The Fire Nation is a collective term for a nation of people in the fictional universe of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. One of the series' "Four Nations," the Fire Nation is located near the planet's equator in the western hemisphere and comprises an archipelago of volcanic islands. Regardless of its ancestral boundaries, the Fire Nation militia is engaged in numerous campaigns around the globe and much territory has been lost to the Nation's colonization over the course of the century-long imperialistic war. The Fire Nation is home to an order of men and women who practice firebending, the pyrokinetic ability to create and control fire.