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The Place (trope)

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 in 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 (or not even that, if the title is sloppy). If we don't know that the title is a place until near the end, then this place is The Namesake.

If it's just the name of the place, like Gotham, it would also go in One-Word Title.

Location Song is a specifically musical sub-trope. Sister trope to Vehicle Title. Compare Time Title for titles based on some period or amount of time.

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Advertising 

Anime & Manga 

Arts 

Asian Animation 

  • Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Flying Island: The Sky Adventure does indeed take place on a flying island as implied in the title.
  • The third season of Pleasant Goat Fun Class is subtitled The Earth Carnival, referring to the earth-science-themed amusement park where it takes place.

Comic Books 

Comic Strips 

Fan Works 

  • The Arama Archives is named after the database the story takes place in following its first collection of Project Arrhythmia custom levels.
  • Celestina Shoukan: The fic is named after Celestina, a fictional mainland region of Japan that contains the country's fleets and, unlike in canon, is summoned alongside the rest of the country.
  • Ebott's Wake shares a name with the town where the bulk of the story takes place.
  • Elwood (2015) is a Fan Webcomic based on Arthur that is named after and takes place in that series' main setting, Elwood City.
  • Ma'at: "Chapter 1: Inbw-hdj", is named for a location, as it says immediately after:

    Sunday, March 18, 2007
    Southbound road from Cairo to Inbw-hdj (Memphis)

  • The Next Frontier, for a given value of 'place'.
  • Old West
  • Pack Street: The street all of the main characters live on.
  • The Palaververse: Mr Stripes Versus A Cthonic Horror: The first chapter, Bridleway starts at that location:

    Mr Stripes was busy pacing up and down Bridleway

  • Pictopia II: Pictopia is the name of a pocket dimension where forgotten comic strips heroes are dumped in.
  • Rainbow Factory: The Nightmarish Factory every story in the setting revolves around.
  • Reminiscencia: The title refers to the liminal plane in which the Wheel of Souls and its chosen—i.e., souls that no longer spin in the cycle of reincarnation—exists (along with the fallen chosen ones and Wheel-eating monsters).
  • The first installment of Skyhold Academy Yearbook is simply called Skyhold Academy.

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Manhua 

  • The first chapter of Digimon Legendary Skies - "九寨沟之旅", which can be translated as either "Journey to Jiuzhaigou!" or "Jiuzhaigou Trip!".

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Music 

  • 1100 Bel Air Place, the first (mostly) English-language album by Julio Iglesias (Enrique's father), was also the address of his then-current Los Angeles home.
  • "Africa" by Toto.
  • "Albuquerque", "Canadian Idiot" (see below) and "Jurassic Park" by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
  • American Idiot, "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams", "Homecoming", and "Jesus of Suburbia" by Green Day.
  • American Life, "American Pie", "Don't Cry For Me Argentina", "Hollywood", "I Love New York", and "La Isla Bonita" by Madonna
  • "California Girls" by Katy Perry
  • "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow, named after the former New York City nightclub (which in turn was named after a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood).
  • "Hello Seattle" by Owl City
  • Hotel California (both the album and its title track) by Eagles.
  • The albums Illinois! and Michigan by Sufjan Stevens, as well as many individual songs, such as "Flint", "Romulus", "Wolverine" note , "For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti", "Redford", "Decatur", "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts", "Jacksonville", "Peoria", "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades...", "Chicago", "Springfield", "Pittsfield", "Eugene", and many others.
  • "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne.
  • Pergamon by Tangerine Dream, named for the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, located across the street from where the original concert that formed the basis of the album was held.
  • "Ohio" by King Princess; it's about the singer missing an old friend who has moved to the titular state.

Pinballs 

Puppet Shows 

Roleplay 

Tabletop Games 

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Not itself an example, but a very common way to name campaign settings. Sometimes it's the world (as in Mystara and Eberron), sometimes it is a very specific place in that world (like in Greyhawknote  and Ravenloftnote ), sometimes that very specific place is the setting (like in Jakandornote ). Spelljammer and Forgotten Realms are special cases: one of the many meanings of Spelljammer in the original 2E version (that was represented with a stylized version in the logo) overlaps with Vehicle Title as it was a legendary spelljammer large enough to be a settleable and settled place (the Spelljammer), while Forgotten Realms itself is questionable (it is an alternate name for the world, but it is named from the perspective of Earth rather than a name that sees use within the setting proper) but has had several sub-settings covering areas outside the default Faerûn that definitely do qualify (Al-Qadim, The Hordelands and Maztica).
  • Tales from the Loop: "The Loop" is the common name used by the inhabitants in the Company Town setting to describe the huge particle accelerator which is the core of the lab that puts the "company" in "company town".

Theater 

Toys 

Video Games 

Visual Novels 

Web Animation 

Webcomics 

Web Original 

Web Videos 

  • Blocklanta
  • Boatmurdered
  • Brocéliande
  • Most series in the Minecraft Multiverse are titled after the name of the server out-of-universe. While there are series where the in-universe name of the location is vastly different from the out-of-universe server name, the standard naming system conflates the two, where unless stated otherwise, the in-universe name of the location is titled after the out-of-universe server name:
    • Dream SMP and its spin-off, Tales From the SMP: Though there are in-universe countries throughout the roleplay, none of these countries encompass the entire world as a whole, and any references to the world as a whole refer to it as the DSMP.
    • Empires SMP and Hermitcraft: The crossover event establishes that the two worlds are referred to by their server names; like the DSMP, Empires has at least a dozen in-universe countries per season, but none of the encompass the world as a whole.
    • Stampy's Lovely World: Alongside the entire name of the series being titled after the world, many episodes are named after the build completed or the minigame played in the episode.
  • Mitten Squad: "Maze of Obscurity": Where the main action takes place. As the description says:

    After re-tracing my steps to find the lair of the Skeleton King, I stumble upon a pitch-black maze. There are monsters all around me and a bottomless pit below me. Nothing can go wrong.

  • Nyx Crossing
  • Welcome to Sanditon

Western Animation