List of 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, USA - Kurt Busiek's city of superheroes
• Avonlea, Prince Edward Island - in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
• 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
• Cabot Cove, Maine - in the tv series Murder, She Wrote
• Camelot, Britain - the castle of King Arthur
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Frostbite Falls, Minnesota - in Jay Ward's Rocky & Bullwinkle
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• New Berlin - Star Trek
• Nowhere - from the TV series Courage the Cowardly Dog
• Ocean Shores - the setting (based in part on Santa Monica) of Klasky-Csupo's Rocket Power
• Palomar, village from the comic book Love and Rockets by Gilbert Hernandez
• Plotinus; see David Lodge
• Quahog, Rhode Island - setting of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Vermilion Sands of J. G. Ballard
• Vetusta (inspired in Oviedo) in Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta
• Viriconium of M. John Harrison
• Walkerville, USA - in The Magic School Bus series
• Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi of William Faulkner
• 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