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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.

Examples of The Place include:

Anime & Manga

Comics -- Books

Films -- Animation

Films -- Live-Action

Arlington Road
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Cape Fear
Casablanca
Cherry Falls
Chinatown
Cold Creek Manor
Cold Mountain
Darkness Falls
Dinotopia
Fargo
Green Zone
Gorky Park
Gosford Park
House of Wax
House on Haunted Hill
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Jurassic Park
L.A. Confidential
Lakeview Terrace
Manhattan
Metropolis
Moulin Rouge
Mulholland Drive
Pearl Harbor
Phantom of the Paradise
The Ruins
Sahara
The Sandlot
Shutter Island
Space Is The Place
Titan A.E.
Titanic
Tortilla Flat
Wall Street
Wicker Park
Xanadu

Literature

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Abarat
Barchester Towers
Barrayar, Komarr, and Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Brighton Rock
Callahans Crosstime Saloon (the second time the Saloon moved locations, they did in fact decide just to call the new building The Place)
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds.
Cold Comfort Farm
The Discworld series in general and at least one book, The Last Continent, in particular.
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.
Elantris
Gormenghast
Hawaii (James Michener used a lot of these titles)
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 Mashams Repose
My Side of the Mountain
The Mysterious Island
"New Archangel", a 2009 short story by Desmond Warzel, takes place in Sitka, Alaska, which at the time the story is set was called Novoarkhangelsk, or New Archangel.
Northanger Abbey
Poland (Michener again)
Pompeii
Redwall and its sequel Mossflower. Also the later books Salamandastron and Loamhedge.
Ring World
Salem's Lot
The Secret Garden
Solaris
Sophie's World
The Tombs of Atuan
Texas (Michener yet again)
Treason
Treasure Island
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 Chamber of Secrets
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 named different pairs at different times.)
Perdido Street Station and The Scar by China Mieville

Live-Action TV

21 Jump Street
Thirty Rock
Babylon 5. It even includes the phrase "the place" right in the Opening Narration: "The year is 2260. The Place: Babylon FIVE."
Beverly Hills, 90210
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Century City
Cheers
Coronation Street
CSI: Miami
- CSI: NY
Deadwood
Degrassi Junior High
Dollhouse
Eastenders
Eerie Indiana
ER
Eureka
Fantasy Island
Fawlty Towers (also an Epunymous Title)
Firefly (Serenity)
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
General Hospital
Gilligan's Island
Godiva's (also a Character Title, since the owner of the restaurant named it after herself)
Green Acres
Harpers Island
Haven
Hill Street Blues
Jericho
Jersey Shore
Killinaskully
Las Vegas
Lidsville
Little House On The Prarie
Melrose Place
Mercy (which takes place in Mercy Hospital)
Miami Vice
Midsomer Murders
NCIS: Los Angeles
The Office
Oz
Petticoat Junction
Red Dwarf
Rome
Roswell
Smallville
Stargate Atlantis
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise also count, albeit loosely since The Place in question isn't always in the same... uh... place.
St Elsewhere
Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip
Summer Heights High
The OC
3rd Rock from the Sun
Treme
Twin Peaks
Waterloo Road
The West Wing
The Wild Wild West (A play on words: The main character is named Major James West.)
WKRP in Cincinnati
Zoobilee Zoo

Puppet Shows

Sesame Street

Video Games

The Elder Scrolls. Three of the games are named after places in Tamriel.
- Daggerfall
- Morrowind
- Skyrim
  - Oblivion is also a place name, albeit in a different dimension.
  - Even Arena counts since it's the Ehlnofey word for Nirn.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and San Andreas
Halo
Lego Island
The Oregon Trail
- The Yukon Trail
Silent Hill
Super Robot Wars 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

