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List of fictional cities

Redirected from Fictional cities Strictly speaking this entry is about communities like 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 present one version of archetypal place.

• Amber - the city of which all others are shadows in Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber series about Amber (fictional realm)
• Ankh-Morpork - in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
• Astro City[?] - Kurt Busiek[?]'s city of superheroes
• Bad Ass, Texas[?] - in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
• Barchester - in the novels of Anthony Trollope
• Bellona - in Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
• Camelot - the castle of King Arthur
• Castle Rock, Maine[?] - home to many Stephen King characters
• Chasm City[?], in Alastair Reynolds' 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 - home of The Tick
• City of the Iron fish[?] by Simon Ings[?]
• Darnley[?] - in Philip George Chadwick[?]'s The Death Guard
• Don Camillo's village
• Duckburg - in the Scrooge McDuck universe
• Eglarest[?] - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Emmerdale from the British TV series of the same name
• Esseph; see David Lodge
• Evarchia[?] - in Brigid Brophy[?]'s Palace without chairs
• Gormenghast - a city-sized castle featured in a trilogy by Mervyn Peake
• Gotham City - Batman's place of work
• Gondolin - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Hogsmeade[?] - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the only wizarding village in Britain
• Ínsula Barataria[?] - in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote
• Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino
• Isola[?] - Ed McBain[?]'s version of New York City
• Kravonia[?] - in Anthony Hope's Sophy of Kravonia
• Lankhmar[?] - setting of many of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
• Little Whinging - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the home of the Dursley family[?], located in Surrey
• Macondo[?] - in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude[?]
• Mämmilä - 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
• Menegroth - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Metropolis - the city featured in the film Metropolis
• Metropolis - Superman's place of work
• Midwich[?] - the setting of John Wyndham's book The Midwich Cuckoos[?]
• Minas Tirith - a city in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
• Mouseton - in the Mickey Mouse universe
• Nargothrond - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
• New Berlin[?] - Star Trek
• Ocean Shores - the setting (based in part on Santa Monica, California) of Arlene Klasky[?]'s Rocket Power
• Palomar[?], village from the comic book Love and Rockets[?] by Gilbert Hernandez
• Plotinus; see David Lodge
• Rome, Wisconsin, of the Picket Fences[?] television series
• Rossum's Island[?] - in Karel Capek's play Rossum's Universal Robots
• Rummidge; see David Lodge
• Shangri-La[?] - in James Hilton's Lost Horizon
• Sleepy Hollow, New York - in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• South Park, Colorado - in the TV series South Park
• Spoon River[?] - in Edgar Lee Masters[?]'s Spoon River anthology[?]
• Spoonerville - Goofy's hometown on Goof Troop
• Springfield, the city without a state in The Simpsons television series
• St. Canard[?] - Darkwing Duck's hometown.
• Steklovks[?] - in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs
• Stepford[?] - in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives[?]
• Townsville[?] - Powerpuff Girls' homebase
• Tylerton[?] - in Fredrich Pohl[?]'s The tunnel under the world
• Valmar[?] ou Valinor - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Vermilion Sands[?] of J. G. Ballard
• Vetusta[?] (inspired in Oviedo) in Leopoldo Alas[?]'s La Regenta[?]
• Vinyamar[?] - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Viriconium[?] of M. John Harrison
• Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi[?] of William Faulkner
• Zion in the movie The Matrix

• Arkham, Dunwich[?] (the fictional one), Exham[?], Kingsport[?], Innsmouth[?], R'lyeh, and Y'ha-nthlei[?], of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
• Armada[?], High Cromlech[?], New Crobuzon[?] and others, from China Miéville's Perdido Street Station[?] and The Scar
• Brichester[?], Goatswood[?], Severnford[?], and Warrendown[?] of Ramsey Campbell's fictional Severn Valley[?] horror stories
• Several in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Further reading

• Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi: The Dictionary of imaginary places

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