Co-occurrences of the verb visit with words that are distributionally similar to country, such as state, city, and region, however, do appear in the corpus.
we may infer that visit-country is also a plausible expression, using some mathematical scheme of similarity-based generalization (Essen and Steinbiss 1992;Dagan, Marcus, and Markovitch 1995;Karov and Edelman 1996;Ng and Lee 1996;Ng 1997;Dagan, Lee, and Pereira 1999;Lee 1999;Weeds and Weir 2005).