fictional cities

Fictional cities are imaginary urban places created in literature, film, games, or other media.

Some become cultural touchstones: Gotham City evokes dark urban crime, Narnia's Cair Paravel suggests fantasy royalty, Westeros's King's Landing conjures medieval political intrigue.

Writers create fictional cities to explore themes without real-world constraints or to build entirely new worlds: The novel is set in a fictional city modeled on 1920s Chicago.