List of fictional cities

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This list is of fictional cities: villages, towns, and cities that do not exist in the world we know. Like fictional countries, and fictional counties, most fictional cities either resemble a specific place or represent a broader archetype.

Contents: Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z — Story universes with multiple cities — Further reading

A

Acme Acres – Tiny Toon Adventures
Adano – A Bell for Adano
Al Khali – capital of Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
Al Kharid – RuneScape
Al-Ybi – city in the Klatchian desert in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Place where the number zero was invented.
Amber – the city of which all others are shadows in Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber series about Amber (fictional realm)
Ambergris – various fantasy stories by Jeff VanderMeer
Ambridge – setting of BBC Radio's The Archers
Ampipe, Pennsylvania fictional setting of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in All The Right Moves
Anastasia, a town with concentric channels, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
Andoshen, PA – "a fictional city located 14 real miles from John O'Hara's fictional Gibbsville," in Daryl Ponicsan's novel Andoshen, PA. Fictionalized version of Shenandoah.
Ankh-Morpork – Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
Antares – typical city on the border of Brazil and Argentina, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. From Érico Veríssimo's book Incidente em Antares.
Arcadia, Maryland – setting of Joan of Arcadia
Ardougne – RuneScape
Arkham – setting of several of H. P. Lovecraft's stories, based on Salem, Massachusetts.
Arlen, Texas – setting of King of the Hill
Arnette, Texas – Stephen King's The Stand
Arrakeen – Frank Herbert's Dune
Ashton, Alabama – Tim Burton's film Big Fish
Astro City, USA – Kurt Busiek's city of superheroes
Athkatla – a city in Amn, of the Forgotten Realms, setting of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Atlantis – mythical city/country/continent.
Auchterturra – generic Scottish town from Scotland the What?
Avonlea, Prince Edward Island – in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

B

Bad Ass, Texas – Robert Anton Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat trilogy. Also the name of Granny Weatherwax's village in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Bad Blintz – Town in Überwald in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Famous for its Rat Piper
Bailey Downs – setting in the Ginger Snaps trilogy (the prequel is set in Fort Bailey where the town would be built in the future). The town is said to be based on suburban Calgary.
Baldur's Gate – city in the Sword Coast, of the Forgotten Realms, setting of the Baldur's Gate series
Barchester – The novels of Anthony Trollope
Basin City – The full name of the city featured in the Sin City Series of Graphic Novels
Bayport – Home of the Hardy Boys
Bay City – Setting for the soap opera Another World
Bay City – Corrupt town near L.A. in Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Beanotown – The Beano
Beardsley – College town in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (set in Ohio in Stanley Kubrick's film)
Bedford Falls – Setting of the movie It's a Wonderful Life.
Bedrock – setting of Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones
Beeton (as in "beaten") – a California ghost town occupied by the aliens in the first season of War of the Worlds
Bellona – Samuel Delany's Dhalgren
Bette Noir – Fallen Angel comic series
Bikini Bottom – Stephen Hillenburg's Spongebob Squarepants
Belvedere, Ohio – the novel and film The Silence of the Lambs
Bes Pelargic – Harbor town in the Agatean Empire in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Bevelle – Final Fantasy X
Blackbury – Small UK town in Terry Pratchett's The Bromeliad and Johnny Maxwell trilogy
Bludhaven – Current home of the former Robin Dick Grayson (Nightwing)
Blue Valley – Home to Wally West (The Flash, formerly Kid Flash)
Bluffington – Doug animated series
Boneville – Unseen home of the Bone cousins in Bone by Jeff Smith
Bonk – (pronounced Beyonk) Town in Überwald in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
Bordertown – Terri Windling's shared universe series
Bostone – a city in The Flintstones; a parody of Boston, Massachusetts
Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner's novel of the same name
Bristol Camino, California – fictional Ventura County town in Hostage (movie)
Brockway – Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
Bumblescum, USA – Poor Southern town in the "To Love and Die in Dixie" episode of Family Guy
Bursley – one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Burslem in Stoke-on-Trent

