fetching json api in vueJs log the results but renders nothing (I'm new with Vue)

Question

I'm new in VueJs, actually coming from react, the problem I'm having is that when i fetch the data with an axios.get the console.log shows a succesfull response. But when I to iterate through the Array with v-for it renders nothing. It's quite important so it be super appreciated if you can tell me what im doing wrong or you have a suggestion. heres the code:

    <SignUpForm />
    <h1>Countries List</h1 >
    <div v-for="country in countries" :key="country.name" >
        <p>{{country.name}}</p>
    </div>
</template>

<script>
import SignUpForm from "@/components/SignUpForm.vue";

import axios from 'axios'

export default{
    name: 'SignUpView',
    components:{
      SignUpForm
    }, 
    data(){
      return{
          countries: []
      }    
    },
    async mounted() {
      const {data} = await axios.get('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/keeguon/2310008/raw/bdc2ce1c1e3f28f9cab5b4393c7549f38361be4e/countries.json')
      console.info(data)
      this.countries = data
    }
}

</script>

You can see that what I'm actuallt doing is the axios.get in the mounted(){} f(x), later I = the data to my empty Array declared in data(){}. => So I can iterate trough the json response with a v-for in a div.

Heres the picture so you can see:

Answer 1

Observations :

• countries list is a string and v-for is work if the input data is an array.
• No. of objects in an array is 243 but this 9251 is a count of characters in a string.
• Also, if we will try to convert that into a JSON object via JSON.parse() getting SyntaxError: Unexpected token n in JSON at position 6.

new Vue({
  el: "#app",
  data: {
    countries: []
  },
  methods: {
    getData() {
      var vm = this;
      axios.get("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/keeguon/2310008/raw/bdc2ce1c1e3f28f9cab5b4393c7549f38361be4e/countries.json")
        .then(function(response) {
          console.log(typeof response.data); <---- string
          console.log(response.data.length); <---- actual objects in an array is 243 but this 9251 is a count of characters in a string. 
          console.log(JSON.parse(response.data)); <---- SyntaxError: Unexpected token n in JSON at position 6
        })
        .catch(function(error) {
          alert(error);
        });
    }
  }
});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/2.6.10/vue.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/axios/0.18.0/axios.min.js"></script>
<div id="app">
  <button @click="getData">Click to check Api response</button>
</div>