{
  "g": "h,empire,africa",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Orange Free State",
  "now": "south-africa",
  "years": "1854–1902",
  "id": "orange-free-state",
  "index": "c/south-africa:1854",
  "title": "Flag of the Orange Free State",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "orange",
      "hex": "#fe7b00",
      "note": "The Orange — for the ruling House of Orange heritage."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Interstripes."
    },
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#c1272d",
      "note": "Canton — Dutch red."
    },
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#21428f",
      "note": "Canton — Dutch blue."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Orange Free State (Oranje-Vrijstaat, 1854–1902) was a Boer republic between the Orange and Vaal rivers, sister-state to the Transvaal\n - **Construction:** seven horizontal stripes alternating orange and white, with a **Dutch tricolour** (red-white-blue) in the canton at the upper hoist\n - The orange colour honoured the House of Orange-Nassau; the canton signalled Dutch-Afrikaner heritage",
  "flag": "empires/orange-free-state.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Orange Free State",
    "officialName": "Oranje-Vrijstaat",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Founded when the Voortrekkers signed the Bloemfontein Convention with Britain (1854)\n - Notable for being recognised by the US, France, and other powers as a sovereign state\n - Annexed as the Orange River Colony after the Boer surrender (1902); became a province of the Union of South Africa in 1910",
  "_name": "Orange Free State",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "orange-free-state"
}