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18	->''"I only wish the capitol of Sweden was Swedeville, and the capital of Greece, Greekborough."''
19	-->-- '''Terry''', ''Fattypuffs and Thinifers''
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21	In RealLife, cities and locations are named after historic events or persons, landmarks, local folklore or other things, that explain their names somewhat. These names change and evolve over the time and are a direct result of the history revolving around them.
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23	In fiction, however, such immense [[BackStory back stories]] rarely exist, so the writers have to make up names on the spot, and quite often these names lack a certain creativity.
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25	Instead of genuine, unique names, we get locations with names consisting of just a noun and a variation of ''City'' behind them, that are named after the species that inhabits it, after nearby landmarks, or the main purpose they serve. In other words, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly What It Says On The Sign.]]
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27	Sometimes, the writer tries to conceal it a bit, with names that are puns on plot points or characters, or the translation thereof in a foreign language.
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29	This also can cover celestial bodies. Related to {{Premiseville}} and ThemeNaming.
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31	Note: Not every city that has a name ending in ''City'' is an example of this trope. Even if the name appears to be unimaginative, if it is justified or explained by the backstory, it is not an example of this trope.
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33	!!Examples
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37	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
38	* Paradigm City in ''Anime/TheBigO''.
39	* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' has North City, South City, and so on. Eventually one of them gets wiped out by Cell and is rebuilt as Satan City (named after professional wrestler-turned-world's "[[FakeUltimateHero strongest]]" man, Mr. Satan/Hercule).
40	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Most of the action happens in Central City and East City, and it also has a North, West and South City. {{Justified\|Trope}} with ''Brotherhood'' and the manga [[spoiler:since the country is run by an inhuman creature that doesn't really care too much about the country itself]].
41	* Many of the islands in ''Manga/OnePiece'' get this treatment, both the manga and the anime, with Alabasta, a desert kingdom, lying on ''Sandy Island'', and ''[[ShapedLikeItself Hand Island]]''. Also, Marine HQ originally laid on the island of '''Marine'''ford, which is mostly a giant fortified Marine base.
42	* Pretty much every town or city in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has names like this. This is most prominent with filler towns and cities, which have names like [=HopHopHop=] Town or [[PollutedWasteland Gringey City]].
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45	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
46	* In episode 13 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', the heroes visit a town named Green Town and lampshade how it [[SubvertedTrope isn't very green at all]].
47	* Bubblegumpur from ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' is so named because it is made entirely out of bubblegum.
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49
50	[[folder:Comic Books]]
51	* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' is both the comic book series and its main setting. Justified in that the city was originally Romeyn Falls, but was later renamed to honor the superhero Astro-Naut when he died saving it.
52	* Numerous examples in BritishComics. Beanotown the main setting from ''ComicBook/TheBeano'', Dandytown the main setting from ''ComicBook/TheDandy'', Cactusville Desperate Dan's wild west hometown and Whizztown home of none other than Billy Whizz.
53	* Golden City in Creator/DarkHorseComics.
54	* Franchise/TheDCU: Big City, Central City, [[Franchise/GreenLantern Coast City]], [[HaveAGayOldTime Gay City]], Gorilla City (in Africa, and ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin), Happy Harbour, [[Franchise/TheFlash Keystone City]], Midway City and Opal City, [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Star City]], and more.
55	* ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'':
56	** Duckburg, Calisota in the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'', originally named so by Creator/CarlBarks.
57	** ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'': In the 1990s, Mickey Mouse's hometown was given the name Mouseton and has managed to keep that name since then (except [[DependingOnTheWriter when Mickey apparently lives in Duckburg]]).
58	** In the French comics, the cities are named after the main characters (Mickeyville, Donaldville), which is inexplicable in-story.
59	** ComicBook/DarkwingDuck lives in St. Canard (French for "duck").
