This list is of fictional cities: villages, towns, and cities that do not exist in the world we know. Like fictional countries, and fictional counties, most fictional cities either resemble a specific place or represent a broader archetype.

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A

• Acme Acres - Tiny Toon Adventures
• Adano - A Bell for Adano
• Al Khali - capital of Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
• Al Kharid - RuneScape
• Al-Ybi - city in the Klatchian desert in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Place where the number zero was invented.
• Amber - the city of which all others are shadows in Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber series about Amber (fictional realm)
• Ambergris - various fantasy stories by Jeff VanderMeer
• Ambridge - setting of BBC Radio's The Archers
• Anastasia, a town with concentric channels, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Andoshen, PA - "a fictional city located 14 real miles from John O'Hara's fictional Gibbsville," in Daryl Ponicsan's novel Andoshen, PA. Fictionalized version of Shenandoah.
• Ankh-Morpork - Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
• Antares - typical city on the border of Brazil and Argentina, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. From Érico Veríssimo's book Incidente em Antares .
• Arcadia, Maryland - setting of Joan of Arcadia
• Ardougne - RuneScape
• Arkham - setting of several of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, based on Salem, Massachusetts.
• Arlen, Texas - setting of King of the Hill
• Arnette, Texas - Stephen King's The Stand
• Arrakeen - Frank Herbert's Dune
• Ashton, Alabama - Tim Burton's film Big Fish
• Astro City, USA - Kurt Busiek's city of superheroes
• Athkatla - a city in Amn, of the Forgotten Realms, setting of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
• Atlantis - mythical city/country/continent.
• Auchterturra - generic Scottish town from Scotland the What?
• Avonlea, Prince Edward Island - in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

B

• Bad Ass, Texas - Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy. Also the name of Granny Weatherwax's village in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Bad Blintz - Town in Überwald in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Famous for its Rat Piper
• Bailey Downs - setting in the Ginger Snaps trilogy (the prequel is set in Fort Bailey where the town would be built in the future). The town is said to be based on suburban Calgary.
• Baldur's Gate - city in the Sword Coast, of the Forgotten Realms, setting of the Baldur's Gate series
• Barchester - The novels of Anthony Trollope
• Basin City - The full name of the city featured in the Sin City Series of Graphic Novels
• Bayport - Home of the Hardy Boys
• Bay City - Setting for the soap opera Another World
• Bay City - Corrupt town near L.A. in Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
• Beanotown - The Beano
• Beardsley - College town in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (set in Ohio in Stanley Kubrick's film)
• Bedford Falls - Setting of the movie It's a Wonderful Life.
• Bedrock - Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones
• Beeton (as in "beaten") - a California ghost town occupied by the aliens in the first season of War of the Worlds
• Bellona - Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
• Bette Noir - Fallen Angel comic series
• Bikini Bottom - Stephen Hillenburg's Spongebob Squarepants
• Bes Pelargic - Harbor town in the Agatean Empire in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Bevelle - Final Fantasy X
• Blackbury - Small UK town in Terry Pratchett's The Bromeliad and Johnny Maxwell trilogy
• Bludhaven - Current home of the former Robin Dick Grayson (Nightwing)
• Blue Valley - Home to Wally West (The Flash, formerly Kid Flash)
• Bluffington - Doug animated series
• Boneville - Unseen home of the Bone cousins in Bone by Jeff Smith
• Bonk - (pronounced Beyonk) Town in Überwald in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
• Bordertown - Terri Windling 's shared universe series
• Brigadoon - Alan Jay Lerner's novel of the same name
• Bristol Camino, California - fictional Ventura County town in Hostage (movie)
• Brockway - Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
• Bumblescum, USA - Poor Southern town in the "To Love and Die in Dixie" episode of Family Guy
• Bursley - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Burslem in Stoke-on-Trent

