The Northern Region is one of the subdivisions of the Earth Kingdom
Geography
Northern Coast
Peatbogs
Northern Divide
Northern Mountains
Forests
Three Sister Bays
Otterbear Bay
Walrus and Seal Bays
Western Plains
Western Coast
Western Highlands
Climate
Anthropology
Northern Aborigines
The Beituzhu (北土著), or Northern Aborigines (an exonym; endonym: Khemchik) are the original inhabitants of the Northeast. They traditionally inhabited the wetlands and forests of the North, living in small villages with partially-underground longhouses. They are an earthbending people, i.e. ethnic earth nationals, though due to occasional genetic contact with the Water Tribes, they sometimes have waterbenders. Their language is unrelated to the Yonggan language but has many loanwords from it, as well as Ganjinese loanwords transmitted via the Yonggan. Before contact with the Central Earth Kingdom civilization, they were organized into small tribes. They traded with the Water Tribes and Yonggan, but also sometimes fought the latter for territory.
They are mostly Fitzpatrick II-III in color. They have mostly green eyes. Most of them practice Kemchick shamanism, under syncretic influence with Moon Spirit Worship of the Water Tribes (the Ocean Spirit is considered less important to them) and Earth Kingdom Folk Religion. In the modern day, many continue to practice traditional hunting and gathering lifestyles; others practice short-season sorghum cultivation, peat cutting, trap fishing, and fur trapping. Earthbending is more common among them than among the descendents of Zhongzu settlers, and they are sometimes employed for their bending, e.g. in construction. Some live as an urban underclass in settler cities; they have some towns of their own but none larger than a few thousand inhabitants.
Water Tribe People
Since prehistory, ethnic Water Nationals have lived in the Far North of the Central Continent. Coming into contact with the Central civilization, they became Jinggong Shuizu (進貢水族), i.e. the Tributary Water Tribes, accepting the Earth Kingdom as their suzerain and sending tribute missions to Ba Sing Se. The tribes were organized into Eastern and Western groupings. As ethnic water nationals, and members may develop waterbending. They are in cultural continuity with the Northern Water Tribe, with which they have frequent trade contact and sometimes intermarriage, and most follow its religion, with some syncretism and local variations. Their Waterbending style is similar to other Northern peoples, but they lack the prestigious schools and traditions of the Northern Water Tribe, who look upon their waterbending as unrefined in style.
Some live in settled fishing villages, others in towns; they have some of their own large towns and some cities, in which an economically important minority of the descendants ethnic Zhongzu settlers live. They are somewhat creolized with the Zhongzu, especially in more urban areas.
They mostly have blue eyes and are mostly Fitzpatrick IV in skin color.
Central Earth Kingdom Settlers
The Zhongzu (中族) are ethnic Earth nationals who moved north as settlers, mostly in response to economic population pressures in the densely populated central plains. Most of the Zhongzu come from Five-Grains Province north of Ba Sing Se (some came from Ba Sing Se's agricultural zone itself, and are properly classified as Gucheng, but that distinction is not observed in the North.) The Tu Dynasty encouraged colonization in an attempt to make the North more stable and culturally connected to the central government.
Many Zhongzu live as short-season grain farmers in the uplands, particularly in the Shizu states. The population is also large in the port cities.
Yonggan
Air Nomads
Eastern Settlers
Ganjinese
Zang Diaspora
Economy
Agriculture
Fishing
Forest Products
Mining
Trade
Industry
Tribute System
History
Prehistory
Antiquity
Late Antiquity
Ting Dynasty
Ri Dynasty
Early Hao-Ting to Qin's Rebellion
Qin's Rebellion and the Hao-Ting Renaissance
Death of Kyoshi to the Present War
Transport
Coastal
Bluewater
Rivers
Canals
Roads
Politics
Subdivisions
State of Nitan
State of East Shui
State of West Shui
State of Chenbao
State of Angxue (Soaring-Snow State)
Yonggan State
Part of the Yonggan State is considered to be included in the Northern Region, though the Yonggan State is a whole is generally associated with the Western Region. In the past, the Yonggan State was divided into several polities, including the now-dissolved Principality of the Nemuland; during the reforms of the Hao-Ting Renaissance, they were consolidated into one state.
Xibei Province