Common examples of CreatorProvincialism by country:
* In Canada, it's called "We All Live in Ontario". Due to the concentration of media in Toronto in an otherwise enormous country, pretty much anything of a "national" nature in English Canada is "Ontario". This includes terminology, accents, products and stores, etc. Creator/{{CBC}} takes a lot of flak for this from non-Ontarians. There is even a degree of Canadian EaglelandOsmosis that goes with it, as many people from thousands of miles away in British Columbia, for instance, have internalized Canadian stereotypes as their own, even though they never were. Some examples from UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} in particular: ice hockey (not that common when you can't make outdoor rinks); anything wintery for that matter (hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics did not help that image); Ontario pronunciation ("Canadian raising" is much less obvious in B.C.); Tim Hortons (almost entirely absent from the Vancouver area until the merger with Wendy's – Vancouver is a first-rate coffee town with tons of local options, which is probably not too surprising when you're a couple hours' drive from Seattle). The front license plate example mentioned above also crops up from time to time.
** People from French-speaking UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} get the BerserkButton when they get lumped with the rest of English Canada that way, but the trope exists in their province as well, and can be called "We All Live in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} and Quebec City".
* In Sweden, it's called "We All Live in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö." And sometimes not even the last two are counted. The country has a population of 9 million, with over two million living in these cities. For comparison, there are only eight cities in Sweden with a population of over 100,000. Now, consider that most entertainment advertised, and lots of the brands as well can't be found in the smaller communities, and that going to a major city can take hours if not days...
* For the Netherlands, it often becomes "We all live in Amsterdam". Especially common among tourists. Related to FreestateAmsterdam.
** Or at least, "We all live in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randstad Randstad]]" even though about three fifths of the population lives in the remaining three quarters of the country. Even national politicians seem to frequently forget that things that work in the major cities, or requirements imposed on them, don't necessarily also apply to the rest of the country, especially the more rural areas.
* For UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, it's "We all live in Copenhagen or (maybe) Aarhus". Aalborg or Odense might be included, but it's rare. The rest is referred to as "Udkantsdanmark", meaning "outskirts of Denmark" – or what would be FlyoverCountry in the US.
* For the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, it's "We all live in Metro Manila". Justified considering that Metro Manila, a collection of seventeen cities named for the capital of the Philippines, has the ''highest population density in Southeast Asia'' as well as being the headquarters of most if not all of the major media broadcasting companies. A curious subtrope is "All Filipinos are Tagalog", which applies both to the language (Tagalog is the basis of Filipino) and to the people and is a potential BerserkButton for anyone who doesn't live in Metro Manila or the surrounding provinces.
* For Italy, it's either "We all live in Rome or Naples" or "We all live in Tuscany". Italy has 60 million people and less than 3 million live in either Rome or Naples. While most of the peninsula is Mediterranean in nature, lots of cities are located far from the sea and warm weather. And let's not mention how every single region is quite different from the others in culture and traditions.
* In Russian internet, UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}} is often jokingly called "Default city" (in English) for exactly that. Everything outside Moscow is known as "Замкадье" ("Transmkadia"), referring to the MKAD highway encircling Moscow.
* Apparently, in Australia, we all live in UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}, or to a lesser extent UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}}. Other cities? What other cities?
** The Melbourne Cup is celebrated as an official public holiday... in Melbourne, only. It's optional throughout the rest of Victoria, and the rest of the country fronts up to work as usual each first Tuesday in November. Although nearly everyone stops to watch or listen to the race when it's run.
* In general, any television show showing "modern Britain" will focus on either "[[BritainIsOnlyLondon modern London]]" (where most of the big telly companies are based) or "[[UsefulNotes/FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps modern Manchester]]" (where the BBC is trying to move to avert this trope).
** Exceptions are when the show is produced by one of the BBC's subnational branches (BBC Scotland, BBC Cymru, and BBCNI), where it will almost certainly be "modern UsefulNotes/{{Glasgow}}" (where 1/3 of Scots live), "modern Cardiff", or "modern Belfast".
*** Cardiff is [[JustifiedTrope slightly more reasonable]] than some of the other examples. South Wales is home to 2/3 of the population of Wales and Cardiff is very accessible from most areas of South Wales.
** In the past, TV and radio presenters were required to speak using received pronunciation (ie., the extremely posh accent heard in older broadcasts), and even when that was relaxed a bit they still had to use a "proper" English accent. It's only in the last couple of decades that presenters have been free to speak normally in their natural accent. This can give the impression that, prior to the '90s, only close relations of the Queen were allowed to read the news, while now, even if there tends to be a focus on a few large cities, you at least get some impression that people from the rest of the country actually exist.
* It seems that all Germans are from Bayern (Bavaria), as almost every stereotype someone could possibly have about us is based on the Bavarian culture and are not part of the average-German. Lederhosen, anyone?
** With most national TV stations residing in Rhineland area, to Germans themselves that would be this trope.
** On television at least, this trope has been quite thoroughly averted in Germany. The main public television broadcaster is composed of nine regional stations, all of which produce plenty of content for both regional and public broadcast. The longest-running TV show, the police procedural Tatort, which is considered a national institution, is produced by all of them as well as the Swiss and Austrian stations and takes place in over 20 different cities.
** Note that Germany lacks megacities (Berlin, the largest city, has 4.5 million residents) and thus is somewhat immune to this trope.
