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List of fictional cities
This list is of fictional cities: villages, towns, and cities that do not exist in the world we know. Like fictional countries, and fictional counties, most fictional cities either resemble a specific place or represent a broader archetype.
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- Acme Acres - Tiny Toon Adventures
- Adano - A Bell for Adano
- Al Khali - capital of Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
- Al Kharid - RuneScape
- Al-Ybi - city in the Klatchian desert in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Place where the number zero was invented.
- Amber - the city of which all others are shadows in Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber series about Amber (fictional realm)
- Ambergris - city in various fantasy stories by Jeff VanderMeer
- Ambridge, village where BBC Radio's The Archers is set.
- Amn - city from the Baldur's Gate Series, set in the Forgotten Realms
- Anastasia, a town with concentric channels, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
- Andoshen, PA, "a fictional city located 14 real miles from John O'Hara's fictional Gibbsville," in Daryl Ponicsan's novel Andoshen, PA. Fictionalized version of Shenandoah
- Ankh-Morpork - in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Arcadia, Maryland - setting of Joan of Arcadia
- Ardougne - RuneScape
- Arkham - setting of several of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, based on Salem, Massachusetts.
- Arlen, Texas - setting of King of the Hill
- Arnette, Texas - of Stephen King's The Stand
- Ashton, Alabama - of Tim Burton's film Big Fish
- Astro City, USA - Kurt Busiek's city of superheroes
- Atlantis - mythical city/country/continent.
- Auchterturra - Scotland the What? s generic Scottish town
- Avonlea, Prince Edward Island - in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
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- Bad Ass, Texas - in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy. Also the name of Granny Weatherwax's village in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Bad Blintz - Town in Überwald in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Famous for its Rat Piper
- Baldur's Gate - city from the Baldur's Gate Series, set in the Forgotten Realms
- Barchester - in the novels of Anthony Trollope
- Bayport - home of the Hardy Boys
- Bay City - the setting for the soap opera Another World
- Beanotown - in The Beano
- Beardsley - college town in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (set in Ohio in Stanley Kubrick's film)
- Bedford Falls - setting of the movie It's a Wonderful Life.
- Bedrock - in Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones
- Bellona - in Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
- Bette Noir - in Fallen Angel comic series
- Bikini Bottom - in Stephen Hillenburg 's Spongebob Squarepants
- Bes Pelargic - harbor town in the Agatean Empire in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Blackbury - Small UK town in Terry Pratchett's The Bromeliad and Johnny Maxwell trilogy
- Bludhaven - Current home of the former Robin Dick Grayson (Nightwing)
- Blue Valley - home to Wally West (The Flash, formerly Kid Flash)
- Bluffington - in the Doug animated series
- Boneville - unseen home of the Bone cousins in Bone by Jeff Smith
- Bonk - (pronnounced Beyonk) Town in Überwald in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
- Bordertown - in Terri Windling 's shared universe series
- Brigadoon - from Alan Jay Lerner's novel of the same name
- Brockway - Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
- Bursley - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Burslem in Stoke-on-Trent
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- Cabot Cove, Maine - in the tv series Murder, She Wrote
- Camelot, Britain - the castle of King Arthur. Identified with Cadbury Castle.
- London Borough of Canley - in the TV series The Bill
- Capeside, Massachusetts - in the TV series Dawson's Creek
- Capital City, USA - Capital city of the state where Springfield, USA is located in The Simpsons.
- Casterbridge - town in Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Identified as Dorchester, Dorset.
- Castle Rock, Maine - home to many Stephen King characters
- Centerburg - setting for Robert McCloskey's Homer Price stories
- Central City - one city with this name was home to Barry Allen(The Flash); another city with this name was briefly home to the Fantastic Four
- Chamberlain, Maine - home to the title character of Stephen King's Carrie
- Chasm City, in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space and sequels
- Christmas Town - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Christminster (modelled on Oxford) - in the novels of Thomas Hardy
- Chronopolis by J. G. Ballard
- Cicely, Alaska - the setting of the television series Northern Exposure
- The City, USA - one city called this is home to The Tick; another is the setting of Transmetropolitan
- The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson
- City of the Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince
- City of the Iron fish by Simon Ings
- Cloudcuckooland - The city in the sky featured in Aristophanes' The Birds
- Coast City - former home of the superhero Green Lantern, now destroyed by aliens
- Collinsport, Maine - the setting for the soap opera Dark Shadows
- Corinth - the setting for the soap opera Loving
- Craigsville - Town partially destroyed by the crash of the Zero-X spaceship in Thunderbirds Are Go (pop. 4,800)
- Crystal Tokyo - Future version of Tokyo in Sailor Moon
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- Darnley - in Philip George Chadwick 's The Death Guard
- Dark City - in the movie with the same name.
