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 Al Kharid - RuneScape
Al-Ybi - city in the Klatchian desert in Terry Pratchett 's Discworld zero was invented.
Amber - the city of which all others are shadows in Roger Zelazny 's Nine Princes in Amber 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 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 .
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 - 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
Athkatla - a city in Amn, of the Forgotten Realms , setting of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Atlantis - mythical city/country/continent.
Auchterturra - generic Scottish town from Scotland the What?
Avonlea , Prince Edward Island - in Lucy Maud Montgomery 's Anne of Green Gables B
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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 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 City 17 - The setting for the computer game Half-Life 2
The City, USA - one city called this is home to The Tick 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 Coastal Breeze, South Carolina - the setting for some of the short stories of Alexander Higle
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 Coursegold, California - The setting for the computer game Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist Craigsville - Town partially destroyed by the crash of the Zero-X spaceship in Thunderbirds Are Go Crystal Tokyo - Future version of Tokyo in Sailor Moon Cwmderi - welsh village that is the setting for the BBC soap opera Pobol y Cwm D
Dakota - setting of the events in all Milestone Comic's titles took place in a fictional midwestern city: Hardware , Blood Syndicate , Icon , Static etc.
Dandytown - The Dandy 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
Domino City - from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh!
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 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 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
Gusliar (Guslyar, Veliky Gusliar, Great Gusliar) - Setting for many Gusliar short stories by Kir Bulychev .
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Haddonfield, Illinois - the setting for all of the Halloween H20 and Season of the Witch ).
Hadleyburg - Mark Twain 's The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Hadleyburg, Pennsylvania - location of Japanese owned auto factory in Gung Ho
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 I
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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 Laputa - The site of a Soviet nuclear base in Dr. Strangelove 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 Grand Theft Auto 3 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 the Doctor in the Doctor Who Logopolis 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 Lumbridge - RuneScape
Luca - town, with its magnificent blitzball stadium, in Spira (Final Fantasy X Lud - a large city similar to New York City that borders a radioactive wasteland in Stephen King 's Dark Tower series. Lud may exist in Mid-World in an area similar to Kansas .
Lumberg, Oregon - small town that doesn't really exist despite the claims of rock group Zowie, which inists it was formed there
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
Manor Park - the fictional area of Liverpool, Merseyside were Brookside Close was set, the Channel 4 Soap which run for 2 decades.
Mansoul - the allegorical setting of John Bunyan 's The Holy War
Mariposa (fictional place) , Ontario - created by Stephen Leacock for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Mayberry , North Carolina - setting of The Andy Griffith Show Mount Airy, North Carolina
Maycomb , Alabama - the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird Meridianna - from the animated show, Cybersix, and home to her adventures
Megatokyo - from the anime Bubblegum Crisis Megatokyo web comic )
Menzoberranzan - the city of the Drows from Forgotten Realms books
Metropolis - the city featured in the film Metropolis Fritz Lang and scripted by Thea von Harbou
Metropolis - Superman 's place of work, similar to New York City.
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 VII 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 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)
Moperville , setting of El Goonish Shive
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 Palomar , village from the comic book Love and Rockets Gilbert Hernandez
Paragon City, Rhode Island - Setting of the game City of Heroes 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 '70s Show Port Charles, New York - setting of the soap operas General Hospital Port Charles Port du Patois - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Port Sherman, Oregon - Snow Crash 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
Primary Village, File Island, Digital World - imagnary village were all digimon are hatched and rasied. Digimon
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 State of San Andreas, USA - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas California and Nevada . Major cities are Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas.
San Fierro - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 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.
Shadyside - Town in the R.L. Stine book series Fear Street .
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 United Kingdom is Sneddy
Solace - home of the Heroes of the Lance in the Dragonlance books/role playing setting.
Songsung, Ireland - setting of Alexander Higle's "The Game of Gamberling"
Sparta, Mississippi - setting of In the Heat of the Night Spectre, Alabama - in Tim Burton 's Big Fish Spent - sinister UK town in the BBC Radio 4 comedy On the Town with The League of Gentlemen 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 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
Stafford, Indiana - hometown of Dr. Richard Kimble, where a one-armed man murdered his wife in "The Fugitive" TV series of the 1960s.
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 Sto Lat - town on the Sto Plains , famous for its cabbage in Terry Pratchett 's Discworld . In Russian the name means "hundred years".
Stoneybrook, Connecticut - Setting of The Baby-Sitters Club series.
Stuckeyville, Ohio - from the television series Ed
Sub Diego - from DC Comics , San Diego after it sinks into the sea.
Summer Bay - the setting for the Australian television series Home and Away Sunnydale, California - in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
Sunnyvale Trailer Park , outside Halifax, Nova Scotia . Home of the Trailer Park Boys T
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 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] . (There are also some real places called Tarrytown .)
Tar Valon from Robert Jordan 's Wheel of Time 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 Toytown - An unusal village in the Digital world, Digimon
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 Frederik 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 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 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 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 Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels : 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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