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3'''Right:''' [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV Statue of Happiness, Liberty City]] [[note]]...and no, that's not [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary Clinton]].[[/note]]]]
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5->''"They fly around and look at the various sights of New York Ci--, uh, Metropolis, such as the Statue of Some Chick With a Torch."''
6-->-- ''Website/TheEditingRoom'''s abridged script for ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''
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8Fictional cities and occasionally countries are often obvious stand-ins for RealLife ones. They have a different name, different landmarks, and a different population, but the look, conventions, and society at large are the same. This gives the setting more flavor than just calling it CityOfAdventure.
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10Where names or street numbers are obscured, or not obscured at all, but accurately based on real locations, RealPlaceBackground applies.
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12See also HollywoodAtlas, BigApplesauce, and FantasyCounterpartCulture. Occasionally involves IstanbulNotConstantinople. Contrast with CityWithNoName, WhereTheHellIsSpringfield and CanadaDoesNotExist when the city's location is deliberately concealed or [[NegativeContinuity seems to contradict itself]]. Also contrast with EverytownAmerica, in which the location is deliberately made generic. In some cases anyway.
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20* {{Anime}} series often have a version of Tokyo rebuilt or moved after [[TheTokyoFireball some cataclysm]]: ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' and Neo-Tokyo, ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' and Mega-Tokyo, ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' and [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas Crystal Tokyo]], ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and Tokyo-3.
21** ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' employs LampshadeHanging on this, as there is a police division dedicated to rebuilding Tokyo after the numerous disasters.
22** This prefix-Tokyo practice is parodied in the ''VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright|AceAttorney}}'' series, where the ''Steel Samurai'' franchise is set in "Neo-Olde Tokyo". (In Japanese, it's Neo-''Edo'', implying a return to pre-modern Japanese government as well.)
23** This is something of a TruthInTelevision, as in its modern history Tokyo was completely rebuilt no less than ''four'' times. The first time was in the 1870s when it went from the seat of Bakufu to the imperial capital (and ''started'' being called Tokyo, for that matter), then it was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1923, after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Kanto_Earthquake Great Kanto Earthquake]], then again it was [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII firebombed almost into oblivion in 1945 by the US]], and in the early 1960s, much of the city was remodeled in preparation to the Olympic Games, creating modern street plan in the central districts. They just didn't stick any fancy prefixes/suffixes on its name.
24* The city of Hikarizaka[[note]]not explicitly named as such in Canon, but implied by the names of the school and the electric company, etc.[[/note]] in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' is largely based on the Tokyo suburbs of Mizuho and Hamura, with a bit of Osaka thrown in. Try looking on Google Street View sometime.
25* While ''Manga/CroiseeInAForeignLabyrinth'' has a rather faithful depiction of late-19th century Paris, Galerie Du Roy appears to be based on Galerie Du Roi in ''Brussels''.
26* In ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', the CityOfAdventure, F City in F Prefecture, is a thinly veiled stand-in for the real-life Fukuoka City in the Fukuoka Prefecture of Japan. [[Manga/ExcelSaga The original manga]] actually calls the city its proper name, and in the anime, the map of F City is that of Fukuoka.
27* Distinctly averted by the [=OVA=] ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' which does its darnedest to match up with real Chicago landmarks. Locals claim to be able to actually trace the climactic car chase in Episode 2.
28* The ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series is set in the author's hometown of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, with the serial numbers filed off: Kanji in actual place names (or their readings) are changed -- the Uegahara Pirates of Kwansei Gakuin University become the ''Kami''gahara Pirates, for instance -- and the name of the actual town is never directly mentioned ("Kitaguchi Station" is ''Nishinomiya'' Kitaguchi Station, and "North High" is Nishinomiya-Kita High School). This is made especially blatant in the anime, where Kyoto Animation saw fit to recreate the ''actual locations'' in and around the city, including undisguised shots of passing Hankyu Railway trains, and the skylines of nearby Osaka and Kobe. Since Nishinomiya is located in the heart of the Kansai [[TheIdiotFromOsaka region]] it would run the risk of being stereotyped, but Creator/KyoAni's attention to detail actually gives it an "everytown" quality. What really takes the cake is a scene in the anime version of "Endless Eight", which shows a photorealistic establishing shot of the Kobe waterfront. Sure, they don't come out and say it, but they're getting really, really obvious.
29* The ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure'' Movie is set majorly in Paris, France. This was evidenced by its producers where they went to Paris for the location setting and inspiration.
30* Hinamizawa, from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', is largely based on Shirakawa-go, Gifu... That is, ''exactly like''. So much, that their local shrine wall was terrorized with Higurashi stuff, so they had to make a new wall for Higurashi things.
31* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' has Morioh-cho, which is directly modeled architecture and culture-wise off of the city of Sendai in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. Though, it had its name and businesses changed to avoid the controversy of including Sendai's name directly in it.
32* ''Anime/{{K}}'' calls Shibuya "Shizume," but the RealPlaceBackground scenes identify it clearly enough.
33* The description of Shuchi'in Academy in the beginning of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is understood by Japanese as a not-so-veiled reference to the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakushūin Gakushūin]], the school established for and exclusively used by the Japanese noble class between [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration 1877]] to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1947]], and continues to be the "default" school for the descendants of the same people.
34* Although it seems to combine elements of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, and UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and some fans believe it's in Hawaii, WordOfGod says that "Port Mery" in ''Anime/KaleidoStar'' is actually L.A.
35* ''Anime/{{Kamichu}}'' is obviously set in the town of Onomichi, Hiroshima. The town's profile, with its shoreline and steep hills, is so recognizable that it's actually a bit baffling why the makers just didn't flat-out call it by name.
36* The unnamed towns in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' and ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' are exact copies of real towns (although Kami, home of AIR, has been absorbed into a larger city since the game's release). The train station in ''Kanon'' is based on Moniguchi station in Osaka.
37* Where does ''Manga/KOn'' take place? The town's name never gets mentioned, but judging by the locales it's set in Kyoto; Shugakuin station is clearly recognizable, for instance. The high school is modeled after a renovated elementary school in Toyosato, Shiga, which is not too far from Kyoto either. Still, the makers try to convolute the issue by having the girls go on a ClassTrip to Kyoto, where they are even seen passing Mount Fuji. Creator/KyotoAnimation, you're not fooling anybody!
38* Near the climax of ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'', a soccer match and a magical missile almost lead to war between two unnamed European countries. Context would imply they are France and Britain.
39* ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'' has all of the names of real countries and places replaced with barely disguised substitutes (e.g. Astria for Austria, Yamerica for America, and so on). It's odd, considering that previous incarnations of the ''Franchise/LupinIII'' franchise have no issues with freely using real locations.
40* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has the Zeon occupation headquartered out of "New Yark"(sic), which looks nothing like New York City. The [[Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin manga adaptation]] averts this, by explicitly putting the Zeons in Los Angeles, HQ'd out of Los Angeles City hall.
41* The Flowercrest department store in ''VisualNovel/{{planetarian}}'' is based on the (now demolished) Matsubishi department store in Hamamatsu, a town in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture. The game extensively uses other locales and sights from that town as well, which also found their way into the anime.
42* The town in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' (called Golde Krone in text shown in the anime, but translated as Kinkan in the Japanese audio and Gold Crown in the English dub) is based heavily on the German town of Nördlingen. In fact, almost all of the locations in the anime can be found in the town itself.
43* The original ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' has Amegapolis, a stand-in for New York City. Then one of the sequel series has (seriously) New Jork.
44* ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}'' takes place in Shime, a small town near the Japanese city of Fukuoka, as evidenced by the old coal mine winding tower that appears in the background every now and then. In one episode the main characters take a trip to the big city, which is clearly based on the city of Fukuoka.
45* The ''Manga/SlowStart'' anime is set in the Sawaizawa, Nagano. The architecture clearly show the events in the anime are set around the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano, with a different kanji for the last syllable. %%Not in manga.
46* ''Manga/SummerTimeRendering'' takes place on the island of Hitogashima off the coast of Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture. The setting is a stand-in for the real life uninhabited island of Tomogoshima, and various locales such as Koba Mart, the ferry dock, and many other backgrounds can be found on the mainland in Wakayama City.
47* People will think the village of Sylvania in ''Anime/SylvanianFamilies'' is actually fictional. Thought WordOfGod states the village is more inspired from 1970s Britain.
48* ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' is set in the Tokyo suburb of Tama, specifically in the Seiseki-Sakuragaoka neighborhood, though the area is portrayed with a more suburban flavor compared to the real thing. The author also swapped a kanji in the city's name for MeaningfulName effect, due to the setting. Many backdrops in the AnimatedAdaptation are easily recognizable from reality, and the locations in the story are inspired by real-world counterparts, just with the names and appearances changed. As an example, in the place where the cast's high school is said to be located, an elementary school is present in the real world. The second season's opening makes it even more blatant by having a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/introvsphoto.jpg true-to-life animated rendition of the skyline of real-world downtown Tama.]]
49* The town where ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' takes place is never named but borrows a lot of inspiration from Kiyohiko Azuma's own hometown of Takasago, Hyogo.
50* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' takes place in the exurbs of Omiko City, [[https://www.viz.com/blog/posts/mangaka-musings-05-16-2021 based loosely on]] Odawara. The main difference is that Omiko City doesn't seem to be near the ocean.
51* ''Anime/VoltesV'' has the Boazanian Empire, which is a FantasyCounterpartCulture to 18th-Century UsefulNotes/{{France}}. The upper-class, elite Boazanians with horns[[note]]In ''Anime/VoltesV'', horns are a mark of nobility for Boazanians[[/note]] on their head are a parallel to the Bourgeoisie, while the SlaveRace hornless Boazanians are a parallel to the commoner class.
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55* The Bootneck Boy in the strip of the same name in the seventies UK comic ''Battle Picture Weekly'' is from "the tough [[OopNorth northern]] town of Tynecastle" — obviously [[UsefulNotes/NorthEastEngland Newcastle-on-Tyne]].
56* Franchise/TheDCU:
57** There is dispute over which is the DCU's UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity -- [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Metropolis]] or [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]. Both are named after NY nicknames. Creator/FrankMiller said that Metropolis is [=NYC=] in the daytime, and Gotham is [=NYC=] at night; Denny O'Neil said that Metropolis is New York above 14th Street and that Gotham City is New York below 14th Street. It could be significant that Gotham was created by New Yorkers familiar with the city's dark side, while Metropolis was created by UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}ers for whom living in New York was an aspiration. Franchise/TheDCU also has an ''actual'' New York City, although it is reportedly a much smaller, less (ahem) metropolitan burg than its real-world counterpart (and, for that matter, than Metropolis and Gotham, leading to its nickname "the Cinderella City" in ''Comicbook/SevenSoldiers''). Pre-Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}, the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica forms much of NYC's superhero community, and the city was the target area for the Anti-Monitor's bid to destroy the Multiverse (again) during the ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar arc. In the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' era, it's home to the [[ComicBook/TitansRebirth Titans]], as it was in TheEighties.
58*** In the sourcebook for the Mayfair Games' ''TabletopGame/DCHeroes'', Metropolis is set in Delaware and Gotham City in New Jersey. For a while, that sourcebook was treated as official canon, and today, a comic page will occasionally include a peek at a map showing Gotham City clearly located in what would be New Jersey — but with no actual state names visible.
59*** The same sourcebook gives the Metropolis area code as 123, which would be impossible in real life, because it start's with a 1. It also says that Gotham was originally a Swedish colony — as Delaware [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden was]].
60*** The 1985 Game Master's Manual has a map of Gotham City which is clearly based on the real-life geography of Providence, Rhode Island.
61*** In the novelization of ''Film/BatmanBegins'', the author felt it was necessary for Bruce Wayne to take a trip to New York (in order to get research on Ra's), just to give him a chance to point out that Gotham is not New York, and to compare and contrast the two.
62*** While ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' is clearly filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, it is implied that Gotham City is an island, much like New York. This is somewhat surreal, especially when the bridges over the Chicago River are implied to connect the island to the mainland. Pittsburgh, the primary shooting location for ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' similarly has large rivers running through the city, but is not itself an island. On the other hand, ''The Dark Knight Rises'' also filmed in Manhattan, itself an actual island.
63*** The 60s ''Series/Batman1966'' TV series took Gotham-as-New-York to a ridiculous extent; at one point Catwoman escapes across the state line to "New Guernsey" (Guernsey and Jersey are both [[UsefulNotes/TheChannelIslands Channel Islands]]).
64*** ''Film/BatmanForever'' managed to outdo even that by having a [[MonumentalBattle Statue of Liberty]] {{expy}} in Gotham for unexplained reasons.
65*** Metropolis is occasionally referred to as "the Big Apricot" in the comic books — an obvious reference to "The Big Apple". In at least one comic, Gotham is "the Rotten Apple".
66*** The Film/{{Superman|FilmSeries }} movies, on the other hand, go whole-hog and present Metropolis as being UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity — subway, Times Square, World Trade Center, [[strike:Calgary Tower]] and all.
67** Franchise/TheDCU is filled with these. Among others, Coast City, Bludhaven, Central City, Star City, Fawcett City, Keystone City, Vanity, Midway City, Gateway City, and Dos Rios. Originally, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse was thought of as extremely original for using New York itself.
68*** Like New York City, UsefulNotes/NewOrleans exists in the DCU, but also has an analog: St. Roch, the base of operations for pre-Flashpoint Comicbook/{{Hawkgirl}} (there is both a St. Roch street and a St. Roch neighborhood in the real New Orleans).
69*** An interesting twist in the ''Comicbook/GreenArrowRebirth'' storyline "Rise of Star City": decades after Mike Grell moved Ollie from Star City to Seattle, and a few years after it was established that the Comicbook/{{New 52}} GA had ''always'' been based in Seattle, Star City gets reintroduced ... as the [[PleaseSelectNewCityName new name]] for Seattle, following its takeover by an AncientConspiracy.
70*** National City in ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth'' is presented as the L.A. to Metropolis's New York.
71*** The ComicBook/{{JSA}} operated out of Gotham City first, and then in the late 1940s moved to "Civic City", which at first appears to be a stand-in for Washington DC, given the Atom's comments about it. But then ComicBook/AllStarComics'' #54 mentions that the police cars have an Empire State license plate, so Civic City must be in New York State. Oddly enough, it has a bottomless lake and a geyser similar to Old Faithful nearby.
72* The title character of ''Jalila'' protects the City of All Faiths, which is quite blatantly Jerusalem. She got her powers from an accident at the "Dimodona nuclear plant," which is just lazy.
73* The Big City (no other name given) in Creator/DynamiteComics' ''Legenderry: A {{Steampunk}} Adventure''. WordOfGod is that it's not quite turn-of-the-century UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and it's not quite VictorianLondon. (At one point a chase scene is said to have run from Sixth Avenue to the Serpentine.)
74* In Jaime Hernandez's ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'' stories, the main location of "Hoppers" is a barely-at-all disguised version of Los Bros' hometown of Oxnard, California.
75* Basin City from the ''Comicbook/SinCity'' comics and films, while supposedly located in western Washington, east of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, is more an amalgam of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles and UsefulNotes/LasVegas.
76* The Franchise/{{Tintin}} book ''Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls'' very accurately depicts the French port of Saint-Nazaire. The English translation renames it Westermouth, implying it's instead an English town with a similar history.
77* In ''ComicBook/WetMoon'', the eponymous town is based on Savannah, Georgia, with many of the backgrounds containing clearly recognizable local landmarks and buildings.
78* ''Zein'' takes place in Origin City, which is based on Cairo.
79* The Scottish city of Glengow, home to Glengow Rangers in the ''Roy of the Rovers'' strip "Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse," is pretty blatantly Glasgow.
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83* ''ComicStrip/AngusOg'': The exact location of Drambeg is never explicitly stated, other than being in the Outer Hebrides, but a throwaway line in the storyline where an Arab Sheik buys Drambeg, that Mecca is in the exact same direction as Scottish Mainland town of Plockton, gives us only one real candidate. The only isle in that exact orientation is the (now deserted) Island of Pabbay in the Sound of Harris, of which Drambeg is an excellent fictional stand in.
84* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
85** While it never names the state or town in which Calvin lives, the back cover of ''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'' shows a giant Calvin stomping through what looks like cartoonist Bill Watterson's longtime hometown of Chagrin Falls, Ohio; the building Calvin is picking up is a dead ringer for the Chagrin Falls Popcorn Shop.
86** On their return from Mars, Hobbes claims that on maps their home is near the "giant letter 'E' in 'States.'"