C

• 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, Massachusetts - in the TV series Dawson's Creek
• Capital City, USA - Capital city of the state where Springfield, USA is located in The Simpsons.
• Casterbridge - town in Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Identified as Dorchester, Dorset.
• Castle Rock, Maine - home to many Stephen King characters
• Centerburg - setting for Robert McCloskey's Homer Price stories
• Central City - one city with this name was home to Barry Allen(The Flash); another city with this name was briefly home to the Fantastic Four
• Chamberlain, Maine - home to the title character of Stephen King's Carrie
• Chasm City, in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space and sequels
• Christmas Town - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
• 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
• City 17 - The setting for the computer game Half-Life 2
• The City, USA - one city called this is home to The Tick; another is the setting of Transmetropolitan
• City of Angels - setting of comics TV series Black Scorpion
• 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
• Coastal Breeze, South Carolina - the setting for some of the short stories of Alexander Higle
• Coast City - former home of the superhero Green Lantern, now destroyed by aliens
• Collinsport, Maine - the setting for the soap opera Dark Shadows
• Corinth - the setting for the soap opera Loving
• Coursegold, California - The setting for the computer game Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
• Craigsville - Town partially destroyed by the crash of the Zero-X spaceship in Thunderbirds Are Go (pop. 4,800)
• Crystal Tokyo - Future version of Tokyo in Sailor Moon
• Cwmderi - welsh village that is the setting for the BBC soap opera Pobol y Cwm

D

• Dakota - setting of the events in all Milestone Comic's titles took place in a fictional midwestern city: Hardware, Blood Syndicate, Icon, Static etc.
• Dandytown - The Dandy
• Darnley - in Philip George Chadwick 's The Death Guard
• Dark City - in the movie with the same name.
• Dead Rock, Nevada - Crazy For You
• Denton, Ohio - setting of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Derry, Maine - setting of Stephen King's It and Insomnia
• Dibley - setting of the television series The Vicar of Dibley
• Dictionopolis - the "city of words" in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
• Digitopolis - the "city of numbers" in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
• Dimmsdale - in Butch Hartman's The Fairly OddParents
• Diomira, a town with 60 cupolas of silver, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Dog River, Saskatchewan - Setting for Corner Gas
• Dogpatch, USA - home to Li'l Abner
• Dogville, Colorado - setting for Lars von Trier's film Dogville
• Don Camillo's village
• Domino City - from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Dorotea, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Duckburg, Calisota, USA - in the Scrooge McDuck universe

E

• Earth City in Inverted World by Christopher Priest - actually a large laboratory transported to a strange environment
• East Proctor, England - small Northern English town with a werewolf problem in An American Werewolf in London
• Eastwick, Massachusetts - John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick
• Edgeville - RuneScape
• Edoras - Capital of Rohan in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
• Eerie, Indiana - Location of TV series of same name.
• El Dorado - Fictional city of gold located somewhere in the New World.
• Elwood City - Arthur
• El-Ysa: village in Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The inhabitants were killed when their well was poisoned (Jingo).
• The Emerald City - in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books
• Emmerdale from the British TV series of the same name
• Empire Falls , the decaying New England mill town in Richard Russo's novel of the same name
• Endora, Illinois - from the movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape
• Endsville, city where The Grim Reaper, Billy and Mandy live in Maxwell Atoms' The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Entrana - RuneScape
• Eos - capital city of the planet Aurora
• Ephebe -somewhat Grecian city on the Circle Sea in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Ruled by the (democratically elected) Tyrant
• Erinsborough - setting for the Australian television soap Neighbours.
• Esseph; see David Lodge
• Evarchia - in Brigid Brophy's Palace without chairs
• Everville -town on the West Coast of the USA in Clive Barker's Everville
• Everwood, Colorado - of the television series Everwood

F

• F City, F Prefecture - Japanese city in Excel Saga
• Fabletown - secret community of fairy tale characters in Fables comic.
• Fairvale, California - small town setting of Psycho
• Falador - RuneScape
• Farburg - from Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog
• Felton City, USA - setting of the W. C. Fields short The Barber Shop
• Fernwood, Ohio - setting of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
• Frogtown, USA - Home of the Frog People in Donald G. Jackson's Hell Comes to Frogtown
• Frostbite Falls, Minnesota - in Jay Ward's Rocky & Bullwinkle
• Fulchester, England - Originally the setting of the British TV programme Crown Court , Fulchester became the location of many of the stories in VIZ comic.
• Furinkan, Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan- The setting for the manga and anime series Ranma ½.
• Funkytown - From the Lipps, Inc song.

