This is one of the simplest ways of naming a work of fiction. Like Character Title, where the story is named after the main character in the story, The Place is where the main location is used in the title. The Place need not be where most of the action is set, it is sufficient for it to be important to the plot (or not even that, if the title is sloppy). If we don't know that the title is a place until near the end, then this place is The Namesake.
If it's just the name of the place, like Gotham, it would also go in One-Word Title.
If there is an actual 'The' at the start of the title, then it's also an example of Definite Article Title. Location Song is a specifically musical subtrope. Sister trope to Vehicle Title.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- Barangay 143
- Cromartie High School
- Doraemon: The chapter "A World Without Sound" is named after the world without sound that Noby and Doraemon visit.
- Faeries' Landing
- Macross, with the place being a giant spaceship.
- Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
- Metropolis
- One Piece Film: Strong World
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Transformers Cybertron
Asian Animation
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Flying Island: The Sky Adventure does indeed take place on a flying island as implied in the title.
Comic Books
- Astro City
- Baker Street
- Common Grounds: The title refers to a chain of coffee shops that are neutral ground for heroes and villains.
- Creature Tech
- Earth 2
- Ghostopolis
- Gotham City Garage
- Gotham City Sirens
- Killtopia
- Sin City: It's official name is 'Basin City', but all of the locals call it 'Sin City'.
- Seconds: The title refers to a restaurant most of the book takes place in.
- Sherwood, Texas
- Sunnyville Stories
- Zig-zagged with Wendigo Wood. The forest's official name is "Whisper Wood", but someone crossed out "Whisper" and wrote "Wendigo" above it.
Comic Strips
Fan Works
- Old West
- The Next Frontier, for a given value of 'place'.
- The first installment of Skyhold Academy Yearbook is simply called Skyhold Academy.
- Ma'at: "Chapter 1: Inbw-hdj"
, is named for a location, as it says immediately after:
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Southbound road from Cairo to Inbw-hdj (Memphis)
Films — Animation
Films — Live-Action
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- 42nd Street
- 49th Parallel
- 99 River Street
- 100 Bloody Acres
- 1408 (a hotel room number)
- 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns: 1994 Baker Street is Dr. Winslow's address in San Francisco.
- 3000 Miles to Graceland
- Abe Lincoln In Illinois
- After Earth
- The Alamo (1960)
- The Alamo (2004)
- Amsterdamned
- Andersonville
- Another Earth
- Antebellum: The Reveal shows that 'Antebellum' is the name of the theme park where the fake plantation is hidden.
- Apartment 143
- Arlington Road
- Asylum
- Australia
- Badlands
- The Barrens
- Bataan
- Battlefield Earth
- The Bay
- A Bay of Blood
- Bedlam
- The Beyond refers to the afterlife in the movie.
- Bio-Dome
- Black Forest
- The Black Room
- Black Water
- Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys
- Bloodlands
- Blood Rayne II Deliverance
- Bloody Bloody Bible Camp
- Bloody Pit of Horror
- The Blue Dahlia
- Blue Hawaii
- Boarding School
- Boys Town
- Breakheart Pass
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Brigham City
- Brokeback Mountain
- A Bronx Morning
- Brooklyn
- The Bunker (2001)
- Cabin by the Lake
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Cape Fear
- Carnage Road
- Carnival of Souls
- Casablanca
- Casino
- Casino Royale (1967) and Casino Royale (2006)
- The Cave
- Cave of the Living Dead
- The Cavern
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Cherry Falls
- The Cheyenne Social Club
- Chicago
- Chinatown
- Chopping Mall
- Christmas in Connecticut
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Church
- City of God
- Cloverfield
- Cold Creek Manor
- Cold Mountain
- Cooley High
- The Cottage
- Crimson Peak
- The Circus
- Cryptz
- Coney Island
- Cutthroat Island
- Dante's Peak
- Dark Asylum
- Dark City
- Darkness Falls
- The Dark Tower (2017)
- Dead in Tombstone
- Dead Lands
- Death House
- Death Valley
- Delicatessen
- The Den
- Detroit
- Devil's Pass
- Dinotopia
- The Disappointments Room
- District 9
- The Docks Of New York
- Dodge City
- Doll Factory
- Down Argentine Way
- Dragon Swamp
- Drums Along the Mohawk
- Dunkirk
- The Dust Factory
- Easy Street
- Eden Lake
- El Dorado
- Elysium
- Escape from L.A.
