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* The half-timbered town ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit'' takes place in is only ever referred to as "the half-timbered town".
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* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' never discloses this, then again it is in an alternate reality where they might not even live in the actual US.

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* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' never discloses this, then again this. Then again, it is in an alternate reality where they might not even live in the actual US.US. ''[[VideoGame/NicktoonsUnite Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' simply calls it "Zim's Town", since it doesn't have an actual name.

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* Film/{{Memento}} deliberately doesn't say where it takes place. According to the filmmakers, this was deliberate, it references how many FilmNoir movies took place in a generic anytown USA location.

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* Film/{{Memento}} ''Film/{{Memento}}'' deliberately doesn't say where it takes place. According to the filmmakers, this was deliberate, it references how many FilmNoir movies took place in a generic anytown USA location. However, given that Lenny mentions several times that he used to live in San Francisco and that the outskirts of Los Angeles were the primary filming locations, it's implied that the movie takes place in some nondescript small town in southern California.


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* ''Series/TheRegime'' is set in a fictional Central European country that's never named. References to the country's history, culture, economy, and even local folklore are frequently made, but its exact location is never given other than that it's somewhere in {{Ruritania}}.
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* WebVideo/TheDebbieAndCarrieShow is set mostly in a small Town in east Texas that is never named.

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* In the first ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' movie, the city in the Land of Fire where the [[SchizoTech movie studio]] is.
** Very few of the non-shinobi cities visited are ever given a name. Simple referring to the country where the events take place is far more common.

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* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
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In ''[[Anime/NarutoTheMovieNinjaClashInTheLandOfSnow Ninja Clash in the first ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' movie, the Land of Snow]]'', there is a city in the Land of Fire where the [[SchizoTech movie studio]] is.
** Very In [[Manga/{{Naruto}} canon]], very few of the non-shinobi cities visited are ever given a name. Simple referring to the country where the events take place is far more common.
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* ''Series/{{Newhart}}'': It's never actually revealed what Vermont town the Stratford Inn is located in. According to Website/TheOtherWiki, some sources indicate it may be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich,_Vermont Norwich]], while the building used for establishing shots of the inn is in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waybury_Inn Middlebury.]]

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* ''Series/{{Newhart}}'': It's never actually revealed what Vermont town the Stratford Inn is located in.in, only that it's 59 miles from Montpelier and close enough to commute to Dartmouth College. According to Website/TheOtherWiki, some sources indicate it may be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich,_Vermont Norwich]], while the building used for establishing shots of the inn is in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waybury_Inn Middlebury.]] ]]
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->''"In a place in La Mancha, the name of which I don't want to recall..."''

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->''"In a place ->''"Somewhere in La Mancha, the in a place whose name of which I don't want do not care to recall..."''remember, [...]"''
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', the Gaulish village where all the main characters live is never named.
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* While the setting of ''Manga/BoysAbyss'' is based on a real small town, the actual Town of the story is never said in-series.
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* Film/{{Memento}} deliberately doesn't say where it takes place. According to the filmmakers, this was deliberate, it references how many FilmNoir movies took place in a generic qanytown USA location.

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* Film/{{Memento}} deliberately doesn't say where it takes place. According to the filmmakers, this was deliberate, it references how many FilmNoir movies took place in a generic qanytown anytown USA location.



** This could be a shoutout to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' - Bootleg (and the eponymous book on which the drama was based) is a book about censorship and fascism, made accessible to children through the banning of chocolate and hypocritical endorsement of healthy activities.

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** This could be a shoutout to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' - Bootleg -- ''Bootleg'' (and the eponymous book on which the drama was based) is a book about censorship and fascism, made accessible to children through the banning of chocolate and hypocritical endorsement of healthy activities.



* ''Series/KungFuTheLegendContinues'' - The city is never named. Fans called it Sloansville after the writer Micheal Sloan.
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''. It is never quite revealed where they live. The house where it is filmed is located in Los Angeles and there are California license plates, yet it is somehow 300 miles from Francis' boarding school in Alabama.

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* ''Series/KungFuTheLegendContinues'' - ''Series/KungFuTheLegendContinues'': The city is never named. Fans called it Sloansville after the writer Micheal Sloan.
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''. ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': It is never quite revealed where they live. The house where it is filmed is located in Los Angeles and there are California license plates, yet it is somehow 300 miles from Francis' boarding school in Alabama.
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( [[Film/Memento]] deliberately doesn't say where it takes place. According to the filmmakers, this was deliberate, it references how many FilmNoir movies took place in a generic qanytown USA location.

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( [[Film/Memento]] * Film/{{Memento}} deliberately doesn't say where it takes place. According to the filmmakers, this was deliberate, it references how many FilmNoir movies took place in a generic qanytown USA location.
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* In ''Series/RadioEnfer'', it's never specified in which city the school the main characters go to is located.
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** This only becomes apparent in the sequels, however: the first film makes a reference to real world geography when an online newscast mentions that Morpheus was connected to a bombing at the Sydney airport. Early drafts of the first film's script were set in Chicago – this was written out, but several references to real-life Chicagoan street intersections were left in.
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* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'': Since canon never named the city that the show takes place in, here it's only referred to as "the City".
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** A more downplayed example from Lovecraft in ''Literature/TheMusicOfErichZann'', which is set in an unspecified, very hilly city where French seems to be the most widely-spoken language.

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* ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' has an unidentified city in Montenegro as the setting for most of its second half, and the location of the casino itself.

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* ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' has an unidentified city in Montenegro as the setting for most of its second half, and the location of the casino itself. The cars license plates are an odd mixture of old, Yugoslavian-era design and fictional city codes.

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-->-- The opening lines of ''Literature/DonQuixote''.

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-->-- The opening lines of ''Literature/DonQuixote''.
''Literature/DonQuixote''



* The city in the 1995 ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' movie never received a name (though it seems to be visually based in Hong Kong), but the original [[Manga/GhostInTheShell manga]] and [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex TV series]] takes place in fictional city of Niihama (Newport City), and Fukuoka.
** The city is namedropped as Newport City in the first film, but only in radio chatter and so briefly that it is easy to miss.

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* The city in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'' is namedropped as the 1995 ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' movie never received a name (though fictional city of Niihama (Newport City), but only in radio chatter and so briefly that it is easy to miss (it seems to be visually based in Hong Kong), but the Kong). The original [[Manga/GhostInTheShell manga]] and [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex TV series]] takes take place in fictional city of Niihama (Newport City), and Fukuoka.
** The city is namedropped as Newport City in the first film, but only in radio chatter and so briefly that it is easy to miss.
Fukuoka.

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