87* It was assumed for years that the city in which ComicStrip/DickTracy operates was in fact Chicago, notorious for gangsters and corrupt activities (Big Boy was an obvious analogue to Al Capone), and where the strip's creator, Chester Gould, worked. But the city remained nameless and, eventually, geographical inconsistencies with the real Chicago crept in; at one point, the Atlantic coastline was said to be less than fifty miles away from Tracy's city.
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91* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': The story takes place in real Portland locations, and the third act references London's famous Heathrow Airport.
92* Boomfield from the Joe the Great Franchise has several examples of real-world elements being used:
93** Boomfield is widely based on New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia combined, with its buildings and skyscrapers.
94** Boomfield being a port city was inspired by Seattle.
95** Joe's Elementary School is based on Belden Elementary in Canton, Ohio, his middle school is based on RS Middle in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, and his high school is based on Corcoran High in Syracuse, New York.
96** Angelwood Middle School is based on Roberts school located in Syracuse, New York. However, the schools based on Roberts and Corcoran are much farther away from each other, while in real life they are close by and Roberts is both a elementary and middle school.
97** Edgewood University where Ethan, Fred, Joy, and Sam attend is based on Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York.
98** The Boomfield Mall is based on the Belden Village Mall in Canton, Ohio.
99** The street Joe lives on is based on Struble Avenue in Canton, Ohio.
100** The streets where Fred and Sam live are based on neighborhoods in Alliance, Ohio.
101** The street where Ethan lives is based on neighborhoods in Syracuse, New York.
102** The street where Joy lives is based on neighborhoods in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, Michigan.
103** The street where Brooke lives is based on Pullman Avenue in UsefulNotes/{{Rochester}}, New York.
104** Boomfield Amusement Park was inspired by Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.
105** Some of the Bloomfield streets were inspired by those in the U.S. cities of UsefulNotes/{{Rochester}}, UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, UsefulNotes/NewOrleans, UsefulNotes/{{Oakland}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}.
106* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' example under Video Games is parodied in [[http://lparchive.org/Grand-Theft-Auto-San-Andreas-(Screenshot)/Update%206 Chapter 6]] of ''FanFic/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreasGroveStreet4Life'', since Radio/GTARadio uses the names of real communities. "Yeah, that lawsuit . . . Got told they can't use real names and places or they be encouraging gang violence... stupid, as if people don't know they mean Ganton when they sing about Compton."[[note]]Compton is the real community, Ganton is the game's stand-in.[[/note]]
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110* The settings of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' movies are based on real locations: Altomare is Venice, Forina is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulingyuan Wulingyuan]], Larousse City is Vancouver, Cameran Palace is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein_Castle Neuschwanstein Castle]], Samaya is Rome, Alamos Town is Barcelona, and Michina is Athens.
111* "Paradise Falls" in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' strongly resemble Angel Falls, right down to both being in UsefulNotes/{{Venezuela}}.
112* "San Fransokyo" in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' is named as a portmanteau of UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco and UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, and combines cultural features of each. However, the city's streets were developed from a digital map of San Francisco with a few Tokyo-like elements and fictional transit lines overlaid. For example, Lucky Cat Cafe is modeled closely to a specific building at Masonic Street in the Haight-Asbury district whose tenants include a cafe; however, the street's trees were replaced with cherry blossoms in the digital model. ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' implies that most of the Tokyo-inspired elements were added after the Great Catastrophe (the 1906 earthquake).
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116* ''Film/{{Bacurau}}:'' The foreign killers are obviously American, but the credits refer to them as "Os Forasteiros", meaning "The Outsiders."
117* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Chris Nolan hardly bothers to disguise UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} as Gotham City. His Caped Crusader broods on the Sears Tower, races through the underground tunnels of Lower Wacker Drive, rides the Batpod through the Metra Electric station at Randolph Street (you can even see street signage for the Pedway), and fights it out with the Joker on a famous stretch of [=LaSalle=] Street. The bank robbery that opens ''The Dark Knight'' was filmed at the old central post office on Van Buren Street, and Wayne Enterprises is headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade Building. However, the flying-overhead view used in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' is the canon layout of Gotham.
118* In ''Film/BostocksCup'', the town of Bostock is mentioned as being a former mill town which has fallen on hard times, with the unsuccessful football club Bostock Stanley being one of its few attractions. While this could have described many northern English towns at the time of the FilmWithinAFilm's 1973--74 setting, it's most likely intended to be a reference to the town of Accrington, whose own football club shared the suffix "Stanley", and had long-since gone out of business at the time of the film's 1999 airing (though a reformed version of Accrington Stanley would re-enter the English Football League in 2006).
119* ''Film/TheDesertOfTheTartars'' (1976): While the army the protagonist Drogo serves in is unnamed, it is very obviously meant to be the one of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSOundOfMartialMusic three Austro-Hungarian armies]] before UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, as they're dressed in Austro-Hungarian uniforms (complete with the royal cypher of Emperor Franz Joseph I), have Austro-Hungarian ranks and wield Austro-Hungarian weaponry. Nevertheless, the army clearly deviates from its real-life counterpart in several instances: The Double-Eagle banner is notably fictionalised, a painting portrays Franz Joseph with a very ahistorical ''full'' beard, and most obviously: The Austro-Hungarian Empire never had a Persian-esque desert border, much less one that was infested with Tartar raiders (which is more reminiscent of several remote near-eastern regions of UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia rather than anything else). This is inkeeping with the semi-mythical allegorical nature of its source material.
120* ''Film/AFaceInTheCrowd'' begins in a small town in Arkansas, named Pickett in the film. The filming location's name, Piggott, is only slightly different.
121* It's never actually mentioned by name, but ''Film/FightClub'' is implied to take place in Wilmington, Delaware. (This is more explicit in the film than in the novel, as New Castle County and the nearby Delaware City are namedropped.)
122* ''Film/ForrestGump'' is from Greenbow, a fictional town in Alabama which could be any rural small town in Alabama (there are real ones named Greenville and Greensboro).
123* The boarding school in ''Film/TheGettingOfWisdom'' is heavily based on the real-life Methodist Ladies' College in UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}}.
124* In ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', Tomania and Bacteria are thinly-veiled pastiches of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly respectively.
125* Parodied in the film ''Haiku Tunnel'', which is set in lovely UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco.
126* ''Film/IAmAFugitiveFromAChainGang'' is based on the autobiographical book by Robert E. Burns entitled ''I Am a Fugitive from a ''UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|USA}}'' Chain Gang!'', published in 1930. The title was changed so as not to offend anyone from said state. Still, the film outraged the Georgia authorities so much that they refused to pardon the book's author until 1945.%% The exclamation mark is actually part of the book's title.
127* The ''Film/JamesBond'' series has a few....
128** In ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', The island nation of San Monique stands in for Haiti and/or the Dominican Republic.
129** In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', The Republic of Isthmus and Isthmus City stand in for Panama and Panama City, respectively.
130* ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': Pozharnov, the radioactive dump where Steppenwolf establishes his base in Russia, is said by Wonder Woman to be a ghost town since a nuclear disaster over thirty years ago, the movie taking place in 2017 - quite obviously standing in for Pripyat and the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} disaster in the UsefulNotes/{{Ukrain|e}}ian SSR of the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] in 1986. It could also be partially based on the much lesser known [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster Kyshtym disaster]], which happened in 1957, in the Russian SSR this time.
131* Shermer, Illinois — the fictional setting of many of Creator/JohnHughes's teen comedies - is supposed to be a suburban community just outside of Chicago much like Northbrook, where Hughes grew up and later frequently filmed. Shermer was described by the ''Chicago Tribune'' as "a thinly-veiled reference to Northbrook once being known as Shermerville."
132** Hughes attended Glenbrook North High School — on Shermer Road — and used his alma mater often as the fictional Shermer High (along with other nearby schools).
133** Northbrook Historical Society assisted a Hughes tribute festival by a group called the Shermer Club.
134** The house immortalized in filming ''Film/HomeAlone'' (which Hughes also wrote) is located in nearby Winnetka, and uses its real Lincoln Blvd. address, while other scenes were shot in Northbrook and adjacent suburbs.
135** Amusingly, the plot of Creator/KevinSmith's ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' is kicked off when Jay and Silent Bob don't realize this trope is in play and go looking for Shermer.
