Filling an SVG path with multiple colors

Question

I have a map of provinces of a country as an SVG, where each province is an SVG path. The actual SVG is the following province map.

What I would like to do is fill a part of the province (the path) with one color, a second part with another, and the rest with another color. So for example I would have 33.33% percent of the path on the x-axis filled with color a, from 33.33 to 66.66% with color b, and the rest with color c.

Is this possible? I have seen linear gradients, but rather than a gradient I would like to have solid colors.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you would be able to use a linear gradient and use two color-stops for each solid color. Something like this

<svg height="200" width="600">
  <defs>
    <linearGradient id="solids" x1="0%" y1="0%" x2="100%" y2="0%">
      <stop offset="0%" style="stop-color:rgb(255,0,0);stop-opacity:1" />
      <stop offset="33%" style="stop-color:rgb(255,0,0);stop-opacity:1" />
      <stop offset="33%" style="stop-color:rgb(0,255,0);stop-opacity:1" />
      <stop offset="67%" style="stop-color:rgb(0,255,0);stop-opacity:1" />
      <stop offset="67%" style="stop-color:rgb(0,0,255);stop-opacity:1" />
      <stop offset="100%" style="stop-color:rgb(0,0,255);stop-opacity:1" />
    </linearGradient>
  </defs>
  <rect width="600" height="200" fill="url(#solids)" />
</svg>