60	* In ''Webcomic/LoveAndCapes'' the cities are based on real ones and named after common traits. Deco City is Chicago for the many ArtDeco buildings that are there. Chronopolis is New York City, for its ubiquitous clock towers. Amazonia has her home in Liberty City, which is probably Washington, D.C. (since that's Franchise/WonderWoman's home in America).
61	* Creator/WarrenEllis' ''ComicBook/IgnitionCity'', which is actually a spaceport.
62	* Hondo City covers most of Japan in the ComicBook/JudgeDredd ''2000 AD'' comic series (and the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd Magazine'' strip ''Shimura'' in particular). And of course, Mega City One, but that was properly intentional.
63	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
64	** Smallville, where Superman grew up, is [[NamesakeGag named after its founder]], whose surname was Small.
65	** Metropolis has a name that just means "Mother-City".
66	** Midvale in the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' comics is a town located in the heart of a valley.
67	* Neopolis from Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TopTen'' simply means [[NewNeoCity New (Neo) City (polis)]]. Of course, the same can be said of real life Naples (hence the adjective Neapolitan).
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70	[[folder:Fan Works]]
71	* ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'' has this exchange:
72	-->'''Brock''': That's Remoraid Mountain. It's got Remoraid Lake on top of it, it's near the Remoraidian Ruins which used to be inhabited by the ancient people called the Remoraidians, and you'll never guess what Pokemon are up there.\
73	'''Ash''': [[DeadpanSnarker Octillery]].\
74	'''Brock''': Probably.
75	* In ''Fanfic/WishingWell'', Queen Sunsparkle is questioned on the weird name of Ponyville. Sunsparkle thinks it's silly too, but it's what her mother named the area.
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78	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
79	* ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'' live in Metroville (a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' -- the name's a portmanteau of Metropolis and Series/{{Smallville}}). Judging by the name of the bank, the opening scene takes place in Municiberg.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' takes place in Metro City.
81	* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' takes place in Monstropolis, a city full of monsters. Immediately after naming it while imitating a morning radio broadcast, Mike describes it, essentially translating "Monstropolis" into plain English.
82	-->'''Mike:''' Well good morning, Monstropolis. It's now five after the hour of six AM in the big monster city.
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85	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
86	* The Town in ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' is named Hill Valley.
87	* ''Film/DarkCity'' in the film of the same name. It's dark. But not necessarily the actual name of the city (if indeed it has one... or indeed ''only'' one).
88	* ''Film/KingKong'': Skull Island, which is its shape.
89	* Bartertown in ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. Justified in that it's supposed to have been founded pretty recently.
90	** Film/MadMaxFuryRoad has Gastown and the Bullet Farm.
91	* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': Supplemental material reveal that the entire action of the Trilogy is taking place in a certain "Mega City". Also, when Neo is being interrogated by Agent Smith, his birthplace is listed as "Capitol City". Possibly justified by the Matrix being, you know, not real and all.
92	* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.
93	* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': The Brethren Court meets in the town of Shipwreck, in Shipwreck Cove, on Shipwreck Island. As one might imagine, it's easy for a ship to run aground there, and the town is made up of dozens of foundered ships. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Jack comments on the lack of imagination in Pirate naming conventions.
94	-->'''Jack:''' For all that pirates are clever cobs, we are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things.\
95	'''Gibbs:''' Aye.\
96	'''Jack:''' I once sailed with a geezer lost both of his arms and part of his eye.\
97	'''Gibbs:''' And what'd you call him?\
98	'''Jack:''' Larry.
99	* Film/{{Pleasantville}}, in the film of the same name.
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102	[[folder:Literature]]
103	* The protagonist of ''[[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boogie-Up-River-Source-Thames-ebook/dp/B00MPMWP9K/ref=la_B0034OK19O_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533679606&sr=1-3&refinements=p_82%3AB0034OK19O%2Cp_n_binding_browse-bin%3A368165031 Boogie Up The River: One Man and His Dog to the Source of the Thames]]'' briefly gets it into his head that the towns of Oxford, Muleford and Swinford got their names from the fact that people used to drive herds of oxen, mules and swine across a river ford in or very near them. Then he reaches Duxford, and is forced to reevaluate.
