Back Oranje-Vrystaat (provinsie) Afrikaans Provincia del Estado Libre de Orange Spanish استان ایالت آزاد اورنج Persian Oranjen vapaavaltion provinssi Finnish מדינת אורנג' החופשית (פרובינציה) HE Negara Bebas Oranje (provinsi) ID ಆರೆಂಜ್ ಫ್ರೀಸ್ಟೇಟ್ Kannada 오렌지 자유국주 Korean Провинција на Слободната држава Оринџ Macedonian Oranje Vrijstaat (provincie) Dutch
| Province of the Orange Free State Provinsie Oranje-Vrystaat (Afrikaans) | |||||||||
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| Province of South Africa | |||||||||
| 1910–1994 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Bloemfontein | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1991 | 129,825 km2 (50,126 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1991 | 2,193,062[1] | ||||||||
| • Type | Orange Free State Provincial Council | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 31 May 1910 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 27 April 1994 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | South Africa | ||||||||
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The Province of the Orange Free State (Afrikaans: Provinsie Oranje-Vrystaat), commonly referred to as the Orange Free State (Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat), Free State (Afrikaans: Vrystaat) or by its abbreviation OFS, was one of the four provinces of South Africa from 1910 to 1994. After 27 April 1994 it was dissolved following the first non-racial election in South Africa. It is now called the Free State Province.
Its predecessor was the Orange River Colony which in 1902 had replaced the Orange Free State, a Boer republic.
Its outside borders were the same as those of the modern Free State Province; except for the bantustans ("homelands") of QwaQwa and one part of Bophuthatswana, which were contained on land inside of the provincial Orange Free State borders.