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What about:

  • the England
  • the Germany
  • the France
  • the Sweden
  • the Russia
  • the Poland

Normal country names don’t begin with “the”

“The United States of America” makes grammatical sense. “The Ukraine” or any of the above doesn’t .

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That makes sense, again, grammatically. The low/lower/nether land.

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The Holland.

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In Dutch it’s just called Nederland. “The” is added when referring to it in English since it makes more grammatical sense in English. The Low-Lying Lands.

Ukraine is its full proper name, from the original name of Україна, which can be romanized to Ukraine.

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To “Ukraina”, not Ukraine, but that’s just a minor correction.

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The Philippines

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I was being facetious

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The idiot.

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