104	* ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' by Norman Bridwell takes place on Bridwell Island.
105	* In ''[[Literature/RangersApprentice The Emperor of Nihon-Ja]]'' protagonists encounter a village in the woods named "village in the woods" in nihonese, and one that translates "lakeside village" - guess what's nearby. Emperor implies that it's a naming convention for most of smaller settlements in Nihon-Ja.
106	* In ''Literature/{{Fattypuffs and Thinifers}}'', the capital of Fattypuff is Fattyborough, and the capital of Thinifer is Thiniville. This is given a LampshadeHanging by Terry, who has been learning the dissimilarly-named capitals of RealLife countries.
107	* Laketown and Hobbiton in ''Literature/TheHobbit''.
108	* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' has Landing City, as in "the place where the first colonist's shuttle landed", as the capital of Manticore. Helen Zilwiki lampshades it in ''Storm from the Shadows''.
109	* In ''Literature/TheIntercontinentalUnionOfDisgustingCharacters'', the main world is called Central Earth. The main city on Central Earth is called "Town."
110	* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' series, some cities have a bit of this. The main city on Jinx (in the Sirius system) appears to be Sirius City, and the name of the Kzinti homeworld in their language translates to "Kzinhome." There are also the worlds Plateau and Canyon, named after their most distinctive features (and only habitable locations; the one for Plateau is actually called Mount Lookitthat, but it ''is'' a plateau, or more properly a mesa). There's also Crashlanding City, capital of We Made It (natives of which planet are called crashlanders).
111	** It's noted in ''Crown of Slaves'' that Landing is the most popular name for the capital.
112	* Whenever Creator/RobertAHeinlein placed a colony on the Moon, it was called Luna City. (The Chinese colony in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' was called "Hong Kong Luna".)
113	* Emerald City in ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.
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116	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
117	* Bay City in ''Series/AnotherWorld''
118	* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'': Caprica City.
119	* Brüteville in ''Series/BulletInTheFace''. It doesn't help that almost everyone shown has tried to kill someone.
120	* Lampshaded in an episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', but with a RealLife city this time, when Sean Renard's half-brother Eric visits Portland. He concludes that "Portland" must be an unimaginative LineOfSightName.
121	* The eponymous town of ''Series/LazyTown''.
122	* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'' Madison High School of the eponymous [[EverytownAmerica City of Madison]] has, as its main rival Clay City High School of the eponymous Clay City. Clay City is first introduced in the early radio {{Road Trip\|Plot}} episode "Game at Clay City". Notably, in the second television season opener, "Clay City Chaperone", Miss Brooks is chaperone in Clay City for the Madison cheerleaders attending the big football game between the two arch-rivals. In these episodes, its never explained who or what clay is. It may well be the soil. The trope, however, is averted in some later episodes where the rival high school is named [[UsefulNotes/HenryClay Henry Clay High]].
123	* Bear City in the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' recurring filmed sketch of the same name.
124	** A bit done after the release of ''Film/KingKong'' (see Film above) on WeekendUpdate had the mayor of Skull Island descrying the way his island is described.
125	-->'''Mayor:''' And it is not called "Skull" Island. It is pronounced, "Skool" Island. It is a local word.
126	-->'''Anchor:''' What does it mean?
127	-->'''Mayor:''' Head bone.
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129
130	[[folder:Radio]]
131	* ''Radio/BleakExpectations'': Poverty St. Mary (in the constituency of Dreadfulness North). As might be surmised, most of the inhabitants are incredibly poor, due to over-taxation. The local reverend tries to keep them alive via holding Holy Eucharist eighty-seven times a day, but it's sort of failed completely, to the extent that he and his daughter are the only people there still alive.
