Location from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Coal mining district at the edge of Panem — the poorest, the most forgotten, and the place that produced the girl who burned the whole system down.
District 12 is where Panem forgets to look, which is exactly why the spark caught here. The district mines coal in conditions that kill fathers young and leave families scrambling. The Seam — the poorest quarter — breeds survivors: people who hunt illegally in the woods, trade in the black market Hob, and learn to read the Peacekeepers' moods. The merchant class is marginally better off but still starving by Capitol standards. The electric fence is rarely powered. The woods beyond are technically forbidden but practically essential. Katniss Everdeen grew up straddling that line between law and survival, and when she volunteered for her sister at the Reaping, District 12 stopped being invisible.
Grey. Coal dust coats everything — rooftops, lungs, the faces of miners walking home at dusk. A sagging fence supposedly electrified separates the district from the woods beyond. The Seam sprawls in ramshackle poverty near the mines. The merchant quarter clusters around a modest town square with a Justice Building.
Also known as: Twelve, the coal district