- Dead Rock, Nevada - Crazy For You
- Derry, Maine - setting of Stephen King's It and Insomnia
- Dibley - setting of the television series The Vicar of Dibley
- Dictionopolis - the "city of words" in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
- Digitopolis - the "city of numbers" in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
- Dimmsdale - in Butch Hartman's The Fairly OddParents
- Diomira, a town with 60 cupolas of silver, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
- Dog River, Saskatchewan - Setting for Corner Gas
- Dogpatch, USA - home to Li'l Abner
- Dogville, Colorado - setting for Lars von Trier's film Dogville
- Don Camillo's village
- Dorotea, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
- Duckburg - in the Scrooge McDuck universe
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- Earth City in Inverted World by Christopher Priest - actually a large laboratory transported to a strange environment
- East Proctor, England - small Northern English town with a werewolf problem in An American Werewolf in London
- Eastwick, Massachusetts - John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick
- Edgeville - RuneScape
- Edoras - Capital of Rohan in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
- El Dorado - Fictional city of gold located somewhere in the New World.
- El-Ysa: village in Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The inhabitants were killed when their well was poisoned (Jingo).
- The Emerald City - in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books
- Emmerdale from the British TV series of the same name
- Empire Falls , the decaying New England mill town in Richard Russo 's novel of the same name
- Endora, Illinois - from the movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Endsville, city where The Grim Reaper, Billy and Mandy live in Maxwell Atoms' The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- Entrana - RuneScape
- Eos - capitol city of the planet Aurora
- Ephebe -somewhat Grecian city on the Circle Sea in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Ruled by the (democratically elected) Tyrant
- Erinsborough - setting for the Australian television soap Neighbours.
- Esseph; see David Lodge
- Evarchia - in Brigid Brophy's Palace without chairs
- Everville -town on the West Coast of the USA in Clive Barker's Everville
- Everwood, Colorado - of the television series Everwood
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- F City, F Prefecture - Japanese city in Excel Saga
- Fabletown - secret community of fairy tale characters in Fables comic.
- Falador - RuneScape
- Felton City, USA - setting of the W. C. Fields short The Barber Shop
- Ferwood, Ohio - setting of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Frogtown, USA - Home of the Frog People in Donald G. Jackson's Hell Comes to Frogtown
- Frostbite Falls, Minnesota - in Jay Ward's Rocky & Bullwinkle
- Fulchester, England - Originally the setting of the British TV programme Crown Court , Fulchester became the location of many of the stories in VIZ comic.
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- Galt's Gulch - Fictional mountain "utopia" in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged
- Gebra ? - Heavily fortified harbour town in Klatch, target of the Ankh-Morporkian invasion force in the Leshp-war in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Jingo).
- Genoa City - Setting of the television show The Young and the Restless. While it is modeled after the city Genoa City, Wisconsin, the two are not synonymous.
- Genua - Fairy tale city on Terry Pratchett's Discworld; Disneyland superimposed on New Orleans
- Gibbsville , Pennsylvania - Setting of the John O'Hara stories. Fictionalized version of Pottsville.
- Glen Oak - setting of the television show 7th Heaven.
- Gopher Prairie, Minnesota - setting of Sinclair Lewis novel Main Street
- Gormenghast - A city-sized castle featured in the first two books of a trilogy by Mervyn Peake
- Gotham City - Batman's place of work. Fictionalized version of New York City
- Graviton City - setting of Project A-ko
- Greenbow, Alabama - setting of the movie Forrest Gump
- Greyhawk - from the Dungeons and Dragons setting of the same name
- Grover's Corners , New Hampshire - Setting of the play Our Town. Resembles Peterborough, New Hampshire
- Grover's Corners, New Jersey - Setting for Keith Robertson 's Henry Reed books
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- Hadleyburg - Mark Twain's The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Halloween Town - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Hanbridge - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent
- Harmony - the setting for the soap opera Passions
- Haven, Maine - appears in Stephen King's, The Tommyknockers
- Haven - corrupt city in Simon Green's Guards of Haven.
- Hill Valley, California - Marty McFly's hometown in the Back to the Future movie trilogy
- Harchester - Home of Harchester United and The Dragon's Lair, Dream Team
- Herby City - Home of Andy & Lou from Little Britain
- Hillwood, Washington - setting of Craig Bartlett's Hey Arnold!