136** However, if you live in the northern suburb of Northbrook, you'll know that John Hughes went to their Glenbrook North High School. Also, Northbrook used to be called Shermerville. They also have a street called Shermer Road that crosses the railroad tracks by the Metra station. Shermer Road appears to be the source name.
137* ''Film/TheLastHurrah'' is set in an unnamed Northeastern American city; given the similarities between the main character and real-life politician James Michael Curley, it's pretty clear that the city is a stand-in for [[UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} Boston, Massachusetts]].
138* Weird one in ''Film/LittleGiants''... which is set in Urbania, Ohio. Either they don't know how to spell Urbana (a real city in Western Ohio), or they just wanted to change the name so the announcer sounds that much more impressive when he calls the game between the Cowboys and Giants "The Mania in Urbania."
139* ''Film/TheLostBoys'' is set in Santa ''Carla'', a fictional city similar to any number of coastal California communities. (It could be a fictional Santa Cruz since both cities have a beach boardwalk as a tourist attraction.)
140* Edge City in ''Film/TheMask'' is clearly modeled on a Prohibition-era Chicago.
141* ''Film/TheMatrix'' was filmed in Australia, and the cars all drive on the left, but every street name is from Creator/{{the Wachowskis}}' home town of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. To add to the MindScrew, the sequels threw in California highway numbers and signage. This was deliberate, trying to make the city look like a generic representation of every city. The view out of the office tower in the first film did use real-world landmarks but modified in such a way that it would be impossible to see them all in the same vista without computer assistance.
142* Nelson, the human villain of ''Film/{{Mothra}}'', is a corrupt businessman from the Western nation of Roslica, with Mothra chasing him and the fairies he kidnapped to New Kirk City in the film's climax.
143* ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' is implicitly set in Seattle with a reference to the Showbox venue, while the place the characters live is called the Grey Zone with no explicit location ''in'' Seattle defined.
144* The "another place" of ''Film/StreetsOfFire'' was a thinly-disguised Chicago. Several districts like "the Richmond" and "the Battery" were mentioned but the city that included them remained anonymous.
145* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', the sign above the police station that Sam emerges from shows that the setting is called "Center City". Its coat of arms is based on that of Los Angeles; also see StargateCity.
146* ''Film/HuntingScenesFromBavaria'' was shot in the small village of Unholzing in Lower Bavaria, but the location in the film is never directly named and doesn't seem to be based on any specific community in the region.
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150* Ed [=McBain=]'s ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' series of police procedurals are set in "Isola", a district of an [[CityWithNoName unnamed, fictional city]] in an unnamed state closely resembling New York. Isola includes many features of Manhattan, and the other districts mentioned are clear stand-ins for New York City's other four boroughs.
151** More specifically, according to [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_(fictional_city) "Calm's Point" is Brooklyn, "Majesta" is Queens, "Riverhead" is the Bronx, and "Bethtown" Staten Island]]. "Diamondback", a poor and dangerous area of Isola with a mainly African-American population, is Harlem. Then there's the "Harb" (Hudson) and "Dix" (East) rivers, and the similarly unnamed "next state" (New Jersey). George M. Dove's unofficial 1985 companion to the series, ''The Boys from Grover Avenue'', analyzes the geography of [=McBain=]'s "Imaginary City" and describes it as NYC rotated ninety degrees clockwise, so that north becomes east, east south, etc.
152** Oddly enough, New York itself is occasionally mentioned in the books. Apparently [=McBain=]'s universe has two huge and virtually interchangeable metropolises co-existing very close to one another on the East Coast of the United States.
153** The film adaptations of ''Cop Hater'' (1958) and ''The Pusher'' (1960) are explicitly set in NYC. The 1972 film version of ''Fuzz'', meanwhile, is set in Boston for some reason.
154* The town sent through time in the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series was nominally Grantville, West Virginia -- but except for specifics of individuals and the power plant, the town is identical to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannington,_West_Virginia Mannington, West Virginia.]]
155* Much as the titular family of Creator/ThomasMann's ''Literature/{{Buddenbrooks}}'' is [[RomanAClef very clearly his own family under a different name]], the unnamed city in which they live is just as clearly Mann's native Lübeck.
156* Brichester, centre of Ramsay Campbell's CampbellCountry, [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.books.ghost-fiction/NGYgR3ZaTWw according to]] WordOfGod, gradually became "Liverpool in all but name".
157* Creator/AgathaChristie did this several times, especially in works set in her native area of Devon and Cornwall. Several stories feature towns ending in "-quay" (Cullenquay in ''Literature/MrsMcGintysDead'', Hollowquay in ''Literature/PosternOfFate'' and Redquay in ''Literature/OrdealByInnocence'') which are based on Torquay, while the Cornish town of Rathole in ''Literature/TheThirteenProblems'' is obviously Mousehole.
158* Literature/{{Discworld}}: The great fantasy city of Ankh-Morpork borrows from a number of real-world big cities, but mostly London. This becomes visually clear on looking at the city Mappe - the River Ankh's familiar squiggles and contours are those of the Thames, rotated through ninety degrees. The city is massive, has docks that serve the world, not far inland from a major sea, it is a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, it is the centre of banking and finance, and a generally venal population resident in a sprawling over-crowded urban warren.
159* Creator/KimNewman:
160** Newman grew up in Somerset, in the towns of Aller and Bridgewater. Some of his works (including ''Literature/{{Jago}}'', ''Literature/TheQuorum'', and ''Literature/SevenStars'') are set in very similar (but somewhat more sinister) Somerset towns called "Alder" and "Sedgewater". In ''Jago'', Alder is the home of an annual music festival not entirely unlike the real-life Glastonbury Festival held in Pilton, Somerset.
161** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the superhero pastiche "[[http://johnnyalucard.com/fiction/online-fiction/coastal-city/ Coastal City]]", about a CommissionerGordon on the point of realising his universe doesn't make sense; way back when the first hyperheroes appeared, Coastal City ''was'' New York, and then, one day, it wasn't.
162* The location in which ''Literature/CrossAndPoppy'' is set is obvious if you read the clues. (And if you can't, there's a fake Ordnance Survey map on the back cover with only the names changed and the orientation flipped.) The work is discreet with place names. Roads and topography and rail stations … not so much. [[spoiler: It's pretty clearly Teffont Magna, Teffont Evias, and the country 'round.]] This continues throughout the ensuing series of the ''Literature/VillageTales'' novels, including the "side-trips" to Shropshire, Cheshire, Cumbria, and Perthshire.
163* ''Literature/DandelionWine'': The fictional town of Green Town was based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukegan,_Illinois/ Waukegan, Illinois]] where author Creator/RayBradbury grew up.
164* The London borough of Four Farthings, in ''Literature/{{Dodger}}'' is fictional, but a very typical 1850s East End borough.
165* George Alec Effinger's trilogy ''When Gravity Fails / A Fire in the Sun / The Exile Kiss'' is set in an unnamed city that seems to be in North Africa, but those who knew him say it's UsefulNotes/NewOrleans.
166* ''Literature/TheEgyptGame'' takes place in Berkeley, California with the names filed off. Within the story, the city is never named and the local university is only ever referred to as "the university".
167* ''Literature/FarewellMyLovely'': Bay City, California, where the mayor and the police are in the pocket of organized crime, is Santa Monica with the names changed to protect the guilty.
168* Thomas Hardy's "Wessex" is the south of England, with ''every single town and city'' given a fictional name.
169* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, the Weasley family lives near the Muggle town of Ottery St Catchpole, which is generally assumed to be a fictional stand-in for Ottery St Mary.
170* Creator/StephenKing's fictional Maine locales all have clear real-world analogues: Derry is Bangor, Castle Rock is a mix of Durham and Lisbon Falls, and Jerusalem’s Lot is probably a mix of Falmouth, Windham, and Cumberland. ''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'' also adds Jodie, a fictional Texas town somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, to the geography of King's universe.
171* In the semi-autobiographic books which ''Series/LarkRiseToCandleford'' were based on, Lark Rise is Juniper Hill, Candleford is Buckingham, and Candleford Green is Fringford.
172* ''Literature/TheLastHurrah'' is set in an unnamed Northeastern American city; given the similarities between the main character and real-life politician James Michael Curley, it's pretty clear that the city is a stand-in for [[UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} Boston, Massachusetts]].
