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MapWoven

An independent reading companion

The Hunger Games.
A world to explore.

Follow the places, years, and journeys of Panem on an illustrated interactive map. Keep your book close, choose how much to reveal, and wander a little further.

Explore the Panem map ↗Discover Year 50

Starts with premise-level detail. More story detail is your choice in Map options.

An imagined North American landscape with forests, mountains, rivers, and coastline
Our illustrated interpretation of Panem’s landscape. Geography and distances are not an official survey.

The atlas beside your book

Follow a place.
Find its story.

Zoom from the wider continent into districts, cities, and arenas. Move the year slider to explore how the illustrated world changes. Tap a place or event for its explanation and available reading references.

Find → Illustrations & chapters gathers the artwork in one place. Each image can open full screen. Where a chapter is verified, its reference points you back to your own book.

Use Map options → Story detail for each book to change what is visible. Chapter and story limits filter the map’s entries and associated illustrations. A reading limit is a navigation aid, not a guarantee that every background detail is spoiler-free.

Five books, one Panem

Choose your starting point.

The books below are listed in publication order. The map’s timeline follows the years within the story.

  1. The Hunger GamesYear 74 · Katniss’s first Games
  2. Catching FireYears 74–75 · the third Quarter Quell
  3. MockingjayYear 75 · rebellion
  4. The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesYear 10 · the Capitol’s early Games
  5. Sunrise on the ReapingYear 50 · Haymitch’s story

Read the map thoughtfully

What is known.
What is imagined.

The novels give us relationships between places without a complete national map. MapWoven uses those clues to build an explorable interpretation. A named location and its real-world coordinates are different claims.

Where are the Capitol and the districts?

Our reconstruction uses North America as a frame of reference, with settlements surrounded by wilderness. District borders, the Capitol’s street plan, and the size of each city are illustrative. They should not be treated as canon simply because they appear on a map.

Why are the arenas in these places?

The early stadium belongs to the Capitol setting. Our placements for the later engineered arenas are interpretations. The 74th arena is positioned in western high country and the 75th offshore in the Gulf; neither real-world coordinate is established by the books.

The Gulf placement is a hypothesis informed by the arena’s salt water and the extraction journey. It is not the only possible reconstruction. Visit each special-site entry for its evidence and confidence.

Can I read the novels here?

MapWoven provides commentary, illustrations, and references, not copies of the Hunger Games novels. Use your own edition, borrow from a library, or find the books with their publisher ↗.

Source notes: Scholastic’s series site ↗ and the chapter references attached to map entries. About our method and illustrations.

Made for the stories we’ll share

A map now. More adventures together, later.

MapWoven began with a parent’s wish to enjoy books with a young son as he grows. Panem is one beginning; there is room for many more worlds.

Read why I’m building MapWoven
About MapWoven
MapWoven’s little fox holding a map

A note from the creator

For the stories we’ll share.

I built MapWoven because I want to enjoy books with my family for years to come. My son is three as I begin this project, and I’m making it mostly for him.

My hope is that, as he grows, we can read together, follow the journeys on a map, and spend a little longer in the worlds we discover. I’m starting with the books I love and leaving room for the stories we’ll find together.

MapWoven began in 2026.

Explore at your own pace

Choose a world, move through its timeline, and tap a place or event. Open an illustration to see it full screen. Chapter references help you find your place in your own copy of the book.

The public map starts with premise-level detail. In Map options, you can reveal more or set a reading limit for each book. The Hunger Games contains violence, death, and other mature themes; choose stories and settings that suit your family.

A reading companion, with room for interpretation

MapWoven combines references, our own explanations, and original visual interpretations, including AI-assisted illustrations. It is not an official map. The books establish some places and relationships; many coordinates, city plans, borders, and landscapes are imagined.

A chapter reference supports the accompanying story detail, not every building in its illustration. Inferred locations stay labelled as interpretations. The Year 50 guide distinguishes publisher information from the retrospective account in Catching Fire.

Estimated earlier years and real-world calendar labels are editorial aids. They are not dates established by the novels.

Independent and unofficial

MapWoven is an independent fan-made project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, Lionsgate, or the other creators and publishers whose works are discussed here.

The referenced books, characters, and related trademarks belong to their respective rights holders. Attribution is not a licence to reuse their work. This site offers maps, commentary, illustrations, and references; it does not provide the Hunger Games novels.

Please support the authors by borrowing or buying their books through legitimate sources. Visit the publisher’s Hunger Games site (opens a new tab).

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