- Hogsmeade - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the only wizarding village in Britain
- Holby - location of Holby City Hospital in Casualty
- Holly Wood - small temporary town in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Moving Pictures)
- Hooterville - setting of Petticoat Junction
- Hooverville - Jumpstart 5th Grade
- Hub City, Illinois - home of Steve Ditko's The Question
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- Ilium, New York - common setting of many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels
- Ínsula Barataria - in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote
- Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino
- Iram - a city built on pillars in the Arabian Nights
- Isidora from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
- Isola - Ed McBain's version of New York City
- Isthmus City - a town setting near the Isthmus (prob. in Columbia) in the 16th James Bond movie, Licence to Kill.
J
- Jerusalem's Lot, Maine - setting for Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot
K
- Karamja - RuneScape
- Keystone City - home to Jay Garrick and Wally West (The Flash). In current DC Comics continuity, located directly opposite Central City.
- Kingsmarkham, Sussex, England: setting of Ruth Rendells Wexford novels.
- Knots Landing, California - Setting of Knots Landing
- Knype - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent
- Kom - city in Omnia on Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Kor, the city of Ayesha , in H. Rider Haggard's She
- Krasnoy - Town in Ursula K. Le Guin's Malafrena.
- Kravonia - in Anthony Hope's Sophy of Kravonia
- Kurozucho - from the manga horror series Uzumaki
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- Lake Wobegon, Minnesota -- in the stories of Garrison Keillor
- Lanford, Illinois - setting of the television series Roseanne
- Lancre Town - capital of Lancre in the Ramtop mountains in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
- Lankhmar - setting of many of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- Las Venturra - One of three cities in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, based on Las Vegas, Nevada
- Laputa - The site of a Soviet nuclear base in Dr. Strangelove, (also a country in Gulliver's Travels)
- Latham, Massachusetts - series finale of Seinfeld
- Lawson, California - in the Jim Carrey movie The Majestic
- Leshp, city of the squids, temporary island in the Circle Sea, cause of a war between Klatch and Ankh-Morpork in on Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Jingo)
- Liberty City - setting of the video game Grand Theft Auto 3, analogous to New York City
- Lichfield, town in Southern USA, probably in Virginia, home of Felix Kennaston in James Branch Cabell's novel "The cream of the Jest."
- Little Tall Island, Maine - setting of Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne
- Little Whinging, UK - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the home of the Dursley family, located in Surrey
- Littleville, Colorado - The home of two completely separate fictional characters: comic strip air ace Tailspin Tommy Tompkins and Robby Reed of the Dial H for Hero comic book feature. Littleville may be analogous to the real town of Littleton, Colorado.
- Llanview, Pennsylvania - setting for the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live.
- Logopolis - The city (and planet) visited by Dr. Who that hosts a race of mathematicians keeping the universe from totally collapsing by using "block transfer computation" to create Charged Vacuum Emboitements (CVEs) into other universes.
- Longshaw - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Longton in Stoke-on-Trent
- Los Santos - one of three cities in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, based off of Los Angeles, California
- Lumbridge - RuneScape
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- Malgudi- Novels of R.K. Narayan
- Maardam - The city in northern europe that is the setting of several Håkan Nesser novels.
- Mabase - fictional suburb in FLCL
- Macondo - in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Mämmilä, Finland - the setting for the comic strip of the same name by the Finnish cartoonist Tarmo Koivisto ; a small town supposedly in the Häme region
- Mansoul - the allegorical setting of John Bunyan's The Holy War
- Mayberry, North Carolina - setting of The Andy Griffith Show, loosely based on Mount Airy, North Carolina
- Maycomb, Alabama - the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird
- Megatokyo - from the anime Bubblegum Crisis (no relation to the Megatokyo web comic)
- Metropolis - the city featured in the film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang and scripted by Thea von Harbou
- Metropolis - Superman's place of work
- Mepos, Greece - the homeplace of Balki in Perfect Strangers
- Middlemarch of George Eliot
- Middleton - the setting of Kim Possible
- Midgar - headquarters of the Shinra corporation from Final Fantasy 7
- Midgard (or Midgaard) - in dozens of MUD online games
- Midland City - upstanding yet dystopian city in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
- Midway City - former home to DC Comics' Hawkman and Doom Patrol
- Midwich - the setting of John Wyndham's book The Midwich Cuckoos
- Minas Tirith - Capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
- Mooseport , Maine - Welcome to Mooseport
- Mouseton - in the Mickey Mouse universe
- Mud Flats , Nebraska - The Muller-Fokker Effect
- Mystery, Alaska - setting of the movie of the same name
N
- Neopolis - from the Top 10 comic book series by Alan Moore
- Neo-Tokyo - from the manga and anime Akira
- Nessus - From The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- New Berlin - Star Trek
- New Chicago - Buck Rogers
- New Crobuzon - Pedido Street Station by China Mieville
- New New York - setting of Futurama
- Nightside - a part of London where it is always Three o'clock in the Night ('Simon Green).
