This is a list of fictional towns in literature.
| Town name | Author | Origin | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | ||||
| Abbot's-Cernel, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Cerne Abbas, Dorset | |
| Abbotsea, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Abbotsbury, Dorset | |
| Adenville, Utah | John D. Fitzgerald | The Great Brain and other books in the Great Brain series | Adenville is a small town in Utah, around AD 1900. | |
| Adytum | "Metaphysician" & various | SCP Foundation | The lost Eurasian capital of the fallen Daevite and Kalmaktama empires, and a legendary holy place in Sarkicism | |
| Alagadda | "tinwatchman", "Metaphysician", & various | SCP Foundation | Also named SCP-2264-B. An Italian city-state banished from Earth due to the dealings of its corrupt monarch, the Hanged King. Based on Carcosa | |
| Aldbrickham, North Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Reading, Berkshire | |
| Alfredston, North Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Wantage, Oxfordshire | |
| Algonquin Bay, Canada | Giles Blunt | Forty Words for Sorrow, Blackfly Season, By the Time You Read This, Crime Machine | Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay. | |
| Alissar | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Al-Ybi | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | Al-Ybi is a mostly unremarkable desert city in Klatch. Al-Ybi's reputation for boringness has entered it in folklore as the place where Klatchians invented the concept of zero. | |
| Amber | Roger Zelazny | The Chronicles of Amber | ||
| Anchester, England | H. P. Lovecraft | The Rats in the Walls | ||
| Anchorage-in-Vineland | Philip Reeve | Mortal Engines Quartet | Anchorage-in-Vineland is the static and stable version of the previously mobile Traction City of Anchorage. The city had decided to stop wandering the Arctic wastes and settle in the green and unspoilt land of Vineland, on what was left of the continent of North America, some millennia after the Sixty Minute War devastated Earth. | |
| Anglebury, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Wareham, Dorset | |
| Ankh-Morpork | Sir Terry Pratchett | Discworld | The principal setting for most of the novels of the series, it is viewed as being the foremost city on the Disc. | |
| Ansul | Ursula K. Le Guin | Voices | It is the setting of the second novel in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy. Once famed as a center of learning, but it was invaded and subjugated by the Alds, a desert people who believe the written word to be evil. | |
| Aramanth | William Nicholson | Wind On Fire | fictional walled city in the world of William Nicholson's Wind On Fire trilogy. It is destroyed in the second book, Slaves of the Mastery when Ortiz and his raiding company attack and take the whole population (minus Kestrel) as slaves for the Mastery. Aramanth later becomes part of the Sovereignty of Gang under Bowman and Sisi's leadership. | |
| Arkham, Massachusetts | H.P. Lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft's work & Cthulhu Mythos | ||
| Árkod, Hungary | Magda Szabó | Abigél | Árkod is a town, close to the east borders of Hungary. The main setting of the novel. The town is based on Debrecen and Hódmezővásárhely. | |
| Arnette, Texas | Stephen King | The Stand | ||
| Atlantis | Plato | Timaeus & Critias | ||
| Avonlea, Prince Edward Island | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | ||
| Aziz Balda | C.S. Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia | A city south of the Calormen capital, Tashbaan. Aziz Balda is a hub where many roads meet, and lays host to the Calormene government's postal system. | |
| B | ||||
| Baksonwille, Colorado | Jenő Rejtő | Tigrisvér | ||
| Balting City, Nevada | Jenő Rejtő | A Nevada szelleme | ||
| Barchester, England | Anthony Trollope | Chronicles of Barsetshire | ||
| Bayport | Franklin W. Dixon | The Hardy Boys | ||
| Bear Country | Stan and Jan Berenstain | The Berenstain Bears | ||
| Beardsley, New England | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Beardstown, Indiana | Ross Lockridge Jr. | Raintree County | ||
| Beerlight | Steve Aylett | The Crime Studio | ||
| Belisaere | Garth Nix | Old Kingdom | ||
| Bellona | Samuel R. Delany | Dhalgren | ||
| Belvedere, Ohio | Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs | ||
| Berylon | Patricia A. McKillip | Song for the Basilisk | ||
| Bes Pelargic | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | A harbor town in the Agatean Empire | |
| Bibliopolis, Alabama | Tom Sharpe | The Great Pursuit | Stereotypical Southern USA Bible Belt town | |
| Big Cherry, USA | Tracy Letts | The Minutes | ||
| Birkham, Colorado | Jenő Rejtő | Tigrisvér | ||
| Blackbury, England | Terry Pratchett | Truckers | ||
| Bogdanski Dolina | Ádám Bodor | Az érsek látogatása | Bogdanski Dolina is a town in Eastern Europe, the location of which is difficult to determine. | |
| Boaktis | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Boston Atlanta Metropolitan Axis | William Gibson | Neuromancer | ||
| Bönk | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | Pronounced /biˈjɒŋk/, it is a town in Überwald. | |
| Bordertown | Terri Windling | Borderland | ||
| Braavos | George R.R. Martin | A Song of Ice and Fire | ||
| Brackhampton, England | Agatha Christie | Miss Marple series | ||
| Braintree, Texas | Stephen King | The Stand | ||
| Bramshurst, Upper Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Lyndhurst, Hampshire | |
| Bree | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ||
| Brewer, Pennsylvania | John Updike | Rabbit series | ||
| Briceland, New Hampshire | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Brockton Bay, USA | John "Wildbow" McCrae | Worm | ||
| Buckkeep Town | Robin Hobb | The Realm of the Underlings | ||
| Budleigh Babberton, England | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince | Located somewhere in southern England | |
| Budmouth, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Weymouth, Dorset | |
| Bursley, England | Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | ||
| Busytown | Richard Scarry | Best Word Book Ever | ||
| C | ||||
