History Main / NewNeoCity

** In Canada, The Province of Quebec was once known as "Nouvelle France/New France", New Brunswick is named after a territory in Germany that was once ruled by the British king, and Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". "Newfoundland", meanwhile, is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Oh, and don't forget about New England in the US.

* The capital city of ''[[HonorHarrington Haven]]'' is Nouveau Paris, which only underlines the fact that Haven is a stand-in for Revolutionary France.

* ''ArmoredCore: Another Age'' does this. Several locations from previous ''Armored Core'' titles, like Isaac City, are featured, however they've now been supplanted by newer cities of similar name. Isaac City in particular is now divided between Neo and Old Isaac City.

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''DoctorWho'' where the Tenth Doctor explains that New New York (on another planet) is actually the thirteenth New York, so it's technically [[OverlyLongGag NewNewNewNewNewNewNewNewNewNewNewNew]] New York.

* ''{{Thundercats}}'' had New Thundera when Thundera magically reformed.
* Played with in ''{{Futurama}}'' with New New York. Old New York is currently ruins found in the sewers of New New York. The pilot episode actually gives the impression that New York was destroyed and rebuilt ''twice'', but the movie Bender's Big Score reveals that one of these was just a few buildings being knocked down because of Bender's antics.

* In the SNES LightGunGame ''BattleClash'', New York, guarded by the WarmUpBoss Guido, is left in ruins. In the sequel, ''Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge'', no one's bothered to clean up the rubble of the Statue of Liberty, but the inhabitants (those that are left, anyway) refer to the city as "Neo New York".
* Parodied with the "Neo Olde Tokyo" city of the ShowWithinAShow "The Steel Samurai" in ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''.
* In ''Warcraft'', Stormwind City was razed by the Orcs in the First War and rebuilt after the Alliance reclaimed the continent of Azeroth six years later. The original city is referred to as "Old Stormwind" in historical texts. The southeastern district of the city is called "Old Town" in-game, even though it's architecturally identical to the rest of the metropolis and was ostensibly (re)built at the same time.
* ''DoctorWho'' has a New New York (or possibly a New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York), five billion years in the future on the planet New Earth.
* The first season of the ''Buck Rogers'' series took place in New Chicago.

* In combination with PunnyName, ''Mother 3'' has New Pork City.
* ''VoidDogs'' features the "celtic revival" planets of Nova Hibernia and Nova Caledonia. (New Ireland and New Scotland)

* RealLife example: New Delhi, India.
** Right after Katrina hit New Orleans, the Internet started buzzing with jokes about "New New Orleans".
** Any number of place names in North America are this. New England itself is named after the England. New Orleans is named after Orleans, France. {{Subverted}} with New York, which was named for the Duke of York in 1664, the man who would become James II of England and VII of Scotland. OK, so ''he's'' named for the City of York, England. And before then, New York was named New Amsterdam...
** This is TruthInTelevision for many places named by colonists; New Zealand, for example.
*** In Canada, The Province of Quebec was once known as "Nouvelle France/New France", New Brunswick is named after a territory in Germany that was once ruled by the British king, and Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". "Newfoundland", meanwhile, is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Oh, and don't forget about New England in the US.
** But then, there is a place called Neu Kamerun (new cameroon) in Germany...
** Naples (Napoli to its actual inhabitants) comes from words Neo Polis, "New City". The name was given by Greek settlers thousands of years ago, and it stuck.
*** There are about six towns called "Neustadt" (new town) in Germany.
** [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]] is named for [[FourLittleTaxHavens an island off the British coast]].
** New Lanark, Scotland. About one and a half miles from Old Lanark, Scotland.
** New South Wales, [[LandDownUnder Australia]]. As mentioned in ''Down Under'' by Bill Bryson, no-one's sure if this is meant to be a new Wales of the South, or a new South Wales. Especially since Captain Cook (who named it) wasn't even ''from'' Wales.

* ''TheMoteInGodsEye'' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle has New Chicago and New Caledonia.
** The latter of which IRL is an island in the Pacific.
* In ''PowerRangersSPD'' the protagonists live in Newtech City - a bit of a stretch considering that it implies that there was a city called Tech and then ''another'' city with the same name. It's even more of a stretch given that the series takes place in 2025 - Those must be some ''fast'' builders.
** Of course, who do you think builds the city's after every single Megazord fight, huh?

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' variation: Although the 2105's Manhattan seen in ''Fast Forward'' is officially "New New York", as evidenced by several signs, it is still usually called "New York".