C

Cabot Cove, Maine – in the tv series Murder, She Wrote
Calumet, Colorado – small town in the 1984 movie Red Dawn (filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico)
Camelot, Britain – the castle of King Arthur. Identified with Cadbury Castle.
London Borough of Canley – in the TV series The Bill
Capeside, Massachusetts – in the TV series Dawson's Creek
Capital City, USA – Capital city of the state where Springfield, USA is located in The Simpsons.
Casterbridge – town in Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Identified as Dorchester, Dorset.
Castle Rock, Maine – home to many Stephen King characters
Centennial, Colorado – in the James Michener book Centennial and the the subsequent miniseries based on it.
Centerburg – setting for Robert McCloskey's Homer Price stories
Central City – one city with this name was home to Barry Allen(The Flash); another city with this name was briefly home to the Fantastic Four
Chamberlain, Maine – home to the title character of Stephen King's Carrie
Chasm City, in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space and sequels
Christmas Town – Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
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
City 17 – The setting for the computer game Half-Life 2
The City, USA – one city called this is home to The Tick; another is the setting of Transmetropolitan
City of Angels – setting of comics TV series Black Scorpion
The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson
City of the Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince
City of the Iron fish by Simon Ings
Cloudcuckooland – The city in the sky featured in Aristophanes' The Birds
Coastal Breeze, South Carolina – the setting for some of the short stories of Alexander Higle
Coast City – former home of the superhero Green Lantern, now destroyed by aliens
Collinsport, Maine – the setting for the soap opera Dark Shadows
Corinth – the setting for the soap opera Loving
Coursegold, California – The setting for the computer game Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Craigsville – Town partially destroyed by the crash of the Zero-X spaceship in Thunderbirds Are Go (pop. 4,800)
Crystal Tokyo – Future version of Tokyo in Sailor Moon
Cwmderi – welsh village that is the setting for the BBC soap opera Pobol y Cwm

D

Dakota – setting of the events in all Milestone Comic's titles took place in a fictional midwestern city: Hardware, Blood Syndicate, Icon, Static etc.
Dandytown – The Dandy
Darnley – in Philip George Chadwick's The Death Guard
Dark City – in the movie with the same name.
Dead Rock, Nevada – Crazy For You
Denton, Ohio – setting of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Derry, Maine – setting of Stephen King's It and Insomnia
Diaspar – the city in Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars.
Dibley – setting of the television series The Vicar of Dibley
Dictionopolis – the "city of words" in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
Digitopolis – the "city of numbers" in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
Dimmsdale – in Butch Hartman's The Fairly OddParents
Diomira, a town with 60 cupolas of silver, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
Dog River, Saskatchewan – Setting for Corner Gas
Dogpatch, USA – home to Li'l Abner
Dogville, Colorado – setting for Lars von Trier's film Dogville
Don Camillo's village
Domino City – from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh!
Dorotea, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
Duckburg, Calisota, USA – in the Scrooge McDuck universe

E

Earth City in Inverted World by Christopher Priest – actually a large laboratory transported to a strange environment
East Proctor, England – small Northern English town with a werewolf problem in An American Werewolf in London
Eastwick, Massachusetts – John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick
Edgeville – RuneScape
Edoras – Capital of Rohan in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Eerie, Indiana – Location of TV series of same name.
El Dorado – Fictional city of gold located somewhere in the New World.
Elwood City – Arthur
El-Ysa: village in Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The inhabitants were killed when their well was poisoned (Jingo).
The Emerald City – in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books
Emmerdale from the British TV series of the same name
Empire Falls, the decaying New England mill town in Richard Russo's novel of the same name
Endora, Illinois – from the movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Endsville, city where The Grim Reaper, Billy and Mandy live in Maxwell Atoms' The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Entrana – RuneScape
Eos – capital city of the planet Aurora
Ephebe -somewhat Grecian city on the Circle Sea in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Ruled by the (democratically elected) Tyrant
Erinsborough – setting for the Australian television soap Neighbours.
Esseph; see David Lodge
Evarchia – in Brigid Brophy's Palace without chairs
Everville -town on the West Coast of the USA in Clive Barker's Everville
Everwood, Colorado – of the television series Everwood

F

F City, F Prefecture – Japanese city in Excel Saga
Fabletown – secret community of fairy tale characters in Fables comic.
Fairvale, California – small town setting of Psycho
Falador – RuneScape
Farburg – from Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog
Felton City, USA – setting of the W. C. Fields short The Barber Shop
Fernwood, Ohio – setting of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Freedom City – a setting for the role playing game Mutants & Masterminds
Frogtown, USA – Home of the Frog People in Donald G. Jackson's Hell Comes to Frogtown
Frostbite Falls, Minnesota – in Jay Ward's Rocky & Bullwinkle
Fulchester, England – Originally the setting of the British TV programme Crown Court, Fulchester became the location of many of the stories in VIZ comic.
Funkytown – From the Lipps, Inc song.
Furinkan, Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan- The setting for the manga and anime series Ranma ½.