132	** And Moory-on-the-Moor, by the Moory-Mory-More Moor. It's a moor.
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135	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
136	* Crescent City in ''TabletopGame/BraveNewWorld''. On July 4, 1976, the "Bicentennial Battle" erupted in downtown Chicago as a showdown between the Devastator, his minions and allies, and Superior and the forces of Delta Prime. Devastator threatened to detonate a mysterious "doomsday bomb" on top of the Sears Tower unless Superior surrendered to him, but his ultimatum was refused, and the bomb was detonated—everything within 25 miles (40 km) of the Sears Tower vanished, leaving a shallow crater into which Lake Michigan flowed, creating the Chicago Bay and killing millions. At the same time, every Alpha in existence spontaneously vanished. Over the next few years, Chicago, now known as Crescent City due to its shape, was effectively rebuilt from the ground up on the shores of the new bay.
137	* Millenium City in ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}''.
138	* Greyhawk City (a.k.a. the Free City of Greyhawk) in the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' Greyhawk setting.
139	* Freedom City in ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''.
140	* How about ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'''s [[RodentsOfUnusualSize Skavenblight]]? [[ArbitrarySkepticism Not that the Skaven actually exist, of course...]]
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143	[[folder:Theater]]
144	* River City in ''Theatre/TheMusicMan''.
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146
147	[[folder:Toys]]
148	* ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Several towns and villages on Tamagotchi Planet are named for what family of Tamagotchis one can find there. For example, Mame City is populated by the Mame family and Patchi Forest is populated by the Patchi family.
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151	[[folder:Video Games]]
152	* The MMORPG ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' is set in "Paragon City".
153	* Pacific City in ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}''
154	* Similar to the French Disney comic example, in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' Donkey Kong's home island is named Donkey Kong Island. It has also gone by the names Kongoland (in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster''), Kongo Bongo Island (in [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry the DKC cartoon]]), and Kong Isle (in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' manual).
155	* Several EA Sports video-games take place in the same fictional city of Bay City.
156	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
157	** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'':
158	*** The mining city of Caldera is built in/near a volcanic caldera.
159	*** Vivec is the {{Egopolis}} of the [[PhysicalGod Tribunal deity]] Vivec, who resides in the city's temple.
160	*** Balmora and Sadrith Mora are this in-universe, if you are familiar with the Dunmeri language or its [[ClassicalTongue predecessor language]], Aldmeris. "Bal" means "stone", while "Sadrith" means "mushroom". Mora means "forest". They mean, fittingly, "Stone Forest" and "[[FungusHumongous Mushroom]] [[MushroomHouse Forest]]", respectively.
161	** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' has the Imperial City, capital of the Empire. Even before the empires of men, it was the seat of the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleid]] Empire.
162	** Happens all over the place in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''. Winterhold (it's a hold where it is really cold), Riverwood (built on a river running through the woods), Whiterun (built on running river), Dragon's Bridge (built around an ancient bridge with dragon decor)...the list goes on...
163	** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIArena Arena]]'' had tons of randomly generated names, but some towns got more deliberate ones (and others ''by chance'' got descriptive names). The one closest to this trope, at least that haven't been mentioned above in updated form or not, is probably Firewatch -- one of the closest mainland towns to the great volcano of Dagoth-Ur.
164	* Rivet City in ''VideoGame/Fallout3''
165	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' has Foresta, Aquaria, Fireburg, and Windia--guess which crystal corresponds to each town?
166	* Patriot City in ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' games.
167	* Liberty City and Vice City in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series.
168	* To an extent Ravenholm and City 17 in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', though the latter is justified, since human city names have been reduced to numbers by the Combine rulers.
169	* ''VideoGame/InFamous'' takes place in Empire City.
170	* Panau City, the capital of the micro-state of Panau, in ''VideoGame/JustCause2''.
171	* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': Castle Oblivion. When playing the game, you might assume the castle's name is derived from the way it takes away your memories, but [[spoiler: that's actually Namine's doing and the Castle existed long before she did]].
