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This list is of fictional cities: villages, towns, and cities (begining with the letters A–M) 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.
Contents: Top — 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 — Story universes with multiple cities — Further reading
A
- ACDC Town - Part of DenCity, Megaman Battle Network
- Acme Acres - Tiny Toon Adventures
- Acorn, the west-Texas setting of stories by Duane Simolke.
- Adano - A Bell for Adano
- Addley, Pennsylvania -Hometown of Captain John Miller in Saving Private Ryan
- 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.
- Amaurotum - Latin for dream town, capital city of the island of Utopia by Thomas More.
- Amber - the city of which all others are shadows in Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber series about Amber (fictional realm)
- Ambervale - Important city in Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced
- Ambergris - Various fantasy stories by Jeff VanderMeer
- Ambridge - Setting of BBC Radio's The Archers
- Amity Park - Setting of Danny Phantom, is named after The Amityville Horror, which takes after Amityville in New York's Suffolk County
- Ampipe, Pennsylvania - Fictional setting of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in All the Right Moves
- Amsath - a kingdom of Hell in Mike Carey's Lucifer.
- Anastasia - A town with concentric channels, from Le città invisibili by Italo Calvino.
- Anchor - The base city of a massive techno-organic orbital elevator (or "Beanstalk"), from the "Heaven Over Mountain" setting of Guardians of Order's cyberpunk-genre roleplaying game "Ex Machina".
- 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.
- Angel Grove - Idyllic town, the home of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, possibly located in California. Its architecture often falls victim to various enemies of the Power Rangers, but has remarkably fast rebuilding.
- Ankh-Morpork - Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Annville, Texas - Town accidentally destroyed by the merging of Jesse Custer and Genesis in Garth Ennis's Preacher
- 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.
- Aquadelphi - Oceanic floating city which is, among other things, the headquarters of the OTEC corporation in the R. Talsorian Games role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020.
- Aquaville - One of four capitals of a restructured Britain in Rupert Thomson's Divided Kingdom
- Arcadia, Maryland - Setting of Joan of Arcadia
- Ardougne - RuneScape
- Ariel City - Firefly
- Arkham - Setting of several of H. P. Lovecraft's stories.
- Arlen, Texas - Setting of King of the Hill
- Arnette, Texas - From Stephen King's The Stand
- Arrakeen - Frank Herbert's Dune
- Ascalon - One of the largest cities in the MMORPG Guild Wars
- Ashton, Alabama - Tim Burton's film Big Fish. Many of its distinctive buildings actually exist in Wetumpka, Alabama
- 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.
- Atlantis - A city once located in Antarctica and now located in the Pegasus galaxy where was moved by its builders, the Ancients, in TV show Stargate Atlantis.
- Altomare - Setting of Pokemon Heroes and is home of legendary pokemon Latios and Latias. Based off Venice, Italy.
- Auchterturra - Generic Scottish town from Scotland the What?
- Autobot City - A transformable city/fortress serving as the headquarters of the Autobots in Transformers The Movie and in third-season episodes of the Transformers TV series.
- Avonlea, Prince Edward Island - Setting from L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
B
- Bad Ass, Texas - Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy and Illuminatus! 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
- Ballykissangel - setting of the British series Ballykissangel, name said to derive from Ballykissane, County Kerry, Ireland
- Bama (Boston Atlanta Metropolitan Axis, also known as "The Sprawl") -- in William Gibson's Neuromancer series
- Barchester - The novels of Anthony Trollope
- Bare Egil By - Setting for the album, stand-up act and tv-spots with the same name, performed by Bare Egil Band.
- Barnsford - Jack Scully played football for Barnsford Neighbours
- 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)
- Beaverly Hills - the Earth-C analog of Beverly Hills, California in the comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
- Bedford Falls - Setting of the movie It's a Wonderful Life.
- Bedrock - setting of 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
- Belisaere - City in Garth_Nix Garth_Nix#The_Old_Kingdom_series, protected from Dead spirits by being built as an enormous bridge over deep fast-running water: the river Ratterlin.
- Bellona - Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
- Bette Noir - Fallen Angel comic series
- Bikini Bottom - Stephen Hillenburg's SpongeBob SquarePants
- Belvedere, Ohio - the novel and film The Silence of the Lambs
- Berylon - city in Patricia McKillip's Song for the Basilisk. Ruled by Arioso Pellinor.
- 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
- Blackwood County, Texas - scenes from X-Files: Fight the Future
- Blaine, Missouri - the town celebrated in the film Waiting for Guffman
- Bloatsburg - Doug animated series
- Blüdhaven - Current home of the former Robin Dick Grayson (Nightwing)
- Blue Valley - Childhood home of Wally West (The Flash, formerly Kid Flash)
- Bluffington - Doug animated series
- Boneville - Unseen home of the Bone cousins in Bone by Jeff Smith
- Bönk - (pronounced Beyonk) Town in Überwald in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
- Booty Bay - pirate city in Stranglethorn Vale on Azeroth.