G

Galt's Gulch – Fictional mountain "utopia" in Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged
Garradrimna – fictional village in Valley of the Squinting Windows, fictionalized version of Delvin, Ireland
Gebra ? – Heavily fortified harbour town in Klatch, target of the Ankh-Morporkian invasion force in the Leshp-war in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Jingo).
Genoa City – Setting of the television show The Young and the Restless. While it is modeled after the city Genoa City, Wisconsin, the two are not synonymous.
Genua – Fairy tale city on Terry Pratchett's Discworld; Disneyland superimposed on New Orleans
Gibbsville, Pennsylvania – Setting of the John O'Hara stories. Fictionalized version of Pottsville.
Glen Oak – setting of the television show 7th Heaven.
Glitch City – fictional city caused by a bug that occurs in the Pokémon video game.
Gopher Prairie, Minnesota – setting of Sinclair Lewis novel Main Street
Gormenghast – A city-sized castle featured in the first two books of a trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Gotham City – Batman's place of work. Fictionalized version of New York City
Graviton City – setting of Project A-ko
Greenbow, Alabama – setting of the movie Forrest Gump
Greyhawk – from the Dungeons and Dragons setting of the same name
Grovers Bend, Kansas – setting in the first two Critters films.
Grover's Corners, New Hampshire – Setting of the play Our Town. Resembles Peterborough, New Hampshire
Grover's Corners, New Jersey – Setting for Keith Robertson's Henry Reed books
Gusliar (Guslyar, Veliky Gusliar, Great Gusliar) – Setting for many Gusliar short stories by Kir Bulychev.

H

Haddonfield, Illinois – the setting for all of the Halloween films (with the exceptions of H20 and Season of the Witch).
Hadleyburg – Mark Twain's The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
Hadleyburg, Pennsylvania – location of Japanese owned auto factory in Gung Ho
Halloween Town – Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Hanbridge – one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Hanley in Stoke-on-Trent
Harmony – the setting for the soap opera Passions
Hart, Missouri – the setting for Jack & Bobby
Haven, Maine – appears in Stephen King's, The Tommyknockers
Haven – corrupt city in Simon Green's Guards of Haven.
Hill Valley, California – Marty McFly's hometown in the Back to the Future movie trilogy
Harchester – Home of Harchester United and The Dragon's Lair, Dream Team
Herby City – Home of Andy & Lou from Little Britain
Hillwood, Washington – setting of Craig Bartlett's Hey Arnold!
Hogsmeade – in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the only wizarding village in Britain
Holby – location of Holby City Hospital in Casualty
Hollyrock – the entertainment capital of the prehistoric world in The Flintstones; parody of Hollywood, California
Holy Wood – small temporary town in Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Moving Pictures)
Hooterville, USA – setting of Petticoat Junction
Hooverville – Jumpstart 5th Grade
Hub City, Illinois – home of Steve Ditko's The Question
Hunger City – setting of the 1974 David Bowie album Diamond Dogs

I

Ilium, New York – common setting of many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels
Indianrockolis – a city that's the home of an annual auto race in The Flintstones; a parody of Indianapolis, Indiana
Ínsula Barataria – in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote
Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino
Iram – a city built on pillars in the Arabian Nights
Isidora from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
Isola – Ed McBain's version of New York City
Isthmus City – a town setting near the Isthmus (prob. in Columbia) in the 16th James Bond movie, Licence to Kill.

