# The 15 Best Fictional Cities in Comics and Film

> Noir alleys, gleaming skylines, whole planets paved over, and a town nobody can place on a map. Pick the one you would actually move to, or the one you can't forget.

*By YPB Team · Published September 23, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-15-best-fictional-cities-in-comics-and-film*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Gotham City** — score 1000/1000
   Batman's crime-ridden, gothic home city, modeled on a darker New York.
2. **Metropolis** — score 551/1000
   Superman's gleaming home city, where the Daily Planet globe sits over the skyline.
3. **Springfield** — score 551/1000
   The Simpsons' hometown, famously located in no identifiable state.
4. **Rapture** — score 551/1000
   BioShock's collapsed Art Deco city at the bottom of the Atlantic.
5. **Coruscant** — score 428/1000
   The city-covered capital planet of the Star Wars galaxy.
6. **Mega-City One** — score 428/1000
   Judge Dredd's sprawling, overcrowded future megalopolis from 2000 AD.
7. **Los Santos** — score 350/1000
   Grand Theft Auto V's satirical Los Angeles.
8. **Neo-Tokyo** — score 350/1000
   The rebuilt post-war Tokyo of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira.
9. **Minas Tirith** — score 257/1000
   Gondor's seven-tiered white city carved into a mountain in The Lord of the Rings.
10. **Wakanda** — score 257/1000
   The hidden, vibranium-rich African nation ruled by Black Panther.
11. **Sin City** — score 257/1000
   Frank Miller's rain-soaked noir city of Basin City.
12. **Hill Valley** — score 257/1000
   Back to the Future's small California town, visited in three different decades.
13. **Asgard** — score 257/1000
   The golden realm of the Norse gods in Marvel's Thor stories.
14. **Zootopia** — score 0/1000
   Disney's mammal metropolis split into climate-controlled districts.
15. **Emerald City** — score 0/1000
   The green-glowing capital of Oz, seat of the Wizard.

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