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The Gulf of ___MASK50___ is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea . It extends between ___MASK50___ ( to the north ) and Estonia ( to the south ) all the way to ___MASK14___ in ___MASK20___ , where the river Neva drains into it . Other major cities around the gulf include ___MASK88___ and Tallinn . The eastern parts of the Gulf of ___MASK50___ belong to ___MASK20___ , and some of ___MASK20___ ' s most important oil harbours are located farthest in , near ___MASK14___ ( including Primorsk ). As the seaway to ___MASK14___ , the Gulf of ___MASK50___ has been and continues to be of considerable strategic importance to ___MASK20___ . Some of the environmental problems affecting the Baltic Sea are at their most pronounced in the shallow gulf . The European Union ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in ___MASK9___ . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member 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 member states which use the euro currency . MTV Nordic was a pan - European cable television network launched on 5 June 1998 . A 24 - hour English - language network aimed at viewers in the Nordic countries and other European territories . Between 1998 and 2006 MTV Nordic served the majority of European territories ( that did not have their own localized MTV channel ) under the branding MTV ___MASK9___ & Nordic . The majority of programming was hosted by presenters from the Nordic countries , mainly ___MASK56___ , Denmark and ___MASK44___ . Additional veejays came from Israel , US , Ireland and the United Kingdom . The channel gradually began to localize in 2005 with the launch of MTV Denmark . Further in 2006 the relaunch of a pan - European MTV channel ' MTV European ' and in September 2005 the launch of MTV ___MASK56___ , MTV ___MASK44___ and MTV Finland resulted in the MTV Nordic ceasing as a ___MASK65___ . ___MASK44___ (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom of ___MASK44___ , is a sovereign and unitary monarchy 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 . ___MASK44___ 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 ___MASK62___ ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . Birds ( Aves ), also known as avian dinosaurs , are a group of endothermic vertebrates , characterised by feathers , toothless beaked jaws , the laying of ___MASK74___ - shelled eggs , a high metabolic rate , a four - chambered heart , and a lightweight but strong skeleton . Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the ostrich . They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species , at approximately ten thousand , with more than half of these being passerines , sometimes known as perching birds or , less accurately , as songbirds . The Gulf of Bothnia is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea . It is situated between ___MASK50___ ' s west coast and ___MASK56___ ' s east coast . In the south of the gulf lie the ___MASK29___ , between the Sea of Åland and the Archipelago Sea . Northern ___MASK9___ is the northern part or region of ___MASK9___ . Although no definitive borders or definition exists for the term , geographically , Northern ___MASK9___ may be considered to consist approximately of all of ___MASK9___ above the 52nd parallel north ; which includes ( from west to east ) most or all of : ___MASK62___ , the Republic of Ireland , the Isle of Man , the United Kingdom , the Faroe Islands , the Netherlands , northern Germany , Denmark , Norway , Sweden , northern ___MASK22___ , Finland , Estonia , Latvia , ___MASK5___ and northwest Russia . However , narrower definitions may also be used based on other geographical factors , such as climate and ecology . Greenland , geographically a part of North America , is politically a part of the Kingdom of Denmark , and may be included depending on the definition . ___MASK50___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK50___ , is a sovereign state in Northern Europe . A peninsula with the Gulf of ___MASK50___ to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west , the country has land borders with ___MASK56___ to the northwest , ___MASK44___ to the north , and Russia to the east . Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of ___MASK50___ . ___MASK50___ is a Nordic country situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia , which also includes Scandinavia . ___MASK50___ ' 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 . Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes , which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance , a large , broad head , binocular vision , binaural hearing , sharp talons , and feathers adapted for silent flight . Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk - owl and the gregarious burrowing owl . MTV ___MASK50___ is a general entertainment channel broadcasting to the Finnish speaking market . The channel replaced MTV Nordic on September 18 , 2005 . ___MASK20___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK20___ 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 ___MASK20___ . ___MASK20___ ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , ___MASK46___ , Nizhny Novgorod and ___MASK82___ . Yle TV1 ( YLE TV Yksi ) is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yle . It is the first and oldest television channel in ___MASK50___ . More than 70 % of channel ' s programs are documentaries , news or educational programmes . Its name is commonly referred to as " Ykkönen "; the name is derived from Yle ' s ownership of channel spots 1 and 2 by default in ___MASK50___ . Scandinavia is a historical and cultural region in Northern ___MASK9___ characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages . ___MASK56___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK56___ ( Swedish : ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe . It borders ___MASK44___ to the west and Finland to the east , and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge - tunnel across the Öresund . At , ___MASK56___ is the third - largest country in the European Union by area , with a total population of 10 . 0 million . ___MASK56___ consequently has a low population density of , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country . Approximately 85 % of the population lives in urban areas . MTV3 ( Finnish : MTV Kolme ; Swedish : MTV Tre ) is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier . It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company ' s Yle TV1 took the lead . The letters MTV stand for Mainos - TV ( advertisement television ) , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials . Number 3 was added later , when the channel was allocated the third nationwide television channel and it generally became known as `` Channel Three '' -- Finnish Broadcasting Company ' s Yle TV1 and Yle TV2 being the first two -- and also to distinguishing it from the later MTV ___MASK50___ . The channel ' s logo was a stylized owl , changed to an owl ' s eye after an image renewal in 2003 . MTV3 currently has about 500 employees . It is also known as Maikkari ( a slang of word `` Mainos - TV '' ) . Yleisradio Oy ( Finnish ), also known as Rundradion ( Swedish ) or the Finnish Broadcasting Company ( English ), abbreviated to Yle ( pronounced ; previously stylised as YLE before March 2012 corporate rebrand ), is ___MASK50___ ' s national public - broadcasting company , founded in 1926 . It is a public limited company which is 99 . 98 % owned by the Finnish state , and employs around 3 , 200 people in ___MASK50___ . Yle shares many of its organizational characteristics with its UK counterpart , the BBC , on which it was largely modelled . Fennoscandia , Fenno - Scandinavia , or the Fennoscandian Peninsula , is the geographical peninsula of the Nordic region comprising the Scandinavian Peninsula , ___MASK50___ , Karelia , and the Kola Peninsula . It encompasses ___MASK50___ , ___MASK44___ and Sweden , as well as ___MASK35___ Oblast , much of the Republic of Karelia and parts of northern Leningrad Oblast in Russia . Its name comes from the Latin words " Fennia " ( ___MASK50___ ) and " Scandia " ( Scandinavian ). The term was first used by the Finnish geologist Wilhelm Ramsay in 1898 . Geologically , the area is distinct because its bedrock is Archaean granite and gneiss with very little limestone , in contrast to neighboring areas in Europe .