172	* The main city of ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' is called Seaside Town. Three guesses what major geographic feature is nearby. There's also Bordertown (located near The Border, south of which is South Of The Border) and Forest Village (in the forest), plus the clan dungeon, Hobopolis (which is, of course, full of hobos) and Crimbo Town (which only appears during [[YouMeanXmas the Crimbo season]]).
173	* Goron City, from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', is, well, precisely that.
174	* Empire Bay in ''VideoGame/MafiaII''.
175	* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'''s cities and locations almost always have this naming scheme. ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork6CybeastGregarAndCybeastFalzar Battle Network 6]]''[='=]s are named Central Town, Seaside Town, Green Town and Sky Town, all part of Cyber City. The older games have ACDC Town and Elec Town. They're part of Den City ([[BilingualBonus Den meaning electric in japanese]]), itself part of the nation of Electopia. There's also other countries such as Netopia and Yumland (a country known for its good food).
176	* ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'': Pretty much every other town name follows this trope: we have Sunshade (a desert town with a shady secret), Flamesgrace (the birthplace of the Church of the Sacred Flame), Noblecourt (a city inhabited mostly by wealthy aristocrats and other blueblood types) just to name a few.
177	* ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'' continues to follow this trope: we have Canalbrine (The quintessential CityOfCanals), Timberain (a city surrounded by a verdant forest that specialises in exporting lumber), Orerush (a stereotypical Wild West BoomTown founded due a silver rush) to name a few.
178	* Neighborville in the ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' series, first introduced in the ComicBookAdaptation, then used ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesBattleForNeighborville'' and ''3''.
179	* Raccoon City in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series.
180	* ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' has Pleasantview (a seemingly idyllic town in reference to ''{{Film/Pleasantville}}''), Strangetown (a town with mad scientists, mysterious murders and an abundance of space aliens) and Veronaville (a town based on ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', as well as some of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] other plays).
181	* The ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' mod expansion ''VideoGame/RidgesideVillage'', the village on the side of the ridge. That's their slogan, and they would ''very'' much like a better one.
182	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': The Mushroom Kingdom.
183	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has, among other things, the Human Village, the only location on the map that is truly safe for human residents.
184	* In the ''VideoGame/WarCraft'' series, both games and novels (those set prior to [=WoW=]), the capital city of Lordaeron is known far and wide as... Capital City.
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187	[[folder:Webcomics]]
188	* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheatre'' has such vividly named locations as "Dwarfland" and the "Forest of Trees".
189	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', nearly everything is named in this fashion deliberately, as part of its pastiche of the StandardFantasySetting. Prominent examples include [[CityNoir Greysky City]], [[SinglePaletteTown Azure City]], and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cliffport]], while geographical features have such names as Wooden Forest, Sunken Valley, and the Pinnacle Mountains (the tallest of which is Zenith Peak).
190	* In ''Webcomic/SteamgearInc'', the city of Tierra Barata, literally Spanish for "cheap land", is a tiny city located in the middle of some mountains.
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193	[[folder:Web Original]]
194	* In ''Website/HectorsWorld'', the site has two places: Information Island; an island of information, and Silicon Deep; an area in the deep sea where creatures use computers powered by silicon chips.
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197	[[folder:Western Animation]]
198	* The Spanish cartoon ''WesternAnimation/BasketFever'' takes place in Dog City, which is inhabited by dogs.
199	* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'': The characters live in Nearburg, a town next to Farburg.
200	* St. Canard (literally "St. Duck") from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''.
201	* Timmy Turner of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' lives in Dimmsdale, which is a town over from Brightburg. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the town was named after Dale Dimm.
202	* Fish City in ''WesternAnimation/FishPolice''. One wonders how they name all their other cities, if they exist.
203	* Similarly, the Christmas special ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer'' takes place in Cityville.