- Euro Trip
- Fargo
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- The FP (stands for Frazier Park, the setting)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Five Graves to Cairo
- Five Nights At Freddys
- Flint
- Flying Down to Rio
- Fog Over Frisco
- The Forest (1982)
- The Forest (2016)
- Fort Apache
- Frankenstein Island
- Freeway
- Frisco Jenny
- From Russia with Love
- The Funhouse
- Gabriel Over the White House
- Gangs of New York
- Germany, Year Zero
- Ginza Cosmetics
- Girl House
- Green Zone
- Gods of Egypt
- Goldstone
- Good Burger
- Gore Orphanage
- Gorky Park
- Gosford Park
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Grand Canyon
- The Great Wall
- The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
- Grimsby
- Grizzly Park
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Hacksaw Ridge
- The Haunting of Whaley House
- Helen of Troy
- Heaven's Gate
- Hell of the Living Dead
- Hell's Hinges
- Hell House LLC
- Hercules in New York
- The Hole: What happened at the hole is the focus of the story.
- The Hollow
- Hollywood Homicide
- Hollywoodland
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
- Horrors of Spider Island
- House at the End of the Street
- House of 1000 Corpses
- House of Wax (both the 1953 version and the 2005 version)
- House of the Witch
- House of Whipcord
- House on Bare Mountain
- House on Haunted Hill (1959)
- House on Haunted Hill (1999)
- The House on Sorority Row
- The Howards of Virginia
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
- Hungerford
- Ilo Ilo
- Idiocracy
- In Bruges
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- In Old Arizona
- In Old Chicago
- Into the Wild
- Invasion USA
- The Island (1980)
- The Island
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
- Island of the Fishmen
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue
- Jamaica Inn
- Jersey Girl
- Jumanji
- Jungleground
- Jurassic Park
- Key Largo
- Kingdom of Heaven
- A King in New York
- King Solomon's Mines
- Kings Row
- Kokoda
- Kolberg
- Kongo
- Labyrinth
- The Colony:
- The Colony (2013): Named for where they're going, Colony 5.
- The Colony (2016): Named for where they are, Colonia Dignidad.
- L.A. Confidential
- L.A. Story
- The Lady from Shanghai
- Lady in the Water
- Lake Mungo
- Lake Placid
- Lakeview Terrace
- The Last House on the Left
- Last Vegas
- Las Vegas Bloodbath
- The Lavender Hill Mob
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Lemon Tree Passage
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Liberal Arts
- Life Blood's two alternative titles, Pearsblossom and Murder World, both refer to locations: the film is set in Pearsblossom County, and Murder World is the name of tourist attraction at the Gas Station of Doom where Brooke and Rhea hole up (an attraction that seems to exist for the sole purpose of allowing this as a title).
- Lights of New York
- Little Manhattan
- The Loft
- Lost Continent
- The Lost World
- Louisiana Story
- Maid in Manhattan
- Manchester by the Sea
- The Man from Kangaroo
- The Man from Snowy River
- Manhattan
- Manhattan Melodrama
- Mary of Scotland
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Metropolis
- A Million Ways to Die in the West
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Mission to Moscow
- The Monster Club
- Monte Carlo
- Moon Over Miami
- Moonraker
- Moscow Strikes Back
- Moulin Rouge!
- Mulholland Dr.
