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Note: Not every city that has a name ending in ''City'' is an example of this trope. Even if the name appears to be unimaginative, if it is justified or explained by the backstory, it is not an example of this trope.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this with the City of Townsville and the Town of Citysville. Also the Town of Farmsville.
* Similarly, the Christmas special ''[[Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer]]'' takes place in Cityville.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'': The capital of [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|the state Springfield is in]] is named Capital (or [[Spell My Name With an "S"|sometimes]] Capitol) City.
* Fish City in ''[[Fish Police (Animation)|Fish Police]]''. One wonders how they name all their other cities, if they exist.
* The 2009 [[Continuity Reboot|incarnation]] of ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'' lives in Berry Bitty City.
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* ''[[The Tick]]'''s The City. Supposedly a mistranslation of its original French name, "Les Citrons".
* ''[[My Little Pony]]'''s G3/G3.5 specials have Ponyville.
** ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has its own version of Ponyville. Series creator Lauren Faust originally wanted it to take place in [[Just for Pun|Fillydelphia]], but she got the [[Executive Veto]] on that idea.
** For bonus points, Ponyville is located in the kingdom of ''Equestria''.
* One episode of ''[[What's New Scooby Doo]]'' featured the gang going to Munchville, Ohio. That town is known as the location of several snack factories, including the Scooby Snack factory, which the gang got to visit [[Charlie and The Chocolate Parody|as a prize for winning a contest]].
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== Real Life ==
* In Japan and probably China. Kyoto: capital city. Tokyo: Eastern capital. Beijing: the characters mean "North Capital" (as the opposite to Nanjing, "Southern capital"). May be because Chinese characters force you to have meaningful names, while phonetic alphabets allow a place name's meaning to get lost once the pronunciation changes.
* In America, there's Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, and one of the two municipalities named Kansas City (however, the larger of the two is [[Non
* In fact, there ''is'' a City of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsville,_Queensland Townsville] in Australia.
** Non-city examples include Australia's westernmost state, called Western Australia, and the southern state South Australia. Of Australia's two territories, the one to the north is called... well, the Northern Territory. Down Under, we're not known for our creativity with names.
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