G

• Galt's Gulch - Fictional mountain "utopia" in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged
• Garradrimna - fictional village in Valley of the Squinting Windows, fictionalized version of Delvin, Ireland
• Gebra ? - Heavily fortified harbour town in Klatch, target of the Ankh-Morporkian invasion force in the Leshp-war in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Jingo).
• Genoa City - Setting of the television show The Young and the Restless. While it is modeled after the city Genoa City, Wisconsin, the two are not synonymous.
• Genua - Fairy tale city on Terry Pratchett's Discworld; Disneyland superimposed on New Orleans
• Gibbsville , Pennsylvania - Setting of the John O'Hara stories. Fictionalized version of Pottsville.
• Glen Oak - setting of the television show 7th Heaven.
• Gopher Prairie, Minnesota - setting of Sinclair Lewis novel Main Street
• Gormenghast - A city-sized castle featured in the first two books of a trilogy by Mervyn Peake
• Gotham City - Batman's place of work. Fictionalized version of New York City
• Graviton City - setting of Project A-ko
• Greenbow, Alabama - setting of the movie Forrest Gump
• Greyhawk - from the Dungeons and Dragons setting of the same name
• Grovers Bend, Kansas - setting in the first two Critters films.
• Grover's Corners, New Hampshire - Setting of the play Our Town. Resembles Peterborough, New Hampshire
• Grover's Corners, New Jersey - Setting for Keith Robertson 's Henry Reed books
• Gusliar (Guslyar, Veliky Gusliar, Great Gusliar) - Setting for many Gusliar short stories by Kir Bulychev.

H

• Haddonfield, Illinois - the setting for all of the Halloween films (with the exceptions of H20 and Season of the Witch).
• Hadleyburg - Mark Twain's The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
• Hadleyburg, Pennsylvania - location of Japanese owned auto factory in Gung Ho
• Halloween Town - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Hanbridge - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent
• Harmony - the setting for the soap opera Passions
• Haven, Maine - appears in Stephen King's, The Tommyknockers
• Haven - corrupt city in Simon Green's Guards of Haven.
• Hill Valley, California - Marty McFly's hometown in the Back to the Future movie trilogy
• Harchester - Home of Harchester United and The Dragon's Lair, Dream Team
• Herby City - Home of Andy & Lou from Little Britain
• Hillwood, Washington - setting of Craig Bartlett's Hey Arnold!
• Hogsmeade - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the only wizarding village in Britain
• Holby - location of Holby City Hospital in Casualty
• Holy Wood - small temporary town in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Moving Pictures)
• Hooterville, USA - setting of Petticoat Junction
• Hooverville - Jumpstart 5th Grade
• Hub City, Illinois - home of Steve Ditko's The Question

I

• Ilium, New York - common setting of many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels
• Ínsula Barataria - in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote
• Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino
• Iram - a city built on pillars in the Arabian Nights
• Isidora from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Isola - Ed McBain's version of New York City
• Isthmus City - a town setting near the Isthmus (prob. in Columbia) in the 16th James Bond movie, Licence to Kill.

