I never thought about the question of whether, in languages that require nouns to have grammatical gender, particular countries may have a different grammatical gender from others, but on reflection I already know examples where they do in Portuguese: o Brasil, o Canadá (amusing to me because of the national anthem), but a Argentina, a Alemanha.<p>I wonder if this also happens in German; the only examples I&#x27;m thinking of offhand are feminine (die Schweiz, die Türkei) but now I&#x27;m not at all sure that there isn&#x27;t a masculine one too!