Copying data of one array with transformation into another array in javascript/react

Changing the state value directly does not fit React's method.

updateDropdownData() {
    axios.get(`http://localhost:8080/country_code`).then((res) => {
      const _countryData = res.data.map((code) => countries[code].name )        
      this.setState({ countryData: _countryData });
    });
  }

EDIT

The countries variable must be where you run it. And the shape of the variable should be as follows.

const countries = {
    "ANT" : { name : "ant_name"  },
    "ARG" : { name : "arg_name"  },
    ...
}