Gaoling

History
A large town on the edge of the southern Earth Kingdom, Gaoling is home to both the Bei Fong family and the Earth Rumble tournaments. The town also holds Master Yu's Earthbending Academy, a large, fairly new building that has been around for a couple of years. The academy is mainly consisted of a wide, outdoor courtyard in the middle where rocks of a variety of different shapes and sizes are placed in for students to work with. A very well established place, Gaoling has a variety of people residing in it ranging from the very rich to the very poor, but is mostly filled with middle class citizens whose families have been living there for many generations. On the outskirts of the town are very large, expensive estates where the richest people of the town live, homes to wealthy families such as Toph's.

Trivia

 * Gaoling ( 高陵 ) which means "tall hill" is also a name of a county in Shannxi, a Central province in China. However, in the Avatar world, it is located in the South which concidentally goes with Toph's knowledge of Chu Gar, Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu. Bei Fong (北 方), Toph's last name, is another contradiction since it means "North," despites her not being from there.