- Mulholland Falls
- Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley
- Mystery Road
- The Naked City
- Nashville
- Nathan's Kingdom
- New York Stories
- Niagara
- Nightmare Alley
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Night Train to Munich
- North Face
- North to Alaska
- Northwest Passage
- Nudist Colony of the Dead
- Oblivion (1994)
- Once Upon a Texas Train
- On the Bowery
- The Ox-Bow Incident
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- Pacific Rim
- The Painted Hills
- The Palm Beach Story
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Paris, Texas (though we never visit the place)
- Passport to Pimlico
- Pearl Harbor
- The Phantom of Paris
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
- Phantom of the Paradise
- The Philadelphia Story
- Piccadilly
- Pickup on South Street
- Pirates of Silicon Valley
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- The Pit
- Pleasantville
- Police Academy
- Pompeii
- Both Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are named (or in the latter's case, subtitled) after the main spaceship in the plot.
- Purgatory
- Quantez
- Red River
- The Reef
- Rhinestone: "The Rhinestone" is the name of the country music club where Jake is locked into a long-term contract.
- Rio Bravo
- Road House
- Road to Perdition
- The Room
- Room
- The Ruins
- Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno
- A Safe Place (1971)
- Sahara (1943)
- Sahara (2005)
- San Andreas
- The Sandlot
- Sands of the Kalahari
- San Francisco (1936)
- Santoalla
- Saratoga
- Savages Crossing
- Scarlet Street
- Seraphim Falls
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Shanghai Express
- Shanghai Noon
- Short Term 12 is the facility where the cast works or lives.
- Shutter Island
- Silverado
- Silver Lode
- Sin City
- Skyfall
- Sky High (2005)
- Sleepy Hollow
- Sleepy Hollow High
- Sorority Row
- Stalingrad (1993)
- Stalingrad (2013)
- Sunset Boulevard
- Sweetwater
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- The Teahouse Of The August Moon
- Tiger Bay
- Tiger House
- Timber Falls
- Tobruk
- Tombstone
- Tomorrowland
- The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
- Torture Garden: The Torture Garden is the name of Dr. Diabolo's carnival attaraction.
- Tortilla Flat
- Tourist Trap
- The Town
- The Town That Dreaded Sundown
- Troy
- Under The Dome
- Unknown Island
- The Valley of Gwangi
- Vegas Vacation
- Vera Cruz
- The Village
- Virginia City
- The Void
- Wake Island
- Wake Wood
- Wall Street
- The Ward
- Warlock (1959)
- Waterworld
- West of Zanzibar
- Westworld
- When in Rome
- Wicker Park
- Wild
- Willow Creek
- Willy's Wonderland
- A Window in London
- Wind River
- Witchouse
- The Wood (short for Inglewood, California).
- The World's End
- Xanadu
- Zabriskie Point
Fairy Tales
Literature
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- Abarat
- Amagi Brilliant Park
- Barchester Towers from The Chronicles of Barsetshire
- Barrayar, Komarr, and Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold.
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Bridge to Terabithia
- Brighton Rock
- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (the second time the Saloon moved locations, they did in fact decide just to call the new building The Place)
- Casino Royale
- Castle Hangnail
- Revelation Space Series: Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds.
- The Chronicles of Prydain: The third book in the series is called The Castle of Llyr.
- Cold Comfort Farm
- Cyteen: Cyteen is the capital of Union, a interstellar society based on human cloning, genetic engineering and technologies in psychology that verge onto mind control.
- The Dark Tower
- Dead City
- The Discworld series in general and at least one book, The Last Continent, in particular.
- The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.
- Dune, although the official name of the planet is Arrakis.
- Eifelheim
- Elantris
- Flatland
- Twilight: The first book was originally named Forks, but Stephenie Meyer changed the name since.
- Gormenghast: The setting of the story, a huge castle with surrounding huts which appears to be cut off from the rest of the world.
- Hard in Hightown is a defictionalized novel originally seen in Dragon Age II; it was published as an actual book in 2018.
- Harmony (2016)
- Hawaii (James Michener used a lot of these titles)
- The House of the Seven Gables
- The House on the Borderland
- Howards End: The name of a house.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, originally titled simply Notre-Dame de Paris.