* The short-lived TV version of ''BirdsOfPrey'' is set in New Gotham. For Batman fans, it appears to take place in an alternate-continuity future following the "Cataclysm" and "No Man's Land" comic books arcs (in which an earthquake levels half of Gotham).

* ''BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' is based on the planet of New Hong Kong.
* In ''StarTrek'', New Berlin is the largest city on the Moon. We also hear of (but never actually see) a city called New Seattle on a Federation colony world.
* The capital city of [[HonorHarrington Haven]] is Nouveau Paris, which only underlines the fact that Haven is a stand-in for Revolutionary France.
* Real-life example: Carthage literally means "new City". The Carthagenians founded a city in the south of Spain that ended up being called Carthago Nova by the romans ("New New City") that was eventually shorted to Cartagena. In the New World a few centuries later a city was founded called Nuevo Cartagena...
* In the XWingSeries, there is a town on the planet Aldivy called "New Oldtown". The BigBad is faintly horrified by this name.
-->'''Zsinj''': "Surely you're joking about that name." [...]
-->'''Zsinj''': "You're sure he didn't destroy it because of that name."[...]
-->'''Zsinj''': "[[NeverSayThatAgain Don't ever say that name again]]. It annoys me." After that, his second-in-command calls it the "[[TheScottishTrope hometown-whose-name-is-nevermore-to-be-said]]."
* The anime ''RomeoXJuliet'', an [[AdaptationDecay incredibly]] [[AdaptationDistillation loose]] adaptation of William Shakespeare's ''RomeoAndJuliet'', takes place in the city of Neo Verona. No mention is made of an "Old Verona", however, the implication being that Verona is Shakespeare's one.
* ''SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'' had New London as the capital of Britain. We were never told what had happened to the old one.

** {{Halo Reach}} has New Alexandria on Reach.

* New Spain now know as Mexico.

* [[BattlestarGalactica New Caprica]].
** One wonders how non-Capricans felt about that naming choice.
*** [[IncrediblyLamePun Capricious]].

* In ''Red Handed'' by Gena Showalter, New Chicago.
* The backup feature in the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}: Noir'' miniseries was a parody [[PulpMagazine pulp]] story set in New New New York.
* The anime ''[[{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}} Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' is set in Neo Domino City, a ShoutOut to the original ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' taking place in Domino City.
* {{Lampshaded}} in ''[[DoctorWho NuWho]]'' where the Tenth Doctor explains that New New York (on another planet) is actually the thirteenth New York, so it's technically [[OverlyLongGag NewNewNewNewNewNewNewNewNewNewNewNew]] New York.
* Lampshaded in John Zakour's Zach Johnson books; the World Council added "New" to EVERY place on Earth, a fact which is occasionally commented upon by the characters, who live in New San Francisco.
* ''RogueTrooper'' is set on the planet Nu Earth, and includes cities such as Nu Atlanta, Nu Paree, Nu Georgia, and Nu Memphizz.
* Official ''CrashBandicoot'' artwork refers to the "Crash Bandicoot 3" future-themed setting as "[[BigApplesauce Neo York]]"... [[FridgeLogic that is]], [[BadFuture what wo]][[CrapsackWorld uld happen]] [[TheBadGuyWins if Cortex managed to]] TakeOverTheWorld.
* The 31st-century set Legion of Superheroes cartoon has New Metropolis in the place of Metropolis. In the 41st Century, the ruins were christened Neo Metropolis, making this a double example.
* Nation-wide version in GGundam. For example, Neo Japan.
* The StarWars novels have a planet that goes through severe upheavals every seven years or so, destroying everything on the surface. The planet's colonists don't let this stop them, evacuating and rebuilding whenever necessary. One town has been called, over the years, Hopetown, New Hopetown, Newer Hopetown, Newest Hopetown, and Another Hopetown.
* The RobertHeinlein juvenile ''Between Planets'' has some early chapters set in New Chicago, Old Chicago having been nuked in a previous (non-world-ending) nuclear war some generations ago.
* {{Fallout 2}} has New Reno.

* Because [[TheTokyoFireball Tokyo is annihilated so frequently]] in anime, it tends to get this treatment a lot: [[{{Akira}} Neo Tokyo]], [[BubblegumCrisis Mega-Tokyo]], '''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion New]]''' [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Tokyo-]]'''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion 3]]''' (in the last case, [[SubvertedTrope New Tokyo-2 is still around]], but is supposedly slated to be eventually replaced in its functions as a capital by the newest incarnation)...
** That last one is an example of the second type: since the original Tokyo was nuked and flooded, Tokyo-3 is an overhauled version of the nearby Hakone. Also, the fleet in episode 8 moored in "New Yokosuka (Old Odawara)".

