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A river is a natural flowing watercourse , usually freshwater , flowing towards an ocean , sea , lake or another river . In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water . Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream , creek , brook , rivulet , and rill . There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features , although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size . Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location ; examples are " run " in some parts of the ___MASK55___ , " burn " in Scotland and northeast ___MASK56___ , and " beck " in northern ___MASK56___ . Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek , but not always : the language is vague . The Yamal  Europe natural gas pipeline is a long pipeline connecting natural gas fields in Western Siberia and in the future on the Yamal peninsula , ___MASK31___ , with ___MASK9___ . ___MASK86___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK86___ , is a country in Central Europe , situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges ( the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains ) in the south . Bordered by ___MASK9___ to the west ; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south ; Ukraine and Belarus to the east ; and the Baltic Sea , Kaliningrad Oblast ( a Russian exclave ) and Lithuania to the north . The total area of ___MASK86___ is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe . With a population of over 38 . 5 million people , ___MASK86___ is the 34th most populous country in the world , the 8th most populous country in Europe and the sixth most populous member of the European Union . ___MASK86___ is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions , and its capital and largest city is Warsaw . Other metropolises include Kraków , Wrocaw , Pozna , Gdask and Szczecin . Lubusz Land is a historical region and cultural landscape in ___MASK86___ and ___MASK9___ on both sides of the Oder river . Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian : " Bramborska ") is one of the sixteen federated states of ___MASK9___ . It lies in the northeast of the country covering an area of 29 , 478 square kilometers and has 2 . 48 million inhabitants . The capital and largest city is Potsdam . Brandenburg surrounds but does not include the national capital and city - state Berlin forming a metropolitan area . Märkisch - Oderland is a " Landkreis " ( district ) in the eastern part of Brandenburg , ___MASK9___ . Neighboring are ( from the north clockwise ) the district Barnim , the country Poland , the district - free city Frankfurt ( Oder ), the district Oder - Spree and the " Bundesland " Berlin . The administrative seat is Seelow but the largest town is Strausberg . JAGAL ( Jamal - Gas - Anbindungsleitung ) is a German section of the Yamal - Europe pipeline . The pipeline is used for the Russian natural gas import and it is owned and operated by Gascade Gastransport GmbH . It runs from the Polish -- German border at Lebus near Frankfurt ( Oder ) to Rückersdorf . In Rückersdorf JAGAL is connected with STEGAL pipeline carrying gas further west . In Bernau JAGAL is connected with the Verbundnetz Gas AG - operated long - distance gas pipeline No . 302 . Construction of the JAGAL pipeline started in 1995 , when a double duct between Lebus and Górzyca in ___MASK86___ was laid under Oder and 11 - kilometre ( 6 . 8 mi ) long connection from Lebus to Mallnow compressor station was built . This section was completed in 1996 . The 97 - kilometre ( 60 mi ) second section of JAGAL from Mallnow to Baruth / Mark was completed in 1997 . 230 - kilometre ( 140 mi ) JAGAL II from Baruth to Rückersdorf was constructed in 1999 . The section from the border to Mallnow has a diameter of 1 , 400 millimetres ( 55 in ) while rest of the pipeline has a diameter of 1 , 400 millimetres ( 55 in ) . It has a capacity of 840 billion cubic feet ( 24 × 109 m3 ) of natural gas per year . Subice ( German " Dammvorstadt ") is a border town in the Lubusz Voivodeship of western ___MASK86___ . Located on the Oder river , directly opposite the city of Frankfurt ( Oder ) in ___MASK9___ , of which it was a part until 1945 ( as " Dammvorstadt "). At the 2011 census , the town had a total population of 18 , 000 ( urban agglomeration Subice - Frankfurt 85 , 000 ). Previously located in the Gorzów Wielkopolski Voivodeship ( 1975  1998 ), the town is currently the capital of Subice County and the administrative seat of the Gmina Subice . STEGAL (" Sachsen - Thüringen - Erdgas - Anbindungsleitung ") is a natural gas pipeline in ___MASK44___ and Thuringia , ___MASK9___ . It connects the Czech Transgas pipeline at Olbernhau and the JAGAL pipeline ( exporting gas from the Yamal  Europe pipeline ) at Rückersdorf with the MIDAL pipeline at Reckrod . The pipeline is used for the Russian gas import . The length of STEGAL is and the diameter of pipe is . It is operated by Wingas GmbH & Co . KG . The Oder  Neisse line is the international border between ___MASK9___ and Poland . It was drawn at the Potsdam Conference in the aftermath of the Second World War and is primarily delineated along the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers in Central Europe , meeting the Baltic Sea to the north , just west of the Polish seaports of Szczecin and winoujcie ( German : " Stettin " and " Swinemünde "). All prewar German territory east of the line and within the 1937 German boundaries ( 23 . 