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This is one of the simplest ways of naming a work of fiction. Like [[Character Title]], where the story is named after the main character in the story, [[The Place]] is where the main location is used as the title. [[The Place]] need not be where most of the action is set, it is sufficient for it to be important to the plot. If we don't know that the title is a place until near the end, then this place is [[The Namesake]].▼
[[File:Laputa english poster.jpg|frame|link=Laputa: Castle in the Sky|The location is so ubiquitous it's a [[Castle in the Sky|trope]].]]
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▲This is one of the simplest ways of naming a work of fiction. Like [[Character Title]], where the story is named after the main character in the story,
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== Anime
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Metropolis (anime)|Metropolis]]''
* ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]''. Only the last third is set there, but the initial two thirds are all about ''getting'' to the titular location.
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* ''[[Creature Tech]]''
* ''[[Ghostopolis]]''
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* ''[[Gorky Park]]''
* ''[[Gosford Park]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[House
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
** ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''[[Jurassic Park]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Lakeview Terrace]]''
* ''Manhattan''
* ''[[Metropolis]]''
* ''[[Moulin Rouge]]''
* ''[[Mulholland Drive]]''
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''{{verify|reason=Isn't that a distance, not a location?}}
* ''[[
* ''Barchester Towers''
* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Barrayar]]'', ''Komarr'', and ''Cetaganda'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]].
* ''Brighton Rock''
* ''[[
* ''[[Chasm City]]'' by [[Alastair Reynolds]].
* ''Cold Comfort Farm''
* The ''[[Discworld]]'' series in general and at least one book, ''[[
* The [[Divine Comedy]]: ''Inferno'', ''Purgatorio'' and ''Paradiso''.
* ''[[Elantris]]''
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* ''The House of the Seven Gables''
* ''Howards End''
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (
* ''Main Street'' by Sinclair Lewis
* ''[[Mansfield Park]]''
* ''Middlesex'' by Jeffrey Eugenides
* ''[[Mistress
* ''[[
* ''[[The Mysterious Island]]''
* "New Archangel", a 2009 short story by Desmond Warzel, takes place in Sitka, [[Alaska]], which [[Tsarist Russia|at the time the story is set]] was called Novoarkhangelsk, or New Archangel.
* ''[[
* ''Poland'' (Michener again)
* ''Pompeii''
* ''[[Redwall]]'' and its sequel ''Mossflower''. Also the later books ''Salamandastron'' and ''Loamhedge''.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The Secret Garden]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Earthsea Trilogy|The Tombs of Atuan]]''
* ''Texas'' (Michener yet ''again'')
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* ''Waverley''
* ''Twilight'' book 1 was originally named Forks, but Stephenie Meyer changed the name since.
* ''[[Wuthering Heights (
* ''Berlin Alexanderplatz''
* ''[[The Dark Tower]]''
* ''[[Harry Potter and
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Two Towers]]'' (Notable in that we don't know for certain ''which'' two towers it refers to. It could have been any pair out of Orthanc, Barad-Dur, Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul, or the Tower of Cirith Ungol. [[The Movie]] definitively identifies it as the first two, but Tolkien himself [
* ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'' and ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[21 Jump Street]]''
* ''[[30
* ''[[Babylon
* ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]''
* ''[[Boston Legal]]''
* ''[[Boston Public]]''
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* ''[[Dollhouse]]''
* ''[[Eastenders]]''
* ''[[Eerie, Indiana]]''
* ''[[ER]]''
* ''[[Eureka]]''
* ''[[Fantasy Island]]''
* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' (also an [[Epunymous Title]])
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[General Hospital]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Green Acres]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Haven]]''
* ''[[Hill Street Blues]]''
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* ''[[Mercy]]'' (which takes place in Mercy Hospital)
* ''[[Miami Vice]]''
* ''Midsomer Murders''
* ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''
* ''[[The Office]]''
* ''[[Oz]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Rome]]''
* ''[[Roswell]]''
* ''[[Smallville]]''
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''
** [[Star Trek: Voyager]] and [[Star Trek: Enterprise]] also count, albeit loosely since
* ''[[St. Elsewhere]]''
* ''[[Studio 60
* ''[[Summer Heights High]]''
* ''[[The OC]]''
* ''[[3rd Rock
* ''[[Treme]]''
* ''[[Twin Peaks]]''
* ''[[Waterloo Road]]''
* ''[[The West Wing]]''
* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' (A [[Epunymous Title|play on words]]: The main character is named Major James West.)
* ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]''
* ''[[Zoobilee Zoo]]''
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]''. Three of the games are named after places in Tamriel.
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
*** ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
*** Even ''[[The Elder Scrolls: Arena
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]: Vice City'' and ''San Andreas''
* ''[[Halo]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[The Oregon Trail]]''
** ''[[The Yukon Trail]]''
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* ''[[Super Robot Wars]] [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|OG Saga]]: [[Endless Frontier]]''
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]''
* ''Gorky 17'', the European title of ''[[Odium]]''. It refers to a secret Russian city which features in the backstory, but isn't actually visited in the game.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[South Park]]''
* ''[[Transformers]]: Cybertron''
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