Orange (Concert of Europe)

Orange (Afrikaans: Oranje) is one of the four republics of, located in central-eastern part of the country. It is landlocked, and bordered by to its east,  to its north and the  to its west and south. Orange, like neighboring Transvaal and Natalia, was founded as a boer republic before becoming a colony of, and later a republic of South Africa: it was one of the main independentist hotbeds against the British forces during the.

Geographically, the region consists mostly of a flat plateau, occasionally interrupted by a kopje: the province is named after the Orange river, the longest river of South Africa, which begins to flow here. The economy of the republic chiefly revolves around two sectors, agriculture and gold mining.