- Nilbog - from the movie Troll II
- Nodnol - in a mirror universe in the TV series Red Dwarf
- North Haverbrook - Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
- Nowhere, Kansas - from the TV series Courage the Cowardly Dog
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- O-Town - Setting of Rocko's Modern Life
- Oakdale - Setting for the soap opera As the World Turns
- Ocean Shores - Setting (based in part on Santa Monica) of Klasky-Csupo's Rocket Power
- Ogdenville - Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
- Opal City - home of DC Comics' Starman
- Osgiliath - City of Gondor, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
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- Pacamac, USA - City I Heart Huckabees takes place in. It's never mentioned in the film, but is in the promotional websites for the movie.
- Palomar , village from the comic book Love and Rockets by Gilbert Hernandez
- Par Ys - a mythical Paris in John Brunner's Traveller in Black.
- Pepperinge Eye, England - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- Perfection, Nevada - a stereotypical small desert town in the film Tremors.
- Pine Cove, California - setting of several Christopher Moore novels
- Pine Valley, Pennsylvania - setting for the soap opera All My Children
- Pleasantville - archetypical 50s TV suburb, from the movie Pleasantville
- Plotinus; see David Lodge
- Point Place, Wisconsin - setting of That 70's Show
- Port Charles, New York - setting of the soap operas General Hospital and Port Charles
- Post-Apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sitty - virtual reality setting in Tea From an Empty Cup and Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
- Post Apocalyptic Tokyo - virtual reality setting in Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
- Pseudopolis - town on Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
- Puddleby-on-the-Marsh - English port, home of Dr. Dolittle
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- Quahog, Rhode Island - setting of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy
- Quirm, Town in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, home of the inventor Leonard of Quirm who is currently residing in Ankh-Morpork.
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- Raccoon City - setting of Resident Evil
- Rakava - Town in Ursula K. Le Guin's Malafrena.
- Rampart Junction, Iowa - Ray Bradbury's "The Town Where No One Got Off"
- Ramsdale - nymphet girl's hometown in Lolita (set in New Hampshire in Stanley Kubrick's film)
- Retroville - setting of The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- Rimmerton - RuneScape
- Riverdale, the backdrop for Archie Comics.
- River City, Iowa - setting of The Music Man, based on Mason City, Iowa
- Rock Bottom - a town from SpongeBob SquarePants
- Rockvil - simulated town in the virtual reality world of A Mind Forever Voyaging
- Rome, Wisconsin, of the Picket Fences television series
- Rossum's Island - in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
- Royston Vasey - in the BBC's The League of Gentlemen
- Rummidge - from the works of David Lodge
- Rutherford, Ohio - setting of 3rd Rock From The Sun
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- Salem - the setting for the soap opera Days of Our Lives
- San Fierro - A city in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, modeled after San Fransisco, California
- San Narciso , California - An expanse of urban sprawl near Los Angeles, largely developed by Pierce Inverarity (The Crying of Lot 49)
- Santa Rosita, California - where the treasure is buried in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Santo Bugito - setting of a cartoon series of the same name
- Selene - the titular city in Paul Féval 's City of Vampires
- Shadows Fall - place where forgotten heroes retire in Simon Green's Shadows Fall.
- Shangri-La - in James Hilton's Lost Horizon
- Sheepridge - small town near Lancre in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- Shelbyville, USA - Neighboring city to Springfield, USA in the television series The Simpsons.
- Shell Beach - unvisitable resort town in the movie Dark City
- Sheltered Shrubs, Connecticut - in Klasky-Csupo's As Told By Ginger
- Shermer, Illinois - in many John Hughes films including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Silent Hill - setting of the Silent Hill video games
- Sim City, from the computer games of the same name
- Smallville, USA - Superboy's midwestern home town, and the town in which Clark Kent (Superman) grew up (some sources place it in Kansas, while others place it close to the North American eastern seaboard)
- Sneddy - according to the radio and television comedy Little Britain, the capital of the United Kingdom is Sneddy
- South Park, Colorado - in the TV series South Park
- Sparta - setting of In the Heat of the Night; the original novel placed Sparta in Illinois, but the film and television adaptations moved it to Mississippi
- Spectre, Alabama - in Tim Burton's Big Fish, seen first as an afterlife and later as a real town
- Spent - sinister UK town in the BBC Radio 4 comedy On the Town with The League of Gentlemen (changed to Royston Vasey in the TV version)
- Spoon River - in Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River anthology
- Spoonerville - Goofy's hometown on Goof Troop
- Springfield, Illinois (?) - the setting for the soap opera Guiding Light. It is unclear, however, if this is the capital of Illinois like real life would suggest.
