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Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a sovereign state in Northern ___MASK83___ . A peninsula with the ___MASK85___ to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west , the country has land borders with Sweden to the northwest , Norway to the north , and ___MASK62___ to the east . Estonia is south of the country across the ___MASK85___ . Finland is a Nordic country situated in the geographical region of ___MASK43___ , which also includes ___MASK40___ . Finland ' s population is 5 . 5 million ( 2014 ), staying roughly on the same level over the past two decades . The majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region . In terms of area , it is the eighth largest country in ___MASK83___ and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union . Viimsi is a small borough in Harju County , northern ___MASK88___ . It ' s located about northeast of the centre of Tallinn , just north of Tallinn ' s subdistrict Merivälja . Viimsi is the administrative centre of Viimsi Parish . As of 2011 Census , the settlement ' s population was 2 , 341 . Lake Island is an island on the ___MASK5___ of the Canadian province of British Columbia . It is located between Mathieson Channel and Lady Trutch Passage , and is flanked by Dowager Island ( to the northwest ), Lady Douglas Island ( to the west ), and a long finger shaped peninsula of the Canadian mainland to the east . Ironically , Lake Island is not a lake island , as it is in an inlet of the Pacific Ocean , and lies only some 6 kilometres from the open sea . An island or isle is any piece of sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the ___MASK5___ may be called a holm . A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the Philippines . A continent is one of several very large landmasses on ___MASK19___ . Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria , up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents . Ordered from largest in size to smallest , they are : ___MASK70___ , Africa , North America , ___MASK91___ , Antarctica , Europe , and Australia . In geology , areas of continental crust include regions covered with water . Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland . It is in the region of Uusimaa , in southern Finland , on the shore of the ___MASK85___ . Helsinki has a population of , an urban population of 1 , 214 , 210 , and a metropolitan population of over 1 . 4 million , making it the most populous municipality and urban area in Finland . Helsinki is located some north of Tallinn , Estonia , east of Stockholm , Sweden , and west of Saint Petersburg , ___MASK62___ . Helsinki has close historical connections with these three cities . The Philippines , officially the Republic of the Philippines , is a sovereign island country in ___MASK58___ situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South ___MASK64___ Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . Tallinn ( or ) is the capital and largest city of ___MASK88___ . It is situated on the northern ___MASK5___ of the country , on the shore of the Gulf of Finland , south of Helsinki , east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg . From the 13th century until 1918 ( and briefly during the Nazi occupation of ___MASK88___ from 1941 to 1944 ), the city was known as Reval . Tallinn occupies an area of and has a population of 443 , 894 . Approximately 32 % of ___MASK88___ ' s total population lives in Tallinn . An archipelago , sometimes called an island group or island chain , is a chain , cluster or collection of islands . The word " archipelago " is derived from the Greek "  -  arkhi -" (" chief ") and "   pélagos " (" sea ") through the Italian " arcipelago ". In Italian , possibly following a tradition of antiquity , the Archipelago ( from medieval Greek "*  " and Latin " archipelagus ") was the proper name for the ___MASK36___ and , later , usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ). It is now used to refer to any island group or , sometimes , to a sea containing a small number of scattered islands . Stockholm ( or ) is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries ; 932 , 917 people live in the municipality , approximately 1 . 5 million in the urban area , and 2 . 3 million in the metropolitan area . The city is spread across 14 islands on the ___MASK5___ in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren , by the Stockholm archipelago and the ___MASK86___ . The area has been settled since the Stone Age , in the 6th millennium BC , and was founded as a city in 1252 by a Swedish statesman Birger Jarl . It is also the capital of Stockholm County . Aksi ( also known as Väike - Prangli ( Little Prangli ) or Äksi ) is an Estonian island in the ___MASK85___ with an area of 59 hectares . Coordinates are It forms an archipelago with nearby islands of Prangli and Keri . Aksi belongs to Idaotsa village in Viimsi Parish , Harju County . Water is a transparent and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of ___MASK19___ ' s streams , lakes , and oceans , and the fluids of most living organisms . Its chemical formula is HO , meaning that its molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms , that are connected by covalent bonds . Water strictly refers to the liquid state of that substance , that prevails at standard ambient temperature and pressure ; but it often refers also to its solid state ( ice ) or its gaseous state ( steam or water vapor ). It also occurs in nature as snow , glaciers , ice packs and icebergs , clouds , fog , dew , aquifers , and atmospheric humidity . Prangli is an Estonian island in the ___MASK85___ . Viimsi Parish is a rural municipality in northern ___MASK88___ , located north - east and neighbouring the capital Tallinn . It occupies an area of with a population of 16 , 901 which makes it the seventh largest municipality in ___MASK88___ and the most populous rural municipality ( parish ). The municipality contains the Viimsi Peninsula and several islands , including Naissaar , Prangli , and Aksi . Naissaar ( German : Nargen ; Swedish : Nargö ) is an island northwest of Tallinn ( but belonging to Viimsi Parish ) in ___MASK88___ . The island covers an area of 18 . 6 km² . It is 8 km long and 3 . 5 km wide , and lies about 8 . 5 km from the ___MASK10___ . The highest point on the island is Kunilamägi , which is 27 meters above sea - level . The island consists predominantly of coniferous forest and piles of stones and boulders . As of 2005 , the island had a population of ten . Now the island has three dozen or so permanent residents and some summer residents . Administratively the island is divided into three villages : Lõunaküla ( Storbyn ) , Tagaküla ( Bakbyn ) and Väikeheinamaa ( Lillängin ) . Until the Second World War , the island ' s population numbered about 450 people of Estonian - Swedish origin . However , these people fled during the war . Naissaar under Soviet rule was a military area and off - limits to the public . Although the fortifications on the island date back to Peter the Great ' s scheme to fortify Tallinn , the main fortifications are from the period of Russian rule before World War II . Today , the previous small houses of the Swedish villages are being restored bit - by - bit . Also being restored is a narrow gauge railway that runs from the north to the southern tip of the island . A notable native of the island was Bernhard Schmidt , the Swedish - Estonian optician who invented the Schmidt telescope in 1930 . Saint Petersburg is ___MASK62___ ' s second - largest city after Moscow , with five million inhabitants in 2012 , and an important Russian port on the ___MASK86___ . It is politically incorporated as a federal subject ( a federal city ). Situated on the Neva River , at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the ___MASK86___ , it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on May . In 1914 , the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd , in 1924 to Leningrad , and in 1991 back to Saint Petersburg . Between 1713  1728 and 1732  1918 , Saint Petersburg was the imperial capital of ___MASK62___ . In 1918 , the central government bodies moved to Moscow . A cay ( or ), also spelled caye or key , is a small , low - elevation , sandy island on the surface of a coral reef . Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific , Atlantic and Indian Oceans ( including in the ___MASK84___ and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef ). The ___MASK85___ is the easternmost arm of the ___MASK86___ . It extends between Finland ( to the north ) and Estonia ( to the south ) all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia , where the river Neva drains into it . Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn . The eastern parts of the ___MASK85___ belong to Russia , and some of Russia ' s most important oil harbours are located farthest in , near Saint Petersburg ( including Primorsk ). As the seaway to Saint Petersburg , the ___MASK85___ has been and continues to be of considerable strategic importance to Russia . Some of the environmental problems affecting the ___MASK86___ are at their most pronounced in the shallow gulf .