*** The about 6 town called "Neustadt" (new town) in Germany.

** This is TruthInTelevision for many places named by colonists, Australia for instance has New South Wales, and lets not forget New Zealand.

* Fallout 2 has New Reno.

*** And [[IstanbulNotConstantinople even old New York was once New Amsterdam]], after the city in North Holland, The Netherlands.

* In ''{{Civilization}} 3'' and its expansions, when a faction runs out of unique city names from its predefined city list, new cities' default names will go back to the top of the list, adding "New" to the original city name. This can result in a few oddities (New New York) and {{Easter Egg}}s (Neo Tokyo, [[IstanbulNotConstantinople Not Constantinople]]).
** If it runs out again, does it start calling them New New X? (New New New York)
*** In point of fact no. While playing as the Egyptians (on a very large map where I conquered nearly everybody), I had occasion to build sufficient cities to get to...Thebes 2. .

** Any number of place names in North America are this. New York itself is named after York, England. New Orleans is named after Orleans, France.
*** Umm, no. New York was named for the Duke of York in 1664, the man who would become James II of England and VII of Scotland. OK, so ''he's'' named for the City of York, England.

* Played with in ''{{Futurama}}'' with New New York.
** Joe Haldeman used "New New" as an orbital colony in the ''Worlds'' trilogy, long before Futurama got off the ground.
*** New York is a city named after a place in England. New New York would be the city the rose from the ashes of Old New York (a phrase first coined, I think, by Frank Sinatra), and only a city built upon a third location would qualify as New New New York, and only if that particular city was named after Rebuilt New York, and not Old New York. Furthermore, they could name it, "New York," after the original place in England.
**** Also, sad as it may seem, people actually think of "New York" as a place name in and of itself without consideration for the fact that its etemology suggests that there actually is a "York" somewhere in England. From this, it follows that the, "New," in, "New York," is just a quirk of its name, and when the city is replaced, it becomes, "New New York," with two senses of the word. One is, "New," meaning, "new," and the other is simply, "New," which may or may not have meaning in some ancient language. After, what does, "York," mean, anyways? Only Bill Bryson knows for sure. After all this, see the below example from Doctor Who, where many many New Yorks have risen and fallen, and, as I have suggested, each is a New NewYork. Plus, "New New York," is a funny place name, and, "New New New New New New York," would become very annoying, very fast.
***** IIRC Toronto used to be called York, until 1834
***** The etymology of York itself is an interesting tangent in its own right, having somehow mutated from the Celtic/Latin Eboracum to the modern York by way of the Norse Jorvik...
*** Or the first rebuilding was called something completely different, and when the city was built for its third incarnation it was named after its first name, New York. (Following that theory, maybe New New Amsterdam?)
*** The first time, as revealed in ''Bender's Big Score'', the city wasn't actually destroyed by aliens. A few buildings got destroyed while Bender was on the run from the Nobel Committee security staff, is all.
** In a similar note, Hurricane Katrina was followed by a [[StealthPun surge]] of jokes about "New New Orleans".
*** And with all the voodoo stigma,they should call it "Zombie New Orleans".
**** And now we know where Valve got the idea for Left4Dead 2.

** This troper was always confused about why there's only two "new"s when the pilot episode shows New York being destroyed by aliens at least twice. Then again, there's only a single layer of underground ruins, so maybe the second time around, humans rebuilt the ruins themselves instead of building new stuff on top of them...

* [[{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] did this with her succession of NationStates nations, first after losing and then regaining interest and then when the second one got deleted for inactivity: the original was Cameonis, the second was New Cameonis, and the third and current is New New Cameonis.

* In ''{{Halo 2}}'', much of the action takes place in the city of New Mombasa. Whatever happened to our time's Mombassa is never explained, as far as this troper knows.

** New Jersey is named for an island off the British coast.

** In a similar note, Hurricane Katrina was followed by an entire [[StealthPun wave]] of jokes about "New New Orleans".

** In a similar note, Hurricane Katrina was followed by an entire [[IncrediblyLamePun wave]] of jokes about "New New Orleans".

* The anime ''[[{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}} Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' is set in Neo Domino City, a ShoutOut to the original {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} taking place in Domino City.