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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, most fictional cities resemble either a specific place or represent a broader archetype.

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

A

• Al Khali - capital of Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
• 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)
• Ambridge, village where BBC Radio's The Archers is set.
• Anastasia, a town with concentric channels, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Ankh-Morpork - in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
• Arkham: setting of a lot of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, based on Salem, Virginia.
• 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.
• Avonlea, Prince Edward Island - in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

B

• Bad Ass, Texas - in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy
• Barchester - in the novels of Anthony Trollope
• Bayport - home of the Hardy Boys
• Bedford Falls - setting of the movie It's a Wonderful Life.
• Bedrock - in Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones
• Bellona - in Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
• Bikini Bottom - in Stephen Hillenburg's Spongebob Squarepants
• Bes Pelargic - harbor town in the Agathean empire in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Blue Valley - home to Wally West (The Flash, formerly Kid Flash)
• Bluffington - in the Doug animated series
• Bordertown - in Terri Windling's shared universe series
• Brigadoon - from Alan Jay Lerner's novel of the same name

C

• 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, Massachussets - in the TV series Dawson's Creek
• Casterbridge - town in Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Identified as Dorchester, Dorset.
• Castle Rock, Maine - home to many Stephen King characters
• Chamberlain, Maine - home to the title character of Stephen King's Carrie
• Central City - one city with this name was home to Jay Garrick (The Flash); another city with this name was briefly home to the Fantastic Four
• Chasm City, in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space and sequels
• 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
• Crystal Tokyo - Future version of Tokyo in Sailor Moon

D

• Darnley - in Philip George Chadwick's The Death Guard
• Dark City - in the movie with the same name.
• 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
• Dimsdale - in Butch Hartman's The Fairly Oddparents
• Diomira, a town with 60 cupolas of silver, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Dogpatch, USA - home to Li'l Abner
• Don Camillo's village
• Dorotea, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Duckburg - in the Scrooge McDuck universe

E

• Eastwick, Massachusetts - John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick
• 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 Oz books
• Emmerdale from the British TV series of the same name
• Endora, Illinois - from the movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape
• Ephebe, city on the Circular Sea in Terry Pratchett`s Diskworld. Ruled by the Tyrant,
• 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

F

• F City, F Prefecture - Japanese city in Excel Saga
• Ferwood, Ohio - setting of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
• Frostbite Falls, Minnesota - in Jay Ward's Rocky & Bullwinkle

G

• Gebra ? heavily fortified harbour town in Klatch, target of the Ankh-Morporkian invasion force in the Leshp-war in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Jingo).
• Glen Oak - setting of the television show "7th Heaven".
• Gormenghast - a city-sized castle featured in the first two books of a trilogy by Mervyn Peake
• Gotham City, New Jersey - Batman's place of work
• Grover's Corners, New Hampshire - Setting of the play Our Town.

H

• Hadleyburg - Mark Twain's The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
• 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 Great Britain
• 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

I

• 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

J

• Jersusalem's Lot, Maine - setting for Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot

K

• Keystone City - home to Barry Allen (The Flash)
• Kingsmarkham, Sussex, England: setting of Ruth Rendell''s Wexford novels.
• Kom - city in Om on Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Kor, the city of Ayesha, in H. Rider Haggard's She
• Krasnoy - Town in Ursula le Guin's Malafrena.
• Kravonia - in Anthony Hope's Sophy of Kravonia

L

• 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 Diskworld series.
• Lankhmar - setting of many of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
• Lawson, California - in the Jim Carrey movie The Majestic
• Leshp, city of the squids, temporary island in the circular sea, cause of a war between Klatch and Ank-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
• 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.

M

• Macondo - in Gabriel Garcia Marquez'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 by Fritz Lang, script Thea von Harboul
• Metropolis, Delaware - Superman's place of work
• Middlemarch of George Eliot
• Middleton - the setting of Kim Possible
• Midwich - the setting of John Wyndham's book The Midwich Cuckoos
• Midway City - former home to DC Comics' Hawkman and Doom Patrol
• Mouseton - in the Mickey Mouse universe
• Mystery, Alaska - setting of the movie of the same name

N

• Neo-Tokyo - from the anime, Akira
• New Berlin - Star Trek
• 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
• Nowhere, Kansas - from the TV series Courage the Cowardly Dog

O

• Ocean Shores - the setting (based in part on Santa Monica) of Klasky-Csupo's Rocket Power

P

• Palomar, village from the comic book Love and Rockets by Gilbert Hernandez
• Par Ys - a mythical Paris in John Brunner's Traveller in Black.
• Pine Cove, California - setting of several Christopher Moore novels
• Pine Valley, Pennsylvania - setting for the soap opera All My Children
• 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-Apocalyitic New York - site of a fictional computer game in' Tea from an empty cup' by Pat Cardigan.
• Pseudopolis - town on Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

Q

• 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.

R

• Raccoon City - setting of Resident Evil
• Rakava - Town in Ursula le Guin's Malafrena.
• Rampart Junction, Iowa - Ray Bradbury's "The Town Where No One Got Off"
• Retroville - setting of
• Riverdale, the backdrop for Archie Comics.
• River City, Iowa - setting of The Music Man, based on Mason City, Iowa
• 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; see David Lodge
• Rutherford, Ohio - setting of Third Rock from the Sun

S

• San Andreas - setting of , named for the San Andreas fault and patterned after Los Angeles, California
• 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 were forgotten heroes retire in Simon Green's Shadows Fall.
• Shangri-La - in James Hilton's Lost Horizon
• Sheep ridge - small town in Lancre in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Shelbyville, USA - Neighboring city to Springfield, USA in the television series The Simpsons.
• Sheltered Shrubs, Connecticut - in Klasky-Csupo's As Told By Ginger
• 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)
• 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
• Spoon River - in Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River anthology
• Spoonerville - Goofy's hometown on Goof Troop
• 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 city in the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christe
• Star's Hollow, Connecticut - setting of the television series Gilmore Girls
• Steklovks - in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs
• Stepford, USA - 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".
• Stuckeyville, Ohio - from the television series Ed
• Sunnydale, California - in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series

T

• 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).
• Tokyo-3 - (present day Hakone, Japan) from the anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Townsville, USA - Powerpuff Girls' homebase
• Trantor - planet-wide city in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
• Troy - setting of Homer 's Illias
• Tsort - former Capital of Tsort in Terry Pratchett's Diskworld.
• Tuna, Texas - location of a play by the same name.
• Twin Peaks, Washington - from the television series and movie Twin Peaks
• Tylerton - in Fredrich Pohl's The tunnel under the world

U

V

• Vermilion Sands of J. G. Ballard
• Vetusta (inspired in Oviedo) in Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta
• Vice City, Florida - setting of , analogous to Miami, Florida
• Villette of Charlotte Brontë.
• Viriconium of M. John Harrison
• Vondervotteimittis, Netherlands - Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry
• Vril-ya - Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race

W

• Walkerville, USA - in The Magic School Bus series
• Walford - in the tv soap Eastenders
• Winesburg, Ohio - the small-town setting for Sherwood Anderson's collection of short stories of the same name

X

• Xanadu, Kubla Khan's capital in Coleridge's poem.

Y

• Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi of William Faulkner

Z

• Zaira of the high bastions, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Zion in the movie The Matrix

Story universes with multiple cities

• Ramsey Campbell's fictional Severn Valley horror stories: Brichester, Goatswood, Severnford, and Warrendown
• Ursula 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 Diskworld, eg. Ankh-Morpok, Lancre City, Sto Lat. See: Terry Pratchett, Stepen Briggs, The Discworld companion (London Gollancs 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