{
  "g": "h,empire,africa",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "South African Republic (Transvaal)",
  "now": "south-africa",
  "years": "1852–1902",
  "id": "transvaal",
  "index": "c/south-africa:1852",
  "title": "Flag of the South African Republic (Transvaal)",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "green",
      "hex": "#236f4f",
      "note": "Voortrekker green at the hoist."
    },
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#c1272d",
      "note": "Dutch-tricolour red."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Dutch-tricolour white."
    },
    {
      "color": "blue",
      "hex": "#21428f",
      "note": "Dutch-tricolour blue."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, 1852–1902) was a Voortrekker Boer state in the Transvaal region, defeated and annexed by Britain in the Second Boer War\n - **Construction:** the **Vierkleur** (four-colour) — a green vertical band at the hoist, and three horizontal bands of red-white-blue (Dutch national colours) at the fly\n - The green band was added to distinguish the Boer flag from the Netherlands tricolour",
  "flag": "empires/transvaal.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "South African Republic",
    "officialName": "Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand (1886) transformed the Republic's economy and fuelled the war with Britain\n - Presidents included Paul Kruger, whose face survives on the Krugerrand gold coin\n - The Vierkleur was briefly revived on the pre-1994 South African flag",
  "_name": "South African Republic (Transvaal)",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "transvaal"
}