J

• Jawbone, Kentucky - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Jerusalem's Lot, Maine - setting for Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot

K

• Kadath - in the works of H.P. Lovecraft
• Karamja - RuneScape
• Keystone City, USA - home to Jay Garrick and Wally West (The Flash). In current DC Comics continuity, located directly opposite Central City.
• Kingsmarkham, Sussex, England: setting of Ruth Rendell's Wexford novels.
• Knots Landing, California - Setting of Knots Landing
• Knype - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent
• Kom - city in Omnia on Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Kor, the city of Ayesha , in H. Rider Haggard's She
• Krasnoy - Town in Ursula K. Le Guin's Malafrena.
• Kravonia - in Anthony Hope's Sophy of Kravonia
• Kurozucho - from the manga horror series Uzumaki

L

• Lake Edna - portrayed in advertisements for KFC
• 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 Discworld series.
• Lankhmar - setting of many of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
• Las Venturas - One of three cities in the state of San Andreas (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), based on Las Vegas, Nevada
• Laputa - The site of a Soviet nuclear base in Dr. Strangelove, (also a country in Gulliver's Travels)
• Latham, Massachusetts - series finale of Seinfeld
• Lawndale - setting of the MTV animated series Daria.
• Lawson, California - in the Jim Carrey movie The Majestic
• Leshp, city of the squids, temporary island in the Circle Sea, cause of a war between Klatch and Ankh-Morpork in on Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Jingo)
• Liberty City - from Grand Theft Auto and 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
• Littleville, Colorado - The home of two completely separate fictional characters: comic strip air ace Tailspin Tommy Tompkins and Robby Reed of the Dial H for Hero comic book feature. Littleville may be analogous to the real town of Littleton, Colorado.
• Llanview, Pennsylvania - setting for the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live.
• Logopolis - The city (and planet) visited by the Doctor in the Doctor Who serial Logopolis that hosts a race of mathematicians keeping the universe from totally collapsing by using "block transfer computation" to create Charged Vacuum Emboitements (CVEs) into other universes.
• Longshaw - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Longton in Stoke-on-Trent
• Los Santos - one of three cities in the state of San Andreas (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), based on Los Angeles, California
• Lumbridge - RuneScape
• Luca - town, with its magnificent blitzball stadium, in Spira (Final Fantasy X)
• Lud - a large city similar to New York City that borders a radioactive wasteland in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Lud may exist in Mid-World in an area similar to Kansas.
• Lumberg, Oregon - small town that doesn't really exist despite the claims of rock group Zowie, which inists it was formed there
• Lytton - setting of the games in the Police Quest videogame series

M

• Malgudi- Novels of R.K. Narayan
• Maardam - The city in northern europe that is the setting of several Håkan Nesser novels.
• Mabase - fictional suburb in FLCL
• Macondo - in Gabriel García Márquez'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
• Manor Park - the fictional area of Liverpool, Merseyside were Brookside Close was set, the Channel 4 Soap which run for 2 decades.
• Mansoul - the allegorical setting of John Bunyan's The Holy War
• Mariposa (fictional place), Ontario - created by Stephen Leacock for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
• 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
• Meridianna - from the animated show, Cybersix, and home to her adventures
• Megatokyo - from the anime Bubblegum Crisis (no relation to the Megatokyo web comic)
• Menzoberranzan - the city of the Drows from Forgotten Realms books
• Metropolis - the city featured in the film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang and scripted by Thea von Harbou
• Metropolis - Superman's place of work, similar to New York City.
• Metroville, USA - city in The Incredibles
• Mepos, Greece - the homeplace of Balki in Perfect Strangers
• Middlemarch of George Eliot
• Middleton - the setting of Kim Possible
• Midgar - headquarters of the Shinra corporation from Final Fantasy VII
• Midgard (or Midgaard) - in dozens of MUD online games
• Midland City - upstanding yet dystopian city in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
• Midway City - former home to DC Comics' Hawkman and Doom Patrol
• Midston, USA - setting of the Danny Dunn books.
• Midwich - the setting of John Wyndham's book The Midwich Cuckoos
• Minas Tirith - Capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
• Moahu - Island in the Pacific encountered in Patrick O'Brian's The Wine-Dark Sea (novel)
• Moperville , setting of El Goonish Shive
• Mooseport , Maine - Welcome to Mooseport
• Mouseton - in the Mickey Mouse universe
• Mud Flats , Nebraska - The Muller-Fokker Effect
• Municiberg, USA - city in The Incredibles
• Mystery, Alaska - setting of the movie of the same name

