In Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, twelve districts officially surround the Capitol in Panem.
The districts are numbered from District 1 through District 12 in the society presented at the beginning of the novel. Each district specializes in particular industries, such as luxury goods, technology, agriculture, and coal mining. Katniss Everdeen comes from District 12, the poorest district, whose economy is linked to coal.
The number becomes more complicated later because the story reveals that District 13 survived underground after the Capitol claimed it had been destroyed. Therefore, readers may encounter both twelve and thirteen in discussions of Panem. The correct answer for the country’s officially recognized districts at the start of the first novel is twelve. The annual Hunger Games are staged as punishment and political control after a past rebellion, with each district required to send one boy and one girl as tribute.