How to Use Predictable Names in English

In English with some countries, like we'll say the Philippines or the Netherlands or the Congo, but you don't say the Greece unless you talk about what's under the oven or the stove. Or you could say the Ukraine or you can just say Ukraine. In Spanish, you have El Salvador or La Argentina or you have El Sudan, La India,. There are loads of them, but it's not, you always use the art. Well, here you don't ever use it there. So it can be maybe there's some interesting ones where they have to use it. It seems like, I mean, personal names are more predictable maybe, but like place names, country names and titles