204	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' lives in Middleton, which is between Upperton and Lowerton.
205	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
206	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3'' and the G3.5 specials take place in Ponyville, a town populated by anthropomorphic ponies.
207	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has its own version of Ponyville. Series creator Lauren Faust originally wanted it to take place in [[PunBasedTitle Fillydelphia]], but she got the ExecutiveVeto on that idea. Fillydelphia and similarly equine-pun-on-real-place names [[note]]Baltimare, Manehatten, Las Pegasus, Canterlot and Trottenham for example [[/note]] are the rule. For bonus points, Ponyville is located in the kingdom of ''Equestria''.
208	** Ponyville dates back to G1's ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales''.
209	* Due to the GiantCorpseWorld setting of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', most locations on the Boiling Isles are named after the body parts that they're built on or nearby. For example, the two cities that we see in series are Bonesborough (which is nestled in a series of rib-like bones) and Latissa (which is in the armpit, just above the ''latissimus dorsi'').
210	* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this with the City of Townsville and the Town of Citysville. Also the Town of Farmsville.
211	* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
212	** In ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', the gang lives in a town named Coolsville.
213	** One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' featured the gang going to Munchville, Ohio. That town is known as the location of several snack factories, including the Scooby Snack factory, which the gang got to visit [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody as a prize for winning a contest]].
214	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The capital of [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield the state Springfield is in]] is named Capital (or [[InconsistentSpelling sometimes]] Capitol) City.
215	* The 2009 [[ContinuityReboot incarnation]] of ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' lives in Berry Bitty City.
216	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is set in Beach City, which is on the beach, [[NonIndicativeName though it's nowhere near large enough to be a city]]. A [[NoodleIncident vaguely described disaster]] happened in a nearby placed called Ocean Town. Both are apparently named after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_City,_Maryland Ocean City, Maryland]] (which isn't a city either), [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed one of the places Beach City is based on]].
217	* Wharf City in ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack''.
218	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'''s The City. Supposedly a mistranslation of its original French name, "Les Citrons".
219	* Autobot City in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''.
220	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' has Super Hero City and Villainville, which are right next door to each other.
221	* Planet Rabbit from ''WesternAnimation/WandaAndTheAlien'', which is Wanda's home planet.
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224	[[folder:Real Life]]
225	* In Japan and probably China. Kyoto: capital city. Tokyo: Eastern capital. Beijing: the characters mean "North Capital" (as the opposite to Nanjing, "Southern capital"). May be because Chinese characters force you to have meaningful names, while phonetic alphabets allow a place name's meaning to get lost once the pronunciation changes.
226	** Similarly, modern-day Hanoi used to be called "Đông Kinh" (Eastern Capital) to distinguish it from "Tây Kinh" (Western Capital), which is in modern-day Thanh Hóa province.
227	* Hà Nội itself is a case of this as Vietnam is also a Sinosphere country. "Hà Nội" literally means "within the river", because the city used to be ringed by the Red River until it absorbed some other provinces. There are/were also Hà Tây, Hà Nam, Hà Đông, and Hà Bắc - respectively "west, south, east, and north of the river".
228	* Quite a few towns in America are named in this manner, due to names often literally being invented within the past 200 years using [[LineOfSightName Line-Of-Sight Naming]] while filling out the paperwork to formally register a settlement. Hence places like Stone City, Iowa (founded as a company town for a quarry) and Farmington, Arkansas (at naming, an agricultural community).
229	** "State" Cities are also common in America: there's Indianapolis, capital of Indiana; Oklahoma City, capital of Oklahoma, and numerous others. This can lead to some strangeness, however: the larger of the two municipalities named Kansas City is [[NonindicativeName mostly in Missouri]][[note]]the city straddles the state's border with Kansas and both the city and the state are named after the Kansas River.[[/note]] and a third Kansas City is a small town in Oregon, apparently named by settlers proud to be from Kansas.