- Bordertown - Terri Windling's shared universe series
- Bostone - a city in The Flintstones; a parody of Boston, Massachusetts
- Bree, the main settlement of Bree-land, just east of The Shire in J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings
- Brewer, Pennsylvania - setting of John Updike's "Rabbit" novels, based on Reading, Pennsylvania
- Brigadoon - Scottish village found in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical of the same name
- Brit-Cit - huge city covering most of England in Judge Dredd
- Bristo Camino, California - fictional Ventura County town in Hostage (movie)
- Brockway - Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
- Bronson - A town who's citizens all resemeble actor Charles Bronson (The Simpsons)
- Bugtussle, Arkansas - fictional Ozark village from which the Beverly Hillbillies came
- 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
- Busytown - Richard Scarry creation
C
- Cabot Cove, Maine - in the tv series Murder, She Wrote
- Calumet, Colorado - small town in the 1984 movie Red Dawn (filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico)
- 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
- Cape Random, Newfoundland - setting for novels by Bernice Morgan, as well as the CBC miniseries Random Passage
- Capital City, USA - Capital city of the state where Springfield, USA is located in The Simpsons.
- Cascade, Washington - setting of TV series The Sentinel.
- Casterbridge - town in Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Identified as Dorchester, Dorset.
- Castle Revolving - A living transdimensional city, home to the Sheeda, a fairie-like race that purge the Earth once mankind becomes sufficiently advanced, from Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers
- Castle Rock, Maine - home to many Stephen King characters
- Castletown - English town home to Paul Grist's Jack Staff and his friends and enemies
- Castrovalva - city in the series Doctor Who that spatially collapses upon itself
- Centennial, Colorado - in the James Michener book Centennial and the subsequent miniseries based on it. (Not to be confused with the real city of Centennial, Colorado.)
- Celadon City - City in the game and anime Pokémon. It is part of the Saffron-Celadon Metropolitan Complex, making it the largest city in the Pokémon world. It is based off Tokyo, Japan.
- 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 - A renamed East European city where the setting of the computer game Half-Life 2 takes place.
- 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
- Cledge - one of four capitals of a restructured Britain in Rupert Thomson's Divided Kingdom
- Clock Town - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- 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, California - 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
- Coruscant - The capital city of the Galactic Republic from the Star Wars
- Coursegold, California - The setting for the computer game Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
- Crabapple Cove, Maine - hometown of Hawkeye Pierce, character on the television program M*A*S*H
- Crackton - The Simpsons
- 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
- Cyber City - Capitol city of Cybertron, the Transformers's home planet, in the Dreamwave comics of Transformers Armada.
- Cybertropolis - Capitol city of Cybertron, the Transformers's home planet, in the TV series of Beast Machines Transformers.
- Cypress Cove, CA - The hometown of the Bionic Six.
D
- D'ni - Ancient underground city from the Myst franchise.
- 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.
- Darrowby - Fictional Yorkshire home of veterinarian James Herriot.
- Darunia - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
- Dead Rock, Nevada - Crazy For You
- Deer Meadow - Town neighbouring Twin Peaks; in actual fact, it is the exact opposite of that town; from the movie Fire Walk With Me
- Delta City - the planned ultra-modern renovation of "Old Detroit" by the OCP corporation, from the RoboCop movies.
- DenCity or DenTechCity - Megaman Battle Network
- Denton, Ohio - setting of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Derry, Maine - setting of Stephen King's It and Insomnia
- Devil's End - setting of the Doctor Who serial "The Daemons"
- Diaspar - the city in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars.
- 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.
- Doglick, West Virginia, a town from Hellblazer that turned to making pornography to survive after its mines shut down
- Dog River, Saskatchewan - Setting for Corner Gas
- Dogpatch - home to Li'l Abner, a themepark was constructed based on the city called Dogpatch USA
- Dogville, Colorado - setting for Lars von Trier's film Dogville
- Don Camillo's village
- Domain, suburb of an unnamed city in Kevin and Kell. Home of most of the central characters
- Domino City - from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Dorotea, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
- Duckburg, Calisota, USA - in the Scrooge McDuck universe
- Dunwich, from "The Horror of Dunwich" by Lovecraft.
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.
- Echidnopolis - Echidna city on the floating Angel Island in the Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog series.
- Edge City - the eponymous setting for the cyberpunk board game "Edge City".
- Effrul - a kingdom of Hell in Mike Carey's Lucifer.
