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'''Free state''', '''Free State''', or '''the Free State''' may refer to:

==Places==
* [[Free State (province)]], a province of South Africa (1994–present)
** [[Orange Free State]], a former Boer Republic (1854–1902)
** [[Orange Free State (province)]], a former province of South Africa (1910–1994) 
* [[Free state (polity)]], a term used in the official titles of some states, including a list of "free states"
* [[Free state (United States)]], a U.S. state in which slavery was illegal before the American Civil War
* [[Maryland]], a U.S. state nicknamed the Free State (in abolition and later prohibition contexts)
* [[Kansas]], a U.S state nicknamed the Free State (in the context of slavery)
* [[Free State of Galveston]], a 20th-century whimsical name for Galveston, Texas, U.S.
* [[Irish Free State]] (1922–1937), the predecessor of the modern Republic of Ireland

==Other uses==
* [[Free State (cricket team)]], representing Free State, South Africa
* [[Free State Brewing Company]], a microbrewery based in Kansas, U.S.
* [[Free State Project]], an American libertarian political movement 
* [[Freestate Raceway]], a former horse racing track in Maryland, U.S. 
* ''[[Free State Review]]'', an American literary journal 
* [[Lawrence Free State High School]], a high school in Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
* [[University of the Free State]], Bloemfontein, South Africa

==See also==
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* [[Free city (disambiguation)]]
* [[Free Stater (disambiguation)]]
* ''[[Freedom State]]'', 2006 film
* [[Bound state]], in quantum physics
* ''[[California Free State]]'', 1996 role-playing game supplement for Shadowrun
* ''[[In a Free State]]'', a 1971 novel by V.S. Naipaul

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