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Korea is a historical state in East Asia , since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states : North Korea ( officially the " Democratic People ' s Republic of Korea ") and South Korea ( officially the " Republic of Korea "). Located on the ___MASK1___ Peninsula , Korea is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast . It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the East Sea . ___MASK64___ (', ', ""; Modern French ) was the Gallo - Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the 14th century . In the 14th century , these dialects came to be collectively known as the " langues d ' oïl ", contrasting with the " langue d ' oc " or Occitan language in the south of France . The mid - 14th century is taken as the transitional period to Middle French , the language of the French Renaissance , specifically based on the dialect of the Île - de - France region . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the ___MASK73___ Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Emperor Ninken (  Ninken - tenn ) , also known as Ninken - okimi , was the 24th emperor of Japan , according to the traditional order of succession . No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor ' s life or reign , but he is conventionally considered to have reigned from 488 -- 498 . An emperor ( through ___MASK64___ " empereor " from ) is a monarch , usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm . Empress , the female equivalent , may indicate an emperor ' s wife (" empress consort "), mother (" empress dowager "), or a woman who rules in her own right (" empress regnant "). Emperors are generally recognized to be of a higher honour and rank than kings . In Europe the title of Emperor was , since the Middle Ages , considered equal or almost equal in dignity to that of Pope , due to the latter ' s position as visible head of the Church and spiritual leader of Western Europe . The Emperor of Japan is the only currently reigning monarch whose title is translated into ___MASK21___ as " Emperor ". The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean , lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east , the Kuril Islands on the southeast , the island of Hokkaido to the south , the island of Sakhalin along the west , and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast ( the Shantar Sea ) along the west and north . The northeast corner is the Shelikhov Gulf . The sea is named after Okhotsk , the first ___MASK79___ settlement in the Far East . Empress dowager ( also dowager empress or empress mother ) is the ___MASK21___ language translation of the title given to the mother of a Chinese , ___MASK44___ , Korean or Vietnamese emperor . Honour ( also honor in American ___MASK21___ , see spelling differences ) is an abstract concept entailing a perceived quality of worthiness and respectability that affects both the social standing and the self - evaluation of an individual or corporate body such as a family , school , regiment or nation . Accordingly , individuals ( or corporate bodies ) are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions with a specific code of honour , and the moral code of the society at large . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the ___MASK79___ Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia 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 Russia . Russia ' 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 . An empire is defined as " an aggregate of nations or people ruled over by an emperor or other powerful sovereign or government , usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom , as the former British Empire , ___MASK6___ Empire , Brazilian Empire , ___MASK79___ Empire , Ottoman Empire , Byzantine Empire or Roman Empire ." An empire can be made solely of contiguous territories such as the Austro - Hungarian Empire , or of territories far remote from the homeland , such as a colonial empire . Japan (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of Japan ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest .