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 Z

This list is of 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

• 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
• Arlen, Texas - setting of King of the Hill
• 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
• Bordertown in Terri Windling's shared universe 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
• 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
• 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, Minnesota -- 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
• 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
• 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
• Point Place, Wisconsin - setting of That 70's Show

Q

• Quahog, Rhode Island - setting of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy

R

• Retroville - setting of The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Riverdale, the backdrop for Archie Comics.
• River City, Iowa - setting of The Music Man, based on Mason City, Iowa
• Rome, Wisconsin, of the Picket Fences television series
• Rossum's Island - in Karel Capek's play Rossum's Universal Robots
• Rummidge; see David Lodge
• Rutherford, Ohio - setting of Third Rock from the Sun

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
• Winesburg, Ohio - the small-town setting for Sherwood Anderson's collection of short stories of the same name

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