- Springfield, USA, the city without a state in Matt Groening's The Simpsons television series
- St. Canard - Darkwing Duck's hometown.
- St. Mary Mead - fictional village in the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie
- Star's Hollow, Connecticut - setting of the television series Gilmore Girls
- Steklovks - in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs
- Stepford, Connecticut - in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives and sequels
- Sto Lat - town on the Sto Plains, famous for its cabbage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. In Russian the name means "hundred years".
- Sub Diego - from DC Comics, San Diego after it sinks into the sea.
- Stuckeyville, Ohio - from the television series Ed
- Summer Bay - the setting for the Australian television series Home and Away
- Sunnydale, California - in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
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- Tacticum - former town in Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. It was left by the inhabitants when the wind changed and it no longer rained. Named after the Ankh-Morpork General Tacticus. Main sights today: remains of a statue of the former, in bad preservation, with an inscription saying "Ab hoc possum videre domum tuum". (Jingo).
- Tadfield - Small UK town in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Always has normal weather for the time of year.
- Tanelorn - in Michael Moorcock's multiverse
- Tar Valon from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
- City of Thi - Obscure city in the Land of Oz.
- Tokyo-3 - (present day Hakone, Japan) from the anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Townsville, USA - fictional city on The Powerpuff Girls, where the girls reside
- Trantor - planet-wide city in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
- Troy - setting of Homer 's Illiad
- Tsort - former Capital of Tsort in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
- Tuna, Texas - location of a play by the same name.
- Turnhill - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Tunstall in Stoke-on-Trent
- Twin Peaks, Washington - from the television series and movie Twin Peaks
- Tylerton - in Fredrich Pohl 's The tunnel under the world
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- Varrock - RuneScape
- Vermilion Sands of J. G. Ballard
- Verona Beach in the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet (some sources place this in California, others in Florida)
- Vetusta (inspired in Oviedo) in Leopoldo Alas 's La Regenta
- Vice City, Florida - setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, analogous to Miami, Florida
- Villette of Charlotte Brontë.
- Viriconium of M. John Harrison
- Viron - Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
- Vondervotteimittis, Netherlands - Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry
- Vril-ya - Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race
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- Walkerville, USA - in The Magic School Bus series
- Walford - fictional London borough in the tv soap Eastenders
- Waterdeep - city from the Baldur's Gate Series, set in the Forgotten Realms
- The Well-Built City - in Jeffrey Ford 's novel The Physiognomy
- Winesburg, Ohio - the small-town setting for Sherwood Anderson's collection of short stories of the same name
- Winter River, Connecticut - from the movie Beetlejuice
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- Xanadu, Kubla Khan's capital in Coleridge's poem.
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Z
- Zaira of the high bastions, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
- Zenith, in the fictional U. S. state of Winnemac, in Babbitt and other novels by Sinclair Lewis
- Zero One or 01, from The Animatrix and also known as Machine City in the movie The Matrix
- Zion in the movie The Matrix
Story universes with multiple cities
- Isaac Asimov's Foundation series: Eos on the planet Aurora, Trantor, a subterranean New York City, and many more besides
- Ramsey Campbell's fictional Severn Valley horror stories: Brichester , Goatswood , Severnford , and Warrendown
- Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books: Havnor Great Port , Hort Town , and Thwil
- H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: Arkham, Dunwich (the fictional one), Exham , Kingsport , Innsmouth, R'lyeh, Ulthar and Y'ha-nthlei
- George Lucas' Star Wars saga: Coruscant, Mos Eisley, Theed (on Naboo), and others
- China Miéville's Perdido Street Station and The Scar: Armada, High Cromlech , New Crobuzon, and others
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld, eg. Ankh-Morpork, Lancre City, Sto Lat. See: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, The Discworld Companion (London Gollancz 1993).
- Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Several, too many to list
- J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe: Eglarest, Gondolin, Hobbiton, Menegroth, Minas Tirith, Nargothrond, Valinor, and Vinyamar
Further reading
- Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic ISBN 0151005419
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45