Gender of countries, towns, islands, rivers, regions and states

Countries/les pays

Some countries are masculine, some are feminine. The best generalization is that they are masculine unless they end in -e, in which case they are feminine:

masculine le Canada le Danemark le Japon le Koweït le Liban le Maroc

Canada Denmark Japan Kuwait Lebanon Morocco

feminine la Chine la Finlande la Libye la Norvège la Mauritanie la Roumanie

China Finland Libya Norway Mauritania Romania