Orange Free State (province)

Province of the Orange Free State
Provinsie Oranje-Vrystaat (Afrikaans)
Province of South Africa
1910–1994

The OFS as it was by 1994
CapitalBloemfontein
Area 
• 1991
129,825 km2 (50,126 sq mi)
Population 
• 1991
2,193,062[1]
 • TypeOrange Free State Provincial Council
History 
• Established
31 May 1910
• Disestablished
27 April 1994
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Orange River Colony
Free State
Today part ofSouth Africa

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.

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