| Cantrip, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Cape Random, Newfoundland | Bernice Morgan | Random Passage | ||
| Caprona | Diana Wynne Jones | The Magicians of Caprona | Caprona is a sovereign city-state in the world of the Chronicles of Chrestomanci series. | |
| Carcosa | Ambrose Bierce | An Inhabitant of Carcosa | Carcosa is an ancient and mysterious city is barely described and is viewed only in hindsight (after its destruction) by a character who once lived there. | |
| Caslin, Nebraska | Stephen King | The Stand | ||
| Casterbridge, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Dorchester, Dorset | |
| Castle Rock, Maine | Stephen King | The Dead Zone | Castle Rock is a town and the county seat of Castle County. | |
| Cedar Cove | Debbie Macomber | Cedar Cove and Rose Harbor series | A quaint, picturesque town on an island in Puget Sound in Washington state | |
| Centennial, Colorado | James Michener | Centennial | ||
| Chalk Newton, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Maiden Newton, Dorset | |
| Champion, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Chaseborough, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Cranborne, Dorset | |
| Chasm City | Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | ||
| Chester's Mill | Stephen King | Under the Dome | ||
| Chinquapin, Louisiana | Robert Harling | Steel Magnolias | ||
| Chipping Cleghorn, England | Agatha Christie | Miss Marple series | ||
| Christminster, North Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Correlates to the real-life Oxford, Oxfordshire | |
| Chronopolis | J. G. Ballard | Chronopolis | ||
| Cittàgazze | Philip Pullman | His Dark Materials series | ||
| City of the Happy Prince | Oscar Wilde | The Happy Prince and Other Stories | ||
| City of the Iron Fish | Simon Ings | City of the Iron Fish | ||
| Clanton, Mississippi | John Grisham | A Time to Kill | Several of Grisham's other novels also take place, in whole or in part, in Clanton. | |
| Cleaves Mills, Maine | Stephen King | The Dead Zone | ||
| Cleopolis | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | ||
| Cliff Martin, Outer Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Combe Martin, Devon | |
| Climax, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Clochemerle | Gabriel Chevallier | Clochemerle | Clochemerle is a fictional village in France, in a 1934 satirical novel of the same name by Gabriel Chevallier, inspired by Vaux-en-Beaujolais, a commune in the Beaujolais. The novel satirises the conflict between Catholics and republicans in the Third Republic.[1] The story concerns a dispute over the construction of a vespasienne (public urinal) near the village church. The term Clochemerle has entered French as a term to describe "petty, parochial squabbling".[2] | |
| Cobhole, Essex | G. K. Chesterton | Father Brown | ||
| Connicted, Texas | Jenő Rejtő | Texas Bill, a fenegyerek | ||
| Cool Clary, England | Christopher Fry | The Lady's Not for Burning | ||
| Co-Op City | Stephen King | The Running Man | ||
| Copper City, Arizona | Jenő Rejtő | Pokol a hegyek között | Copper City is a little, poor town, which located next to the Colorado River. | |
| Cranford, North Wessex | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, Mr. Harrison's Confessions | Cranford is a village in the county of Cheshire in North West England, based on Knutsford. | |
| Cresscombe, North Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire | |
| Csarnikot, Europe | Ervin Lázár | Vérengző Alfréd | ||
| D | ||||
| Daevabad | S. A. Chakraborty | The Daevabad Trilogy | ||
| Dale | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | ||
| Daleport, USA | "Tanhony" & "FlameShirt" | SCP Foundation | Also known as SCP-1936 and Nexus-37. Daleport is a New England coastal town that has been uninhabited by humans since 1997, when a cult named the Victor Society summoned multiple bizarre and violent deities in an attempt to 'cleanse' the town. | |
| Darnley | Philip George Chadwick | The Death Guard | ||
| Darrowby, Yorkshire | James Herriot | It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet | ||
| Darujhistan | Steven Erikson | Gardens of the Moon | Darujhistan is a large city on the continent Genebackis. | |
| Dead River, Maine | Jack Ketchum | Off Season and several works | ||
| Deansleigh, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Romsey, Hampshire | |
| Denton, England | R.D. Wingfield | A Touch of Frost | Denton is a town in southern England, in either Berkshire, Oxfordshire, or Wiltshire. | |
| Denver Hill, Arizona | Jenő Rejtő | Texas Bill, a fenegyerek | ||
| Derry, Maine | Stephen King | The Bird and the Album | Mentioned in several stories, Derry first appeared as the main setting in It. | |
| Desperation, Nevada | Stephen king | Desperation | ||
| Dhagabad | Anna Kashina | The Princess of Dhagabad | ||
| Diaspar | Arthur C. Clarke | The City and the Stars | ||
| Dictionopolis | Norton Juster | The Phantom Tollbooth | ||
| Digitopolis | Norton Juster | The Phantom Tollbooth | ||
| Diomira | Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | ||
| Dis | Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy | Dis is the city containing the lower circles of Hell. | |
| Dobrin | Ádám Bodor | The Sinistra Zone | Dobrin is a village in Eastern Europe, the location of which is difficult to determine. | |
| Dorotea | Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | ||
| Downstaple, Lower Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Barnstaple, Devon | |
| Dras-leona | Christopher Paolini | Eragon | It is the second biggest city in Alagaesia after Uru'Baen. | |
| Duchy of Grand Fenwick | Leonard Wibberley | The Mouse that Roared | ||
| Dumdrudge | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | ||
| Dunwich, Massachusetts | H.P. Lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft's work & Cthulhu Mythos | ||
| DuPray, South Carolina | Stephen King | The Institute | ||
| Durnover, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Fordington, Dorset | |
| E | ||||
| Earlcastle, England | Ken Follett | Kingsbridge-series | Wigleigh is a town in South West England. | |
| Earth City | Christopher Priest | Inverted World | ||
