This question also has an answer here (in German):
»2014 spielt Deutschland gegen Portugal, {das · der · die} zu stark ist.«
There are some country names with article, like der Iran, die Schweiz, die Niederlande.
But what is the gender of the country names without articles?
For example, what pronoun to use in the following case:
Frankreich hat mit Sanktionen gedroht. Er/Sie/Es(?) hat alle Bankkonten gesperrt.
My intuition says me that countries generally are feminine, when they have no article, am I right?