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Water is a transparent and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of ___MASK67___ ' 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 . The Philippines , officially the Republic of the Philippines , is a sovereign island country in ___MASK15___ 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 ___MASK42___ 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 . Meganisi ( Greek :  , literally `` big island '' ) is a Greek island and municipality immediately to the east - southeast of the island of Lefkada . The municipality includes the offshore islands of Skorpios ( pop . 2 persons ) and Sparti . Its total population was 1 , 041 at the 2011 census . The island has three villages : the central village of Katomeri ( pop . 492 ) and the ports of Vathy ( 145 ) and Spartochori ( 453 inhabitants ) . There is also a harbour at Atheni Bay used mainly by fishing boats . Meganisi is connected with Lefkada by a car ferry service from Vathy and Spartochori . Meganisi has a school , a lyceum ( middle school ) , an ATM , churches and a few squares ( plateies ) . The island has no secondary school , so pupils attend the nearby school in Nydri , on Lefkada . Some researchers , including Wilhelm Dörpfeld estimate that Meganisi was the Homeric island of Krocylea , which was part of Odysseus ' kingdom . Lake Island is an island on the ___MASK9___ 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 . ___MASK2___ (' ), officially the Hellenic Republic ( Greek : ' ), historically also known as Hellas ("" ), is a country in southeastern Europe . ___MASK2___ ' s population is approximately 10 . 955 million as of 2015 . ___MASK37___ is the nation ' s capital and largest city , followed by Thessaloniki . Aktion National ___MASK98___ is an ___MASK98___ serving Preveza and Lefkada in Greece . It is also known as Lefkada ___MASK98___ . The ___MASK98___ is also used by NATO and Hellenic Air Force Command . The ___MASK98___ commenced operations in 1968 . The ___MASK11___ (, , ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea , south of the Adriatic Sea . It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria , Sicily , and the Salento peninsula to the west , southern Albania to the north , and the west coast of Greece . 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 ___MASK14___ 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 . 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 ___MASK60___ and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef ). Ancient Greek includes the forms of Greek used in ancient ___MASK2___ and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD . It is often roughly divided into the Archaic period ( 9th to 6th centuries BC ), Classical period ( 5th and 4th centuries BC ), and Hellenistic period ( 3rd century BC to the 6th century AD ). It is antedated in the second millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek . Lefkada , or Leucas or Leucadia or Lefkas or Leukas (; Ancient Greek and Katharevousa :  ), is a Greek island in the ___MASK11___ on the west coast of Greece , connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge . The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Lefkada . It is situated on the northern part of the island , approximately 1 hour by automobile away from Aktion National Airport . The island is part of the regional unit of Lefkada . Katharevousa (, literally " purifying [ language ]"), is a form of the Modern Greek language conceived in the early 19th century as a compromise between Ancient Greek and the Demotic Greek of the time . Originally , it was widely used both for literary and official purposes , though seldom in daily language . In the 20th century , it was increasingly adopted for official and formal purposes , until Demotic Greek became the official language of ___MASK2___ in 1976 and Andreas Papandreou abolished the polytonic system of writing both Demotic and Katharevousa in 1982 . 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 ___MASK9___ 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 ___MASK67___ . 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 : ___MASK95___ , Africa , North America , ___MASK72___ , Antarctica , Europe , and Australia . In geology , areas of continental crust include regions covered with water . Skorpios or Scorpios is a private island in the ___MASK11___ off the western coast of Greece and just to the east of the island of Lefkada . The 2011 census reported a population of five inhabitants . Administratively it is part of the municipality of Meganisi in Lefkada regional unit .