| East Village | Miriam Toews | A Complicated Kindness, All My Puny Sorrows | Correlates to the real-life Steinbach, Manitoba | |
| Eastwick, London | Julian Barnes | Metroland | ||
| Eastwick, Massachusetts | John Updike | The Witches of Eastwick | ||
| Edgestow, England | C.S. Lewis | That Hideous Strength | ||
| Edenfeld | Andrew Unger | Once Removed | Correlates to the real-life Steinbach, Manitoba | |
| Edoras | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | The capital of Rohan | |
| El Dorado | Voltaire | Candide | A fabled city of gold located in South America | |
| Elphistone, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| El-Ysa | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | This is a village in Klatch whose inhabitants were killed when their well was poisoned. | |
| Ember | Jeanne DuPrau | The City of Ember | ||
| Emerald City | L. Frank Baum | Various Oz Books | The Emerald City is the capital of the Land of Oz. It is entirely (in the first books) or mostly (in later books) green. The city is made of green glass, emeralds, and other jewels. | |
| Emminster, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Beaminster, Dorset. | |
| Emond's Field | Robert Jordan | New Spring | ||
| Empire Falls, Maine | Richard Russo | Empire Falls | ||
| Endelstow, Off Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life St. Juliot, Cornwall | |
| Endora, Iowa | Peter Hedges | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | Endora is the main setting of the novel. The population of the town is 1,091. | |
| Entralla | Edward Carey | Alva & Irva: The Twins Who Saved a City | ||
| Eos | Isaac Asimov | Robot series | Eos is the capital city of the planet Aurora. | |
| Esgaroth | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | ||
| Esterberg, Silesian Voivodeship | "Ralliston" & various | SCP Foundation | Esterberg (Polish: Tysiąclecie Górne; also City of the East, SCP-5373, and Free Port-120) is an extradimensional city-state that shares its location with Częstochowa, Poland. It is a large paranormal enclave populated mostly by fae and yeren. | |
| Eustace, Oklahoma | Stephen King | The Stand | ||
| Evarchia | Brigid Brophy | Palace Without Chairs: A Baroque Novel | ||
| Evershead, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Evershot, Dorset | |
| Everville, USA | Clive Barker | Everville | ||
| Exonbury, Lower Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Exeter, Devon | |
| F | ||||
| Fairvale, California | Robert Bloch | Psycho | Fairvale is a town and a county seat. | |
| Fairview, Connecticut | Stephen King | Thinner | ||
| Fallen Area | Steve Berman | Various works | ||
| Fertő City | Vavyan Fable | Vis Major-series | ||
| Filippon, Texas | Jenő Rejtő | A néma revolverek városa | ||
| Folkstone, Colorado | Jenő Rejtő | Tigrisvér | ||
| Fort-Rower, Nevada | Jenő Rejtő | A Nevada szelleme | ||
| Fountall, Outer Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Wells, Somerset | |
| Freeheaven, Indiana | Ross Lockridge Jr. | Raintree County | ||
| French Landing, Wisconsin | Stephen King & Peter Straub | Black House | ||
| G | ||||
| Galt's Gulch | Ayn Rand | Atlas Shrugged | ||
| Gao Village | Wu Cheng'en | Journey to the West | ||
| Garmouth, England | Robert Westall | The Machine Gunners | ||
| Garradrimna | Brinsley MacNamara | Valley of the Squinting Windows | ||
| Gatlin, Nebraska | Stephen King | Children of the Corn | ||
| Gaymead, North Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Theale, Berkshire | |
| Gebra | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | A heavily fortified harbor town in Klatch that was a target of the Ankh-Morporkian invasion force in the Leshp-war. | |
| Genua | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | ||
| Gideon, New Hampshire | Joe Hill | Horns | ||
| Gibbsville, Pennsylvania | John O'Hara | Appointment in Samarra | A fictionalized version of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. A common setting of O'Hara stories, Gibbsville was also the setting of a television movie and short-lived series. | |
| Gimmerton, England | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | Grimmerton is a fictional town in Northern England. | |
| Glen St. Mary, Prince Edward Island | L.M. Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | ||
| Glimmerdagg, Sweden | Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson | Sune | ||
| Glogova, Hungary | Kálmán Mikszáth | St. Peter's Umbrella | Glogova is a very poor settlement near Beszterce, not even the Selmecbánya-Beszterce railway line stops in the village. As a result of a mysterious event connected to St. Peter, it becomes a popular place of pilgrimage. | |
| Gloucester, England | Ken Follett | Kingsbridge-series | Gloucester is a village in South West England. | |
| Godric's Hollow, England | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter series | ||
| Golden Glow, Winnemac, USA | Sinclair Lewis | Work of Art | Golden Glow is a city described as a "dirty and noisy industrial huddle". | |
| Gopher Prairie, Minnesota | Sinclair Lewis | Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott | ||
| Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake | Gormenghast series | ||
| Govannion | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Gowburgh, Scotland | Robin Jenkins | Guests of War | ||
| Great Depht, Nevada | Jenő Rejtő | A Nevada szelleme | ||
| Great Gusliar, Vologda Oblast | Kir Bulychev | Gusliar Wonders | Russian: Великий Гусляр Velikiy Guslyar. Great Gusliar is a small, seemingly-quiet town that happens to attract all kinds of science-fiction phenomena, including aliens, time travelers, magical creatures, mad scientists. It is based upon the town of Veliky Ustyug, which itself stated in-universe to be a rival to Great Gusliar. | |
| Great Hangleton, England | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Great Hangleton located in northern England. The village was six miles away from the lover community of Little Hangleton. | |
| Green Town, Illinois | Ray Bradbury | Dandelion Wine | ||
| Grimeworth, Yorkshire | Michael Parkinson | The Woofits | ||
| Grover's Corner, New Jersey | Keith Robertson | Henry Reed, Inc. | ||
| Grover's Corners, New Hampshire | Thornton Wilder | Our Town | ||
