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The Ythan is a river in the ___MASK6___ - east of ___MASK38___ rising at Wells of Ythan near the village of Ythanwells and flowing south - eastwards through the towns of Fyvie , ___MASK34___ and Ellon before flowing into the North Sea near Newburgh , in Formartine . The name is believed to have originated from a Pictish word of Brythonic origin meaning gorse . ___MASK41___ ( Scottish Gaelic : Eilean ) is a town in Aberdeenshire , ___MASK38___ , approximately 16 miles ( 26 km ) north of Aberdeen , lying on the River Ythan , which has one of the few undeveloped river estuaries on the eastern coast of ___MASK38___ . It is in the ancient region of Formartine . Its name is believed to derive from the Gaelic term Eilean , an island , on account of the presence of an island in the River Ythan , which offered a convenient fording point . Aberdeen is ___MASK38___ ' s third most populous city , one of ___MASK38___ ' s 32 local government council areas and the ___MASK35___ ' s 37th most populous built - up area , with an official population estimate of 196 , 670 for the city of Aberdeen itself and 228 , 990 for the local authority area . Aberdeen is the Oil Capital of the World . Fyvie is a village in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire , ___MASK38___ . The ___MASK35___ of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the ___MASK35___ ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the ___MASK16___ , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . ___MASK91___ is a country that is part of the ___MASK35___ . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish Sea ___MASK29___ northwest of ___MASK91___ and the Celtic Sea ___MASK29___ to the southwest . ___MASK91___ is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths of the island of Great Britain ( which ___MASK29___ in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly , and the Isle of Wight . The Hebrides ( Scottish Gaelic : " Innse Gall "; ___MASK23___ Norse : " Suðreyjar ") comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland ___MASK38___ . There are two main groups : the Inner and Outer Hebrides . These islands have a long history of occupation dating back to the Mesolithic , and the culture of the residents has been affected by the successive influences of Celtic , Norse , and English - speaking peoples . This diversity is reflected in the names given to the islands , which are derived from the languages that have been spoken there in historic and perhaps prehistoric times . The ___MASK16___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The Irish Sea (, , , ___MASK3___ - Scots : " Airish Sea "), separates the islands of ___MASK2___ and Great Britain . It is connected to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George ' s Channel , and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel . Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish Sea , followed by the Isle of Man . The sea is occasionally , but rarely , referred to as the Manx Sea . The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well - defined length . ___MASK1___ results from the fractal - like properties of coastlines . The first recorded observation of ___MASK1___ phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson and it was expanded by Benoit Mandelbrot . A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean , or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake . A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the Coastline paradox . Great Britain , also known ___MASK82___ Britain , is a large island in the ___MASK6___ ___MASK16___ off the northwest coast of continental Europe . With an area of , Great Britain is the largest European island and the ninth - largest in the world . In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people , making it the world ' s third - most populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan . The island of Ireland is situated to the west of it , and together these islands , along with over 1 , 000 smaller surrounding islands , comprise the British Isles archipelago . Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 council areas of ___MASK38___ . ___MASK34___ ( Gaelic : " Maothulach ") is a village in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire , Scotland , situated on the River Ythan north - west of Ellon . Formartine ( meaning " Martin ' s land ") is a committee area in Aberdeenshire , ___MASK38___ . This district extends north from the River Don to the River Ythan . It has a population of 36 , 478 ( 2001 Census ). An ocean ( the sea of classical antiquity ) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet ' s hydrosphere . On Earth , an ocean is one of the ___MASK72___ conventional divisions of the World Ocean , which covers almost 71 % of its surface . These are , in descending order by area , the Pacific , Atlantic , Indian , Southern ( Antarctic ), and Arctic Oceans . The word " sea " is often used interchangeably with " ocean " in American English but , strictly speaking , a sea is a body of saline water ( generally a division of the world ocean ) partly or fully enclosed by land . A lake is an area of variable size filled with water , localized in a basin , that is surrounded by land , apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake . ___MASK26___ lie on land and are not part of the ocean , and therefore are distinct from lagoons , and are also larger and deeper than ponds , though there are no official or scientific definitions . ___MASK26___ can be contrasted with rivers or streams , which are usually flowing . Most ___MASK26___ are fed and drained by rivers and streams . Ythanwells is a village in the Marr area of Aberdeenshire , ___MASK38___ , lying east of Huntly . The village is sometimes known as Wells of Ythan , although this name strictly refers to the nearby source of the River Ythan . A country is a region that is identified ___MASK82___ a distinct national entity in political geography . A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state , ___MASK82___ a non - sovereign or formerly sovereign political division , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical geography , in the modern internationally accepted ___MASK10___ definition ___MASK82___ defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of ___MASK10___ jurisdiction . The Northern Isles is an archipelago comprising a chain of islands off the ___MASK6___ coast of mainland ___MASK38___ . The climate is cool and temperate and much influenced by the surrounding seas . There are two main island groups : Shetland and Orkney . There are a total of 26 inhabited islands with landscapes of the fertile agricultural islands of Orkney contrasting with the more rugged Shetland islands to the ___MASK6___ , where the economy is more dependent on fishing and the oil wealth of the surrounding seas . Both have a developing renewable energy ___MASK62___ . They also share a common Pictish and Norse history . Both island groups were absorbed into the Kingdom of ___MASK38___ in the 15th century and remained part of the country following the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 , and later the ___MASK35___ after 1801 . The islands played a significant ___MASK73___ role during the world wars of the 20th century . A sea is a large body of ___MASK18___ water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land . More broadly , " the sea " is the interconnected system of Earth ' s salty , oceanic waters  considered ___MASK82___ one global ocean or ___MASK82___ several principal oceanic divisions . The sea moderates Earth ' s climate and has important roles in the water cycle , carbon cycle , and nitrogen cycle . Although the sea has been traveled and explored since prehistory , the modern scientific study of the sea  oceanography  dates broadly to the British " Challenger " expedition of the 1870s . The sea is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sections  including the International Hydrographic Organization ' s four named oceans ( the Atlantic , Pacific , Indian , and Arctic ) and the Southern Ocean ; smaller , second - order sections , such ___MASK82___ the Mediterranean , are known ___MASK82___ " seas ". ___MASK38___ ( Scots : ) is a country that is part of the ___MASK35___ and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain . It shares a border with England to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the ___MASK16___ , with the ___MASK6___ Sea to the east and the ___MASK6___ Channel and Irish Sea to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the country is made up of more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . The ___MASK6___ Sea is a marginal sea of the ___MASK16___ located between Great Britain , Scandinavia , Germany , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") sea on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around .