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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.
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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, 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
- Center City - home to the comic book hero, The Flash.
- Chamberlain, Maine - home to the title character of Stephen King's Carrie
- Central City and Keystone City - twin cities, home to Barry Allen (The Flash); a city with the former name was also 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
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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 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
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- 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
- 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.
- 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
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- Xanadu, capital of Khublai Khan in Coleridge's poem.
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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
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