Academy of sciences

Some state funded academies are national, or royal (i.e. United Kingdom's Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge) as a form of honor.

In non-English-speaking countries, the range of academic fields of the members of a national Academy of Science often includes scholarly disciplines which would not normally be classed as "science" in English.

Many languages use a broad term for systematized learning which includes both natural sciences and social sciences and fields such as literary studies, linguistics, history, or art history.

(Often these terms are calques from Latin scientia (the etymological source of English science) and, accordingly, derivatives of the verb 'know', such as German Wissenschaft, Swedish vetenskap, Hungarian tudomány, Estonian teadus or Finnish tiede.)

Additionally, there are many regional associations such as ALLEA in Europe, NASAC as the Network of African Science Academies, IANAS in Latin America, and AASSA in Asia.

Main building of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm
The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters along the Mariankatu street in Helsinki
The Keck Center of the National Academies in Washington, D.C. , one of several facilities where the National Academy of Sciences maintains offices
Slovak Academy of Sciences (Presidium Building)
Entrance of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Ungern-Sternberg palace on Toompea , nowadays the main building of Estonian Academy of Sciences
The main building of the Academy of Athens, located in central Athens , Greece
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Germany