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 The "The" Title.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Barangay 143
- Cromartie High School
- 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
Comic Books
- Astro City
- 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
- Sin City
- Seconds: The title refers to a restaurant most of the book takes place in.
- Sherwood, Texas
- Sunnyville Stories
Comic Strips
Fan Works
- Old West
- The Next Frontier, for a given value of 'place'.
- Skyhold Academy
Films — Animation
Films — Live-Action
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- 42nd Street
- 49th Parallel
- 99 River Street
- 100 Bloody Acres
- 1408 (a hotel room number)
- Abe Lincoln In Illinois
- After Earth
- The Alamo (1960)
- Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County
- An American Werewolf in London
- Amsterdamned
- And Quiet Flows the Don
- Anne of the Indies
- Another Earth
- Apartment 143
- Arlington Road
- Assignment: Venezuela
- Australia
- Babes in Toyland
- Bad Day at Black Rock
- Badlands
- The Barrens
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street
- Bataan
- Battlefield Earth
- The Bay
- The Beast of Hollow Mountain
- The Beast of Yucca Flats
- Bedlam
- The Bells of St. Mary's
- 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
- 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
- Brighton Rock
- Brokeback Mountain
- A Bronx Morning
- Brooklyn
- In Bruges
- The Bunker
- 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
- 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
- The Cottage
- Crimson Peak
- The Circus
- Coney Island
- Cutthroat Island
- Dante's Peak
- Dark Asylum
- Dark City
- Darkness Falls
- The Dark Tower (2017)
- Dead in Tombstone
- Dead Lands
- Death House
- Delicatessen
- The Den
- Detroit
- Devil's Pass
- Dinotopia
- The Disappointments Room
- District 9
- The Docks Of New York
- Dodge City
- Down Argentine Way
- Drums Along the Mohawk
- Dunkirk
- Easy Street
- Eden Lake
- El Dorado
- Elysium
- Euro Trip
- Fargo
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- Five Graves To Cairo
- Five Nights At Freddys
- Flying Down to Rio
- Fog Over Frisco
- The Forest (1982)
- The Forest (2016)
- Fort Apache
- 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
- 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
- The Hole: What happened at the hole is the focus of the story.
- Hollywoodland
- 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 Whipcord
- House on Haunted Hill (1959)
- House on Haunted Hill (1999)
- The House on Sorority Row
- The Howards of Virginia
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Ilo Ilo
- Idiocracy
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- In Old Arizona
- In Old Chicago
- Into the Wild
- Invasion USA
- The Island of Doctor Moreau
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue
- Jamaica Inn
- Jersey Girl
- Jungleground
- Jurassic Park
- Key Largo
- Kingdom of Heaven
- A King in New York
- King Solomon's Mines
- Kings Row
- Kokoda
- Kolberg
- Kongo
- Labyrinth
- La Colonia ("The Colony.")
- L.A. Confidential
- The Lady from Shanghai
- Lady in the Water
- Lake Mungo
- Lake Placid
- Lakeview Terrace
- The Lavender Hill Mob
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Lemon Tree Passage
- Liberal Arts
- Lights of New York
- Little Manhattan
- Lost Continent
- The Lost World
- Louisiana Story
- Maid in Manhattan
- 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
- 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 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 the Caribbean: At World's End
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- The Pit
- Pleasantville
- Police Academy
- Pompeii
- The Prisoner of Zenda (Zenda is the name of a castle)
- Both Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are named (or in the latter's case, subtitled) after the main spaceship in the plot.
- Purgatory
- Quantez
- Race to Witch Mountain
- Red River
- The Reef
- Return to House on Haunted Hill
- Rhinestone: "The Rhinestone" is the name of the country music club where Jake is locked into a long-term contract.
