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I’ve always had the hardest time reconciling such large territories with how small the district populations seemed to be. Like, Katniss’s district had every child of the right ages gather together for the Reaping in a single location… I know that geographically this map is roughly what Suzanne Collins was going for, but the way she described District 12 seemed much more like a single city or town than such a wide region.
Maybe each district is the size shown here but there are only a handful of populated city areas in each one? At the same time, that seems problematic for governing or collecting resources… I’m basically just rambling, though. Anyone have a good answer to this?
I always figured that while the geographical districts might be much larger, the population was centered in one small area. This might also be much more likely for a district like 12, where the town would center around mining resources (you could make the argument that the entire population might move from mine to mine as they exhaust them, or that so many of the mines in the area have already been tapped out that there’s no reason for the Capitol to support any population there).
In any case, here’s the map creator’s explanation for how and why they created the map as they did. It’s actually pretty detailled and seems to make some sense.
Thanks for the link! I’m still, not completely satisfied, but I think you’re right that they’re assuming small population centers surrounded by large parts of each district that are uninhabited. This quote puts it really well:
Think about where you live now. Does urbanized civilization extend all the way through your state or province without stopping? No. If the Capitol truly wanted to control Panem, then it would not make much sense to leave large areas of unincorporated land between them where it would be all too easy for Rebels or escapees (like Lavinia) to set up camp and live outside of the Capitol’s jurisdiction. It makes more sense for the entirety of the mainland continent to be parceled into Districts and fenced in for Peacekeeper patrols/Capitol monitoring, and then to set up the District headquarters and populated areas in smaller cities/townships. Just like the majority of the world today.
This still doesn’t make the most logistical sense to me from the perspective of the Capitol’s organization of Panem, but I think it’s a sensible interpretation of the world that Collins describes.
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