History Main / LandOfOneCity

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'': Although it's not very clear in the game itself at first glance, according to lore [[WorldOfWarcraft Stormwind]] is actually a city-state, and the adjacent regions are independent governments that just allow Stormwind to protect them with its military. Of course, the same lore also claims that Stormwind has 200,000 citizens (more than every other city in the game combined despite being smaller than several of them), so this might be taken with a grain of salt.

** Or maybe 200,000 people are Stormwind citizens but reside in other regions.

* At the end of the first season of ''{{Robotech}}'', humans have been nearly wiped out by the T'sentraedi, and have only one city left. Nonetheless, they still field a very powerful military.

** Actually, ancient Greek ''poléis'' had other towns in their territory. They were called ''démoi''. The important whing in a Greek city-state was not the city, but its citizens. A citizen of Athens could live outside Athens, in a small village at the other side of the Attic region, but he was still Athenian.

** Its presumed to have had multiple cities at some point in the distant past. Now, like in New York City and London, once-separate municipalities have been devoured by a more dominant one and turned into boroughs, albeit on a [[{{Understatement} slightly larger scale]] than either of those.

** Its presumed to have had multiple cities at some point in the distant past. Now, they're pretty much boroughs.
** Hive worlds ≠ Land of One City. It's like saying trees with entwined roots are one organism (ignoring clonal colonies).
*** Well, in this case the trees are so entwined that they've literally merged together. Coruscant is stated in the Phantom Menace to be "one giant city." It's still a LandOfOneCity because the land ''is'' the city.

* Pretty common in video games with [WorldMap world maps] due to ConservationOfDetail.

* Attilan, home of the Inhumans.

* Monaco, Singapore and the Vatican are RealLife examples. That makes this trope TruthInTelevision.

* Grantsville in {{1632}} is effectively this. Interestingly there were a number of independent cities like that at the time. Unfortunately they didn't possess repeating rifles.

* Monaco, San Marino, Singapore and the Vatican are RealLife examples. That makes this trope TruthInTelevision.

** Also many of the tiny states that made up the Holy Roman Empire.

* ''{{Tropico}} 3'' has only one city to build on, and you CAN STILL have a thriving economy.
* Monaco, San Marino, Singapore and the Vatican are RealLife examples. That makes this trope TruthInTelevision.

* In ''{{Appleseed}}'', Olympus, the most powerful country, apparently has only one city.

* ''FinalFantasyIX'' has Lindblum and Burmecia, which control a goodly portion of the continent with only one city. Also, narrowly averted in that Alexandria has a whopping three cities (or two, it's [[EpilepticTrees ambiguous]] where Treno stands)
* ''FinalFantasyXI'''s nations of [[TheKingdom San d'Oria]], [[TheRepublic Bastok]], [[TheFederation Windurst]], and [[CapitalCity Jeuno]] are all technically city-states in the present time, although the first three have historical areas that they controlled in the past that are now up for grabs. [[TheEmpire Aht Urhgan]] is seemingly the only in-game nation with actual vast stretches of territory.
* A few locations in ''{{Discworld}}'' are city-states. Most notably Ankh-Morpork and Genua.

** Hive worlds =\= Land of One City. It's like saying trees with entwined roots are one organism (ignoring clonal colonies).

* Although it's not very clear in the game itself at first glance, according to lore [[WorldOfWarcraft Stormwind]] is actually a city-state, and the adjacent regions are independent governments that just allow Stormwind to protect them with its military. Of course, the same lore also claims that Stormwind has 200,000 citizens (more than every other city in the game combined despite being smaller than several of them), so this might be taken with a grain of salt.
** Or maybe 200,000 people are Stormwind citizens but reside in other regions.

* Trantor from the {{Foundation}} universe is a planet whose entire surface has been urbanized, thus making it one big city.
* The various [[MegaCity Mega-Cities]] in ''JudgeDredd'' each only have direct authority over their respective urban areas, though MC-1 at least does have some influence over parts of the Cursed Earth.
* As revealed in ''[[DonkeyKongCountry Donkey Kong Land]]'', Donkey Kong Island has one city: Big Ape City.

** [[{{UsefulNotes/Italy}} And Italy.]]

Note that the area with one city DOES NOT have to be a country, it can be a planet or county or etc...

* [[StarWars Coruscant]] is a city the size of an entire ''planet''.

* Tar Valon from TheWheelOfTime.