- El Dorado - Fictional city of gold located somewhere in the New World.
- El Marrow - Grim Fandango
- 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
- Entralla - the city of which a scale model is made by the titular characters in Edward Carey's Alva & Irva: The Twins Who Saved a City
- 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 the Excel Saga anime series, based on Fukuoka, Fukuoka, which was the actual setting of the manga version of the series.
- Fabletown - secret community of fairy tale characters in Fables comic.
- Fairvale, California - small town setting of Psycho
- Falador - RuneScape
- Farburg - from Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog
- Fawcett City, Indiana - hometown of Fawcett/DC's Marvel Family
- Felton City, USA - setting of the W. C. Fields short The Barber Shop
- Fernwood, Ohio - setting of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Fife, Alabama - mentioned in Bill Hicks' comedy routine as a location of UFO sightings
- Free Country, USA - Where Homestar Runner takes place
- Freedom City - a setting for the role playing game Mutants & Masterminds
- 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.
- Funkytown - From the Lipps, Inc song.
- Furinkan, Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan- The setting for the manga and anime series Ranma ½.
- Furriston, former Grandeville - hometown of Gene Catlow
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
- Glen St. Mary, Prince Edward Island - where Anne Shirley lives after marriage in L. M. Montgomery's series of Anne of Green Gables books
- Glitch City - fictional city caused by a bug that occurs in the Pokémon video game.
- Gnu York - the Earth-C analog of New York City in the comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
- Goldenrod City - Fictional city in the game and anime Pokémon. It is in the Johto Region.
- Goldwater Heights - suburb to the west of Astro City
- 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
- Goron City - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Gotham City - Batman's place of work. Fictionalized version of New York City, though originally designed by creator Bob Kane on the skylines of Toronto and Chicago
- Granville, Kansas - small town adjacent to Smallville; location where the Kents purchase farm equipment, such as tractors.
- 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 Corner, 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 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween III: 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
- Halloween Town - Halloweentown series of movies
- Hanbridge - one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent
- Happy, Texas - from the film Happy, Texas
- Harchester - Home of Harchester United and The Dragon's Lair, Dream Team
- Harmony - the setting for the soap opera Passions
- Hart, Missouri - the setting for Jack & Bobby
- Hav - in Jan Morris's Last Letters from Hav
- Haven, Maine - appears in Stephen King's, The Tommyknockers
- Haven - corrupt city in Simon Green's Guards of Haven
- Haven City - Faerie city deep underground in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series.
- Haven City - the wartorn city in the Jak and Daxter series
- Helldorado - the mining town in the Amazon jungle in the movie The Rundown (whose original title was Helldorado)
- Hellview - Originally a town in a horror film, it is mentioned in the songs "96 Quite Bitter Beings" and "Escape from Hellview" by CKY (Camp Kill Yourself).
- Herby City - Home of Andy & Lou from Little Britain
- Hicksville, New Zealand - Setting for Dylan Horrocks' graphic novel Hicksville
- Highland, Texas - the setting of Beavis and Butt-head
- Highwater, a redneck town run by neo-Nazis in Hellblazer
- Hill Valley, California - Marty McFly's hometown in the Back to the Future movie trilogy
- Hillwood, Washington - setting of Craig Bartlett's Hey Arnold!
- Hoboton - Tom Goes to the Mayor
- Hogsmeade - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the only wizarding village in Britain
- Holby - location of Holby City Hospital in Casualty
- Hollyrock - the entertainment capital of the prehistoric world in The Flintstones; parody of Hollywood, California
- Holy Wood - small temporary town in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Moving Pictures)
- Hooterville, USA - setting of Petticoat Junction and Green Acres, supposedly somewhere in the Midwest
- Hooverville - Jumpstart 5th Grade
- Hub City, Illinois - home of Steve Ditko's The Question
- Hunger City - setting of the 1974 David Bowie album Diamond Dogs
- Hyrule - kingdom in the Zelda video game series.
- Hyrule Castle Town - a market village directly south of Hyrule Castle in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
I
- Iacon - Central city of the Autobots on Cybertron, the [Transformers]]' home planet, in the TV series of Transformers.
- Ilium, New York - common setting of many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels
- Imboca, Galicia, Spain - small village, setting of Dagon (movie), a clear reference to H.P. Lovecraft's Innsmouth (The movie is inspired in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"; "boca" is Spanish and Galician for "mouth").
- Indianrockolis - a city that's the home of an annual auto race in The Flintstones; a parody of Indianapolis, Indiana
- Innsmouth, Massachusetts - Setting of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
- 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
- Jefferton, USA - Tom Goes to the Mayor
- Jerusalem's Lot, Maine - setting for Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot
- Jump City, USA - Setting for the Teen Titans. Bears a strong resemblance to San Francisco
- Junebug, Oklahoma - created by Larry Mike Garmon
K
- Kadath - From H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"
- Kaldor City - From the Doctor Who serial "The Robots of Death" and subsequent works by Chris Boucher.