173* Creator/SinclairLewis' ''Main Street'' was set in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, a fictionalized, and very unflattering, version of his childhood home of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The residents of Sauk Centre noticed it and were decidedly displeased, and as a result, Lewis created the fictional Midwestern state of Winnemac (its area roughly corresponding to southern Michigan, northern Indiana, and northwestern Ohio, with its main city Zenith located around where UsefulNotes/ToledoOhio is in real life) for a number of his books, including ''Literature/{{Arrowsmith}}'' and ''Literature/ElmerGantry''.
174* Creator/{{David Lodge|Writer}}'s Campus Trilogy (''[[Literature/ChangingPlaces Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses]]'', ''[[Literature/SmallWorldDavidLodgeNovel Small World: An Academic Romance]]'' and ''Literature/NiceWork'') are set in the University of Rummidge, an industrial city in UsefulNotes/TheMidlands which is clearly Birmingham ("Rummidge" sounds like "Brummie", the nickname of Birminghamers). There's also Euphoric State University, Plotinus, which is the University of California, Berkeley ([[GeniusBonus the Greek philosopher Plotinus anticipated some aspects of George Berkeley's theory of immaterialism]]).
175* In ''Literature/LookHomewardAngel'' by Creator/ThomasWolfe, Altamont, [[FictionalProvince Catawba]], is a renamed Asheville, North Carolina.
176* ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' is set in a Colombian city on the Caribbean coast which is referred to only as "The City of the Viceroys" - but is pretty obviously Cartagena.
177* Creator/HPLovecraft based his fictional LovecraftCountry towns on real places: Arkham is a mix of Providence, RI, Salem, MA and Boston; [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth Innsmouth]] is Newburyport; and [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Dunwich]] is a mix of Ipswich and Greenwich, MA and Greenwich, RI. The real towns also exist in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
178* ''Literature/ManiacMagee'' is set mainly in the small town of Two Mills, Pennsylvania, a fictionalized version of Norristown, the author's hometown. The nearby towns mentioned, such as Bridgeport, exist in RealLife.
179* ''Literature/McAuslan'': The regiment the series is centered around is purported to be fictional, but the text contains more than enough references to figure it out, if you have access to the internet or a decent library. For example, the regiment fought in Singapore and its colonel was captured, it participated in the Stirrup Charge at St. Quentin, it has a long-standing rivalry with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and the main character's name is a reference to the regiment's motto. [[spoiler: if you're curious, it's the 2nd Gordon Highlanders.]]
180* A small-town example appears in the stories of the humorist Creator/PatrickMcManus; he writes about his various childhood and teenage adventures in Blight, Idaho, which is a stand-in for his real-life hometown Sandpoint.
181* Jack O'Connell's magic realist crime novels are set in the city of Quinsigamond, which is a thinly disguised Worcester, Massachusetts. ("Quinsigamond" was the Native American name for the area, was the name of the original British settlement on the site in the seventeenth century, and is still the name of the big lake on the city's eastern border.)
182* John O'Hara set his works in Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, which is a fictionalized Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
183* Richard Powell's ''Pioneer Go Home!'' takes place in the Florida-{{expy}} state of Columbiana.
184* ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' books take place on the fictional Island of Sodor, which is somewhere in the Irish Sea, and a number of the railways are clearly based on real locations — the Skarloey Railway is the Talyllyn Railway, the Arlesdale Railway is the Ravenglass and Eskdale, the Mid Sodor is a combination of the Corris, Festiniog and Snailbeach railways and the Little Western is the Dart Valley. The "Isle of Sodor" is a British ecclesiastical in-joke - the Church of England's Diocese of Sodor and Man now covers just the Isle of Man and a few small islets nearby, but once covered a much larger area, "Sodor" being an Anglicised version of the Norse collective name for the islands of western Scotland.
185* Skygarden UsefulNotes/CouncilEstate, in the ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' novel ''Broken Homes'' is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heygate_Estate Heygate Estate]] only more so, with a vast central tower, additional walkways, and an even more extreme reputation. Because in addition to being a typical Brutalist architect, its designer [[spoiler: was a wizard who wanted to tap into the energy generated by the inhabitants lives to power a magical capacitor]].
186* San Ventura in ''Seven Wonders'' by Adam Christopher. An author's note at the start establishes that it is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not]] San ''Buena''ventura.
187* The eponymous town in ''Literature/SpoonRiverAnthology'' is based on the real-life Illinois towns of Petersburg and Lewistown, where author Edgar Lee Masters grew up, and named for a real river in the area. Residents of the real towns objected to their portrayal, as many of the characters are based on real people, and the collection as a whole is a brutal {{Deconstruction}} of idealized small-town life which addresses domestic abuse, murder, suicide, abortion, rape, and government corruption.
188* ''Super Gran is Magic'' by Forrest Wilson has Super Gran visiting various thinly-disguised Butlins holiday camps in thinly-disguised British seaside resorts with names like Slackpool.
189* Creator/RobertWestall's work is full of this trope; ''Literature/TheMachineGunners'' is set in [[FictionalCounterpart Garmouth]] as a version of the author's home town of Tynemouth and ''Literature/UrnBurial'' is set in the fictional village of Unthank near the real town of Penrith in Cumbria. So much so in ''The Machine Gunners'' that there's a Westall Walk around the area.
190* ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'': The OldMoney "East Egg" community is Sands Point on the Cow Neck (peninsula) on Long Island in real life, and the NouveauRiche "West Egg" community is Kings Point on Great Neck.
191* The setting in ''Literature/TheTownOfBabylon'' is never named but is clearly suburban Long Island.
192* In the ''Monica Kennedy'' series of Scottish Highland crime novels by G. R. Halliday, the Inverness district of Merkinch/the Ferry becomes Rapinch/the Marsh, presumably to avoid causing offence by its portrayal as TheCityNarrows. Its location in the city, and even the names of the streets, are unchanged.
193* In ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' series, the Free City of Novigrad is a transparent allusion to the Free City of Danzig, i.e. Gdańsk. The [[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt video game adaptation]] even [[https://i.imgur.com/6MKJiCJ.jpg extends this to architectural elements]].
194* Aleksandr Bushkov's ''Shantarsk Cycle'', consisting of several book series set across different time periods, gets its name from its chief setting in the fictional Shantarsk Krai, which (rather transparently) stands in for Krasnoyarsk Krai (Bushkov's home region); in particular, it is mentioned that the city of Shantarsk is depicted on 10 ruble banknote, which is Krasnoyarsk-themed in reality. Shantarsk is said to be located between two rivers: Kacha (actual river) and much larger Shantara (stand-in for Yenisey); several other towns in Shantarsk Krai appear to be based on places in Krasnoyarsk Krai (fictional Zavenyaginsk, for example, is real-life Norilsk). "Shantarsk" is also the name of Bushkov's personal website.
195* Part of ''Literature/TheresMagicInBread'' takes place in the fictional town of Svatislavia -- the police brutality and antisemitism faced by the character Ruth are based on the experiences of author Effie Sieberg's grandmother, who lived in Poland during WWII.
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199* Rutherford, Ohio from ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' is probably more or less a fictionalized version of Kent, Ohio. Bonnie Turner, one of the show's creators, was an alum of Kent State University, likely making it the basis for the show's Pendelton State University.
200* Mayberry on ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'' is said to be based on Andy Griffith's real-life hometown of Mount Airy, NC. Since 1990, a [[http://www.surryarts.org/mayberrydays/about/history.html Mayberry Days festival]] has been held there by the county's Arts Council. References to neighboring Mount Pilot probably refer to the town of Pilot Mountain, as well as the actual mountain it's named after.
201* ''Series/TheBill'' originally took place in the real-life borough of Tower Hamlets, something which was confirmed in dialogue (and which seen them filming in those genuine locations). Industrial disputes at a nearby printing plant in 1986 resulted in even actors in police costumes being fairly unpopular, and the entire production was moved to North London instead. Shortly afterwards, to cover the fact that they were very clearly ''not'' in Tower Hamlets anymore, the characters started referring to being in a fictional borough named 'Canley', where it has remained ever since. The series was later filmed around South Wimbledon/Merton in South London.
202* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is set in "Sunnydale, CA" but the location most resembles Santa Barbara (sunny weather, beach, mountains, ubiquitous red tile roofs, mid-sized city close to but away from the Los Angeles area) which, incidentally, lies right next to a small town called Summerland. Some fans believe that Creator/JossWhedon based it on Santa Cruz where he went to college. However, Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area and has a distinctive culture that doesn't resemble that of Southern California. [[note]] One episode has characters travel far to the very real town of Gilroy. If Sunnydale is supposed to be located where Santa Cruz is, such a trip would not take nearly as long as depicted in the show. [[/note]]
203* The UK's ''Series/{{Casualty}}'' launched in 1986, set in the city of 'Holby' (filmed in, and very clearly similar to, Bristol), the smokescreen not being of much concern at the time. Over the years, however, two sequel shows (''Holby City'' and ''HolbyBlue'') and the popularity of the original have meant increasing use of real-world locations, all of which have to get re-dressed where references to Bristol appear. There's been some regrets voiced about the change in the first place as a result.
204* ''Series/CornerGas'' takes place in Dog River, Saskatchewan, which does not exist. Rouleau, Saskatchewan, where the show is filmed, ''does'', while the whole thing may well just be a stand-in for writer and star Brent Butt's hometown of Tisdale.
205* ''Series/{{Cybergirl}}'' is set in the fictional River City, but doesn't bother covering up the fact that it was filmed in Brisbane (popularly nicknamed the River City, due to being named after the Brisbane River). There were a few obvious inaccuracies: the River City Museum is in fact the Brisbane Powerhouse in New Farm (itself a mini-cultural centre), although the geography of the place is itself accurate. The Top Dog building, however, was invented for the series.
206* During the Doctor's exile on Earth (and occasionally afterward) the ''Series/DoctorWho'' production team routinely set their invasions and catastrophes in nonexistent towns with [[PaperThinDisguise slightly altered names]] like Tarminster ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Terror of the Autons]]", standing in for Warminster) and Devesham ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion The Android Invasion]]", for Evesham).
207* ''Series/{{Eastenders}}'' is set in the fictional East End district of Walford, somewhere in the real London borough of Tower Hamlets. On in-universe London Underground maps, the fictional station of "Walford East" replaces Bromley-by-Bow.
208* ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'' doesn't have the city named, but is clearly Toronto, Canada. Season 2 on they stopped bothering -- fire crews are frequently seen wandering around in "Toronto" call-out jackets.
209** In what appears to be a trend, ''Rookie Blue'' is also filmed in Toronto, with scenes of the skyline, including the CN tower, signs for well-known streets, badges with crowns on them, mentions of landmarks, neighborhoods and the climate in the dialogue.
210* ''Series/GrangeHill'' was originally and for many years set in the fictional London borough of Northam. After the filming moved from BBC studios in London to Lime Pictures' studios in Liverpool, they ceased to refer to ''any'' specific location.
211* The city and state where ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' took place were never explicitly identified, but it is associated with UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} because the opening credits and establishing shots were filmed at its Police Department's Maxwell St. Station (now used by the University of Illinois at Chicago), and the department's vehicular paint scheme was also used by Hill Street's "Metro Police," even when filming in California.
212* ''Series/InTheFlesh'' is set in the fictional [[OopNorth northern ]] town of Roarton, Lancashire but a lot of it was filmed in Cheshire.
213* A common practice on ''{{Series/JAG}}'' was to use fictionalized names for warships, such as the carriers USS ''Seahawk'' and ''Patrick Henry'' and the submarine USS ''Tigershark''.
214* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' is set in the fictional English county of Midsomer, and its myriad of murder-filled villages. There is a real town of Midsomer Norton somewhere in Mid Somerset.
215* ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': Possum Lake does not actually exist, serving mainly to represent the stereotypes of small-town Canada. [[WordOfGod Steve Smith]] once noted how far too many of the show's viewers thought Possum Lake was actually a real place. He described how people would try and book their vacations there, and one couple even asked if they could be married in Possum Lodge.
216* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': Port Nirranda is located somewhere in southwestern Victoria between Warrnambool and Geelong. It should not be confused with the real locality called simply Nirranda.
217* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
218** The fictional setting is Hawkins, Indiana, which bears an uncanny resemblance to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a real-life small town with a secluded government laboratory nearby that was an integral part of the top secret "Manhattan Project" that developed the first atomic bombs during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The nearby Y-12 facility was a highly secure nuclear weapons production facility in the Reagan Era (and still is to some degree), and both Y-12 and ORNL were and are operated under the aegis of the Department of Energy. However, it's doubtful that psychic children and dimensional portals were ever on the agenda at either. Adding to the similarity, in 1988 the nearby town of Oak Ridge opened an indoor shopping mall after investment from an unscrupulous land development company. Soviet involvement has not been confirmed. Many of the places name-dropped in the series have real counterparts either near Oak Ridge or in the Durham, North Carolina area where the Duffer brothers grew up.
219** There's a reference to a mental hospital called Pennhurst. There might not be a Pennhurst in Indiana, but there was one in Pennsylvania, which was shut down in the late '80s for mistreatment of patients.
220* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the yellow-eyed demon transports his special children to the ghost town Cold Oak, South Dakota, for the Season 2 finale.
221* Point Place, Wisconsin on ''Series/That70sShow'' is likely based on the actual town of Pleasant Prairie just outside of Kenosha. The show's creators grew up in Kenosha County.
222* ''Series/TheTribe'' was set in "The City" - not only did they refuse to give it a proper name, but they even went out of their way to avoid pinning down which country (or continent!) they were in. All the actors spoke with New Zealand accents, but a British 50p coin was seen in an early episode, and several times British banknotes were also shown. No other cities were ever mentioned, and the only landmark was Eagle Mountain, but there aren't any mountains by that name in either New Zealand ''or'' mainland Britain (though there is one in Northern Ireland and several in the United States).
223* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' is set in the fictional Neptune, California, an unincorporated locality close to San Diego and Los Angeles. It otherwise borrows elements from both cities and [=SoCal=] in general, combining sunny weather with a ludicrously socially stratified society.
224* Inverted in ''Series/TheWrongMans''. The series is set in the very real Berkshire area of Bracknell but was actually filmed in neighbouring county, Surrey. It should also be noted that Berkshire hasn't had a County Council (which features quite heavily in the first series) since 1998.
225* ''Series/ZCars'' was set in Newtown, an overspill community for the city of Seaport, based on Kirkby and Liverpool.
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229* ''Radio/TheStanFrebergShow'' sketch "Incident at Los Voraces," about a Nevada city which met its untimely demise thanks to a rivalry between two casinos.
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233* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' is set in the semi-fictional city of Oldport, based off of Newport in Rhode Island. While the general geography remains the same, there are some artistic licenses taken with the specific locations and economy.
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237* In ''TabletopGame/HaltEvilDoer'', the cities superheroes operate in include New Amsterdam (New York), Los Dios (Los Angeles), Freehold (Boston), and Falconcrest (Chicago). As in Creator/DCComics, the real cities exist as well, and in the case of NY and LA have a rivalry with their "sister cities".
238* ''TabletopGame/{{RECON}}'': The Creator/PalladiumBooks editions provided alternate names to the main power players if your group wanted to avoid the political issues of using UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar as a setting, but the alternates are self-admittedly transparently thin covers. The Soviet Union became Big Red, the United States became Stateside, and North and South Vietname became People's 'Nam and Southern 'Nam.
239* In ''TabletopGame/UrbanJungle'', cities in the United States are Bellegarde (New Orleans, with elements of other Southern cities), San Dorado (LA, the movie-making district of Coronado even has a version of the Hollywood sign), Shaysen City (New York, complete with Lady of Freedom statue), Sunshine City (Miami), and Tricogha (Chicago, with elements of other Midwestern cities). ''Occult Horror'' adds Kingstown, described as "inspired by Providence in Rhode Island" ... which, given [[CosmicHorrorStory the nature of the supplement]] actually makes it a stand-in for its fellow Providence-inspired city [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Arkham, Mass]].
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243* The setting of ''Theatre/AlbertHerring'' is described as "Loxford, a small market town in East Suffolk." The RealLife existence of an East Suffolk town named Yoxford may or may not be coincidental.
244* ''Call Me Madam'', an Irving Berlin musical, had a program note reading: "The play is laid in two mythical countries. One is called [[{{Ruritania}} Lichtenburg]], the other the United States of America."
245* ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'' is set in the state of Missitucky.
246* Played with in another Irving Berlin musical, ''Louisiana Purchase'', which according to its OpeningChorus is set in the "mythical state we call Louisiana," so all likenesses to real people are just coincidences.
247* In the operetta ''Theatre/TheMerryWidow'', many of the characters are from a small European country called Pontevedro, which has recognizable points of similarity with the real small European country of Montenegro. (The [[Film/TheMerryWidow1925 1925 film inspired by the operetta]] is less circumspect, being set in "Monteblanco".)