* In UsefulNotes/NewZealand, it's "We all live in UsefulNotes/{{Auckland}}", since this is where most of the media outlets and television companies are based.
** Auckland Anniversary Day (the Monday closest to 29 January) is particularly bad - it's treated as a national public holiday on television even though it's only a public holiday in the upper North Island; elsewhere it's a regular working Monday. Wellington Anniversary Day (the Monday before) is closer to a national public holiday than Auckland Anniversary Day: Wellington is the capital city and therefore every government department is affected.
* In Finland, it's "We all live in Helsinki". One guy criticized the trope by saying that 4 of 5 Finns don't live in Helsinki, Espoo, or Vantaa, but almost every TV show takes place in there.
* Downplayed in France. While most TV series take place in large cities such as UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} and Marseille and 1 of 7 French people live in the Île-de-France region (composed of Paris and all its suburbs), several large companies and a fair share of movies and cultural events put less known towns in the spotlight. Furthermore, French cuisine hailing from [[UsefulNotes/DepartementalIssues every part of the country]], you can be sure that some people will know about towns such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelnaudary Castelnaudary]] (hometown of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassoulet cassoulet]]) or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roquefort-sur-Soulzon Roquefort sur Soulzon]] (hometown of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roquefort Roquefort cheese]]).
* In UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}, it's "We all live in Rio de Janeiro". It creates an awkward feeling when people are visiting Brazil in other places other than Rio de Janeiro, where Carnaval is not a big thing or extremely different from the image foreign people have of Carnaval; samba is not present, as it is only common to the City of Rio de Janeiro; football is not widespread in places like the North Region; the semi-arid climate of the central Northeast region and the highlands subtropical/temperate climate of the South region, whereas Rio de Janeiro has a lush tropical climate and vegetation; and people in the South Region being pale, while people in Rio de Janeiro are tanned, and many others. The main reason is that Rio de Janeiro produces most of Brazil's TV and movies.
** On the other hand, the other televisual media - and most of the written one - goes for "We all live in UsefulNotes/SaoPaulo", the country's biggest city/state with most economic and demographic significance.
** In fact, both cities' status as the only places in the country that matter according to media form a nice parallel to Los Angeles/[=SoCal=] and New York, respectively.
* Nearly every TV series produced in Spain will take place in Madrid, unless it has a pre-defined premise/plotline that calls for a different setting in particular like in crime/mystery and historical dramas. In sitcoms, it's common to start with a [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield vague urban setting]] supposedly to appeal the same to everyone (so there is no other language but Spanish, there is no accent but Standard Castilian, there is no mention if the city has a port to not give away if it's on the coast or inland, etc). As the series goes on, more and more 'Madridisms' will creep in, until the plot finally reveals what was expected if not painfully evident to everyone, that the show does take place in Madrid. This process is particularly eyebrow-raising because 1) most sitcoms are shot entirely on sets, so they could really localize them anywhere had they wanted to and 2) there is as much media produced in Barcelona as in Madrid.
** Until about the twentieth century, there was a "Spain Is Only Andalucia" trope. This was probably because [[{{Spexico}} most Latin Americans were (at least originally) of Andalucian descent]], and also because so many of the Spanish stereotypes, from swarthy skin to guitars, are chiefly Andalucian.
** As the TorosYFlamenco page shows, that version of the trope is still alive and well out of Spain.
* It's fairly rare in South Korean media to see stories set outside of UsefulNotes/{{Seoul}} or Kyeonggi-do. This is perhaps {{justified|Trope}} considering nearly half of the entire country's population lives in the Seoul metropolitan area.
* Likewise Israel, where all the media is concentrated in UsefulNotes/TelAviv, home to roughly two million people[[note]]The City of Tel Aviv itself only has 450,000 people, but it's only equivalent to a London borough or Tokyo ward in scope - the only difference is that no upper tier municipality exists for Greater Tel Aviv, because Israeli law only allows two-tier municipalities for rural areas.[[/note]].
* And, of course, in Japan, [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse no one lives anywhere but Tokyo]] (Edo if period drama). Town X shows take place in Tokyo suburb X, even if they are filmed in a completely different region. The only time this doesn't happen is if being somewhere else is an important plot point, as in ''Deka Kurokawa Suzuki'', in which being in the sticks is a major plot point. Even if they occur in the far flung future, such as ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', there will be New Tokyo Special City. One complete aversion is ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', which takes place in Yokohama for no real reason. However, one should be aware that the two cities share a district, and certain legal codes are prefaced with Tokyo-Yokohama.
* Within UsefulNotes/HongKong, foreign media often only show the Central area on the north coast of Hong Kong Island and Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon--it is not uncommon for westerners to think Hong Kong is literally an island, à la Singapore, despite that Hong Kong Island isn't even the largest island in Hong Kong (that would be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantau_Island Lantau Island]]). Only about 1 in 6 Hongkongers live on Hong Kong Island. Around half of the population lives in discrete new towns scattered throughout the New Territories. Speaking of which: even locals are sometimes surprised to know about 70% of Hong Kong's area is nature and more than a third of the total is forested. When you see photos of Hong Kong's border with China, the side with grasslands, forests, farmland, and little villages is ''Hong Kong'''s side, not China. This is probably justified as Hong Kong Island is more catered towards Westerners, and the neighbourhoods housing Western expats are more likely to be located in "wealthy" areas on the Island, while the rest of the city is more... local, so to speak.
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