J

Jawbone, Kentucky – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Jerusalem's Lot, Maine – setting for Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot

K

Kadath – in the works of H.P. Lovecraft
Karamja – RuneScape
Keystone City, USA – home to Jay Garrick and Wally West (The Flash). In current DC Comics continuity, located directly opposite Central City.
Kingsmarkham, Sussex, England: setting of Ruth Rendell's Wexford novels.
Knots Landing, California – Setting of Knots Landing
Knype – one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent
Kom – city in Omnia on Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Kor, the city of Ayesha, in H. Rider Haggard's She
Krasnoy – Town in Ursula K. Le Guin's Malafrena.
Kravonia – in Anthony Hope's Sophy of Kravonia
Kurozucho – from the manga horror series Uzumaki

L

Lake Edna – portrayed in advertisements for KFC
Lake Wobegon, Minnesota – in the stories of Garrison Keillor
Lanford, Illinois – setting of the television series Roseanne
Lancre Town – capital of Lancre in the Ramtop mountains in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
Lankhmar – setting of many of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories
Las Venturas – One of three cities in the state of San Andreas (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), based on Las Vegas, Nevada
Laputa – The site of a Soviet nuclear base in Dr. Strangelove, (also a country in Gulliver's Travels)
Latham, Massachusetts – series finale of Seinfeld
Lawndale – setting of the MTV animated series Daria.
Lawson, California – in the Jim Carrey movie The Majestic
Leshp, city of the squids, temporary island in the Circle Sea, cause of a war between Klatch and Ankh-Morpork in on Terry Pratchett's Discworld (Jingo)
Liberty City – from Grand Theft Auto and Grand Theft Auto 3, analogous to New York City
Lichfield, town in Southern USA, probably in Virginia, home of Felix Kennaston in James Branch Cabell's novel "The cream of the Jest."
Little Tall Island, Maine – setting of Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne
Little Whinging, UK – in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, the home of the Dursley family, located in Surrey
Littleville, Colorado – The home of two completely separate fictional characters: comic strip air ace Tailspin Tommy Tompkins and Robby Reed of the Dial H for Hero comic book feature. Littleville may be analogous to the real town of Littleton, Colorado.
Llanview, Pennsylvania – setting for the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live.
Logopolis – The city (and planet) visited by the Doctor in the Doctor Who serial Logopolis that hosts a race of mathematicians keeping the universe from totally collapsing by using "block transfer computation" to create Charged Vacuum Emboitements (CVEs) into other universes.
Longshaw – one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Longton in Stoke-on-Trent
Los Santos – one of three cities in the state of San Andreas (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), based on Los Angeles, California
Lumbridge – RuneScape
Luca – town, with its magnificent blitzball stadium, in Spira (Final Fantasy X)
Lud – a large city similar to New York City that borders a radioactive wasteland in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Lud may exist in Mid-World in an area similar to Kansas.
Lumberg, Oregon – small town that doesn't really exist despite the claims of rock group Zowie, which inists it was formed there
Lytton – setting of the games in the Police Quest videogame series

M

Malgudi- Novels of R.K. Narayan
Maardam – The city in northern europe that is the setting of several Håkan Nesser novels.
Mabase – a fictional Japanese suburb which is the setting for the anime FLCL
Macondo – in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mämmilä, Finland – the setting for the comic strip of the same name by the Finnish cartoonist Tarmo Koivisto; a small town supposedly in the Häme region
Manor Park – the fictional area of Liverpool, Merseyside were Brookside Close was set, the Channel 4 Soap which run for 2 decades.
Mansoul – the allegorical setting of John Bunyan's The Holy War
Mariposa (fictional place), Ontario – created by Stephen Leacock for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Mayberry, North Carolina – setting of The Andy Griffith Show, loosely based on Mount Airy, North Carolina
Maycomb, Alabama – the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird
Mayfield, USA – the setting for Leave It To Beaver
Meridianna – from the animated show, Cybersix, and home to her adventures
Megatokyo – from the anime Bubblegum Crisis (no relation to the Megatokyo web comic)
Menzoberranzan – the city of the Drows from Forgotten Realms books
Metropolis – the city featured in the film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang and scripted by Thea von Harbou
Metropolis – Superman's place of work, similar to New York City.
Metroville, USA – city in The Incredibles
Mepos, Greece – the homeplace of Balki in Perfect Strangers
Middlemarch of George Eliot
Middleton – the setting of Kim Possible
Midgar – headquarters of the Shinra corporation from Final Fantasy VII
Midgard (or Midgaard) – in dozens of MUD online games
Midland City – upstanding yet dystopian city in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
Midway City – former home to DC Comics' Hawkman and Doom Patrol
Midston, USA – setting of the Danny Dunn books.
Midwich – the setting of John Wyndham's book The Midwich Cuckoos
Minas Tirith – Capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Moahu – Island in the Pacific encountered in Patrick O'Brian's The Wine-Dark Sea (novel)
Moperville, setting of El Goonish Shive
Mooseport, Maine – Welcome to Mooseport
Mouseton – in the Mickey Mouse universe
Mud Flats, Nebraska – The Muller-Fokker Effect
Municiberg, USA – city in The Incredibles
Mystery, Alaska – setting of the movie of the same name

