Edit vectors in Photoshop - Help!

Hi, I have a world map in Illustrator format. Each individual country is selectable. I have copied and pasted the entire world vector into Photoshop as a Shape Layer. I can change the fill colour in Photoshop for all countries together, but I cannot select individual countries to change the the fill colour. Can anyone help? I have also tried this pasted as Path and Smart Object. This does not work for me. I am very new to Illustrator and Photoshop, trying to teach myself. I would greatly appreciate any help!
Thank you!

You would have to put each country on an individual shape layer. Illustrator layers consist of objects (which can be nested into sub-objects) that can have their own stroke and fill, but Photoshop Shape layers are a Fill layer with a vector mask. While the sub-paths can be independently selected, the layer itself can only have one fill.

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