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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.
Contents: Top - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z —
Story universes with multiple cities —
Further reading
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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 - various fantasy stories by Jeff VanderMeer
- Ambridge - setting of BBC Radio's The Archers
- 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 - Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Arcadia, Maryland - setting of Joan of Arcadia
- Antares - typical city on the border of Brazil and Argentina, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. From Érico Veríssimo's book Incidente em Antares.
- 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 - Stephen King's The Stand
- Arrakeen - Frank Herbert's Dune
- Ashton, Alabama - Tim Burton's film Big Fish
- Astro City, USA - Kurt Busiek's city of superheroes
- Atlantis - mythical city/country/continent.
- Athkatla - a city in Amn, of the Forgotten Realms, setting of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
- Auchterturra - generic Scottish town from Scotland the What?
- Avonlea, Prince Edward Island - in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
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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
- City of Angels - setting of comics TV series Black Scorpion
- 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
- Cwmderi - welsh village that is the setting for the BBC soap opera Pobol y Cwm
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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
- Denton, Ohio - setting of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- 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, Calisota, USA - in the Scrooge McDuck universe
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- F City, F Prefecture - Japanese city in Excel Saga
- Fabletown - secret community of fairy tale characters in Fables comic.
- Fairvale, California - small town setting of Psycho
- Falador - RuneScape
- Farburg - from Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog
- Felton City, USA - setting of the W. C. Fields short The Barber Shop
- Fernwood, 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.
- Furinkan, Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan- The setting for the manga and anime series Ranma ½.
- Funkytown - From the Lipps, Inc song.
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- Galt's Gulch - Fictional mountain "utopia" in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged
- Garradrimna - fictional village in Valley of the Squinting Windows, fictionalized version of Delvin, Ireland
- 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
- Grovers Bend, Kansas - setting in the first two Critters films.
- 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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- Haddonfield, Illinois - the setting for all of the Halloween films (with the exceptions of H20 and Season of the Witch).
- 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
- Holy Wood - small temporary town in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Moving Pictures)
- Hooterville, USA - setting of Petticoat Junction
- Hooverville - Jumpstart 5th Grade
- Hub City, Illinois - home of Steve Ditko's The Question
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- Lake Edna - portrayed in advertisements for KFC
- 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 Venturas - One of three cities in the state of San Andreas (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
- Lawndale - setting of the MTV animated series Daria.
- 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 - from Grand Theft Auto and 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 the state of San Andreas (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), based on Los Angeles, California
- Lumbridge - RuneScape
- Luca - town, with its magnificent blitzball stadium, in Spira (Final Fantasy X)
- Lytton - setting of the games in the Police Quest videogame series
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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)
- Menzoberranzan - the city of the Drows from Forgotten Realms books
- Metropolis - the city featured in the film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang and scripted by Thea von Harbou
- Metropolis - Superman's place of work
- Metroville, USA - city in The Incredibles
- 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
- Midston, USA - setting of the Danny Dunn books.
- 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
- Moahu - Island in the Pacific encountered in Patrick O'Brian's The Wine-Dark Sea (novel)
- Mooseport, Maine - Welcome to Mooseport
- Mouseton - in the Mickey Mouse universe
- Mud Flats, Nebraska - The Muller-Fokker Effect
- Municiberg, USA - city in The Incredibles
- Mystery, Alaska - setting of the movie of the same name
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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.
- Peach Creek, USA - Ed, Edd, and Eddy]
- 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
- Pleasantville (Canada?) - setting of TV series Big Wolf on Campus
- 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
- Port du Patois - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- 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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- Salem - the setting for the soap opera Days of Our Lives
- San Andreas, California - Grand Theft Auto, modelled after San Francisco, California.
- State of San Andreas, USA - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, fictional state, with resemblances to California and Nevada. Major cities are Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas.
- San Fierro - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, modelled after San Francisco, California
- San Narciso, California - An expanse of urban sprawl near Los Angeles, largely developed by Pierce Inverarity, The Crying of Lot 49
- Santa Carla, California - vampire-infested town in The Lost Boys
- Santa Mira, California - the settings for the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- Santa Rosita, California - where the treasure is buried in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Santa Teresa, California - fictional town in detective novels by Sue Grafton
- 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 - unreachable 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
- Silent Springs - setting of cartoon My Dad the Rock Star
- Sim City, from the computer games of the same name
- Smallbridge - The village where Horatio Hornblower retired after his long service in the Royal Navy.
- 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
- Solace - home of the Heroes of the Lance in the Dragonlance books/role playing setting.
- Sparta, Mississippi - setting of In the Heat of the Night; the original novel took place in a town called Wells, somewhere in the Carolinas, 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
- St. Roch - home to the current Hawkman and Hawkgirl in the DC Universe
- 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.
- Sunnyvale Trailer Park, outside Halifax, Nova Scotia. Home of the Trailer Park Boys
- 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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- Tackleford - North England setting of John Allison's webcomics Bobbins and Scary Go Round.
- 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
- Tarrytown - A small USA town with an airport. It is the setting for the children's CGI cartoon series Jay Jay the Jet Plane [1] (http://wonderwings.com). (There are also some real places called Tarrytown.)
- Tar Valon from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
- Thermostadt, Capital of the Robo-Hungarian Empire, Futurama
- City of Thi - Obscure city in the Land of Oz.
- Tokyo-3 - (present day Hakone, Japan) from the anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Tomobiki - District of Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan; setting for the anime and manga series Urusei Yatsura.
- Townsville, USA - fictional city on The Powerpuff Girls, where the girls reside
- Trantor - planet-wide city in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
- 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 Frederick Pohl's The Tunnel Under the World
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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
- Ed Greenwood's (and others') Forgotten Realms: numerous - including Athkatla, Baldur's Gate, Calimport, Menzoberranzan, Mithral Hall, Neverwinter, Silverymoon and Waterdeep. See also Dungeons & Dragons
- Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books: Havnor Great Port, Hort Town, and Thwil
- Gary Gygax's (and others') Greyhawk: numerous - including Flen, Highport, and the Free City of Greyhawk. See also Dungeons & Dragons
- 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
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