N

• Nearburg - setting of Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog
• Neopolis - from the Top 10 comic book series by Alan Moore
• Neo-Tokyo - from the manga and anime Akira
• Nessus - From The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
• New Berlin - Star Trek
• New Chicago - Buck Rogers
• New Crobuzon - Pedido Street Station by China Mieville
• New New York - setting of Futurama
• Newtropolis, USA - city in The Incredibles
• Nightside - a part of London where it is always 3 o'clock in the Night ('Simon Green).
• Nilbog - from the movie Troll II
• Nodnol - backwards universe version of London in the TV series Red Dwarf
• North Haverbrook - Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
• Nowhere, Kansas - from the TV series Courage the Cowardly Dog

O

• O-Town - Setting of Rocko's Modern Life
• Oakdale - Setting for the soap opera As the World Turns
• Oakton, USA - setting of the Hammerman cartoon.
• Ocean Shores - Setting (based in part on Santa Monica) of Klasky-Csupo's Rocket Power
• Oceanview, Illinois - Where Big Bird goes to live in Sesame Street presents Follow That Bird.
• Ogdenville - Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
• Opal City - home of DC Comics' Starman
• Osgiliath - City of Gondor, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
• Ouigee Falls - setting of Guy Vasilovich 's Moville Mysteries

P

• Pacamac, USA - City I Heart Huckabees takes place in. It's never mentioned in the film, but is in the promotional websites for the movie.
• Palomar, village from the comic book Love and Rockets by Gilbert Hernandez
• Paragon City, Rhode Island - Setting of the game City of Heroes.
• Par Ys - a mythical Paris in John Brunner's Traveller in Black.
• Peach Creek, USA - Ed, Edd, and Eddy
• Pepperinge Eye, England - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Perfection, Nevada - a stereotypical small desert town in the film Tremors.
• Pine Cove, California - setting of several Christopher Moore novels
• Pine Valley, Pennsylvania - setting for the soap opera All My Children
• Pleasantville - archetypical 50s TV suburb, from the movie Pleasantville
• Pleasantville (Canada?) - setting of TV series Big Wolf on Campus
• Plotinus; see David Lodge
• Point Place, Wisconsin - setting of That '70s Show
• Port Charles, New York - setting of the soap operas General Hospital and Port Charles
• Port du Patois - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Port Sherman, Oregon - Snow Crash
• Post-Apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sitty - virtual reality setting in Tea From an Empty Cup and Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
• Post Apocalyptic Tokyo - virtual reality setting in Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
• Primary Village, File Island, Digital World - imagnary village were all digimon are hatched and rasied. Digimon
• Pseudopolis - town on Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
• Puddleby-on-the-Marsh - English port, home of Dr. Dolittle

Q

• Quahog, Rhode Island - setting of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy
• Quirm, Town in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, home of the inventor Leonard of Quirm who is currently residing in Ankh-Morpork.

R

• Raccoon City - setting of Resident Evil
• Rachel, Kansas - setting of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
• Rakava - Town in Ursula K. Le Guin's Malafrena.
• Rampart Junction, Iowa - Ray Bradbury's "The Town Where No One Got Off"
• Ramsdale - nymphet girl's hometown in Lolita (set in New Hampshire in Stanley Kubrick's film)
• Reality on the Norm
• Retroville - setting of The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Rimmerton - RuneScape
• Riverdale, the backdrop for Archie Comics.
• River City, Iowa - setting of The Music Man, based on Mason City, Iowa
• Rock Bottom - a town from SpongeBob SquarePants
• Rockvil - simulated town in the virtual reality world of A Mind Forever Voyaging
• Rome, Wisconsin, of the Picket Fences television series
• Rossum's Island - in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
• Royston Vasey - in the BBC's The League of Gentlemen
• Rummidge - from the works of David Lodge
• Rutherford, Ohio - setting of 3rd Rock from the Sun