- Rio Bravo
- Road House
- Roman Holiday
- Rome, Open City
- The Room
- Room
- Ruggles of Red Gap
- The Ruins
- Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno
- Sahara (1943)
- Sahara (2005)
- The Sandlot
- San Francisco (1936)
- Saratoga
- Savages Crossing
- Scarlet Street
- Seraphim Falls
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Shanghai Express
- Shanghai Noon
- Shutter Island
- Silverado
- Sin City
- Skyfall
- Sky High (2005)
- Sleepless in Seattle
- Sorority Row
- Space Is the Place
- Stalingrad (1993) and Stalingrad (2013)
- The Station Agent
- Storm Over Asia
- The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
- Sunset Boulevard
- Sweetwater
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- The Teahouse Of The August Moon
- The Thief of Bagdad
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Thor: The Dark World
- Tiger Bay
- Tokyo Chorus
- Tokyo Twilight
- Tombstone
- Tomorrowland
- The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
- Tortilla Flat
- Tourist Trap
- The Town
- The Town That Dreaded Sundown
- The Treasure of Silver Lake
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- The Trip Across Paris
- A Trip Down Market Street
- Troy
- Two Guys from Texas
- Under The Dome
- Unknown Island
- The Valley of Gwangi
- Vera Cruz
- The Village
- Virginia City
- The Void
- Wake Island
- Wall Street
- The Ward
- Watch on the Rhine
- Waterworld
- We Bought a Zoo
- We Leave for England
- Werewolf of London
- West of Zanzibar
- Westworld
- When in Rome
- Wicker Park
- Wild
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
- The Windmill Massacre
- A Window in London
- Wind River
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
- Witchouse
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- A Woman of Paris
- The Wood (short for Inglewood, California).
- The World's End
- Xanadu
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
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds.
- The Chronicles of Prydain; also, the third book in the series is called The Castle of Llyr.
- Cold Comfort Farm
- Cyteen
- The Dark Tower
- 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
- Twilight book 1 was originally named Forks, but Stephenie Meyer changed the name since.
- Gormenghast
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Hawaii (James Michener used a lot of these titles)
- The House of the Seven Gables
- The House on the Borderland
- Howards End
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, originally titled simply Notre-Dame de Paris.
- Hyperion
- The Island of Doctor Moreau
- Land of Oz
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Mansfield Park
- Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss, both by George Eliot.
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, though the novel actually has nothing to do with any of the numerous places of that name.
- Mistress Masham's Repose
- 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.
- North and South
- Northanger Abbey
- Perdido Street Station
- Poland (Michener again)
- 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
- The Scar by China Miéville
- The Secret Garden
- Solaris
- Sophie's World
- Der Stechlin
- Sweet Valley High
- Sword Art Online
- 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.
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- Vampire Academy
- Washington Square
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- Colditz
- Colony
- Corner Gas
- Coronation Street
- Covington Cross
- Crash Zone
- Cranford
- Crossroads
- CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
- The Cul De Sac
- The Dakotas
- Dani's House
- Dawson's Creek
- Deadwood
- Degrassi Junior High
- Dieppe
- Dixon of Dock Green
- Dollhouse
- Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
- Downton Abbey
- Earthsea
- Eastenders
- Edgemont
- Eerie, Indiana
- Emerald City
- Emmerdale
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Summer Heights High
- Survivor, as 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
- 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 (1971)
- 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
- 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
- Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach
- Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City
- Black Mesa
- Dragon Age has an In-Universe example with the Fictional Document Hard in Hightown.
- 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
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Forbidden Forest
- Gorky 17note
- Grand Theft Auto: London 1969
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Halo
- Hogan's Alley
- 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.
- Meteosnote
- Milon's Secret Castle
- The New Zealand Story
- The Oregon Trail
- Raid on Bungeling Bay
- Rainbow Islands
- River City Ransom
- Saints Row
- Silent Hill
- Space Channel 5
- Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier
- Track And Field in Barcelona (What the NES version was called in Europe)
- Pretty much any game with Vegas in the title.
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
- 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
- Tasakeru
- Terrascape Academy
- Thar Shaddin
- Tower of Animus
- The Town
- Troperia
- 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 refered to as the "Whateley Academy Universe", and its stories' headers call themselves "Whateley Academy Tales"
- More conventionally, is the De Winter Residence subuniverse.
Western Animation