248* ''Theatre/OurTown'' is set in the fictional community of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, which seems very similar to Peterborough, New Hampshire: understandable, given that Wilder wrote the first two acts while living in an artists' colony there.
249* ''Theatre/PeterGrimes'' is set in a Suffolk fishing town only known as "The Borough," which is commonly seen as a stand-in for Benjamin Britten's hometown of Aldeburgh.
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253* ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'' begins with San Drad, California, "the largest city on the west coast," being overrun with Xenomorphs.
254* Played with in ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline''. The primary city for mid-level adventurers is Millennium City - but rather than being a completely fictional city, it's the name of a rebuilt UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}, after having rebuilt following a massively devastating battle between the superheroes and the lead supervillain of the milieu, Doctor Destroyer.
255* Paragon City (the setting of ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'') is located on the coast of Rhode Island and has been described as "Providence if it was the size of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity".
256* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' is set in the Nevada casino resort town of "Fortune City". UsefulNotes/LasVegas, we are told, had already been destroyed by zombies three years prior, making it likely that Fortune City is Reno.
257* In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', the NSF's first big stand is said to have happened in the Pacific Northwest, at the "Battle of Squalnomie". Squalnomie is not a real place, but ''Snoqualmie'' is the name of a city and several geographic regions east of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}.
258* A staple of the ''Franchise/FarCry'' series:
259** ''VideoGame/FarCry2'' takes place in an unnamed African country (the fans call it [[FunWithAcronyms UAC]]). The plot features blood diamonds being used to fund a civil war, so it resembles Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, or the Congo, and the use of Dutch by some local characters makes the Congo or Angola the most likely inspirations.
260** ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' is in the Rook Islands. Judging from the range of available wildlife and some Malaysian words in the local dialect, they're most likely based on Indonesia.
261** Kyrat in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' is a Himalayan kingdom recovering from a recent civil war that has a lot of problems from militant separatists, making it resemble either Nepal or Bhutan.
262** Hope County, Montana in ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' takes a lot of visual cues from the Great Falls of Cascade County, but its isolation from any metropolitan area also makes it resemble Petroleum County or Treasure County, or maybe Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.
263** ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' is set in Yara, a country somewhere in the Caribbean. It generally seems to borrow inspiration from Cuba and Jamaica. The villain is a [[TheGeneralissimo tinpot dictator]] who takes traits from Fidel Castro and Fulgencio Batista and a main mechanic of the game is [[MacGyvering "Resolver" Weapons]], which is a Cuban term for DIY solutions borne of resource scarcity.
264* ''VideoGame/{{Forza}} Horizon'' is set in Colorado. The towns have fictitious names, but allegedly every location in the game is based on RealLife. The subsequent games have been set in real-world locations with actual city names (southern France and northern Italy in ''2'', Australia's Gold Coast in ''3'', and northern England and Scotland in ''4'').
265* The original ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' has Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City, which roughly resemble New York City, San Francisco, and Miami. When the series moved to full 3D, ''GTA III'', ''Liberty City Stories'' and ''GTA IV'' were set in Liberty City (though the Liberty City from ''GTA IV'' is different from the one in the previous games), ''Vice City'' and ''Vice City Stories'' were set in the eponymous city, and ''San Andreas'' was expanded into a state with three cities: Los Santos (UsefulNotes/LosAngeles), San Fierro (UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco), and Las Venturas (UsefulNotes/LasVegas), with the countryside being largely a mix of California and Nevada. ''GTA V'' returns to Los Santos (again, the Los Santos in ''GTA V'' is different from the rendition in ''San Andreas''), and ''GTA VI'' establishes that Vice City (again, a different version than the one seen in ''Vice City'' and ''Vice City Stories'') is located in the state of "Leonida", a stand-in for Florida.
266* In the Japanese localization of ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'', all references to North Korea are scrubbed and replaced with "a certain country to the north".
267* ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}'' is set in Empire City, which is blatantly based on UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
268** The sequel ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' takes place in New Marais, which is a stand-in for UsefulNotes/NewOrleans.
269** Surprisingly averted in ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS Second Son}}'' however, which explicitly takes place in the real city of UsefulNotes/Seattle.
270* ''VideoGame/JustCause2'''s Panau, with its location names and [[MemeticMutation BOLO SANTOSI]] accents, is some Southeast Asian hybrid-thing of Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. There are even ersatz Petronas Towers.
271* ''VideoGame/JustCause3'' is set in Medici, an island located in the Mediterranean that borrows elements from Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain, and whose fictional language is Latin-based.
272* The eponymous city in ''VideoGame/LegoCityUndercover'' is a mishmash of various areas and landmarks from real-life cities, such as UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, [[BigApplesauce New York]] and [[OnlyInMiami Miami]].
273* ''{{VideoGame/Mafia}}'' follows in GTA's footsteps. The first game is in Lost Heaven and the second in Empire Bay, fairly obvious stand-ins for UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, with maybe one or two features from LA or Boston to throw you off. ''VideoGame/MafiaIII'' takes place in New Bordeaux, which is unapologetically, blatantly UsefulNotes/NewOrleans.
274* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'' has a cruise ship theme, and the boards are set in Grand Canal (Venice, Italy), Pagoda Peak (China), Pyramid Park (Egypt), [[BigApplesauce Neon Heights]] (New York City, USA), and Windmillville (The Netherlands).
275* Though the level in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' is only called "Eastern Europe", it is obviously Prague. In a FreezeFrameBonus moment, the motorcycle chase even crosses the Charles Bridge.
276* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' is unambiguously set in UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} and features most of its major areas and neighborhoods, with the exception of the protagonist's place of residence -- Yongen-Jaya, as opposed to the real-life Sangen-Jaya. In addition, many of the names of landmarks of Tokyo are slightly altered -- even the statue of UsefulNotes/{{Hachiko}} becomes "Buchiko".
277* The department store in ''VisualNovel/{{planetarian}}'' is based on the Matsubishi store in Hamamatsu, a town in the Shizuoka prefecture in Japan. In reality, it lacks the dome of the planetarium, though. The shots of the dystopian city shown in the game are based on the store's surroundings.
278* Every town and region in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series is based on somewhere in real life (e.g. [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Kanto]] and the real-life Kanto region of Japan, [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Johto]] and Kansai, [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Unova]] and [[BigApplesauce Manhattan/parts of New Jersey]]).
279* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' takes place in parts of the fictional US states of New Austin and West Elizabeth, and the Mexican state of Nuevo Paraiso. New Austin is an {{expy}} of Texas and the Southwest, West Elizabeth looks like Colorado (it features snowy mountains in the west and a Great Plains area to the east), and Nuevo Paraiso appears to be based on Sonora and Chihuahua.
280* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', Ambarino is the Rocky Mountains, New Hanover is South Dakota in the west and Kentucky/Appalachia in the east, and Lemoyne is Louisiana. Lemoyne even has its own New Orleans called "Saint Denis" (pronounced san-deh-nee).
281* In the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series, the city of Stilwater in the first two games is a composite of Chicago and Detroit while Steelport in the latter two games is a composite of New York City and Pittsburgh.
282* ''Skate'' and its sequel ''Skate 2'' take place in San Vanelona, named after the cities that inspired the setting (UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, Vancouver, and Barcelona).
283* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
284** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' has "Station Square", which ''seems'' to take inspiration from Tokyo and Hiroshima (a cylindrical structure in the opening cutscene resembles a similar building in Hiroshima). There is a real [[http://www.stationsquare.com/ Station Square]] in Pittsburgh, however.
285** The city in which the City Escape and Radical Highway levels of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' takes place is somewhat San Francisco-esque... except for the [[ChaosArchitecture Chaos City Planning]].
286** ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'' uses this trope for all of its {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}s-- "Apotos" = Mykonos (Greece), "Empire City" = UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, "Chun-Nan" = China, "Adabat" = Thailand, etc.
287* ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'': Protagonist Stella traveled extensively in life, and a pastiche of locations become impressionistic versions of their real selves in [[PurgatoryAndLimbo Limbo]]. Hummingberg is UsefulNotes/{{France}}, Stella's birthplace; Furokawa is UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}; and Oxbury is UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}.
