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*** Cloudsdale. It's made of clouds, as the pegasi that live there are naturally able to walk on clouds, or simply fly if the clouds give way. The city itself has a number of free-floating buildings around it as well, in addition to regular and rainbow waterfalls cascading off its side, and moves around Equestria's skies.

Brondramon also being considered a FeatheredSerpent by some InUniverse.

* In ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'', the Kharadron Overlords live in floating sky-port cities in the skies of Chamon, the Realm of Metal, held aloft by the mystical science of the aether-endrins. These sky-ports are centres of commerce and culture with the six greatest ports of Barak-Nar, Barak-Zilfin, Barak-Zon, Barak-Urbaz, Barak-Mhornar and Barak-Thryng forming the Geldraad, a council of representatives that act as the Kharadron government.
* In ''TabletopGame/Wasteland2010'', the evil Malevolokk controls a floating city in the episode seed "Danger at 2,000 Feet". He kidnaps people with [[{{Teleportation}} a transporter beam]] to use them as slave labor.

** ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed]]'': All of the racetracks appear as Floating Continents on the game's menu. [[VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall Temple Trouble,]] [[VideoGame/SkiesofArcadia Rogue's Landing,]] and [[VideoGame/SonicGenerations Sanctuary Falls]] are the only racetracks that actually are floating continents.

** ''VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries'': The Night Palace, from ''Sonic and the Secret Rings'', is the home base of the Erazor Djinn and the final zone in the game.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': Most battlegrounds, especially in the first game, are on floating platforms of some kind(or else atop mountains, large hills, or tall buildings). The stage editor in ''Brawl'' doesn't even allow anything else. Also, there's an actual Floating Continent in The Subspace Emissary, as well as the labyrinth in the 3DS iteration's "Smash Run" mode.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': "Top Gum" has Cubby learning how to fly Icarus-style and discovering the floating island of the Aerials; mythical {{Winged Humanoid}}s of a fairy tale Grammi use to read him. Turns out the Aerials [[spoiler:are really evil and where left there on purpose by the ancient gummies as they where Air Pirates.]]

* Alaris, the capital of the Pan-Pacific Empire in ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'', is a floating DomedHometown.

** There are so far two true floating islands in space: the Island, which was formerly a piece of Nigerian countryside, is the first piece of landscape to be made spaceworthy and doesn't have a dome or an atmosphere, requiring all of its buildings to be vacuum-sealed; and Grover's Corners, formerly a chunk of West Virginia farmland, the largest piece of Unreal Estate in space, and the only craft in Fenspace with a proper [[Literature/CitiesInFlight Spindizzy Drive]].

* ''Literature/{{Akashic Records Of Bastard Magic Instructor}}'' features the mysterious ''[[OminousFloatingCastle Megalous' Sky Castle]]'', allegedly [[AncientArtifact built]] by an [[LostTechnology ancient civilization]].

* ''Literature/{{Akashic Records Of Bastard Magic Instructor}}'' features the mysterious [[FloatingContinent Megalous' Sky Castle]], allegedly [[AncientArtifact built]] by an [[LostTechnology ancient civilization]].

* ''Literature/{{Akashic Records Of Bastard Magic Instructor}}'' features the mysterious Melgalius' Floating Castle, allegedly built by an ancient civilization and their god(s).

* ''Literature/{{Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor}}'' features the mysterious Melgalius' [[Sky Castle]], allegedly built by an [[ancient civilization]] and their god(s).

* ''Literature/{{AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor}}'' features the mysterious [[Floating Castle|Melgalius' Sky Castle]], allegedly built by an [[ancient civilization]] and their god(s).

* ''Literature/{{AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor}}'' features the mysterious Melgalius' Sky Castle, allegedly built by an [[ancient civilization]] and their god(s).

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' has several such examples of this trope throughout the years:

* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'': Albion. Called "the White Country" because of the clouds that gather around its underside.

* ''LightNovel/KyouranKazokuNikki'': A floating island of devious monkeys appears. This one ''does'' have a reason for the hovering -- [[{{Unobtainium}} Levistone]], the same material that powers Hyouka, one of the main characters.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'': There's a palace in the sky, which is a (very large) mansion floating in midair.

* ''Fanfic/ResonanceDays'' has Cloudbreak, the capital of the New Life Alliance. Rather than the traditional design with a single landmass, Cloudbreak is made up of hundreds of smaller islands connected by a twisting network of rails and tubes, arranged in three discs revolving around a central axle resembling a thin white stone spire. The city is anchored through a transparent tube that pulls water from a nearby lake, giving the impression of an upside down waterfall. The city was built through collaboration between the four different species of the Alliance, including humans, [[CrystallineCreature ai'jurrak'kai]], [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Jotts]], and Calliopes.

* ''WesternAnimation/SOnicUnderground'' has the [[TropeNamer]].

* ComicBook/{{Dollicious}}: In this Polish comic book series, the land of candy girls named Heavenly Delight is located on a floating island. Character must use special elevator to get there.

* ComicBook/Dollicious: In this Polish comic book series, the land of candy girls named Heavenly Delight is located on a floating island. Character must use special elevator to get there.

** The city of Atlas is situated on a massive, artificial floating island above the continent of Solitas, and right above it's sister city of Mantle. Officially, it's held in the air by means of Gravity Dust like the natural islands above Lake Matsu. [[spoiler:Or rather, so everyone believes. In truth, it's actually floating in the air due to the power of the [[AncientArtifact Relic of Creation]] due to one of [[BigGood Ozpin's]] previous incarnations using it for that purpose to inspire hope in people, but that's not public knowledge. Near the climax of Volume 8, Team RWBY use the Staff to save Penny and the citizens of the Kingdom, causing Atlas to begin falling towards the ground and crashing on top of Mantle in the final episode. [[WordOfGod According to the writers in the Volume 8 Commentary]], Atlas was always planned to fall and was even called Checkov's Floating City because of this.]]

*** In the ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'' CrossOver "Fall of the Hammer", "Asgard" was a floating city controlled by [[MegaCorp Alchemax]], with security provided by a mind-controlled fake-Thor.
** ''[[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/weirdworld.htm Weirdworld]]'' has the floating island of Klarn, homeland of the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]].

* In ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'', EvilSorcerer Motalla operates out of a flying sky-city: a remnant of the ancient Atlantean technology found scattered across Skataris.

** Large deposits of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Gravity Dust]] can result in chains of floating islands, such as the ones by Lake Matsu. Airship pilots avoid the islands where possible, as the Gravity Dust's effects can cause turbulence, and the islands can harbor [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]].
** The city of Atlas is situated on a massive, artificial floating island, hovering above its sister city Mantle. Like the natural islands, Atlas is held aloft by Gravity Dust. [[spoiler:Or rather, so everyone believes. In truth, one of [[BigGood Ozpin's]] previous incarnations used the [[AncientArtifact Relic of Creation]] to raise the island.]]