input: from typing import List
  
  
  def get_countries_function(filepath: str) -> List[str]:
      """ Given a JSON file path containing a list of countries, return a list of 
      countries as strings.
      >>> get_countries_function('data.json')
      ['Afghanistan', 'Albania', 'Algeria', 'Andorra', 'Angola', 'Antigua and Barbuda', 
      'Argentina', 'Armenia', 'Australia', 'Austria', 'Azerbaijan']
      """
output:     import json
      
      with open(filepath, 'r') as file:
          data = json.load(file)
      
      return data