S

• Salem - the setting for the soap opera Days of Our Lives
• State of San Andreas, USA - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, fictional state, with resemblances to California and Nevada. Major cities are Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas.
• San Fierro - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, modelled after San Francisco, California
• San Narciso , California - An expanse of urban sprawl near Los Angeles, largely developed by Pierce Inverarity , The Crying of Lot 49
• Santa Carla, California - vampire-infested town in The Lost Boys
• Santa Mira, California - the settings for the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• Santa Rosita, California - where the treasure is buried in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• Santa Teresa, California - fictional town in detective novels by Sue Grafton
• 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 where forgotten heroes retire in Simon Green's Shadows Fall.
• Shadyside - Town in the R.L. Stine book series Fear Street.
• Shangri-La - in James Hilton's Lost Horizon
• Sheepridge - small town near Lancre in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Shelbyville, USA - Neighboring city to Springfield, USA in the television series The Simpsons.
• Shell Beach - unreachable resort town in the movie Dark City
• Sheltered Shrubs, Connecticut - in Klasky-Csupo's As Told By Ginger
• Shermer, Illinois - in many John Hughes films including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Silent Hill - setting of the Silent Hill video games
• Silent Springs - setting of cartoon My Dad the Rock Star
• Sim City, from the computer games of the same name
• Smallbridge - The village where Horatio Hornblower retired after his long service in the Royal Navy.
• 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)
• Sneddy - according to the radio and television comedy Little Britain, the capital of the United Kingdom is Sneddy
• Solace - home of the Heroes of the Lance in the Dragonlance books/role playing setting.
• Songsung, Ireland - setting of Alexander Higle's "The Game of Gamberling"
• Sparta, Mississippi - setting of In the Heat of the Night; the original novel took place in a town called Wells, somewhere in the Carolinas, but the film and television adaptations moved it to Mississippi
• Spectre, Alabama - in Tim Burton's Big Fish, seen first as an afterlife and later as a real town
• Spent - sinister UK town in the BBC Radio 4 comedy On the Town with The League of Gentlemen (changed to Royston Vasey in the TV version)
• Spoon River - in Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River anthology
• Spoonerville - Goofy's hometown on Goof Troop
• Springfield, Illinois (?) - the setting for the soap opera Guiding Light. It is unclear, however, if this is the capital of Illinois like real life would suggest.
• Springfield, USA, the city without a state in Matt Groening's The Simpsons television series
• St. Canard - Darkwing Duck's hometown.
• St. Mary Mead - fictional village in the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie
• St. Roch - home to the current Hawkman and Hawkgirl in the DC Universe
• Stafford, Indiana - hometown of Dr. Richard Kimble, where a one-armed man murdered his wife in "The Fugitive" TV series of the 1960s.
• Star's Hollow, Connecticut - setting of the television series Gilmore Girls
• Steklovks - in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs
• Stepford, Connecticut - in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives and sequels
• Sto Lat - town on the Sto Plains, famous for its cabbage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. In Russian the name means "hundred years".
• Stoneybrook, Connecticut - Setting of The Baby-Sitters Club series.
• Stuckeyville, Ohio - from the television series Ed
• Sub Diego - from DC Comics, San Diego after it sinks into the sea.
• Summer Bay - the setting for the Australian television series Home and Away
• Sunnydale, California - in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
• Sunnyvale Trailer Park, outside Halifax, Nova Scotia. Home of the Trailer Park Boys

