South City
South City was once a hot, rocky land with beautiful landscapes, architecture, and so on. But once an alchemist destroyed it in his quest at making a philosopher's stone, only a large crater remained. Amestris, not knowing what to do, watched helplessly as the Aerugese invaded and took over. Upon taking it back, the military filled the crater with water and built a new HQ based around naval power. South City is also home to the Brighton Memorial Gardens, a memorial to the famous and much-beloved head of South HQ, who made South what it is today -- a bastion of the nation's ability to rebuild, and, of course, of naval strength, with South City's manmade waterfront connecting to many large estuaries that run out of Amestris' otherwise-landlocked limits into the open sea.