8 % of the former Weimar Republic ) were placed under International Law Administrative status , with most of it being made part of newly - Communist Poland . The small remainder , consisting of the territory surrounding the German city of Königsberg ( now renamed Kaliningrad , in honour of Soviet head of state Mikhail Kalinin ) in northern East Prussia , was allocated to the Soviet Union ( as Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian SFSR , today the Russian Federation ) after the war ( pending the final World War II peace treaty for ___MASK9___ ). The vast majority of the native German population in these territories fled , or was killed or expelled by force . The Oder  Neisse line marked the border between the German Democratic Republic ( East ___MASK9___ ) and Poland from 1950 to 1990 . East ___MASK9___ confirmed the border with Poland in 1950 , while West ___MASK9___ , after a period of refusal , finally accepted the border ( with reservations ) in 1970 . In 1990 the newly reunified ___MASK9___ and the Republic of Poland signed a treaty recognizing it as their border . The wina ( Pomeranian : " Swina ") is a river in ___MASK86___ flowing from the Oder Lagoon to the Baltic Sea , between the islands of Uznam and Wolin . It is a part of the Oder River estuary , and carries about 75 % of that river ' s waterflow ( of the remainder , Peenestrom carries 15 % and Dziwna 10 %). It has a length of about 16 km . winoujcie is a major town on the river . The ___MASK35___ dammed and deepened the river from 1874 - 1880 to create the " Kaiserfahrt " ( Piast canal ). It connects the northern part of the wina directly with the Szczecin Lagoon and the Pomeranian harbor of Szczecin ( Stettin ). The river thus gained importance as a direct waterway to the industrial city . The territory along the river ' s path was transferred from ___MASK9___ to ___MASK86___ following World War II . ___MASK9___ , officially the Federal Republic of ___MASK9___ , is a federal parliamentary republic in central - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , ___MASK9___ is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . ___MASK9___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . MIDAL (" Mitte - Deutschland - Anbindungsleitung ") is a long German natural gas pipeline , which connects the North Sea with southern ___MASK9___ . It runs from Bunde , where it is connected with Netherlands gas system , and Emdel receiving terminal , to Ludwigshafen . The pipeline has a capacity of 12 . 8 billion cubic mters of natural gas per year . It was constructed in 1992 - 1993 , and it is owned and operated by Wingas GmbH & Co . KG . The Free State of Thuringia is a federal state in central ___MASK9___ . It has an area of and 2 . 29 million inhabitants , making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of ___MASK9___ ' s sixteen states . Most of Thuringia is within the watershed of the Saale , a left tributary of the Elbe . The capital is . Lebus is a town in the southeast of the Märkisch - Oderland District in Brandenburg , ___MASK9___ . It had a population of 3 , 144 as of 2013 . It was the center of the historical region known as Lubusz Land . Frankfurt ( Oder ) ( also " Frankfurt an der Oder ", abbreviated "") is a town in Brandenburg , ___MASK9___ , located on the Oder River , on the German - Polish border directly opposite the town of Subice , which was part of Frankfurt until 1945 . At the end of the 1980s , it reached a population peak with more than 87 , 000 inhabitants . The number dropped below 70 , 000 in 2002 and was just above 60 , 000 in 2010 . Szczecin Lagoon , Stettin Lagoon , Bay of Szczecin , or Stettin Bay , also Oder lagoon , is a lagoon in the Oder estuary , shared by ___MASK9___ and Poland . It is separated from the Pomeranian Bay of the Baltic Sea by the islands of Usedom and Wolin . The lagoon is subdivided into the " Kleines Haff " (" small lagoon ") in the West and the " Wielki Zalew " (" great lagoon ") in the East . An ambiguous historical German name was " Frisches Haff ", which later exclusively referred to the Vistula Lagoon . Olbernhau is a town in the district Erzgebirgskreis , in the Free State of ___MASK44___ , ___MASK9___ . It is situated in the Ore Mountains , 35 km southeast of Chemnitz , and 23 km north of Chomutov , Czech Republic . A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city . The size definition for what constitutes a " town " varies considerably in different parts of the ___MASK38___ . ___MASK31___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK31___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European ___MASK31___ . ___MASK31___ ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Szczecin ( German and , known also by other alternative names ) is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in ___MASK86___ . Located near the Baltic Sea , it is a major seaport and ___MASK86___ ' s seventh - largest city . As of June 2011 , the population was 407 , 811 . The Dziwna is a channel of the Oder River in northeastern ___MASK86___ , one of three straits connecting the Oder Lagoon with the Bay of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea . It separates the island of Wolin from the rest of the Polish mainland . The other two channels are the wina and the Peene . The Free State of ___MASK44___ is a landlocked federal state of ___MASK9___ , bordering the federal states of Brandenburg , ___MASK44___ Anhalt , Thuringia , and Bavaria , as well as the countries of Poland ( Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships ) and the Czech Republic ( Karlovy Vary , Liberec and Ústí nad Labem Regions ). Its capital is Dresden , and its largest city is Leipzig . The Baltic Sea ( ; ) is a sea of the ___MASK98___ , enclosed by Scandinavia , Finland , the Baltic countries , and the North European Plain . It includes the Gulf of Bothnia , the Bay of Bothnia , the Gulf of Finland , the Gulf of Riga , and the Bay of Gdask . The sea stretches from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 10 ° E to 30 ° E longitude . A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic , with limited water exchange between the two bodies , the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of Øresund , the Great Belt , and the Little Belt . The Peene is a river in ___MASK9___ . The Westpeene , with Ostpeene as its longer tributary , and Kleine Peene / Teterower Peene ( with a " Peene " without specification as its smaller and shorter affluent ) flow into Kummerower See ( Lake Kummerow ), and from there as Peene proper to Anklam and into the Oder Lagoon . The Oder ( Czech , Lower Sorbian and , Upper Sorbian : " Wódra ") is a river in Central Europe . It rises in the ___MASK14___ and flows ( generally north - and northwest - ward ) through western Poland , later forming of the border between Poland and ___MASK9___ , part of the Oder  Neisse line . The river ultimately flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Szczecin and then into three branches ( the Dziwna , wina and Peene ) that empty into the Gulf of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea .