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* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'': Being an action-adventure inspired by the ''Zelda'' games, it identifies the area you're arriving with a display of its name on the screen. Thanks to DynamicLoading, no cutscene is necessary for the areas located in Sauria.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': The first installment to shows the name of areas when you first enter was [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX IX]]. Also seen in [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII the]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 XIII]] [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII series]].

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'': The first time you enter a world, a supporting character's hangout area or shop, and every time you access a bonus minigame (excluding those of the prologue and Hideout Helm) or BattleArena challenge, the game will proceed to write the location's name with yellow letters (also having green and orange hues), with the writing done via purple sparks. In the case of a world's name, an EstablishingShot is used as well.

** Most films use establishing shots and title cards when introducing new locations, or to notate {{Time Skip}}s.

* 3D [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda games]], starting with ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', usually do this not just with towns but also new environments, such as Death Valley or Hyrule Field, accompanied by an EstablishingShot. The same service extends to dungeons, as early as ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]''.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' shows the name of areas when you first enter.
** The first installment to do this was [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX IX]]. Also seen in [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII the]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 XIII]] [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII series]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has done the same thing at least twice with "Six to eight weeks later".
** In "Simpson Tide", a caption reading "United Nations Building, New York City" appears on a scene showing a farmer selling corn. [[BreakingTheFourthWall The farmer says "It's over there", and the camera pans right to reveal the U.N. building]].

** The comic with B and Virginis has [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent "Even further away than normal"]]

A direction in the script to lay words on the screen. This could be a {{dateline}} such as "Amsterdam, 2026", or "Three Days Ago". Primarily used to fix the setting firmly in the minds of the audience. An EpistolaryNovel or {{Diary}} will often provide the place and time for which the character wrote the entry.

This is very common in shows taking place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture or ExtyYearsFromNow (in either direction) and {{Thriller}}s of any kind, particularly, SpyFiction. May exhibit the LondonEnglandSyndrome.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' not only shows the names when you first enter a new area, it also shows where there area is on the Bionis or Mechonis.

--> ''A small survivalist compound about an hour's drive east of Portland, Oregon''
--> ''Nineteen years ago''

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheEvitableConflict": Excepting for the first scene, each one is prefaced by a short title for the region, its land surface area, population, and capital city.

* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': In the first book, George and Harold order the 3-D Hypno-Ring, which takes four to six weeks to arrive. The next chapter is titled "Four to Six Weeks Later".
* Creator/EoinColfer's ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': The prologue of ''The Arctic Incident'' starts with the words: "Murmansk, Northern Russia; two years before". Many of the scenes in the rest of the series follow suit.
* Creator/ConnieWillis's ''Literature/{{Blackout}} / All Clear'': The chapters don't have names; merely location and date, like "Oxford--April 2060" or "Saltram-on-Sea--29 May 1940".

* The captions in ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' go all-out: bright green monospaced font, printed letter by letter with computerised teletype noises as they appear.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' does this every time you enter a new zone/subzone, along with different coloured text to tell you whether the area is neutral, friendly or hostile to your faction.

** [[VideoGame/StriderArcade The original arcade game]] has the location of each stage shown at the beginning using stylized text. As an interesting twist, however, each stage intro uses different languages: stages 1 and 2 are in Russian, stage 3 is in Hebrew, stage 4 is in English and the final stage is in ''nordic runes''.

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