List of fictional cities
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 ZStrictly 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.
A
- 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.
- Ankh-Morpork - in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Astro City, USA - Kurt Busiek's city of superheroes
- 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
- Bedrock - in Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones
- Bellona - in Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
- Bikini Bottom - in Stephen Hillenburg's Spongebob Squarepants
- Bluffington - in the Doug animated series
C
- Cabot Cove, Maine - in the tv series Murder, She Wrote
- Camelot, Britain - the castle of King Arthur
- London Borough of Canley - in the tv sreies The Bill
- Castle Rock, Maine - home to many Stephen King characters
- 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 - home of The Tick
- City of the Iron fish by Simon Ings
- Cloudcuckooland - The city in the sky featured in Aristophanes' The Birds
D
- Darnley - in Philip George Chadwick's The Death Guard
- Dimsdale - in Butch Hartman's The Fairly Oddparents
- Don Camillo's village
- Duckburg - in the Scrooge McDuck universe
E
- The Emerald City - in L. Frank Baum's Oz books
- Emmerdale from the British TV series of the same name
- Esseph; see David Lodge
- Evarchia - in Brigid Brophy's Palace without chairs
F
- Frostbite Falls, Minnesota - in Jay Ward's Rocky & Bullwinkle
G
- Gormenghast - a city-sized castle featured in the first two books of a trilogy by Mervyn Peake
- Gotham City, USA - Batman's place of work
H
- Hill Valley, California - Marty McFly's hometown in the Back to the Future movie trilogy
- 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
- Hooverville - Jumpstart 5th Grade
I
- Ínsula Barataria - in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote
- Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino
- Isola - Ed McBain's version of New York City
J
K
- Kravonia - in Anthony Hope's Sophy of Kravonia
L
- Lankhmar - setting of many of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- Lake Wobegon -- in the stories of Garrison Keillor
- Little Whinging, UK - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the home of the Dursley family, located in Surrey
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
- Maycomb, Alabama - the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird
- Metropolis - the city featured in the film Metropolis
- Metropolis, USA - Superman's place of work
- Middleton - the setting of Kim Possible
- Midwich - the setting of John Wyndham's book The Midwich Cuckoos
- Mouseton - in the Mickey Mouse universe
N
- New Berlin - Star Trek
- Nowhere - 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
- Plotinus; see David Lodge
Q
- Quahog, Rhode Island - setting of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy
R
- Retroville - setting of The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- Rome, Wisconsin, of the Picket Fences television series
- Rossum's Island - in Karel Capek's play Rossum's Universal Robots
- Rummidge; see David Lodge
S
- Santo Bugito - setting of a cartoon series of the same name
- Shangri-La - in James Hilton's Lost Horizon
- Sheltered Shrubs, Connecticut - in Klasky-Csupo's As Told By Ginger
- 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
- 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.
- Steklovks - in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs
- Stepford, USA - in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives
- Sunnydale, California - in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
T
- Townsville, USA - Powerpuff Girls' homebase
- Trantor - planet-wide city in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
- 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
- Viriconium of M. John Harrison
W
- Walkerville, USA - in The Magic School Bus series
- Walford - in the tv soap Eastenders
X
Y
- Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi of William Faulkner
Z
- 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, 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
- 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


