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6	The City of Everywhere is a setting that only exists in comedic works. It usually claims to be one or more famous cities from RealLife, but contains an inexplicable and highly suspicious selection of features from all over the HollywoodAtlas. The City of Everywhere often has an assortment of landmarks and local color which in RealLife obviously couldn't be found on the same ''continent''.
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8	See also WhereTheHellIsSpringfield. Compare InformedLocation.
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14	* Creator/CartoonNetwork's 2004-06 identity revolved around what's informally known as "Advertising/CNCity", where the settings of multiple CN shows have been fused into a single setting. For instance, the [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Sector V treehouse]], the [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 City of Townsville]], and [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy the Peach Creek cul-de-sac]] are essentially right next to each other, with road signs indicating [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Metropolis and Gotham City]] are somewhat nearby. Due to this it's also a CityWithNoName, though some bumpers called it the "City of Downtown".
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18	* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' had this as the place where they face Machinedramon. {{Justified\|Trope}} because said city is in [[AnotherDimension the digital world.]]
19	* Judoh, in ''Anime/HeatGuyJ''. WordOfGod says the creator took elements from all over the place to create the city.
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23	* A wartime issue of ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' had Lord Snooty concoct a plan to confuse the Luftwaffe pilots bombing his hometown by surrounding it with landmarks "borrowed" by the RAF from all around the world. These included the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Taj Mahal, and ''Table Mountain''.
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27	* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' is set in San Fransokyo. It combines elements of San Francisco and Tokyo, so you get trams with Oriental-style roofs, Japanese signages everywhere, and the Golden Gate has torii gates as its towers. WordOfGod reveals that the amalgamation is in-universe; San Francisco was completely devastated by the 1906 earthquake, and its rebuild was influenced heavily by a large Japanese immigrant community, and the name was changed to honor this.
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31	* The view from Babe's window at the animal hotel in ''Film/BabePigInTheCity'' includes the Hollywood sign, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sydney Opera House, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Rio de Janiero statue of Christ, the World Trade Center, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, what appears to be a Moscow cathedral, and possibly other famous landmarks. Signage in the film indicates the city Babe visits is called "Metropolis", which has a Metropolis Gun Club and Metropolis Institute of Medicine.
32	%%* Basin City features a Chrysler Building, Tar Pits, a midwestern farm and Palm Trees.
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36	* ''Creator/DaveBarry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need'' has diagrams labeled "Map of Downtown Vienna," "Map of Downtown London," "Map of Downtown Paris," "Map of Downtown Berlin or Munich," "Map of Downtown Ireland," and "Map of Downtown Cairo," which are obviously the same silly drawing. The channel which runs down the middle of the drawing is triply labeled: "Seine River," "Thames River," "Nile River."
37	* The city of Ankh-Morpork in Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series is one such city, in a CultureChopSuey sort of way. Clearly identifiable inspirations that stay prominent in multiple books include 18th to 19th century UsefulNotes/{{London}} and UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity for the economy and culture, [[MerchantCity Renaissance-era]] [[CityOfCanals Venice]] for the system of government, ''UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}'' of all places for the geography and occasionally UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} for a bit of variety. But basically, any time Pratchett felt like doing a WholePlotReference to a work of fiction set in a particular city, he found some way to squeeze the necessary architecture and cultural traditions into Ankh-Morpork somewhere. There's also a lot of AnachronismStew mixing up eras of the same city; for instance, a ''Globe'' style permanent theater was a new and iffy idea that had never been tried before when the city opera house across the street was already centuries old.
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41	* Gotham City in the 60s ''Series/Batman1966'' TV show. It has landmarks from everywhere with the name "Gotham" slapped on the front. Including a clock tower named ''Big Benjamin''.
42	* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'': The city in the background is a composite, containing landmarks from New York, D.C., London, and many other cities, with what may be the tip of a pyramid looming in the background.
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46	* {{Invoked\|Trope}} in the music video for Music/MichaelJackson's "Black or White", when the camera zooms out from Michael singing at the Statue of Liberty's torch and showing landmarks from many other places from all over the world in the background, the idea being to show that everyone lives in the same world.
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50	* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', Sandor's song "Salzburg" describes a wonderful seaside city that has not only strudel and goulash but gondolas, TorosYFlamenco, Geisha girls and the Nile, and also resembles GayParee and ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''.
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54	* In ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople: Dangeresque 3'', Venice, Cairo, Ireland, Tokyo, and Paris are all the same set (which, of course, resembles ''none'' of the aforementioned places) with a really badly made prop in the background. They even have the same character (sort of) standing around in the same place in each.
55	* Given proper time and wise financial management, you can build such a place in ''VideoGame/SimCity''.
56	* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsTappedOut'' has run multiple promotions where you can build buildings and landmarks that were never in Springfield.
57	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' series, you can essentially achieve this by building several World Wonders in the same city (or general vicinity in the case of ''Civilization VI'').
58	* Some fictional cities in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' games are this. One example would be Bayview from ''Underground 2'': While its general setting is a south Californian city similar to Los Angeles (complete with its own equivalents of Beverly Hills and the Hollywood sign), it also has an elevated train system similar to Chicago's L-train, a casino area that resembles Las Vegas' Fremont Street, and an airport terminal that looks like [=DC=]'s Dulles International terminal, not to mention one of the skyscrapers downtown is styled after the Central Plaza from ''Hong Kong''.
59	* Similarly, while ''VideoGame/{{Burnout}}'''s many circuits are set in parallels of real-world cities, Paradise City from ''Burnout Paradise'' is a city of everywhere, you can find the [=UN=] headquarters and Brooklyn Bridge from New York, another copy of Chicago's L-train, its own Hollywood sign and the Kölnarena (now Lanxess Arena) from Cologne as you drive through the streets of Paradise.
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63	* This is how ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' solves the JustForFun/SeparateSimpsonsGeographyThing. It's hinted in one episode where Sideshow Bob takes Bart to a location just outside of Springfield where five states meet, including Minnesota, New Jersey, and ''[[RuleOfFunny Hawaii]]'', which does not border any other US state.
64	** Capital City gets this treatment. If Springfield is EverytownAmerica, then Capital City is every city. One episode claims its nickname is "the Windy Apple", and another points out famous landmarks that are completely made up.
65	* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', a beach in the state of New New York has famous landmarks from across the world located on it--after Fry questions the others on it, Leela explains that the state of New New York had elected a supervillain governor at one point, [[MonumentalTheft who stole them all]], then put his face on [[RushmoreRefacement Mount Rushmore]] (which he also stole).
66	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The second episode had a ''Mini Golf Course'' of Everywhere. Numbuh 2 wakes up to a vista that features pretty much ''every'' famous landmark there is; he suddenly catches onto something being off by the time he gets to the Sphinx. Turns out to be a miniature golf course in a basement with all the landmarks having been properly shrunken down, along with Numbuh 2 himself.
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70	* Some of the hotels in UsefulNotes/LasVegas appear to invoke this trope, with the hotels in question having themes based off of Ancient Egypt (Luxor), Ancient Rome (Caesar's Palace), Medieval Europe (Excalibur), [[CityofCanals Venice, Italy]] (The Venetian), [[GayParee Paris, France]] (The Parisian), [[BigApplesauce New York City]] (New York, New York), etc.
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