- Hyperion
- The Island of Doctor Moreau
- Letterland
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Mansfield Park
- The Masked Empire is set in Orlais, an empire where most of the citizens wear masks.
- Middlemarch: A town.
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, though the novel actually has nothing to do with any of the numerous places of that name.
- The Mill on the Floss
- Miracle Creek
- Mistress Masham's Repose: Mistress Masham's Repose is the small island where the Lilliputians live.
- My Side of the Mountain
- The Mysterious Island
- "New Archangel", a 2009 short story by Desmond Warzel, takes place in Sitka, Alaska, which at the time the story is set was called Novoarkhangelsk, or New Archangel.
- The Night Garden
- North and South
- Northanger Abbey
- Orphan Island
- Perdido Street Station
- Poland (Michener again)
- Pondovadia
- Pompeii
- Oddly subverted in Rainbows End. The title does refer to an apartment complex in the book, but the only people who live there are two secondary characters, and the place never becomes important to the plot.
- Redwall and its sequel Mossflower. Also the later books Salamandastron and Loamhedge.
- Ringworld
- 'Salem's Lot
- Savage Run is named after a canyon in Twelve Sleep that is supposedly impassable.
- The Scar by China Miéville
- The Secret Garden
- Sheriff Joanna Brady: Many of the novels in the series take their titles from locations in Cochise County. These include Skeleton Canyon, Rattlesnake Crossing, Outlaw Mountain, and Devil's Claw.
- Solaris
- Sophie's World
- Der Stechlin
- The Stepford Wives
- Sweet Valley High
- Sword Art Online
- Tasakeru
- The Tombs of Atuan
- Texas (Michener yet again)
- Treason
- Treasure Island
- The Two Towers (Notable in that we don't know for certain which two towers it refers to. It could have been any pair out of Orthanc, Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul, or the Tower of Cirith Ungol. The Movie definitively identifies it as the first two, but Tolkien himself named different pairs at different times.)
- Vampire Academy
- Washington Square
- Watership Down: The eponymous hill is where the main characters make their home and is one of the main locations.
- Waverley
- In Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River, each chapter is named after the location in which it takes place.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and all of its sequels, each of which is titled [someone/thing] in Oz or [someone/thing] of Oz
- Wuthering Heights
Live-Action TV
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- 21 Jump Street
- 30 Rock
- 666 Park Avenue
- 1600 Penn
- Ackley Bridge
- Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight
- Alcatraz
- Alien Worlds (2020): Each episode — "Atlas", "Janus", "Eden" and "Terra" — is named after the planet it takes place on.
- All Saints
- American Horror Story: Asylum
- American Horror Story: Hotel
- American Horror Story: Murder House
- American Horror Story: Roanoke
- Apple Tree Yard
- Atlantis
- Babylon 5. It even includes the phrase "the place" right in the Opening Narration: "The year is 2260. The Place: Babylon FIVE."
- Babylon Berlin
- Ballykissangel
- Banshee
- Barbary Coast
- Bates Motel
- Battle Creek
- Bedlam
- Benidorm
- Berlin Station
- Beverly Hills, 90210
- The Big Garage
- The Big Valley
- Black Hole High
- Blackpool
- The Bletchley Circle
- Blue Water High
- The Border
- Boston Legal
- Boston Public
- Britannia
- The Brontës of Haworth
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Byker Grove
- Café Americain
- Camelot
- The Cape (1996)
- Cape Town
- Century City
- Cheers
- Chelmsford 123
- The Chicago Code
- Chicago Fire
- Chicago Hope
- Chicago Justice
- Chicago P.D.