T

• Tackleford - North England setting of John Allison's webcomics Bobbins and Scary Go Round.
• Tacticum - Former town in Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. It was left by the inhabitants when the wind changed and it no longer rained. Named after the Ankh-Morpork General Tacticus. Main sights today: remains of a statue of the former, in bad preservation, with an inscription saying "Ab hoc possum videre domum tuum". (Jingo).
• Tadfield - Small UK town in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Always has normal weather for the time of year.
• Tanelorn - in Michael Moorcock's multiverse
• Tarrytown - A small USA town with an airport. It is the setting for the children's CGI cartoon series Jay Jay the Jet Plane [1]. (There are also some real places called Tarrytown.)
• Tar Valon from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
• Thermostadt, Capital of the Robo-Hungarian Empire, Futurama
• City of Thi - Obscure city in the Land of Oz.
• Tokyo-3 - (present day Hakone, Japan) from the anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Tomobiki - District of Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan; setting for the anime and manga series Urusei Yatsura.
• Townsville, USA - fictional city on The Powerpuff Girls, where the girls reside
• Toytown - An unusal village in the Digital world, Digimon
• Trantor - planet-wide city in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
• Tsort - former capital of Tsort in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
• Tuna, Texas - location of a play by the same name.
• Turnhill - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Tunstall in Stoke-on-Trent
• Twin Peaks, Washington - from the television series and movie Twin Peaks
• Tylerton - in Frederik Pohl's The Tunnel Under the World

U

• Ukelele Bottom - Stephen Hillenburg's SpongeBob SquarePants
• Utopia - The setting of St. Thomas_More's Utopia

V

• Valentine's Bluff - mining town in the slasher film My Bloody Valentine
• Varrock - RuneScape
• Vermilion Sands of J. G. Ballard
• Verona Beach in the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet (some sources place this in California, others in Florida)
• Vetusta (inspired in Oviedo) in Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta
• Vice City, Florida - setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, analogous to Miami, Florida
• Villette of Charlotte Brontë.
• Viriconium of M. John Harrison
• Viron - Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
• Vondervotteimittis, Netherlands - Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry
• Vril-ya - Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race

W

• Walkerville, USA - in The Magic School Bus series
• Walford - fictional London borough in the tv soap Eastenders
• Waterdeep - city in the Sword Coast, of the Forgotten Realms, from Neverwinter Nights and the Baldur's Gate series
• Weatherfield - setting for Granada Television's Coronation Street
• The Well-Built City - in Jeffrey Ford 's novel The Physiognomy
• Wellsville, USA - setting of The Adventures of Pete and Pete
• Willows, Wisconsin - hometown of Barbie
• Winesburg, Ohio - the small-town setting for Sherwood Anderson's collection of short stories of the same name
• Winter River, Connecticut - from the movie Beetlejuice

X

• Xanadu, Kubla Khan's capital in Coleridge's poem.

Y

• Yian - Robert W. Chambers, H.P. Lovecraft

Z

• Zaira of the high bastions, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
• Zanarkand - From Final Fantasy X
• Zenith, in the fictional U. S. state of Winnemac, in Babbitt and other novels by Sinclair Lewis
• Zero One or 01, from The Animatrix and also known as Machine City in the movie The Matrix
• Zion in the movie The Matrix

Story universes with multiple cities

• Isaac Asimov's Foundation series: Eos on the planet Aurora, Trantor, a subterranean New York City, and many more besides
• Ramsey Campbell's fictional Severn Valley horror stories: Brichester , Goatswood , Severnford , and Warrendown
• Ed Greenwood's (and others') Forgotten Realms: numerous - including Athkatla , Baldur's Gate, Calimport , Menzoberranzan, Mithral Hall, Neverwinter, Silverymoon and Waterdeep. See also Dungeons & Dragons
• Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books: Havnor Great Port , Hort Town , and Thwil
• Gary Gygax's (and others') Greyhawk: numerous - including Flen, Highport , and the Free City of Greyhawk . See also Dungeons & Dragons
• 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 Discworld, eg. Ankh-Morpork, Lancre City, Sto Lat. See: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, The Discworld Companion (London Gollancz 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