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Various city names are often employed as placeholders. For instance, to denote a remote, obscure place: Тьмутаракань (Tmutarakan, an ancient Crimean city which sounds in modern Russian something like "dark cockroach city", тьма таракан) Зажопинск (Zazhopinsk, "city beyond the ass")
Town Name Origin Notes Azure City The Order of the Stick: Fictional capital of a country of the same name, the setting for a large portion of the Webcomic The Order of the Stick. Brigadoon Brigadoon: Brigadoon is a village in the Scottish Highlands, the setting of the musical of the same name. Chako Paul City [24] Chinese press agencies
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as ...
Illyria is also an ancient Greek & Roman name for a part of the Balkans. Illyria is again used as a fictional kingdom in the film, Secret Society of Second-Born Royals; Irania: small European kingdom from the film Trouble for Two. Ingenistan: Small kingdom in Svalbard. The name comes from the youtuber Ingen.
The name is based on Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua; San Esperito: an island country somewhere in the Central America, in the 2006 video game Just Cause; San Lorenzo: a republic in Central America in both mentioned in Hey Arnold! and later appeared in Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie
This town just east of Oklahoma City gets its ominous name from a supposed haunted bridge in the area. In the early 1900s a woman named Katie Dewitt James was murdered, and her body was found near ...
As an example, Londonistan is a placeholder name that evokes the perception of London's high Muslim population. [6] Timbuktu, a real city in Mali, is often used to mean a place that is far away, in the middle of nowhere, or exotic. Kalamazoo, also a real city, is similarly used to indicate an unknown or far-away place.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional towns and villages in comics. Name Debut Creator(s) Publisher Notes Agarashima X-Men #119 (February 1979) Chris Claremont and John Byrne Marvel Comics Located in Japan, this is the hometown of the Yashida Clan ...