- China Beach
- CHiPs (The first three letters stand for California Highway)
- Cimarron Strip
- Colditz
- Colony
- Corner Gas
- Coronation Street
- Covington Cross
- Crash Zone
- Cranford
- Crossroads
- The Cul De Sac
- The Dakotas
- Dani's House
- Dawson's Creek
- Deadwood
- Degrassi: Degrassi Junior High''
- Dieppe
- Dollhouse
- Downton Abbey
- Earthsea
- Eastenders
- Edgemont
- Eerie, Indiana
- Emerald City
- Emmerdale
- Encantadia
- ER
- Eureka
- Everwood
- Fantasy Island
- Fargo
- Fawlty Towers (also an Epunymous Title)
- Fourways Farm
- Fraggle Rock
- Full House
- Fuller House
- Gallipoli (2015)
- Garth Marenghis Darkplace
- The Gates
- General Hospital
- Geordie Shore
- Gilligan's Island
- The Glades
- Glasgow Kiss
- Godiva's (also a Character Title, since the owner of the restaurant named it after herself)
- The Good Place
- Gotham
- Grange Hill
- Grantchester
- Green Acres
- Green Wing
- The Halcyon
- Happy Valley
- Harper's Island
- Haven
- Hawaii Five-0
- Hawaii Five-O
- Hell on Wheels
- Hemlock Grove
- Hill Street Blues
- Holby City
- Hollyoaks
- Homeland
- Hotel Babylon
- Hot in Cleveland
- Inside No. 9 (each episode is set in a different location, but all of them - from a mansion to a theatre dressing room - have the address "No. 9")
- Into the Badlands
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Jericho
- Jersey Shore
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Kaamelot
- Key West
- Killinaskully
- Kim's Convenience
- Kingdom Hospital
- The Knick
- Krypton
- Laguna Beach
- The Lakes
- Land of the Lost
- Laredo
- Lark Rise to Candleford
- Last Tango in Halifax
- Las Vegas
- Law & Order: LA
- Law & Order: UK
- LazyTown
- Lidsville
- Little House on the Prairie
- Little Mosque on the Prairie
- Lonesome Dove
- Lost in Oz
- Made in Chelsea
- Man from Atlantis
- Masada
- Melrose Place
- Mercy (which takes place in Mercy Hospital)
- Mercy Point
- Mercy Street
- Miami Vice
- Midnight, Texas
- Midsomer Murders
- Mob City
- Moonbase 3
- Mopatop's Shop
- Mimbai Calling
- The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nóg
- Nashville
- NCIS: Los Angeles
- NCIS: New Orleans
- Neverland
- The Newsroom
- New York Undercover
- Nichols (Also a Protagonist Title. The show is set in the town of Nichols, Arizona, which is named after the protagonist's family)
- The Noddy Shop
- Number 96
- Nuremberg
- NYPD Blue
- NYC 22
- The Office
- The O.C.
- Off The Map
- Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
- One Tree Hill
- The Only Way Is Essex
- Oz
- The Pacific
- The Palace
- The Paradise
- Pensacola: Wings of Gold
- Petticoat Junction
- PhoneShop
- PJ Katie's Farm
- Planet Ajay
- Planet Earth
- The Playboy Club
- Point Pleasant
- Pompeii: The Last Day
- Porterhouse Blue
- Power Rangers in Space
- Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
- Power Rangers Jungle Fury
- Power Rangers Wild Force
- Prehistoric Park
- Prison Break
- Psychoville
- Quantico
- Queen of the South
- Ravenswood
- Red Dwarf
- Redfern Now
- Ripper Street
- Riverdale
- Robin of Sherwood
- Rome
- Root Into Europe
- Roswell
- Route 66
- Salem
- Sanctuary
- Schitt's Creek
- Sesame Street
- Serangoon Road
- Shetland
- She-Wolf of London
- Shortland Street
- Silicon Valley
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
- The Slammer
- Sleepy Hollow
- Smallville
- The Smoking Room
- Southland
- Sparkhouse
- Spin City
- Stargate Atlantis
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise can count, since the ships after which they're named are also the main settings for the series, but they are also Vehicle Titles.
- St. Elsewhere
- The Straits
- Strange Hill High
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Suburgatory
- Summer Heights High
- Survivor, as the majority of its seasons have its main setting in the show's sub-title.
- The O.C.
