 8

....well, its called the ENGLISH Channel....

Doofus..........

Answer 9

Neither of them "own" it.

Answer 10

We do, the French refer to it as the sea but it is the English channel.

Answer 11

hahaha

you're are so funny

tu sont tres drole

NOT!!

Answer 12

the english and french had a battle over it but the french ran away so we called it the english channel and not being able to cope with the shame those cheese eating surrender monkeys call it the sea