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You mean a real life location is referred by another name?
May be related to Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
MAX POWER KILL JEEEEEEEEWWWWW... None of those are quite what I was thinking of. The specific example I was thinking of (but using those always seems to confuse people) was of a place that is very clearly intended to be our Earth (or an extremely similar parallel world), but is referred to exclusively as Terra — "Earth" isn't even mentioned in passing as an old name or something to confirm its identity to the audience.

Is there an equivalent or equivalents to Not Using the "Z" Word for things other than fictional creatures (particularly thinking "locations"), or do those just count as variations on the trope?
Edited by Nezumi