N

Nearburg – setting of Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog
Neopolis – from the Top 10 comic book series by Alan Moore
Neo-Tokyo – from the manga and anime Akira
Nessus – From The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
New Berlin – Star Trek
New Chicago – Buck Rogers
New Crobuzon – Pedido Street Station by China Mieville
New Rock City – a city in The Flintstones; a parody of New York City
New New York – setting of Futurama
Newtropolis, USA – city in The Incredibles
Nightside – a part of London where it is always 3 o'clock in the Night ('Simon Green).
Nilbog – from the movie Troll II
Nodnol – backwards universe version of London in the TV series Red Dwarf
North Haverbrook – Town sold a monorail by Lyle Langley in The Simpsons
Nowhere, Kansas – from the TV series Courage the Cowardly Dog

O

O-Town – Setting of Rocko's Modern Life
Oakdale – Setting for the soap opera As the World Turns
Oakton, USA – setting of the Hammerman cartoon.
Ocean Shores – Setting (based in part on Santa Monica) of Klasky-Csupo's Rocket Power
Oceanview, Illinois – Where Big Bird goes to live in Sesame Street presents Follow That Bird.
Odyssey – setting for most episodes of Adventures in Odyssey.
Ogdenville – Town sold a monorail by Lyle Lanley in The Simpsons
Opal City – home of DC Comics' Starman
Osgiliath – City of Gondor, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Ouigee Falls – setting of Guy Vasilovich's Moville Mysteries

P

Pacamac, USA – City I Heart Huckabees takes place in. It's never mentioned in the film, but is in the promotional websites for the movie.
Palomar, village from the comic book Love and Rockets by Gilbert Hernandez
Paragon City, Rhode Island – Setting of the game City of Heroes.
Par Ys – a mythical Paris in John Brunner's Traveller in Black.
Peach Creek, USA – Ed, Edd, and Eddy
Pepperinge Eye, England – Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Perfection, Nevada – a stereotypical small desert town in the film Tremors.
Pine Cove, California – setting of several Christopher Moore novels
Pine Valley, Pennsylvania – setting for the soap opera All My Children
Pleasantville – archetypical 50s TV suburb, from the movie Pleasantville
Pleasantville (Canada?) – setting of TV series Big Wolf on Campus
Plotinus; see David Lodge
Point Place, Wisconsin – setting of That '70s Show
Port Charles, New York – setting of the soap operas General Hospital and Port Charles
Port du Patois – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Port Sherman, Oregon – Snow Crash
Post-Apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sitty – virtual reality setting in Tea From an Empty Cup and Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
Post Apocalyptic Tokyo – virtual reality setting in Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
Primary Village, File Island, Digital World – imagnary village were all digimon are hatched and rasied. Digimon
Pseudopolis – town on Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
Puddleby-on-the-Marsh – English port, home of Dr. Dolittle

Q

Quahog, Rhode Island – setting of Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy
Quirm, Town in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, home of the inventor Leonard of Quirm who is currently residing in Ankh-Morpork.

R

Raccoon City – setting of Resident Evil
Rachel, Kansas – setting of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Rakava – Town in Ursula K. Le Guin's Malafrena.
Rampart Junction, Iowa – Ray Bradbury's "The Town Where No One Got Off"
Ramsdale – nymphet girl's hometown in Lolita (set in New Hampshire in Stanley Kubrick's film)
Reality on the Norm
Retroville – setting of The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Rimmerton – RuneScape
Riverdale, the backdrop for Archie Comics.
River City, Iowa – setting of The Music Man, based on Mason City, Iowa
Rockapulco – a popular vacation destination in The Flintstones; a parody of Acapulco, Mexico
Rock Bottom – a town from SpongeBob SquarePants
Rock Vegas – the gambling capital of the prehistoric world in The Flintstones; a parody of Las Vegas, Nevada
Rockvil – simulated town in the virtual reality world of A Mind Forever Voyaging
Rome, Wisconsin, of the Picket Fences television series
Rossum's Island – in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Royston Vasey – in the BBC's The League of Gentlemen
Rummidge – from the works of David Lodge
Rutherford, Ohio – setting of 3rd Rock from the Sun