| Guildstead Carbonell | Tom Sharpe | Blott on the Landscape | ||
| H | ||||
| Hadleyburg | Mark Twain | The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg | ||
| Haliford, Yorkshire | J.B. Priestley | They Walk in the City | A Yorkshire industrial town suffering the economic crisis of the 1930s, similar to real towns well known to writer from his own childhood | |
| Harfang | C.S. Lewis | The Silver Chair | ||
| Harlow, Maine | Stephen King | The Body | ||
| Harrison, Ohio | Stephen King | Firestarter | ||
| Harwich, Connecticut | Stephen King | Low Men in Yellow Coats | ||
| Hastings Glen | Stephen King | Firestarter | ||
| Hammer Crossing, Kansas | Stephen King | The Stand | ||
| Hanbridge | Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | ||
| Hav | Jan Morris | Last Letters from Hav | ||
| Haven, Maine | Stephen King | The Tommyknockers | ||
| Haven | Simon R. Green | Hawk and Fisher: No Haven for the Guilty | Haven is a southern port city-state in the Low Kingdoms ridden with crime and corruption. | |
| Haven City | Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl series | ||
| Havenpool, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Poole, Dorset | |
| Helium | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Barsoom Martian novels | Principal city of the Red Men of Mars | |
| Heaven's Bay, North Carolina | Stephen King | Joyland | ||
| Henrietta, Virginia | Maggie Stiefvater | The Raven Cycle Series | ||
| Hierusalem | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | ||
| Hobbiton | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ||
| Hogsmeade, Ireland | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter series | ||
| Huntersburg, Illinois | Sherwood Anderson | Unlighted Lamps | ||
| I | ||||
| Ilium, New York | Kurt Vonnegut | Various works | It is considered a stand-in for the actual cities of Schenectady and Troy, New York. Featured or referenced in Vonnegut's novels Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Player Piano, and Galápagos. | |
| Imrryr, Melniboné | Michael Moorcock | The Dreaming City | Imrryr, also known as the Dreaming City and Imrryr the Beautiful, was the capital city of Melniboné for a 10,000-year-old dynasty until the last emperor, Elric of Melniboné, burnt it to the ground. Prior to its destruction, Imrryr had tall towers that shone with many different colors in the light of the sun, and a seaport that was one of the most important trading hubs on the planet. | |
| Innsmouth, Massachusetts | H.P. Lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft's work & Cthulhu Mythos | ||
| Insomnia Lodge, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Instruere | Russell Kirkpatrick | Fire of Heaven | Instruere is the capital of Faltha. | |
| Ínsula Barataria | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | ||
| Ir | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Iraz | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A non-Novarian city-state distantly-located from any Novarian city-state | |
| Isidora | Italo Calvino | Le città invisibili | ||
| Isle of Slingers, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Isle of Portland, Dorset | |
| Isola | Evan Hunter | 87th Precinct | The urban city that is the setting for the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter) | |
| Ivell, Outer Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Yeovil, Somerset | |
| J | ||||
| Jacksonburg, Ishmaelia | Evelyn Waugh | Scoop | Jacksonburg is the capital city of Ishmaelia, a fictional country in eastern Africa. | |
| Jaggonath | C.S. Friedman | Black Sun Rising | A human port city, one of the largest settlements in Erna's western hemisphere | |
| Jahilia | Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses | ||
| Jefferson, Mississippi | William Faulkner | Sartoris, later novels and shorter works | County seat of Yoknapatawpha County, the setting of most of Faulkner's novels. The area of the town is 2400 square miles, the population is 15,611 of which 6,298 are whites and 9,313 are african americans. | |
| Jerusalem's Lot, Maine | Stephen King | 'Salem's Lot | ||
| Jonathanland, California | Mason Ewing | Various stories including Madison Goes to India | ||
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| Kanthapura | Raja Rao | Kanthapura | ||
| Kasbeam, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Kennetbridge, North Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Newbury, Berkshire | |
| Kennituck Falls | Bruce Coville | My Teacher Is an Alien | ||
| Keramzin | Leigh Bardugo | Shadow and Bone | ||
| Ketterdam | Leigh Bardugo | Six of Crows | ||
| Kharé | Steve Jackson | Fighting Fantasy | ||
| Kiewarra | Jane Harper | The Dry | In the Australian Outback | |
| Kilmore Cove, Cornwall | Ulysses Moore | Several works | ||
| Kindlow, Arizona | Jenő Rejtő | Texas Bill, a fenegyerek | ||
| Kingsbere, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Bere Regis, Dorset | |
| Kingsbridge, England | Ken Follett | Kingsbridge-series | Kingsbridge is a town in South West England. | |
| Kingsmarkham, Sussex | Ruth Rendell | From Doon with Death | ||
| King's Landing | George R.R. Martin | A Song of Ice and Fire | King's Landing is the royal capital of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms. | |
| Kings Row, USA | Henry Bellamann | Kings Row | Kings Row is a small town in the Midwest. | |
| Kingsport, Massachusetts | H.P. Lovecraft | The Terrible Old Man | ||
| Kingsport, Yorkshire | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | A major English seaport town fictional city setting in the classic novel, analogous to the location of Kingston-upon-Hull | |
| Kinneret, California | Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 | ||
| Knollsea, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Swanage, Dorset | |
| Knype | Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | ||
| Kocourkov | Ondřej Sekora | Kronika města Kocourkova | ||
| Kom | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | ||
| Kor | H. Rider Haggard | She: A History of Adventure | ||
| Kortoli | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Krasnoy, Orsinia | Ursula K. Le Guin | Malafrena | ||