230	* In fact, there ''is'' a City of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsville,_Queensland Townsville]] in Australia.
231	** Non-city examples include Australia's westernmost state, called Western Australia, and the southern state South Australia. Of Australia's two territories, the one to the north is called... well, the Northern Territory, and the other, founded to TakeAThirdOption in arguments over where the Capital should go, is called the Australian Capital Territory. Down Under, we're not known for our creativity with names.
232	** Also, Australia itself as "australis" means "southern" in Latin.
233	* Also in the greater Los Angeles area are the cities of Commerce and Industry. Three guesses what happens in those cities.
234	** Further south (it's actually a suburb of San Diego, not LA) is Oceanside. There's also a neighborhood in San Diego proper named Pacific Beach. You ''may'' be able to figure out which prominent geographical feature it's near.
235	* An interesting example is the Transoxania region in Central Asia because it has the same meaning in different languages apparently independently. In Arabic it is ''Mal Wara Al-Nahr'' or "What is beyond the (Oxus) river". Westerners call it the Transoxania, which of course means, "What is beyond the Oxus".
236	* Battery Park, NY is a place where the US army mounted its artillery at one time.
237	** Similarly, Battery Point in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia which is located between the bulk of Hobart and the suburb of Sandy Bay. There's a lot of these around the world.
238	* Arizona's Kofa Mountains -- named for the nearby '''K'''ing '''of''' '''A'''rizona mine -- are marked on early maps as the "S. H. Mountains". This sobriquet was derived from a series of blocky stone slabs that, to the eyes of white settlers, resembled sanitary facilities dating from before the installation of plumbing. [[spoiler:Yeah. The Shit House Mountains.]]
239	* Milwaukee, as famously pointed out by Wayne's World by Music/AliceCooper, is derived from a Potowatomi[[note]]Potowatomi is part of the Algonquin family of languages, but not actually an Algonquin word as was claimed in the movie.[[/note]] word meaning "good land," although some translations have it as "fine land" or "rich beautiful land."
240	* Most city-states and microstates fall under this: the capital of The Vatican is Vatican City, the capital of San Marino is San Marino, the capital of Andorra is Andorra la Vella ("Old Andorra"), and so forth. Some aversions of this are the capitals of Liechtenstein (Vaduz) and Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan). There are also some larger examples, such as Kuwait's Kuwait City and Pakistan's Islamabad (essentially "Muslim City").
241	* An ancient Briton community on a particular hill was named "Bree", Celtic for "hill". When the Saxons conquered it, they called it "Breedon", adding the Saxon suffix "-don"… which means "hill". The community is now called "Breedon on the Hill", which, yes, means [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "Hill-Hill on the Hill"]].
242	** Something similar happened to any town or village with "upon-Thames" in its name, the River Thames having got its name partly from the old Celtic word for "river". Legend has it that Roman travelling merchants heard locals refer to the river by the word "thame" and failed to realise that it wasn't the local name for ''that specific river'' until quite a while later[[note]]and yes, this was almost certainly the inspiration for a joke in ''Literature/TheLightFantastic''[[/note]]. After the island became a part of the Roman Empire, they formally renamed it the River Isis, at least partly out of sheer embarrassment, and a few centuries of linguistic drift later we got "Thames".
243	* There is, in fact, a city called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humansville,_Missouri Humansville]]. It was named not for its inhabitants, but for its founder, James Human.
244	* In Colorado, US, the Denver metro is home to Commerce City, which isn't such a source of commerce these days, but is still a hub for transportation networks. Further south in Colorado Springs is a district colloquially called "Motor City," because of its high concentration of car dealerships. Even further south is Pueblo, nicknamed "Steel City" because of the enormous steel plant there.
245	* Mill Valley, California (probably an inspiration for the name of ''Back to the Future'''s Hill Valley, as mentioned above) was in fact named for a sawmill first built by an Irish immigrant who settled in the area in the 1830s.
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