S

Salem – the setting for the soap opera Days of Our Lives
State of San Andreas, USA – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, fictional state, with resemblances to California and Nevada. Major cities are Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas.
San Fierro – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, modelled after San Francisco, California
San Narciso, California – An expanse of urban sprawl near Los Angeles, largely developed by Pierce Inverarity, The Crying of Lot 49
Santa Carla, California – vampire-infested town in The Lost Boys
Santa Mira, California – the settings for the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Santa Rosita, California – where the treasure is buried in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Santa Teresa, California – fictional town in detective novels by Sue Grafton
Santo Bugito – setting of a cartoon series of the same name
Scotland, Pennsylvania – Setting of the retelling of MacBeth in the movie Scotland, Pennsylvania
Selene – the titular city in Paul Féval's City of Vampires
Shadows Fall – place where forgotten heroes retire in Simon Green's Shadows Fall.
Shadyside – Town in the R.L. Stine book series Fear Street.
Shangri-La – in James Hilton's Lost Horizon
Sheepridge – small town near Lancre in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Shelbyville, USA – Neighboring city to Springfield, USA in the television series The Simpsons.
Shell Beach – unreachable resort town in the movie Dark City
Sheltered Shrubs, Connecticut – in Klasky-Csupo's As Told By Ginger
Shermer, Illinois – in many John Hughes films including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Silent Hill – setting of the Silent Hill video games
Silent Springs – setting of cartoon My Dad the Rock Star
Sim City, from the computer games of the same name
Smallbridge – The village where Horatio Hornblower retired after his long service in the Royal Navy.
Smallville, USA – Superboy's midwestern home town, and the town in which Clark Kent (Superman) grew up (some sources place it in Kansas, while others place it close to the North American eastern seaboard)
Sneddy – according to the radio and television comedy Little Britain, the capital of the United Kingdom is Sneddy
Solace – home of the Heroes of the Lance in the Dragonlance books/role playing setting.
Songsung, Ireland – setting of Alexander Higle's "The Game of Gamberling"
South Park, Colorado – setting of the animated series South Park, possibly based on Fairplay, Colorado in South Park.
Sparta, Mississippi – setting of In the Heat of the Night; the original novel took place in a town called Wells, somewhere in the Carolinas, but the film and television adaptations moved it to Mississippi
Spectre, Alabama – in Tim Burton's Big Fish, seen first as an afterlife and later as a real town
Spent – sinister UK town in the BBC Radio 4 comedy On the Town with The League of Gentlemen (changed to Royston Vasey in the TV version)
Spoon River – in Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River anthology
Spoonerville – Goofy's hometown on Goof Troop
Springfield, Illinois (?) – the setting for the soap opera Guiding Light. It is unclear, however, if this is the capital of Illinois like real life would suggest.
Springfield, USA, the city without a state in Matt Groening's The Simpsons television series
Springwood, Ohio – setting for the Nightmare on Elm Street films
St. Canard – Darkwing Duck's hometown.
St. Mary Mead – fictional village in the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie
St. Roch – home to the current Hawkman and Hawkgirl in the DC Universe
Stafford, Indiana – hometown of Dr. Richard Kimble, where a one-armed man murdered his wife in "The Fugitive" TV series of the 1960s.
Star's Hollow, Connecticut – setting of the television series Gilmore Girls
Steklovks – in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs
Stepford, Connecticut – in Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives and sequels
Sto Lat – town on the Sto Plains, famous for its cabbage in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. In Russian the name means "hundred years".
Stoneybrook, Connecticut – Setting of The Baby-Sitters Club series.
Stuckeyville, Ohio – from the television series Ed
Sub Diego – from DC Comics, San Diego after it sinks into the sea.
Summer Bay – the setting for the Australian television series Home and Away
Sunnydale, California – in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
Sunnyvale Trailer Park, outside Halifax, Nova Scotia. Home of the Trailer Park Boys