288* ''VideoGame/{{Stray|2022}}'' is set in an UndergroundCity named ''Walled City 99'', which is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Kowloon Walled City]], a former slum district in Hong Kong, which had tightly packed, haphazardly built houses and virtually no sunlight at the street level. The robots' CypherLanguage looks vaguely like Asian characters, adding more to the similarities.
289* ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'' uses some real place names, and many mangled or invented ones. Nirlake is Chicago, complete with the Great Fire and following reconstruction as an industrial center. The French translation pushes back on this by renaming Freedom to New York.
290* [[ShiningCity Laurentia]] in ''[[VideoGame/NexusWar Nexus Clash]]'' is a pretty obvious physical stand-in for Vancouver, though its history diverges significantly, especially toward the end.
291* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' doesn't take this approach to the cities themselves, but the Districts they take place in. Kamurocho and Sotenbori are mainstays of the series, based off the Kabukicho and Dotenbori districts in Toyko and Osaka respectively. From ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' onwards, the main setting has moved to Isezaki Ijincho, based on Yokohama's Isezakichō. Numerous one-off examples from Yakuza 3 and 5 include Downtown Ryukyu (Makishi) in Okinawa, Nagasugai (Nakasu) in Fukuoka, Tsukimino (Susukino) in Hokkaido, and Kineicho (Sakae) in Nagoya.
292* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'''s CityWithNoName is a composite of the coastline of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, the time zone of the Northeastern US, the architecture of Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Vancouver BC, and London, with the FinalDungeon being an {{expy}} of the real-life Shard, and a river very similar to the Thames running through the city.
293* ''VideoGame/{{Fuel}}'', a post-apocalyptic sandbox racing game, is implied to be set in the western US, as the landmarks include expies of Mount Rainier, Crater Lake, the Bonneville Salt Flats, and the Grand Canyon.
294* Various tracks in ''VideoGame/{{Wreckfest}}'' are based on real-world tracks, such as Rosenheim Raceway, based on the Estering in Buxtehude, Germany.
295* ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'': The city of Morimiya is based on the real life city of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa,_Tokyo Tachikawa]] (where Falcom's offices are located), complete with the large plaza and arch from Tachikawa station.
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299* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' is set in Fuyuki City, which located somewhere in the Japanese prefectures of Kumamoto or Ouita, both of which are located on the island of Kyushu.
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303* ''Webcomic/AutumnBay'' has the titular city, which, though not a stand-in for a particular city, is specifically set in upstate New York, and is meant to represent large communities in the northeastern United States in general.
304* Much of the eponymous setting of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' is modeled after the author's native city of Birmingham, England. In his video commentaries of chapters, he'll often point out specific locations (with photos) that he transplanted into the comic.
305* ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'''s main setting, the town of Tempest, is modelled after a number of small suburbs of Pittsfield, MA and has all the characteristics of them, being around 8,000 in population, near Mount Greylock, has an airport within an hour's drive, near I-90, and a decent sized High School.
306* ''Webcomic/OutThere'' has Portstown for UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, Los Vicios for UsefulNotes/LasVegas, Arch City for UsefulNotes/StLouis, and Oceanic City for Atlantic City. The reason according to WordOfGod is so that any discrepancies between the depictions of the cities and their RealLife counterparts will not be distracting. (It could also seem odd to have a character like Wally Green be a player for the St. Louis Cardinals if there's no real-life player by that name on the team. Putting him on a fictional team seems more consistently fictional.)
307* {{Averted|Trope}} '''and''' [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] with ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''. While the story [[CityWithNoName never names the city]] where Team Sleuth's offices are located but it is represented using stock photos of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. Then in the [[WordOfGod author]] [[AllThereInTheManual commentary]] it is revealed that the city is actually named Chicagopolis.
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311* The ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' episode "Seeing Stars" explicitly takes place in "LA", and the phrase "hollywood star" is mentioned, but the letters on a hill spelling "Hollywood" spell out "Holly's Wood" instead. Well, the sign ''is'' trademarked. But so is the Hollywood star, which they do reproduce pretty much as it is. Maybe it's just ParodiedTrope.
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315* ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': While the geographic position of Valdez Island[[note]]Elizabeth Island in the Nifty version[[/note]] is never explicitly stated, the terminology such as "Salish Bay" implies it is a place in British Columbia, Canada.
316* ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}'' takes place in the fictional tourist town of Cloncarrig on the coast of West Ireland, located by real-life Doolin and the Cliffs of Moher. Among the real-life towns mentioned, their fictional neighbors are Mary's Cape and Red Road.
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320* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad:'' Langley Falls, Virginia, is based on Langley, Virginia, where the CIA's headquarters is actually located, with a name twist inspired by the nearby community of Great Falls.
321* Some elements of Highland in ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' are based in Albuquerque, NM, including the schools (there's a real Highland High there, after which both the school and the city were named), which was the city where Creator/MikeJudge grew up.
322* Arguably ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. The school and the factory are precisely modeled after a real school and factory in Parisian suburbs. However, they're much farther away from each other in real life (and the factory's since been torn down).
323* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' supposedly takes place in Washington State, but the city has elements of New York City, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon where the creator grew up.
324* ''Franchise/TheLoudHouse'':
325** The main city in which ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is set, Royal Woods, is based on creator Creator/ChrisSavino's hometown of Royal Oak, Michigan. Royal Woods has a similar name to and shares the same state of location and general building style with Royal Oak, though it does deviate from the latter a bit with the inclusion of a number of places that bear no resemblance to Royal Oak or other cities.
326** Great Lakes City, the setting of ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'', serves as the franchise's stand-in of Chicago. It's located about the exact same place as Chicago within Illinois, as clarified by [[https://keyframemagazine.org/2019/10/29/culture-comedy/ an article on Keyframe magazine]] and its stated distance from Royal Woods (which is the same distance between Chicago and Royal Oak at 200 miles).
327* The writers of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' love to do this. The capital city of Canterlot is named for Camelot from the Arthurian legends (and the design is inspired by Minas Tirith in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''), but other cities and nations have pony-themed names like Fillydelphia (Philadelphia), Manehattan (Manhattan), Las Pegasus (Las Vegas), Vanhoover (Vancouver), and Saddle Arabia (Saudi Arabia); the locations that have been featured in the series closely match their RealLife counterparts. One example: the Haypacking District features Brownstone architecture and is the fashion center of Manehattan, just like the Meatpacking District in Manhattan. The [[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Equestria?file=Map_of_Equestria_2015.jpg official map of Equestria]] shows that many of these cities correspond roughly with their equivalents' locations in North America, with Canterlot's location roughly equivalent to Chicago.
328* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Boxwood Terrace, Washington is inspired in name by Mountlake Terrace. According to Creator/CraigBartlett, the town is north of Seattle and south of Vancouver, BC, just off Interstate 5.
329* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Springfield]] is largely based on creator Creator/MattGroening's hometown of Portland, Oregon, with additional elements from Olympia, Washington, where he attended college. (The city square with its statue of Jebediah Springfield, to cite one example, is highly reminiscent of Olympia's Sylvester Park.)
330* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. It's stated to be somewhere in the South Park Colorado Basin, in Park County, Colorado, all of which ''does'' exist. But there is no actual city or town called South Park located there. However, it has been confirmed that the town is loosely based on the city of Fairplay in Colorado. Within the series, Fairplay actually exists as its ''own'' town and has been verbally confirmed to be somewhere a few miles away from the town of South Park, itself.
331* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Star's friend Marco hails from Echo Creek, a fictional community in the suburbs of Los Angeles, CA.
332* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has Beach City, which is based on the towns in Sussex County, Delaware that creator Rebecca Sugar visited as a child. Its name (along with that of an occasionally mentioned Ocean Town) is a clear take on Ocean City, Maryland. It's also located in the state of Delmarva, which refers to the Delmarva peninsula which is split between '''Del'''aware, '''Mar'''yland and '''V'''irgini'''a'''.
333** We also see the states of Keystone (which references Pennsylvania) and Jersey, as well as Empire City, which serves as a stand-in for New York.
334* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' [[CityWithNoName never names the city]] (according to the ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' comic it's Jump City) but considering its west coast location and the great big bridge, it's probably San Francisco (which it is, for the comics' counterpart). The [[WestCoastTeam Titans East]] take up shop in Steel City, which seems to be UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} (either that or perhaps Pittsburgh).
335* ''Westernanimation/WeBareBears'' takes place in what is only ever referred to as "the Bay Area", though many San Francisco landmarks can be seen in background shots. The intro alone features shots of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica Pyramid.
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