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  1. Province of the Republic of South Africa.
  2. area 127,993 sq km/49,405 sq mi capital
  3. Bloemfontein features plain of the High Veld;
  4. Lesotho forms an enclave on the Natal-Cape
  5. Province border products grain, wool, cattle,
  6. gold, oil from coal, cement, pharmaceuticals
  7. population (1987) 1,863,000; 82% ethnic
  8. Africans history original settlements from
  9. 1810 were complemented by the Great Trek, and
  10. the state was recognized by Britain as
  11. independent 1854. Following the South
  12. African, or Boer, War 1899-1902, it was
  13. annexed by Britain until it entered the union
  14. as a province 1910.
  15.