T

Tackleford – North England setting of John Allison's webcomics Bobbins and Scary Go Round.
Tacticum – Former town in Klatch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. It was left by the inhabitants when the wind changed and it no longer rained. Named after the Ankh-Morpork General Tacticus. Main sights today: remains of a statue of the former, in bad preservation, with an inscription saying "Ab hoc possum videre domum tuum". (Jingo).
Tadfield – Small UK town in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Always has normal weather for the time of year.
Tanelorn – in Michael Moorcock's multiverse
Tarrytown – A small USA town with an airport. It is the setting for the children's CGI cartoon series Jay Jay the Jet Plane [1]. (There are also some real places called Tarrytown.)
Tar Valon from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
Thermostadt, Capital of the Robo-Hungarian Empire, Futurama
City of Thi – Obscure city in the Land of Oz.
Tokyo-3 – (present day Hakone, Japan) from the anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Tomobiki – District of Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan; setting for the anime and manga series Urusei Yatsura.
Townsville, USA – fictional city on The Powerpuff Girls, where the girls reside
Toytown – An unusual village in the Digital world, Digimon
Trantor – planet-wide city in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
Tsort – former capital of Tsort in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
Tuna, Texas – location of a play by the same name.
Turnhill – one of Arnold Bennett's "Five Towns," resembling Tunstall in Stoke-on-Trent
Twin Peaks, Washington – from the television series and movie Twin Peaks
Two Mills, Pennsylvania – Setting of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee. Fictionalized version of Norristown.
Tylerton – in Frederik Pohl's The Tunnel Under the World

U

Ukelele Bottom – Stephen Hillenburg's SpongeBob SquarePants
Utopia – The setting of St. Thomas_More's Utopia

V

Valentine's Bluff – mining town in the slasher film My Bloody Valentine
Varrock – RuneScape
Vermilion Sands of J. G. Ballard
Verona Beach in the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet (some sources place this in California, others in Florida)
Vetusta (inspired in Oviedo) in Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta
Vice City, Florida – setting of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, analogous to Miami, Florida
Villette of Charlotte Brontë.
Viriconium of M. John Harrison
Viron – Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
Vondervotteimittis, Netherlands – Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry
Vril-ya – Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race

W

Walkerville, USA – in The Magic School Bus series
Walford – fictional London borough in the tv soap Eastenders
Waterdeep – city in the Sword Coast, of the Forgotten Realms, from Neverwinter Nights and the Baldur's Gate series
Walton's Mountain fictional site in the Blue Ridge Mountains for The Waltons
Weatherfield – setting for Granada Television's Coronation Street
The Well-Built City – in Jeffrey Ford's novel The Physiognomy
Wellsville, USA – setting of The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Willows, Wisconsin – hometown of Barbie
Winter River, Connecticut – from the movie Beetlejuice

X

Xanadu, Kubla Khan's capital in Coleridge's poem.

Y

Yian – Robert W. Chambers, H.P. Lovecraft

Z

Zaira of the high bastions, from 'Le città invisibili' by Italo Calvino.
Zanarkand – From Final Fantasy X
Zenith, in the fictional U. S. state of Winnemac, in Babbitt and other novels by Sinclair Lewis
Zero One or 01, from The Animatrix and also known as Machine City in the movie The Matrix
Zion in the movie The Matrix

Story universes with multiple cities

Isaac Asimov's Foundation series: Eos on the planet Aurora, Trantor, a subterranean New York City, and many more besides
Ramsey Campbell's fictional Severn Valley horror stories: Brichester, Goatswood, Severnford, and Warrendown
Ed Greenwood's (and others') Forgotten Realms: numerous – including Athkatla, Baldur's Gate, Calimport, Menzoberranzan, Mithral Hall, Neverwinter, Silverymoon and Waterdeep. See also Dungeons & Dragons
Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books: Havnor Great Port, Hort Town, and Thwil
Gary Gygax's (and others') Greyhawk: numerous – including Flen, Highport, and the Free City of Greyhawk. See also Dungeons & Dragons
H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: Arkham, Dunwich (the fictional one), Exham, Kingsport, Innsmouth, R'lyeh, Ulthar, Celephais, Thran, Inquanok, Serannian, Dylath-Leen and Y'ha-nthlei
George Lucas' Star Wars saga: Coruscant, Mos Eisley, Theed (on Naboo), and others
China Miéville's Perdido Street Station and The Scar: Armada, High Cromlech, New Crobuzon, and others
Terry Pratchett's Discworld, eg. Ankh-Morpork, Lancre City, Sto Lat. See: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, The Discworld Companion (London Gollancz 1993).
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Several, too many to list
J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe: Eglarest, Gondolin, Hobbiton, Menegroth, Minas Tirith, Nargothrond, Valinor, and Vinyamar