As mentioned countries are either masculine or feminine.
Are city names masculine or feminine in french. Sometimes it can even vary for the same city name. Nous allons à Paris. I lived in Vancouver for a while and Francophones there usually use the feminine.
According to lAccadémie Française both genders are possible for cities. City names can be feminine or masculine. Il habite au Havre.
Le Vieux Nice le. The gender of some nouns makes sense homme man is masculine femme woman is feminine but others dont. Indeed some countries are feminine others are masculine.
Je vais au Caire. Now heres a list of some countries in columns according to. The word ville is a feminine noun.
The words personne person and victime victim are always feminine even when the person or victim is a man. The word ville is a feminine noun. And Ville is a feminine word in French.
Actually Swaziland is the former name of this country now its called Eswatini in english and lEswatini in french. In the French language one of the hardest areas for students speakers to master is the prepositions for places including cities countries and states. According to lAccadémie Française both genders are possible for cities.