How to pass list of string from Controller to View in MVC using ViewData

Introduction 

ViewData is used to pass Data from controller to View in MVC. ViewData is a Dictionary of Objects that are stored and retrieved using string as a Keys such as 

ViewData["Key"] = Value; // Stored value in ViewData.

String n = ViewData["Keys"] ;  // retrieve from DataView

Controller class code (HomeController.cs)

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace MvcApplication4.Controllers

{

    public class HomeController : Controller

    {

        //

        // GET: /Home/

        public ActionResult Index()

        {

           ViewData["countries"] = new List<string>()

            {

                "USA",

                "INDIA",

                "UK"

            };

            return View();

        }

    }

}

Index.cshtml class code in View

@{

    ViewBag.Title = "List of string value";

}

<h2>Country List</h2>

<ul>

    @foreach (string  country in (List<string>)ViewData["countries"])

    {

        <li>@country</li>

    }

</ul>

Output