The seas of the Azores represent more than half of the EU's exclusive economic zones.

Omissions

• The 'more than half of the EU's total EEZ' figure is documented for the EU's outermost regions collectively, not for the Azores alone; the Azores is only one (albeit a major) component of that group.
• The Azores' EEZ is about 1 million km², which accounts for more than half of Portugal's EEZ; Portugal's entire EEZ (1.7 million km²) is the third largest in the EU after France and Denmark.
• If the statement is read strictly as the Azores alone representing more than half of the EU's EEZ, it overstates the archipelago's share by roughly an order of magnitude.

Sources

• PrimaryGovernment of the Azores — official communication portalmore than half of Portugal's EEZ and is one of the largest in the European Union
• PrimaryEuropean Commission — 'Future of fishing in the Azores' (speech)Azores, even from afar. With the nearest mainland 1400 kilometres away and with an exclusive economic zone spanning almost a million square [kilometres]
• PrimaryEU Blue Economy Observatory — Portugal country profile (European Commission)It has the third largest Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the EU, spanning 1.7 million km2, after France (1st in the world) and Denmark (2nd in the EU).
• AcademicDebater Europa (Impactum, University of Coimbra) — 'The Atlantic outermost regions'In terms of the sea, the ORs represent more than half the exclusive economic [zone]
• SecondaryEuropean Parliament — 'Cohesion Policy in the outermost regions' (study)Economic Zones (EEZ) of the outermost regions account for more than half of the EU's total EEZ