The Holy Russian Empire (Russian: Святой России империя), commonly referred to as the Second Russian Empire, or simply Russia, is a sovereign states encompassing the entirety of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe. The country is bordered by Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine to the west; Lithuania and Poland by the Kaliningrad Province; and Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea to the south. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.