Strictly speaking this entry is about communities like villages, towns and cities that do not exist in the world we know. Like
fictional countries, most
fictional cities resemble either a specific place or present one version of archetypal place.
- Amber - the city of which all others are shadows in Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber series about Amber (fictional realm)
- Ankh-Morpork - in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Astro City[?] - Kurt Busiek[?]'s city of superheroes
- Bad Ass, Texas[?] - in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
- Barchester - in the novels of Anthony Trollope
- Bellona - in Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
- Camelot - the castle of King Arthur
- Castle Rock, Maine[?] - home to many Stephen King characters
- Chasm City[?], in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space and sequels
- Christminster (modelled on Oxford - in the novels of Thomas Hardy
- Chronopolis[?] by J. G. Ballard
- Cicely, Alaska[?] - the setting of the television series Northern Exposure
- The City - home of The Tick
- City of the Iron fish[?] by Simon Ings[?]
- Darnley[?] - in Philip George Chadwick[?]'s The Death Guard
- Don Camillo's village
- Duckburg - in the Scrooge McDuck universe
- Eglarest[?] - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Emmerdale from the British TV series of the same name
- Esseph; see David Lodge
- Evarchia[?] - in Brigid Brophy[?]'s Palace without chairs
- Gormenghast - a city-sized castle featured in a trilogy by Mervyn Peake
- Gotham City - Batman's place of work
- Gondolin - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Hogsmeade[?] - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the only wizarding village in Britain
- Ínsula Barataria[?] - in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote
- Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino
- Isola[?] - Ed McBain[?]'s version of New York City
- Kravonia[?] - in Anthony Hope's Sophy of Kravonia
- Lankhmar[?] - setting of many of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
- Little Whinging - in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the home of the Dursley family[?], located in Surrey
- Macondo[?] - in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude[?]
- Mämmilä - the setting for the comic strip of the same name by the Finnish cartoonist Tarmo Koivisto[?]; a small town supposedly in the Häme region
- Mansoul - the allegorical setting of John Bunyan's The Holy War
- Menegroth - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Metropolis - the city featured in the film Metropolis
- Metropolis - Superman's place of work
- Midwich[?] - the setting of John Wyndham's book The Midwich Cuckoos[?]
- Minas Tirith - a city in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Mouseton - in the Mickey Mouse universe
- Nargothrond - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
- New Berlin[?] - Star Trek
- Ocean Shores - the setting (based in part on Santa Monica, California) of Arlene Klasky[?]'s Rocket Power
- Palomar[?], village from the comic book Love and Rockets[?] by Gilbert Hernandez
- Plotinus; see David Lodge
- Rome, Wisconsin, of the Picket Fences[?] television series
- Rossum's Island[?] - in Karel Capek's play Rossum's Universal Robots
- Rummidge; see David Lodge
- Shangri-La[?] - in James Hilton's Lost Horizon
- Sleepy Hollow, New York - in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- South Park, Colorado - in the TV series South Park
- Spoon River[?] - in Edgar Lee Masters[?]'s Spoon River anthology[?]
- Spoonerville - Goofy's hometown on Goof Troop
- Springfield, the city without a state in The Simpsons television series
- St. Canard[?] - Darkwing Duck's hometown.
- Steklovks[?] - in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs
- Stepford[?] - in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives[?]
- Townsville[?] - Powerpuff Girls' homebase
- Tylerton[?] - in Fredrich Pohl[?]'s The tunnel under the world
- Valmar[?] ou Valinor - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Vermilion Sands[?] of J. G. Ballard
- Vetusta[?] (inspired in Oviedo) in Leopoldo Alas[?]'s La Regenta[?]
- Vinyamar[?] - in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Viriconium[?] of M. John Harrison
- Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi[?] of William Faulkner
- Zion in the movie The Matrix
- Arkham, Dunwich[?] (the fictional one), Exham[?], Kingsport[?], Innsmouth[?], R'lyeh, and Y'ha-nthlei[?], of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
- Armada[?], High Cromlech[?], New Crobuzon[?] and others, from China Miéville's Perdido Street Station[?] and The Scar
- Brichester[?], Goatswood[?], Severnford[?], and Warrendown[?] of Ramsey Campbell's fictional Severn Valley[?] horror stories
- Several in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi: The Dictionary of imaginary places
