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The ___MASK36___ , or meter ( American spelling ), ( from the Greek noun  , " measure ") is the ___MASK87___ unit of length in the International System of Units ( SI ). The SI unit symbol is m . The ___MASK36___ is defined as the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in seconds . In the ___MASK20___ of France , the First Republic , officially the French Republic , was founded on 21 September 1792 during the French Revolution . The First Republic lasted until the declaration of the First Empire in 1804 under Napoleon , although the form of the ___MASK5___ changed several times . This period was characterized by the fall of the monarchy , the establishment of the National Convention and the Reign of Terror , the Thermidorian Reaction and the founding of the Directory , and , finally , the creation of the Consulate and Napoleon ' s rise to power . Scandinavia is a historical and ___MASK27___ in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages . The decimal ___MASK52___ ( also called ___MASK87___ - ten and occasionally called denary ) has ten as its ___MASK87___ , which , in decimal , is written 10 , as is the ___MASK87___ in every positional ___MASK52___ . It is the numerical ___MASK87___ most widely used by modern civilizations . Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden ( Swedish : ), is a Scandinavian ___MASK8___ in Northern Europe . It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east , and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a ___MASK78___ - tunnel across the Öresund . At , Sweden is the third - largest ___MASK8___ in the European Union by area , with a total population of 10 . 0 million . Sweden consequently has a low population density of , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the ___MASK8___ . Approximately 85 % of the population lives in urban areas . A ___MASK95___ is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating them to each other . Systems of measurement have historically been important , regulated and defined for the purposes of science and commerce . Systems of measurement in modern use include the metric system , the imperial system , and United States customary units . The International ___MASK62___ of Units (; abbreviated as SI ) is the modern form of the metric ___MASK62___ , and is the most widely used ___MASK95___ . It comprises a coherent ___MASK62___ of units of measurement built on seven base units . The ___MASK62___ also establishes a set of twenty prefixes to the unit names and unit symbols that may be used when specifying multiples and fractions of the units . The gram ( alternative British English spelling : gramme ; SI unit ___MASK1___ : g ) ( Greek / Latin root " grámma ") is a metric ___MASK62___ unit of mass . Norway (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom of Norway , is a sovereign and unitary ___MASK12___ whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom . Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and Iceland ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . Northern Europe is the northern ___MASK100___ or region of Europe . Although no definitive borders or definition exists for the term , geographically , Northern Europe may be considered to consist approximately of all of Europe above the 52nd parallel north ; which includes ( from west to east ) most or all of : Iceland , the ___MASK71___ of Ireland , the Isle of Man , the United Kingdom , the Faroe Islands , the Netherlands , northern Germany , Denmark , Norway , Sweden , northern Poland , Finland , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania and northwest Russia . However , narrower definitions may also be used based on other ___MASK91___ factors , such as climate and ecology . Greenland , geographically a ___MASK100___ of North America , is politically a ___MASK100___ of the Kingdom of Denmark , and may be included depending on the definition . In Sweden , a common ___MASK62___ for weights and measures was introduced by law in 1665 . Before that , there were a number of local variants . The ___MASK62___ was slightly revised in 1735 . In 1855 , a decimal reform was instituted that defined a new Swedish inch as 1 / 10 foot . Up to the middle of the 19th century there was a law allowing for the imposition of the death penalty for falsifying weights or measures . Sweden adopted the metric ___MASK62___ in 1889 . Only the mil has been preserved , now measuring 10km , however . ___MASK23___ ( male ) or countess ( female ) is a ___MASK34___ in European countries for a noble of varying status , but historically deemed to convey an approximate rank intermediate between the highest and lowest titles of ___MASK84___ . The word " count " came into English from the French " comte ", itself from Latin " comes " in its accusative " comitem " meaning  companion , and later  companion of the emperor , delegate of the emperor . The adjective form of the word is "". The British and Irish equivalent is an earl ( whose ___MASK43___ is a " countess ", for lack of an English term ). Alternative names for the " count " rank in the ___MASK84___ structure are used in other countries , such as " Graf " in Germany and " Hakushaku " during the Japanese Imperial era . The ___MASK90___ ___MASK62___ is an internationally agreed decimal ___MASK95___ . It was originally based on the and the introduced by the French First Republic in 1799 , but over the years the definitions of the metre and the kilogram have been refined , and the ___MASK90___ ___MASK62___ has been extended to incorporate many more units . Although a number of variants of the ___MASK90___ ___MASK62___ emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , the term is now often used as a synonym for " SI " or the " International System of Units " the official ___MASK95___ in almost every country in the world . The ___MASK37___ is a unit of energy and work equal to 10 joules . It originated in the centimetre  gram  second ( CGS ) ___MASK62___ of units . It has the symbol " ___MASK37___ ". The ___MASK37___ is not an SI unit . Its name is derived from " ergon " (  ) a Greek word meaning " work " or " task ". Finland , officially the ___MASK71___ of Finland , is a sovereign state in Northern Europe . A peninsula with the Gulf of Finland 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 Russia to the east . Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of Finland . Finland is a Nordic country situated in the ___MASK91___ region of Fennoscandia , which also includes Scandinavia . 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 Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union . The European ___MASK4___ ( EU ) is a political and ___MASK86___ of ___MASK59___ states that are located primarily in Europe . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal ___MASK55___ market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all ___MASK59___ states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and home affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , agriculture , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU ___MASK59___ states which use the euro currency . The kilogram or kilogramme ( SI unit ___MASK1___ : kg ) is the ___MASK87___ unit of mass in the International System of Units ( SI ) ( the Metric system ) and is defined as being equal to the mass of the " International Prototype of the Kilogram " ( IPK , also known as " Le Grand K " or " Big K "). Denmark is a Scandinavian ___MASK8___ in Europe . The southernmost and smallest of the Nordic countries , it is south - west of Sweden and south of Norway , and bordered to the south by Germany . The Kingdom of Denmark is the ___MASK15___ that comprises Denmark proper and two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic ___MASK47___ : the Faroe Islands and Greenland . Denmark has a total area of , and a ___MASK70___ of 5 . 7 million . The ___MASK8___ consists of a peninsula , Jutland , and an archipelago of 443 named islands , with the largest being Zealand and Funen . The islands are characterised by flat , arable land and sandy coasts , low ___MASK85___ and a temperate climate .