- Kakariko Village - Several games in the Legend of Zelda video game series feature a village by this name, though it's doubtful any of them are the same
- Karamja - RuneScape
- Kennituck Falls - Main terrestrial location of Bruce Coville's "My Teacher is an Alien series of books, where extraterrestrials disguised as teachers studied human children
- Keystone City, USA - Home to Jay Garrick and Wally West (The Flash). In original continuity, the Earth-Two counterpart to Central City; in current continuity, located directly opposite Central City.
- Kingsmarkham, Sussex, England - Setting of Ruth Rendell's Wexford novels.
- Kingsport, Massachusetts - From the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
- Kitezh - A city of Russian legend, supposed to have vanished during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
- Knothole - In Sonic the Hedgehog's saturday morning TV series and US comic series
- 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
- Kornsas City - the Earth-C analog of Kansas City, Missouri in the comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
- 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
- Lakeport, the Bobbsey Twins' hometown
- Lake Edna - portrayed in advertisements for KFC
- Lake Wobegon, Minnesota - in the stories of Garrison Keillor
- Lamia - the city in the movie Ella Enchanted
- 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
- Landing City, capital of the Star Kingdom of Manticore in David Weber's Honorverse
- 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)
- LaRousse City - Setting of Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys. Based off Vancouver, Canada.
- 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 Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel (Jingo)
- Liavek - setting for Liavek, a shared world created by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
- Liberty City - from Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto III, 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."
- Limbo Town - hidden deep beneath New York's subway system, Limbo Town's residents are the descendants of the people who fled Croatoa; from Grant Morrison's Klarion the Witch Boy.
- Lindalino - from Gulliver's Travels
- 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.
- Liver City - animated series "Doug"
- 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 Antelopes - the Earth-C analog of Los Angeles, California in the comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
- 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 insists it was formed there
- Luskan - city in the game Neverwinter Nights
- 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 - a fictional Japanese suburb which is the setting for the anime FLCL
- Macondo - in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Malton - zombie-infested American city and the setting for the online Urban Dead game.
- 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
- Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire - 2002 movie Mr. Deeds
- 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
- Mariner Bay - the city which is home to Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
- Mariposa (fictional place), Ontario - created by Stephen Leacock for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
- Masada, France - Secret mountain town and home of The Grail, a religious conspiracy in Garth Ennis's Preacher
- 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
- Mayfield, USA - the setting for Leave It To Beaver
- McMaynerbury, Texas - heated rival of Arlen, King of the Hill
- Meridianna - from the animated show, Cybersix and home to her adventures
- Megadon - from album liner notes for 2112, the title track to the 1976 album by Rush
- Megatokyo - from the anime Bubblegum Crisis (no relation to the Megatokyo webcomic)
- Mega-City One - vast city covering the US East coast in Judge Dredd
- Mega-City Two - vast city covering the US West coast in Judge Dredd (destroyed)
- Memfish - the Earth-C analog of Memphis, Tennessee in the comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
- 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 - the home of Superman; a city similar to New York City.
- Metroville, USA - city in The Incredibles, named after Metropolis and Smallville combined.
- Mepos, Greece - the homeplace of Balki in Perfect Strangers
- Middlemarch of George Eliot
- Middle Park, Colorado - neighboring town in animated series South Park.
- Middleton - the setting of Kim Possible
- Midgar - home of the Shinra Corporation's headquarters in Final Fantasy VII
- Midgard (or Midgaard) - in dozens of MUD online games
- Midland City - upstanding yet dystopian city in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
- Mido - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
- 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
- Millennium City - the 31st-century megalopolis from whence the Power Rangers Time Force characters originate.
- Minas Tirith - Capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
- Missing Mile, NC - setting of Poppy Z. Brite's Drawing Blood and Lost Souls
- Mobotropolis - in Sonic the Hedgehog's saturday morning TV series and US comic series
- Monument - A New England mill town in Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War and Beyond the Chocolate War
- Moperville, setting of El Goonish Shive
- Moonlight Bay, California, setting for Dean Koontz's Seize the Night and Fear Nothing
- Mooseport, Maine - Welcome to Mooseport
- Mouseton - in the Mickey Mouse universe
- Mt. Pilot, North Carolina - heated rival of Mayberry (see above), loosely based on Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
- Mud Flats, Nebraska - The Muller-Fokker Effect
- Municiberg, USA - city in The Incredibles
- Mystery, Alaska - setting of the movie of the same name
Further reading
- Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic ISBN 0151005419