| Kravonia | Anthony Hope | Sophy of Kravonia | ||
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| Lachrymose | Lemony Snicket | A Series of Unfortunate Events | ||
| Lakeport | Laura Lee Hope | The Bobbsey Twins | ||
| Lake Wobegon, Minnesota | Garrison Keillor | various works | ||
| Laku | Evelyn Waugh | Scoop | ||
| Lambton, Derbyshire | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | ||
| Lamplight | "Tufto" | SCP Foundation | Designated SCP-5005. It is the most remote settlement created by a sentient creature and the most remote matter in existence. Lamplight was named after a giant lamp suspended over the town, (SCP-5005-1; in actuality a cybernetic esca for a colossal deceased anglerfish), and was founded by a poet named Jean-Antoine Delacroix when he accidentally discovered the location while attempting suicide by blindly teleporting into antimatter at the end of the multiverse. Locals refuse to question the nature of the land, a curiosity that contributes to the significant suicide and disappearance rates in tourists. | |
| Lancre Town | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | Capital of Lancre | |
| Landing City | David Weber | Honorverse series | Capital of the Star Kingdom of Manticore | |
| Lankhmar | Fritz Leiber | Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series | ||
| Leathercombe, Devon | Agatha Christie | Evil Under the Sun | ||
| Lehigh Station, Pennsylvania | John Jakes | North and South | ||
| Leppingville, New Hampshire | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Levenford, Scotland | A.J. Cronin | Country Doctor | ||
| Liavek | Various authors | Liavek | ||
| Libertyville, Pennsylvania | Stephen King | Christine | ||
| Lichfield, USA | James Branch Cabell | The Cream of the Jest : A Comedy of Evasions | Lichfield is a town in the southern United States, probably in Virginia. | |
| Lilliput | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | ||
| Lindalino | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | ||
| Lismoyle, Ireland | Somerville and Ross | The Real Charlotte | Lismoyle is a town in County Galway. | |
| Little Dunthorpe, England | Stephen King | Misery | ||
| Little Hangleton, England | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Little Hangleton is a small village in northern England. The village was six miles away from the larger community of Great Hangleton and was about 200 miles away from Little Whinging. | |
| Little Tall Island, Maine | Stephen King | Dolores Claiborne | ||
| Little Whinging, Surrey | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | ||
| Llareggub, Wales | Dylan Thomas | Under Milk Wood | "bugger all" spelled backwards | |
| London, South Dakota | David Baldacci | Walk the Wire | An oil boomtown | |
| London Below | Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere | This is a parallel world in and beneath the sewers of London Above.[3] | |
| Longshaw | Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | ||
| Lower Binfield | George Orwell | Coming Up for Air | Lower Binfield is a quiet town in the Thames Valley. There's a real settlement called Binfield but Orwell's biographer Bernard Crick says that Lower Binfield is "recognisably Henley".[4] | |
| Lower Lockwood, England | Janice Hallett | The Appeal | An English town | |
| Lower Tadfield, Oxfordshire | Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | Good Omens | ||
| Luc | Graham Greene | The Heart of the Matter | ||
| Lud | Stephen King | Dark Tower series | ||
| Ludlow, Maine | Stephen King | Pet Sematary | ||
| Lulwind Cove, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Lulworth Cove, Dorset | |
| Lumsdon, North Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Cumnor, Oxfordshire | |
| Lutenblag | Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch | Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry | Capital of the eponymous nation | |
| Lys | Arthur C. Clarke | The City and the Stars | ||
| M | ||||
| Maardam | Håkan Nesser | Det grovmaskiga nätet | A city in northern Europe. | |
| Macondo, Colombia | Gabriel García Márquez | La Hojarasca | The town was first mentioned in La Hojarasca and La Mala Hora before appearing as a setting in One Hundred Years of Solitude. | |
| Madamaska Falls, New England | Philip Roth | Sabbath's Theater | ||
| Madison, Kentucky | David Morrell | First Blood | Madison is a town in Basalt County, Kentucky. | |
| Mahagonny, Alaska | Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill | Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | ||
| Malcasa Point, California | Richard Laymon | Various works | ||
| Malgudi, India | R.K. Narayan | Malgudi Days | Malgudi is a fictional town in India created by R.K. Narayan in his novels and short stories. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works. | |
| Malton-under-Wode, England | Agatha Christie | Death on the Nile | In the novel Death on the Nile, Malton-under-Wode is a country village. Located in the village is the estate Wode Hall, previously owned by Sir George Wode. He sold it to the rich heiress Linnet Ridgeway, due to financial difficulties. | |
| Manawaka, Manitoba | Margaret Laurence | The Stone Angel | The town is also used in Daniel Poliquin's novel L'écureuil noir. | |
| Mansoul | John Bunyan | The Holy War | ||
| Marghdeen (Marghadin) | Allama Muhammad Iqbal | Javid Nama | Mentioned in Allama Iqbal's epic poem Javid Nama, the city of Marghdeen is depicted as a welfare state based on divine principles for humanity. It depicts the purist and the noblest level of any human society, one can imagine. The city of absolute peace in Javid Nama. | |
| Mariposa, Ontario | Stephen Leacock | Various short stories | ||
| Marlott, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Marnhull, Dorset | |
| Marygreen, North Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Fawley, Berkshire | |
| Maycomb, Alabama | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | ||
| Melchester, Mid Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Salisbury, Wiltshire | |
| Mellstock, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Stinsford, Dorset | |
| Menzoberranzan | Ed Greenwood | Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms | ||
| Metouro | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Michel Delving | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ||
| Middlemarch, England | George Eliot | Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life | Middlemarch is a town in Midland England. | |
| Middleton, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Milton Abbas, Dorset | |
| Midland City, Ohio | Kurt Vonnegut | Deadeye Dick, Breakfast of Champions | Midland City is a generic Midwestern town modeled off the author's hometown. | |
| Midston, USA | Raymond Abrashkin & Jay Williams | Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint | ||
| Midwich, Winshire | John Wyndham | The Midwich Cuckoos | ||
| Mill River, California | Robert B. Parker | A Catskill Eagle | ||
| Minas Tirith | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ||
| Missing Mile, North Carolina | Poppy Z. Brite | Lost Souls | ||
| Monument, USA | Robert Cormier | The Chocolate War | ||
| Momson, Vermont | Stephen King | 'Salem's Lot | ||
| Moonlight Bay, California | Dean Koontz | Fear Nothing | ||
| Mortmere | Christopher Isherwood & W. H. Auden | Lions and Shadows (1938) | ||
| Mottstown, Mississippi | William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | ||
| Much Benham, England | Agatha Christie | Several Works | Much Benham is an English town two miles from the village of St. Mary Mead. | |
| Mud Flats, Nebraska | John Sladek | The Müller-Fokker Effect | ||
| N | ||||
| Nádori-Csabadul, Hungary | Magda Szabó | The Door | ||
| Narrowbourne, Outer Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life West Coker, Somerset | |
| Nessus | Gene Wolfe | The Shadow of the Torturer | ||
| New Babylon | Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins | Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days | ||
| New Crobuzon | China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | ||
| New Dareen | Jack O'Brian | A rettegés városa | ||
| Newford | Charles de Lint | Various works | ||
| New New York | Philip K. Dick | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | ||
| Joe Haldeman | Worlds | |||
| New Hope, Mississippi | William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying | ||
| New Venice | Jean-Christophe Valtat | The Mysteries of New Venice | A fictional city, made of buildings from past world's fairs, and located near the North Pole, on Ellesmere Island | |
| Norwich, Nevada | Jenő Rejtő | A Nevada szelleme | ||
| Novokribirsk | Leigh Bardugo | Shadow and Bone | ||
| Nwotsemaht | Patrick Hamilton | Impromptu in Moribundia | Nwotsemaht is the capital of Moribundia. "Thamestown" backwards. | |
| O | ||||
| Olinger, Pennsylvania | John Updike | Various stories | ||
| Opar | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Various Tarzan novels | Opar is a fictional lost city in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels. | |
| Öreskoga, Sweden | Anders Jacobsson and Sören Olsson | Bert | ||
| Os Alta | Leigh Bardugo | Shadow and Bone | ||
| Os Kervo | Leigh Bardugo | Shadow and Bone | ||
| Osgiliath | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ||
| Othomae | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Oxrun Station, Connecticut | Charles L. Grant | The Hour of the Oxrun Dead | ||
| Overcombe, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Sutton Poyntz, Dorset | |
| P | ||||
| Pagford, England | J. K. Rowling | The Casual Vacancy | The fictional town Pagford is located in the West Country. | |
| Paltryville | Lemony Snicket | A Series of Unfortunate Events | ||
| Paradiso | Zoltán Bernyák | Requiem-series | Paradiso is a small island-town in the coasts of Europe. | |
| Parkington, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Par Ys | John Brunner | The Traveller in Black | ||
| Peck Valley, New England | H. P. Lovecraft | In the Vault | ||
| Personville, Montana | Dashiell Hammett | Red Harvest | ||
| Peyton Place | Grace Metalious | Peyton Place | ||
| Pico Mundo, California | Dean Koontz | Odd Thomas | ||
| Pine Cove, California | Christopher Moore | Practical Demonkeeping | ||
| Pisky, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Ploverleigh | W.S. Gilbert | The Sorcerer | ||
| Pneuma | Rupert Thomson | Divided Kingdom | ||
| Poltowan, England | Nicola K. Smith | A Degree of Uncertainty | ||
| Pomac, Arizona | Jenő Rejtő | Texas Bill, a fenegyerek | ||
| Port Blacksand, Titan | Ian Livingstone | City of Thieves | ||
| Port Bredy, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Bridport, Dorset | |
| Port Jumbo | Timothy Ogene | Seesaw | Correlates to the real-life Port Harcourt in Nigeria | |
| Port Sherman, Oregon | Neal Stephenson | Snow Crash | ||
| Po'sham, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Portsham, Dorset | |
| Prescott, Arizona | Jenő Rejtő | Pokol a hegyek között | ||
| Primordium | Clive Barker | Tortured Souls | ||
| Pseudopolis | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | ||
| Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England | Hugh Lofting | Doctor Dolittle | ||
| Punte Sinistra | Ádám Bodor | The Sinistra Zone | Punte Sinistra is a village in Eastern Europe. | |
| Q | ||||
| Quartershot, Upper Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Aldershot, Hampshire | |
| Quirm | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | ||
| R | ||||
| Rainbow Falls, Montana | Dean Koontz | The Dead Town | ||
| Rakava | Ursula K. Le Guin | Malafrena | ||
| Ravian, Texas | Jenő Rejtő | A néma revolerek városa | ||
| Ramsay, Nevada | Jenő Rejtő | A Nevada szelleme | ||
| Ramsdale, New Hampshire | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Rederring | W.S. Gilbert | Ruddigore | A fictional town in Cornwall, location of Ruddigore Castle | |
| Riseholme | E.F. Benson | Various novels | ||
| Rivendell | J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ||
| River City | Jack O'Brian | A rettegés városa | ||
| River Heights | Carolyn Keene | The Secret of the Old Clock | ||
| R'lyeh | H.P. Lovecraft | The Call of Cthulhu | A fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu, first published in Weird Tales in 1928. According to Lovecraft's short story, R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the malevolent entity called Cthulhu.
The nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults. — H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1928) | |
| Rosewood, Pennsylvania | Sara Shepard | Pretty Little Liars | A fictional suburb set on the Main Line region of Pennsylvania, where most of the series takes place | |
| Rummidge, England | David Lodge | Changing Places and others | ||
| S | ||||
| Sac Prairie | August Derleth | Various works | ||
| St. Johns, England | Ken Follett | Kingsbridge-series | St. Johns is a village in South West England. | |
| St. Loo, England | Agatha Christie | Several works | St. Loo is a resort town on the south English coast, commonly referred to as the English Riviera and is a setting for several Agatha Christie stories. | |
| St. Mary Mead, England | Agatha Christie | Miss Marple series | An earlier mention of St. Mary Mead exists in the Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train. However, that St. Mary Mead is said to be in Kent, while the St. Mary Mead mentioned in the Miss Marple stories, beginning with Murder at the Vicarage, is located in either the fictional county of Downshire, Radfordshire, or Middleshire, depending on the source used. | |
| St. Petersburg, Missouri | Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | St. Petersburg is Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's hometown in Missouri. It is a fictional town, but it is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Mark Twain lived. | |
| Styles St. Mary, Essex | Agatha Christie | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | ||
| Sandbourne, Upper Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Bournemouth, Dorset | |
| San Juan Romero, Mexico | Rita Maria Felix da Silva | San Juan Romero | Located somewhere in Mexico, this city that also gives the title the first short story in the series of stories starring "Sir James Winterwood". It is notorious for a terrible curse that plagues this small Mexican town. | |
| San Narciso, California | Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 | ||
| Santa Teresa, California | Ross Macdonald | The Moving Target | A fictionalized version of Santa Barbara, California, created by Ross Macdonald in his mystery The Moving Target (1949).[5] | |
| Selene | Paul Féval, père | La Ville Vampire | ||
| Shadows Fall | Simon R. Green | Shadows Fall | ||
| Shadyside, USA | R.L. Stine | Fear Street series | The title of the series comes from the name of a fictional street in Shadyside, which was named after the Fear family. Contextual clues in the text suggest Shadyside is either in southern New England or a northern Mid-Atlantic state of the US. | |
| Shalako, New Mexico | Louis L'Amour | Shalako | ||
| Shaston, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Shaftesbury, Dorset | |
| Sheepridge | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | ||
| Shelby, Alberta | W. O. Mitchell | The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon | Shelby is a small town in Alberta, serving as the backdrop of the story. | |
| Sherton Abbas, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Sherborne, Dorset | |
| Shiring, England | Ken Follett | Kingsbridge-series | Shiring is a town in South West England. | |
| Shoyo, Arkansas | Stephen King | The Stand | ||
| Sidewinder, Colorado | Stephen King | The Shining | ||
| Sleepyside, New York | Julie Campbell Tatham | The Secret of the Mansion | ||
| Slokey County, Alabama | T.O. Crane | The Raven | A fictional county in Alabama, used to conceal true crime locations | |
| Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin | "ihp" & various | SCP Foundation | Sloth's Pit was originally called New Toronto, also known as Nexus-18. It is a rural town founded in Douglas County, Wisconsin as a logging settlement in 1887. It was renamed following the 1890 disappearance of founder and storyteller Jackson Sloth and his family, said to have fallen in a sinkhole that no-one can find twice. The town is rich with folktales and paranormal activity, especially around holidays. | |
| Smallbridge, Kent | C.S. Forester | The Commodore | ||
| Snow, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Soda, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Solentsea, Upper Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Southsea, Hampshire | |
| Solla Sollew | Dr. Seuss | I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew | Solla Sollew is a walled city in a faraway land, "somewhere beyond the horizon." It is highly-acclaimed, having been said that "troubles there are few" and that "maybe it's something like heaven." | |
| Solymbria | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Soulberg | "PeppersGhost" | SCP Foundation | Designated SCP-2200-3, this is a rural North American town inhabited by silver golems (SCP-2200-4) possessed by the souls of persons killed by an Iron Age sword and its wielders (SCP-2200-1 and SCP-2200-2 respectively). The souls of the inhabitants permanently leave their bodies if they go outside the 50 km² area of the town. | |
| Spaceport Five Overcity | Andy Lane | Original Sin | Spaceport Five Overcity is a huge floating city over 30th century Britain (or "the Undercity"). | |
| Sparks | Jeanne DuPrau | The People of Sparks | ||
| Sparta, Mississippi | John Ball | In the Heat of the Night | ||
| Spoon River | Edgar Lee Masters | Spoon River Anthology | ||
| Starvation Lake | Bryan Gruley | Starvation Lake | Starvation Lake is a small town in the fictitious Pine County, Michigan. The town is based on real-life Bellaire, Michigan.[6] The lake the book is named after is in nearby Kalkaska County, and mentions its location in Northern Michigan. | |
| Statler, Pennsylvania | Stephen King | From a Buick 8 | ||
| Steklovks | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Fatal Eggs | ||
| Stepford, Connecticut | Ira Levin | The Stepford Wives | ||
| Sterling, New Hampshire | Jodi Picoult | Nineteen Minutes | ||
| Sticklehaven, Devon | Agatha Christie | And Then There Were None | ||
| Sto Lat | Sir Terry Pratchett | Discworld | ||
| Stockpool, Pennsylvania | István Örkény | My good fellow | Stockpool is a fictional town in Pennsylvania and the main location of István Örkény's one minute story: My good fellow. Most of its population consists of Hungarians. | |
| Stonetown | Trenton Lee Stewart | The Mysterious Benedict Society | Stonetown is a coastal metropolis, serving as the setting for much of the series. | |
| Stoneybrook, Connecticut | Ann M. Martin | The Baby-sitters Club | ||
| Studley Constable | Jack Higgins | The Eagle Has Landed (novel) | Studley Constable is a village in Norfolk where German soldiers attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill. | |
| T | ||||
| Tacticum | Terry Pratchett | Discworld | Tacticum is an abandoned fortress city in the Klatchian desert after General Tacticus. The city was left by the inhabitants when the wind changed and it no longer rained. | |
| Tanasso, Nevada | Jenő Rejtő | A Nevada szelleme | ||
| Tanelorn | Michael Moorcock | The Quest for Tanelorn | ||
| Tannochbrae, Scotland | A.J. Cronin | Dr. Finlay of Tannochbrae | ||
| Tarbox, Massachusetts | John Updike | Couples | ||
| Tarker's Mill, Maine | Stephen King | Cycle of the Werewolf | ||
| Tarxia | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Tar Valon | Robert Jordan | New Spring | ||
