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Free State
- State with about 2,960,000 residents
- …was formerly known as “Orange Free State”
- Description: province of South Africa
- Also known as“Free State Province”“OFS”“province of Free State”“province of the Free State”“Province of the Orange Free State”
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Latitude of center
-28.7854° or 28° 47′ 7″ south
Longitude of center
26.4979° or 26° 29′ 52″ east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Free State” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vrystaat”
- Amharic: “ነጻ ግዛት”
- Arabic: “الولاية الحرة”
- Armenian: “Ֆրի Սթեյթ”
- Asturian: “Provincia del Estáu Llibre”
- Azerbaijani: “Fri Steyt vilayəti”
- Basque: “Estatu Askea”
- Belarusian: “Вольная дзяржава”
- Belarusian: “Свабодная дзяржава”
- Belarusian: “Фры-Стэйт”
- Bengali: “ফ্রি অঙ্গরাজ্য”
- Breton: “Stad-Dieub”
- Bulgarian: “Фрайстаат”
- Bulgarian: “Фрайстат”
- Bulgarian: “Фри Стейт”
- Bulgarian: “Фрийстейт”
- Burmese: “ဩရိန်းပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Estat Lliure”
- Catalan: “Free State”
- Catalan: “Província de l’Estat Lliure d’Orange”
- Catalan: “Província de l’Estat Lliure”
- Catalan: “Província Estat Lliure”
- Cebuano: “Free State”
- Chinese: “自由邦”
- Chinese: “自由邦省”
- Croatian: “Free State”
- Czech: “Svobodný stát”
- Danish: “Free State”
- Danish: “Fristatprovinsen”
- Dutch: “Vrijstaat”
- Dutch: “Vrystaat”
- Esperanto: “Libera ŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Liberŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Oranĝa Liberŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Oranĵa Liberŝtato”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Liberŝtato”
- Estonian: “Free State’i provints”
- Estonian: “Free State”
- Faroese: “Free State”
- Finnish: “Free State”
- Finnish: “Vapaavaltio”
- French: “État libre”
- French: “Free State”
- French: “Province de l’État libre”
- Galician: “Estado Libre”
- Georgian: “ფრი-სტეიტი”
- German: “Free State Provinz”
- German: “Free State”
- German: “Freistaat”
- German: “Oranje Freestate”
- German: “ZA-FS”
- Greek: “Ελεύθερο Κράτος της Οράγγης”
- Gujarati: “ફ્રી સ્ટેટ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chhṳ-yù Pâng-sén”
- Hausa: “Jihar na Kyauta”
- Hebrew: “המדינה החופשית”
- Hebrew: “פרובינציית המדינה החופשית”
- Hebrew: “פרובינציית פרי סטייט”
- Hebrew: “פרי סטייט”
- Hindi: “फ़्री स्टेट प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Szabadállam”
- Indonesian: “Free State”
- Indonesian: “Negara Bebas”
- Irish: “an Saorstát Oráisteach”
- Italian: “Free State”
- Italian: “Stato libero”
- Japanese: “オレンジ自由州”
- Japanese: “フリー・ステイト州”
- Javanese: “Negara Bebas”
- Kannada: “ಮುಕ್ತ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Еркін Мемлекет”
- Kirghiz: “Өзүк Штат”
- Korean: “오렌지 자유주”
- Korean: “프리스테이트주”
- Latin: “Civitas Libera”
- Latvian: “Frīsteita”
- Lithuanian: “Fristeitas”
- Lithuanian: “Laisvoji Valstybė”
- Macedonian: “Фри Стејт”
- Malay: “Free State”
- Malayalam: “ഫ്രീ സ്റ്റേറ്റ്”
- Marathi: “फ्री राज्य”
- Marathi: “फ्री स्टेट प्रांत”
- Marathi: “फ्री स्टेट”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chū-iû Pang-kok Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Freistoot (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Freistoot”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Free State”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Freistata”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fristaten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Free State”
- Norwegian: “Freistata”
- Novial: “Liberi State”
- Nyanja: “Free State”
- Oromo: “Naannoo Bilisummaa”
- Panjabi: “ਖਾਲੀ ਰਾਜ”
- Pedi: “Free State”
- Persian: “ایالت آزاد (استان)”
- Persian: “ایالت آزاد”
- Polish: “Wolne Państwo Orania”
- Polish: “Wolne Państwo”
- Portuguese: “Estado Livre”
- Portuguese: “Free state”
- Portuguese: “Província do Estado Livre”
- Pushto: “خپلواک ايالت”
- Pushto: “خپلواک ایالت”
- Romanian: “Free State”
- Romanian: “Provincia Free State”
- Russian: “Свободное государство”
- Russian: “Фри-Стейт”
- Scots: “Free State”
- Serbian: “Fri Stejt”
- Serbian: “Фри Стејт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Free State”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Slobodna Država”
- Shona: “Firisteti (Afurika Chamhembe)”
- Shona: “Firisteti”
- Sinhala: “නිදහස් රාජ්ය”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්රී ස්ටේට් පළාත, දකුණු අප්රිකාව”
- Slovenian: “Free State”
- Somali: “Free State Province”
- Southern Sotho: “Foreisetata”
- Southern Sotho: “Foreistata”
- Southern Sotho: “Freistata”
- Spanish: “Free State Province”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Estado Libre”
- Swahili: “Dola Huru”
- Swahili: “Free State”
- Swahili: “Vrystaat”
- Swati: “Free State”
- Swati: “Fuleyistata”
- Swedish: “Free State”
- Swedish: “Fristaten”
- Swedish: “Fristatsprovinsen”
- Tajik: “Фри-Стейт”
- Tamil: “விடுதலை இராச்சியம்”
- Tatar: “Ирек Дәүләте”
- Telugu: “ఫ్రీ రాష్ట్రము”
- Telugu: “ఫ్రీ స్టేట్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดฟรีสเตต”
- Thai: “ฟรีสเตต”
- Tswana: “Foreistata”
- Tswana: “Free State”
- Tswana: “Vrystaat”
- Turkish: “Özgür Devlet”
- Ukrainian: “Вільна держава”
- Ukrainian: “Фрі-Стейт”
- Urdu: “آزاد اسٹیٹ (صوبہ)”
- Urdu: “آزاد ریاست (صوبہ)”
- Urdu: “آزاد ریاست”
- Urdu: “فری سٹیٹ”
- Uzbek: “Ozod Davlat”
- Venda: “Free State”
- Vietnamese: “Free State”
- Volapük: “Libatatiän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Free State”
- Welsh: “Free State”
- Western Frisian: “Frijsteat (provinsje)”
- Western Frisian: “Frijsteat”
- Western Panjabi: “فری سٹیٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “自由邦省”
- Xhosa: “IPhondo yaFreyistata”
- Yoruba: “Free State”
- Yue Chinese: “自由邦”
- Zulu: “IFleyistata”
- Zulu: “IFuleyisitata”
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