- Terra Nova
- This Is England
- This is Wonderland
- Treme
- The Tunnel
- Twin Peaks
- Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
- Up Pompeii
- USA High
- Vegas (2012)
- Versailles
- The Vicar of Dibley
- The Village
- Waco
- Warehouse 13
- Waterloo Road
- Wayward Pines
- The Wedge
- Wentworth
- The West Wing
- Westworld
- Whitechapel
- The Wild Wild West (A play on words: The main character is named Major James West.)
- Witches of East End
- The Witches Of Oz
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- Wolf Hall
- Wonderfalls
- Yonderland
- Yuma
- Zoo
- Zoobilee Zoo
Music
- "Africa" by Toto
- American Idiot, "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams", "Homecoming", and "Jesus of Suburbia" by Green Day
- American Life, "American Pie", "Don't Cry For Me Argentina", "Hollywood", "I Love New York", and "La Isla Bonita" by Madonna
- "California Girls" by Katy Perry
- "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow
- "Hello Seattle" by Owl City
- Hotel California by Eagles
- The albums Illinois and Michigan by Sufjan Stevens, as well as many individual songs, such as "Flint", "Romulus", "Wolverine" note , "For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti", "Redford", "Decatur", "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts", "Jacksonville", "Peoria", "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades...", "Chicago", "Springfield", "Pittsfield", "Eugene", and many others.
- "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne
Pinball
Theater
Toys
Video Games
- Aquaria: It's named after the world you play in, and is also a One-Word Title.
- Area 51
- Artist Colony
- Action In New York
- Antarctic Adventure
- Awakening: Six of the seven games in the series fit this trope:
- The Dreamless Castle
- Moonfell Wood
- The Goblin Kingdom
- The Skyward Castle
- The Sunhook Spire
- The Redleaf Forest
- Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach
- Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City
- Black Mesa
- The Convenience Store
- The Dark Parables series has Jack and the Sky Kingdom and The Match Girl's Lost Paradise.
- The first Dark Tales installment is Murders in the Rue Morgue.
- Death Park
- Deponia
- Dragon Age has an In-Universe example with the Fictional Document Hard in Hightown, named for a section of the city-state of Kirkwall. As noted above, this one has also become a Literature example as of 2018, since it's been published as an actual book.
- Egypt: Also a One-Word Title.
- The Elder Scrolls: Every game (and most expansions/DLCs) in the main series to date is named after a place within the game world, though it's rarely played entirely straight. The only one which isn't an example of One-Word Title is Shivering Isles:
- Arena counts, though it may come as a surprise to some. According to Arena's intro it is a nickname for Tamriel, while later lore began to suggest it's the Ehlnofey word for Nirn.
- Daggerfall: The city of Daggerfall is one of several prominent locations in the game, which take place in two provinces: High Rock (where Daggerfall is located) and Hammerfell.
- Morrowind subverts it. While the game is called Morrowind, you can only visit one district: the island of Vvardenfell. (The Tribunal expansion then allows you to visit one city on the mainland, but only that city.)
- Oblivion takes place in the province of Cyrodiil, but still qualifies as numerous segments of the game take place in the titular dimension of Oblivion, particularly Mehrunes Dagon's "Deadlands" sphere.
- The Shivering Isles expansion qualifies, as it takes place in Sheogorath's realm of the Shivering Isles.
- Skyrim plays it entirely straight, taking place in the province of Skyrim.
- The spin-off game Battlespire qualifies, as the game takes place in the Imperial Battlespire, an inter-dimensional training ground for the Imperial Battlemages.
- Emerald Mine
- The Fairyland Story
- Fallen London
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Forbidden Forest
- Gorky 17note
- Grand Theft Auto: London 1969
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Halo
- The entire Haunted Hotel series falls into this, as each installment takes place in a haunted hotel; some of the subtitles double down on the trope, such as Room 18.
- Heaven's Vault: The location where the game's prologue takes place, and where the game ends.
- Hogan's Alley
- Inunaki Tunnel
- Joe's Diner
- Kentucky Route Zero is set on and around the titular Eldritch Location in the state of Kentucky.