| Tashbaan | C.S. Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia | Tashbaan is the capital of Calormen, located on an island near the mouth of the River of Calormen. It is mentioned in several books, but appears only in The Horse and His Boy. | |
| Tedia | Lemony Snicket | A Series of Unfortunate Events | ||
| Templeton, New York | James Fenimore Cooper | The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale | ||
| Tench, England | Ken Follett | Kingsbridge-series | Tench is a village in South West England. | |
| Thermopolis | Rupert Thomson | Divided Kingdom | ||
| The Capitol, Panem | Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games | The Capitol is a metropolis in North America. | |
| Thi, Winkie Country | L. Frank Baum | The Lost Princess of Oz | ||
| Thneedville | Dr. Seuss | The Lorax | A walled city without trees. This was also seen in the 1972 TV special and 2012 computer-animated film adaptations. | |
| Thrax | Gene Wolfe | The Shadow of the Torturer | ||
| Three Portlands | "Jacob Conwell" & various | SCP Foundation | This is officially the City of Three Portlands, also Free Port-01. It is an extradimensional city-state accessible via portals in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, and the Isle of Portland. It is one of the largest paranormal enclaves on Earth, with a population of at least 80,000. | |
| Tiger Tail, Mississippi | Tennessee Williams | Tiger Tail | ||
| Tilbury Town, USA | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Various poems | ||
| Tilling, Sussex | E.F. Benson | Miss Mapp | ||
| Tilling Green, Ledshire | Patricia Wentworth | Poison in the Pen | ||
| Tonebrough, Outer Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Taunton, Somerset | |
| Tolwer City, United Kingdom | Jenő Rejtő | Egy bolond száz bajt csinál | Fictional town in the United Kingdom | |
| Trantor | Isaac Asimov | Foundation series | Capital of the Galactic Empire, at its height the city of Trantor covers the entire surface of its planet. | |
| Trantridge, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Pentridge, Dorset | |
| Turnhill, Staffordshire | Arnold Bennett | Anna of the Five Towns | ||
| Two Mills, Pennsylvania | Jerry Spinelli | Maniac Magee | Magee runs around and lives in a couple parts of this racially divided town. | |
| Tylerton | Frederik Pohl | The Tunnel under the World | ||
| U | ||||
| Ulthar | H.P. Lovecraft | The Cats of Ulthar | ||
| Unthank | Alasdair Gray | A Life in Four Books | ||
| Utopia | Thomas More | Utopia (book) the 1516 book | The book coined the term "Utopia", meaning an ideal city or civilization. | |
| V | ||||
| Vermilion Sands | J. G. Ballard | Vermilion Sands collection | It is a beach resort with futuristic art. | |
| Village of Cream Puffs | Carl Sandberg | Rootabaga Stories | ||
| Village of Fowl Devotees | Lemony Snicket | A Series of Unfortunate Events | This community has many (and often ridiculous) rules, with a penalty of being burned at stake for breaking these rules, the most important of which is no harming crows. | |
| Village of Liver-and-Onions | Carl Sandberg | Rootabaga Stories | ||
| Vindium | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Viriconium | M. John Harrison | The Pastel City (1971) | Viriconium is a city/state which exists in the far future. Also known as Vriko and Uriconium. | |
| Viscous | Paulo Coelho | The Devil and Mrs. Prym | Viscous is a small mountain village. | |
| Viscouns, Arizona | Jenő Rejtő | Pokol a hegyek között | ||
| Vlyvalle, New Jersey | Dirk Wittenborn | Fierce People | Vlyvalle is a wealthy town in fictional rural Huntington County, New Jersey. | |
| Vondervotteimittiss, Netherlands | Edgar Allan Poe | The Devil in the Belfry | Humorously pronounced /ˈvʌndərˈvɒtaɪmɪtɪs/ | |
| W | ||||
| Wace, USA | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ||
| Walkerville, USA | Joanna Cole | The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks | ||
| Wall, England | Neil Gaiman | Stardust | ||
| Warwich, Colorado | Jenő Rejtő | Tigrisvér | ||
| Watermouth, England | Malcolm Bradbury | The History Man | ||
| Waycross, Indiana | Ross Lockridge Jr. | Raintree County | Waycross is a town in the fictional Raintree County it's based on Straughn, Indiana. | |
| Weatherbury, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Puddletown, Dorset | |
| Weissnichtwo | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Translates from German into English as Know-not-where | |
| Wellbridge, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Wool, Dorset | |
| Well-Built City | Jeffrey Ford | The Physiognomy | ||
| Wells, South Carolina | John Ball | In the Heat of the Night | ||
| Wentworth, Ohio | Stephen King | The Regulators | ||
| Weydon-Priors, Upper Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Correlates to the real-life Weyhill, Hampshire | |
| Whistle Stop, Alabama | Fannie Flagg | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | ||
| Whoville | Dr. Seuss | Horton Hears a Who! | ||
| Wickfield | Jenő Rejtő | A Nevada szelleme | ||
| Willow, Maine | Stephen King | Rainy Season | ||
| Wigleigh, England | Ken Follett | Kingsbridge - series | Wigleigh is a village in South West England. | |
| Wilvercombe, England | Dorothy L. Sayers | Have His Carcase | A small resort on the South West coast of England, where the murder in the novel takes place | |
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson | Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life | ||
| Winston, Arizona | Jenő Rejtő | Pokol a hegyek között | ||
| Wintoncester, South Wessex | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy's Wessex | Wintoncester is the former capital of Wessex. It correlates to the real-life Winchester, Hampshire. | |
| Winterfell | George R.R. Martin | A Song of Ice and Fire | ||
| Woodleigh Common, England | Agatha Christie | Hallowe'en Party | In the novel Hallowe'en Party, Woodleigh Common is an English village. | |
| Worford, Worfordshire | Tom Sharpe | Blott on the Landscape | ||
| Wrottesley, England | Howard Jacobson | Coming from Behind | "somewhere in the debased and deteriorating Midlands"[7] | |
| X | ||||
| Xanadu | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment | ||
| Xylar | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Y | ||||
| Yian | Robert W. Chambers | The Maker of Moons | A fictional city created by Robert W. Chambers, and also referred to by H. P. Lovecraft. In the city, a great river flows under a thousand bridges, it is always summer and the sound of silver bells fills the air. In a portion of The Maker of Moons it is said to lie "across seven oceans and the river which is longer than from the Earth to the Moon." | |
| Yonwood | Jeanne DuPrau | The Prophet of Yonwood | ||
| Z | ||||
| Zaira | Italo Calvino | Le città invisibili | ||
| Zenith, Winnemac | Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt | ||
| Zentes | András Cserna-Szabó | Zerkó - Attila törpéje | A fictional city in Pannonia, Hunnic Empire, based on Szentes | |
| Zolon | Lyon Sprague de Camp | Novarian series | A Novarian city-state | |
| Unnamed | ||||
| The City | Lemony Snicket | A Series of Unfortunate Events | The City is a supposedly well-populated municipality where many key events have taken place. The City has more than 40,000 inhabitants. | |
| town in the Po Valley, Italy | Giovannino Guareschi | The Little Town of Don Camillo series | the small town where the action takes place | |
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