Web Original

Western Animation

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 * ''[[Sakigake Cromartie Koukou|Cromartie High School]]''
 * ''[[Macross]]''
-* ''[[Metropolis (Anime)|Metropolis]]''
+* ''[[Metropolis (anime)|Metropolis]]''
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 * ''[[Gorky Park]]''
 * ''[[Gosford Park]]''
-* ''[[House of Wax (Film)|House of Wax]]''
+* ''[[House of Wax]]''
-* ''[[House On Haunted Hill (Film)|House On Haunted Hill]]''
+* ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]''
-* ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom]]''
+* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]''
-** ''[[Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull]]''
+** ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''
 * ''[[Jurassic Park]]''
-* ''[[LA Confidential]]''
+* ''[[L.A. Confidential]]''
 * ''[[Lakeview Terrace]]''
 * ''Manhattan''
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 == Literature ==
 * ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''
-* ''[[Abarat (Literature)|Abarat]]''
+* ''[[Abarat]]''
 * ''Barchester Towers''
 * ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Barrayar]]'', ''Komarr'', and ''Cetaganda'' by [[Lois McMaster Bujold]].
 * ''Brighton Rock''
-* ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Literature)|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' (the second time the Saloon moved locations, they did in fact decide just to call the new building The Place)
+* ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahans Crosstime Saloon]]'' (the second time the Saloon moved locations, they did in fact decide just to call the new building The Place)
 * ''[[Chasm City]]'' by [[Alastair Reynolds]].
 * ''Cold Comfort Farm''
-* The ''[[Discworld]]'' series in general and at least one book, ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', in particular.
+* The ''[[Discworld]]'' series in general and at least one book, ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'', in particular.
 * 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 (Literature)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''
+* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''
 * ''Main Street'' by Sinclair Lewis
 * ''[[Mansfield Park]]''
 * ''Middlesex'' by Jeffrey Eugenides
-* ''[[Mistress Mashams Repose (Literature)|Mistress Mashams Repose]]''
+* ''[[Mistress Masham's Repose|Mistress Mashams Repose]]''
-* ''[[My Side of the Mountain (Literature)|My Side of the Mountain]]''
+* ''[[My Side of the Mountain]]''
 * ''[[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.
-* ''[[Northanger Abbey (Literature)|Northanger Abbey]]''
+* ''[[Northanger Abbey]]''
 * ''Poland'' (Michener again)
 * ''Pompeii''
 * ''[[Redwall]]'' and its sequel ''Mossflower''. Also the later books ''Salamandastron'' and ''Loamhedge''.
 * ''[[Ring World]]''
-* ''[[Salems Lot]]''
+* ''[[Salem's Lot]]''
 * ''[[The Secret Garden]]''
-* ''[[Solaris (Literature)|Solaris]]''
+* ''[[Solaris]]''
-* ''[[Sophies World|Sophie's World]]''
+* ''[[Sophie's World]]''
 * ''[[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 (Literature)|Wuthering Heights]]''
+* ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]''
 * ''Berlin Alexanderplatz''
 * ''[[The Dark Tower]]''
 * ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]''
 * ''[[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 [[wikipedia:The Two Towers#Title|named different pairs at different times.]])
-* ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'' and ''[[The Scar (Literature)|The Scar]]'' by [[China Mieville]]
+* ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'' and ''[[The Scar]]'' by [[China Mieville]]
 == Live-Action TV ==
 * ''[[21 Jump Street]]''
-* ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]''
+* ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]''
-* ''[[Babylon Five]]''. It even includes the phrase "the place" right in the [[Opening Narration]]: "The year is 2260. [[The Place]]: Babylon FIVE."
+* ''[[Babylon 5]]''. It even includes the phrase "the place" right in the [[Opening Narration]]: "The year is 2260. [[The Place]]: Babylon FIVE."
-* ''[[Beverly Hills 90210]]''
+* ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]''
 * ''[[Boston Legal]]''
 * ''[[Boston Public]]''
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 * ''[[Fantasy Island]]''
 * ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' (also an [[Epunymous Title]])
-* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' (''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'')
+* ''[[Firefly]]'' (''[[Serenity]]'')
-* ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (TV)|Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]''
+* ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]''
 * ''[[General Hospital]]''
-* ''[[Gilligans Island]]''
+* ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''
-* ''[[Godivas (TV)|Godivas]]'' (also a [[Character Title]], since the owner of the restaurant named it after herself)
+* ''[[Godiva's]]'' (also a [[Character Title]], since the owner of the restaurant named it after herself)
 * ''[[Green Acres]]''
 * ''[[Harpers Island]]''
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 * ''[[Miami Vice]]''
 * ''Midsomer Murders''
-* ''[[NCIS Los Angeles]]''
+* ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''
 * ''[[The Office]]''
 * ''[[Oz]]''
-* ''[[Petticoat Junction (TV)|Petticoat Junction]]''
+* ''[[Petticoat Junction]]''
-* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]''
+* ''[[Red Dwarf]]''
 * ''[[Rome]]''
 * ''[[Roswell]]''
 * ''[[Smallville]]''
 * ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''
-* ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]''
+* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''
-** [[Star Trek Voyager]] and [[Star Trek Enterprise]] also count, albeit loosely since [[The Place]] in question isn't always in the same... uh... place.
+** [[Star Trek: Voyager]] and [[Star Trek: Enterprise]] also count, albeit loosely since [[The Place]] in question isn't always in the same... uh... place.
 * ''[[St Elsewhere]]''
 * ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip]]''
 * ''[[Summer Heights High]]''
 * ''[[The OC]]''
-* ''[[3rd Rock From the Sun]]''
+* ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]''
 * ''[[Treme]]''
 * ''[[Twin Peaks]]''
 * ''[[Waterloo Road]]''
 * ''[[The West Wing]]''
-* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV)|The Wild Wild West]]'' (A [[Epunymous Title|play on words]]: The main character is named Major James West.)
+* ''[[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 (Video Game)|Daggerfall]]''
+** ''[[The Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall|Daggerfall]]''
-** ''[[The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind (Video Game)|Morrowind]]''
+** ''[[The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind|Morrowind]]''
-** ''[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim (Video Game)|Skyrim]]''
+** ''[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim|Skyrim]]''
-*** ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (Video Game)|Oblivion]]'' is also a place name, albeit in a different dimension.
+*** ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion|Oblivion]]'' is also a place name, albeit in a different dimension.
-***  Even ''[[The Elder Scrolls Arena (Video Game)|Arena]]'' counts since it's the Ehlnofey word for Nirn.
+***  Even ''[[The Elder Scrolls Arena|Arena]]'' counts since it's the Ehlnofey word for Nirn.
 * ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]: Vice City'' and ''San Andreas''
 * ''[[Halo]]''
-* ''[[LEGO Island]]''
+* ''[[Lego Island]]''
 * ''[[The Oregon Trail]]''
 ** ''[[The Yukon Trail]]''
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 == Web Comics ==
-* ''[[Achewood (Webcomic)|Achewood]]''
+* ''[[Achewood]]''
-* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''
+* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''
-* ''[[Wapsi Square (Webcomic)|Wapsi Square]]''
+* ''[[Wapsi Square]]''
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 == Western Animation ==
 * ''[[Code Lyoko]]''
-* ''[[Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]''
+* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''
 * ''[[South Park]]''
 * ''[[Transformers]]: Cybertron''