- Kingdom Hearts
- LEGO Island
- Lifeless Planet
- LittleBigPlanet: The game is named after its Dream Land setting. At times, it can be hard to tell if the narrator is referring to the game itself or just the setting.
- Luigi's Mansion: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Luigi's Mansion 3 are Artifact Titles, though the Dark Moon plays an important role in the second game.
- Meteosnote
- Milon's Secret Castle
- Mizzurna Falls
- The Monkey Island series
- Myst centers around Myst Island. Its sequel, Riven, then centers around the realm of Riven.
- Some of the installments in the Mystery Trackers series fall into this, such as Raincliff and Silent Hollow.
- The New Zealand Story
- The Oregon Trail
- Raid on Bungeling Bay
- Rainbow Islands
- River City Ransom
- Roco Kingdom
- Saints Row
- Silent Hill
- Skyhill
- Space Channel 5
- Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier
- Track & Field in Barcelona (what the NES version was called in Europe)
- Pretty much any game with Vegas in the title.
- Helen's Mysterious Castle: The castle is where the story happens, and Helen wants to escape it.
Web Comics
Web Original
- Adylheim
- Ather City
- Battleworld
- Bethlehem Royal
- Boatmurdered
- Bouvet Island
- Camp Fuck You Die
- City of Lost Characters
- A City of Weirdos
- Despair Mart
- Discedo
- Disney Academy
- Doubt Academy
- Edensphere
- Edge Town
- Elegy City
- Elfen High
- End Zone
- Evergreen: Academy for Spies
- A Facility
- The Fantome Inn
- Genessia
- Haven City
- Hazbin Hotel
- Herculean Academy
- Hideout Junction
- High Seas
- Ink City
- Insane Cafe Series
- Knight Pokemon University
- The Lands Of Evelon
- The Last Free City
- Luceti
- Mall Of Despair
- Marina Asylum
- Mayfield
- Milliways Bar
- A Modern World
- The Mortal Realm
- The Multiverse
- The Never Ending Dungeon
- Nyx Crossing
- Paixao
- Paradisa
- Ravenwood Arena
- Realms of Hyrule
- Rocket HQ
- Route 29
- Ryslig
- Second City
- Shin Hyakuji High School
- Sigil Academy
- Skylessia
- Somarium
- Step City
- Super Hero High
- Syrellia
- Syrunn
- The Tandy Arena
- Terrascape Academy
- Thar Shaddin
- Tower of Animus
- The Town
- Twilight Academy
- Ulti's Bar & Grill
- Utopia Academy
- Vatheon
- Vertiline
- Welcome To Sanditon
- World Of Omni
- World Of Remnant
- Whateley Universe: The series is also referred to as the "Whateley Academy Universe", and its stories' headers call themselves "Whateley Academy Tales". More conventionally, is the DeWinter Residence subuniverse.
Western Animation
- 101 Dalmatian Street
- Amphibia
- Astroblast: A weird case in that they live in the Astroblast Space Station, but the show mostly focuses on the smoothie cafe, Frosty Star.
- Big City Greens
- Bob's Burgers
- Camp Lakebottom
- Central Park
- ChalkZone
- Chilly Beach
- China, IL
- Clone High
- Code Lyoko
- Craig of the Creek
- Dexter's Laboratory
- Filly Funtasia
- Flying Rhino Junior High
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Galaxy High
- Gravity Falls
- Hero Elementary
- Hotel Transylvania: The Series
- Infinity Train
- Littlest Pet Shop:
- Littlest Pet Shop (1995)
- Littlest Pet Shop (2012)
- Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own: Like the Astroblast example, while there is still a Littlest Pet Shop in this series, it focuses less on that location and more on other places in their world of Paw-Tucket.
- Llanargollen
- Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart: Though the full location is called Pure Heart Valley.
- Mission Hill
- Ninjago
- The Owl House
- PINY: Institute of New York
- Sammy's Story Shop
- Secret Mountain Fort Awesome
- South Park
- Superjail!
- Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets
