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* ''VideoGame/{{Forza}} Horizon'' is set in Colorado. The towns have fictitious names, but allegedly every location in the game is based on RealLife. The subsequent games have been set in real-world locations with actual city names (southern France and northern Italy in ''2'', Australia's Gold Coast in ''3'', and northern England and Scotland in ''4'').

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' doesn't take this approach to the cities themselves, but the Districts they take place in. Kamurocho and Sotenbori are mainstays of the series, based off the Kabukicho and Dotenbori districts in Toyko and Osaka respectively. From ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' onwards, the main setting has moved to Isezaki Ijincho, based on Yokohama's Isezakichō. Numerous one-off examples from Yakuza 3 and 5 include Downtown Ryukyu (Makishi) in Okinawa, Nagasugai (Nakasu) in Fukuoka, Tsukimino (Susukino) in Hokkaido, and Kineicho (Sakae) in Nagoya.

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' as reinterpreted by Creator/AAPessimal borrowed Creator/TomSharpe's [[Literature/IndecentExposure Piemburg]] to typify small-town life in the Discworld's South Africa. Other South African towns and clichés derived therefrom, such as Putonderswater and Gamkasloof. (both real places in this world but with interesting associations).

** There is dispute over which is the DCU's UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity -- [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Metropolis]] or [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]. Both are named after NY nicknames. Creator/FrankMiller said that Metropolis is [=NYC=] in the daytime, and Gotham is [=NYC=] at night; Denny O'Neil said that Metropolis is New York above 14th Street and that Gotham City is New York below 14th Street. It could be significant that Gotham was created by New Yorkers familiar with the city's dark side, while Metropolis was created by UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}ers for whom living in New York was an aspiration. Franchise/TheDCU also has an ''actual'' New York City, although it is reportedly a much smaller, less (ahem) metropolitan burg than its real-world counterpart (and, for that matter, than Metropolis and Gotham, leading to its nickname "the Cinderella City" in ''Comicbook/SevenSoldiers''). Pre-Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}, the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica forms much of NYC's superhero community, and the city was the target area for the Anti-Monitor's bid to destroy the Multiverse (again) during the ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar arc. In the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' era, it's home to the [[ComicBook/TitansRebirth Titans]], as it was in TheEighties.

*** Like New York City, UsefulNotes/NewOrleans exists in the DCU, but also has an analog: St. Roch, the base of operations for pre-Flashpoint Comicbook/{{Hawkgirl}} (there is both a St. Roch street and a St. Roch neighborhood in the real New Orleans).
*** An interesting twist in the ''Comicbook/GreenArrowRebirth'' storyline "Rise of Star City": decades after Mike Grell moved Ollie from Star City to Seattle, and a few years after it was established that the Comicbook/{{New 52}} GA had ''always'' been based in Seattle, Star City gets reintroduced ... as the [[PleaseSelectNewCityName new name]] for Seattle, following its takeover by an AncientConspiracy.
*** National City in ''Comicbook/SupergirlRebirth'' is presented as the L.A. to Metropolis's New York.

* Basin City from the ''Comicbook/SinCity'' comics and films, while supposedly located in western Washington, east of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, is more an amalgam of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles and UsefulNotes/LasVegas.

* The ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' episode "Seeing Stars" explicitly takes place in "LA", and the phrase "hollywood star" is mentioned, but the letters on a hill spelling "Hollywood" spell out "Holly's Wood" instead. Well, the sign ''is'' trademarked. But so is the Hollywood star, which they do reproduce pretty much as it is. Maybe it's just ParodiedTrope.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has Beach City, which is based on the towns in Sussex County, Delaware that creator Rebecca Sugar visited as a child. Its name (along with that of an occasionally mentioned Ocean Town) is a clear take on Ocean City, Maryland. It's also located in the state of Delmarva, which refers to the Delmarva peninsula which is split between '''Del'''aware, '''Mar'''yland and '''V'''irgini'''a'''.
** We also see the states of Keystone (which references Pennsylvania) and Jersey, as well as Empire City, which serves as a stand-in for New York.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' [[CityWithNoName never names the city]] (according to the ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'' comic it's Jump City) but considering its west coast location and the great big bridge, it's probably San Francisco (which it is, for the comics' counterpart). The [[WestCoastTeam Titans East]] take up shop in Steel City, which seems to be UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} (either that or perhaps Pittsburgh).
* ''Westernanimation/WeBareBears'' takes place in what is only ever referred to as "the Bay Area", though many San Francisco landmarks can be seen in background shots. The intro alone features shots of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica Pyramid.

** Franchise/TheDCU is filled with these. Among others, Coast City, Bludhaven, Central City, Star City, Fawcett City, Keystone City, Vanity, Midway City, Gateway City, and Dos Rios. Originally, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse was thought of as extremely original for using New York itself.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'' was filmed in Australia, and the cars all drive on the left, but every street name is from Creator/{{the Wachowskis}}' home town of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. To add to the MindScrew, the sequels threw in California highway numbers and signage. This was deliberate, trying to make the city look like a generic representation of every city. The view out of the office tower in the first film did use real-world landmarks but modified in such a way that it would be impossible to see them all in the same vista without computer assistance.

* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', Ambarino is the Rocky Mountains, New Hanover is South Dakota in the west and Kentucky/Appalachia in the east, and Lemoyne is Louisiana. Lemoyne even has its own New Orleans called "Saint Denis".

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is set in "Sunnydale, CA" but the location most resembles Santa Barbara (sunny weather, beach, mountains, ubiquitous red tile roofs, mid-sized city close to but away from the Los Angeles area) which, incidentally, lies right next to a small town called Summerland. Some fans believe that Creator/JossWhedon based it on Santa Cruz where he went to college. However, Santa Cruz is close to the San Francisco Bay Area and has a distinctive culture that doesn't resemble that of Southern California.

* The ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' episode "Seeing Stars" explicitly takes place in "LA", and the phrase "hollywood star" is mentioned, but the letters on a hill spelling "Hollywood" spell out "Holly's Wood" instead. Well, the sign ''is'' trademarked.

* The ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' episode "Seeing Stars" explicitly takes place in "LA", and the phrase "hollywood star" is mentioned, but the letters on a hill spelling "Hollywood" spell out "Holly's Wood" instead. Well, the sign ''is'' trademarked, but it still might be a ParodiedTrope, because it wasn't particularly important to show the sign.

* The original ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' has Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City, which roughly resemble New York City, San Francisco, and Miami. When the series moved to full 3D, ''GTA III'', ''Liberty City Stories'' and ''GTA IV'' were set in Liberty City (though the Liberty City from ''GTA IV'' is different from the one in the previous games), ''Vice City'' and ''Vice City Stories'' were set in the eponymous city, and ''San Andreas'' was expanded into a state with three cities: Los Santos (UsefulNotes/LosAngeles), San Fierro (UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco), and Las Venturas (UsefulNotes/LasVegas), with the countryside being largely a mix of California and Nevada. ''GTA V'' returns to Los Santos (again, the Los Santos in ''GTA V'' is different from the rendition in ''San Andreas'').

* ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'' is set in an UndergroundCity named ''Walled City 99'', which is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Kowloon Walled City]], a former slum district in Hong Kong, which had tightly packed, haphazardly built houses and virtually no sunlight at the street level. The robots' CypherLanguage looks vaguely like Asian characters, adding more to the similarities.