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Due to a large number of political events, certain city names have become politically incorrect and have been changed. Naturally, not all the locals will be fond of it. Whether one refers to a location by its old or its new name may be a way of declaring one's political allegiance. A Soviet-era joke has an older Russian filling out a form:
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In Bojack Horseman, BoJack steals the "D" from the Hollywood sign while drunk, after which it is referred to as Hollywoo, until the series finale when it's renamed Hollywoob after Mr. Peanutbutter tries to have the "D" replaced, but is sent a "B".
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Starling City is renamed Star City (which was its name in the comics, although see above for why that's complicated these days) in season 4 of Arrow, in tribute to the believed-dead Ray Palmer.
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The Simpsons:
"Treehouse of Horror II" includes a parody of one of the stories in Twilight Zone: The Movie in which Bart has the world at his command because he can read minds and manipulate reality.
In "Simpson Safari", in a matter of seconds as the family is about to land in Tanzania (see below), the country is renamed "New Zanzibar" and then "Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar".
Played for Laughs in "The Seven Beer Snitch" when Mayor Quimby has to change the name of Springfield to escape their creditors. He asks the townspeople to come up with a new name for the town, and they suggest things like "Wiggumville", "Gotham City", and "Burger King".
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In Riddley Walker, all of the place names in the setting's post-apocalyptic Iron Age society have changed from their present-day equivalents. "Canterbury" has become "Cambry"; "Dargate", "Dog Et"; and "Dover", "Do It Over".
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In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, one event chain can happen when the player first produces a Mindworm boil and it subsequently gets destroyed — in-game it's noted that the Talent who was in charge of overseeing the mindworms (and was close to the faction leader) was burned to death despite trying to surrender. If the base that the offending unit was built in is subsequently conquered, it may automatically be renamed in memory of the killed Talent.
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Not a city, but it's a plot point in Back to the Future that Riverside Drive was renamed John F. Kennedy Drive after the events of the film.
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Half-Life 2: When the Combine took over Earth they renamed cities to things like City 17.
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In the distant future of Star Trek: Discovery season 3, the Romulans have rejoined the Vulcans on the homeworld, which is renamed Ni'Var.
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Hot Springs, New Mexico became Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, after the quiz show Truth or Consequences, whose host promised to air the show out of the first city to do this. The change stuck. Locals typically shorten it to "T or C". There's still a park there named for the show's host Ralph Edwards.
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RWBY: On Remnant, the four Kingdoms all share the same name as their capital city. The Kingdom of Atlas was originally known as the Kingdom of Mantle, but after the Great War, when Atlas Academy was established, the city that quickly sprung up around said school grew to the point where the decision was made to move the capital there as well. It's implied that some of the people of Mantle are still holding a grudge over that as well.
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Dream SMP: After being taken over by Jschlatt, the nation of L'Manberg (or L'Manburg, both are correct spellings) gets renamed to "Manberg/Manburg" to signify that the country would "no longer take Ls". Characters sympathetic to the original L'Manberg administration, most prominently Niki, have been told by Manberg-side characters to refer to the nation by its new name, but they often refuse to comply to this, to the point calling the nation by its original name was often a signifier of the character's allegiance. However, once the country was taken back after the Civil War, it gets renamed back to its original L'Manberg/L'Manburg, though some people call it New L'Manberg/L'Manburg to distinguish it from the original administration.
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An episode of King of the Hill has Peggy do some digging into Arlen's history and discover, to her horror, that it used to be named Harlotown,note Yes, an entire city of brothels; somewhere, Frank Miller is looking on and smiling and the name "Arlen" developed because of people who were in a hurry to get there and didn't have time to say the real name.
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After the events of The Mandalorian season 2, Mos Pelgo was renamed Freetown, as shown in The Book of Boba Fett.
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A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: When founding a city, Ivy gets the option to name it, and can be changed later, if wanted. The default name is Sanctuary.
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "A Message from Charity", the village of Annes Town was renamed Anniston in the late 19th Century.
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The Order of the Stick:
After almost a year of occupying Azure City, Redcloak renamed it "Gobbotopia" as part of a plan to create a stable monster state.
The Western Continent's nation-states and cities are constantly changing names around once a year, as that's how long it takes the average tyrant to be overthrown and replaced by another tyrant.
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The main setting of Higurashi: When They Cry was renamed from Onigafuchi to Hinamizawa, removing the oni ("demon") part of the name — a reference to the villagers' beliefs that they were part demon — in the process.
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In Fallout: New Vegas, Las Vegas has been renamed, as per the title, New Vegas. On the road between Nipton and New Vegas is a town name Novac, after a motel's half-erased 'No Vacancy' sign. The town of New Canaan, though never seen and recently sacked by the time the game starts, is mentioned as being where Ogden was.
Other re-names in the series, seen in earlier games, include New Reno (formerly Reno, so the same "rebuilt city - New [old city name]" style as New Vegas) and Angel's Boneyard (Los Angeles).
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In the Star Trek Novel 'Verse, the capital city of Romulus changes its name at some point in the early-mid 24th century. In Star Trek: Vulcan's Heart, the capital city was given the name Ki Baratan. It had previously been called Dartha, but that was in a story set a century prior. Later novels used the time gap for a reasonable Retcon: the capital's name changes as new regimes come to power. Now, books set in the 22nd or 23rd centuries use "Dartha", those set in the 24th use "Ki Baratan". The name change is explicitly mentioned in the first Star Trek: Titan novel.
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The Town: The good folks of Ohio frontier village Moonshine Gulch are battling with another nearby town over which will be the county seat. They decide that "Moonshine Gulch" is just too hick a name for a town with big ambitions, so they change it to "Americus."
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Used in Avatar: The Last Airbender. The city of Omashu was originally named after its founders; the secret lovers Oma and Shu, who united their warring villages to create the city. However, when it gets taken over by the Fire Nation it is renamed as "The City of New Ozai".
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The eponomous station from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was originally a Cardassian ore processing station called Terok Nor. It briefly returns to that name for the first six episodes of season six during the Dominion's occupation.
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This tends to happen to Martian city-states in Rocket Age when they are conquered or the previous rulers are overthrown. We currently have Emancipation, New Jerusalem, Neu Berlin and Nuovo Roma to name a few.
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Happens a few times in Dune. After the destruction of House Harkonnen, their homeworld of Giedi Prime was renamed Gammu and reterraformed under the leadership of Gurney Halleck. During the rule of Leto Atreides II, the capital of Arrakis, Arrakeen, was renamed Onn. Then, centuries after his long, long rule, Arrakis was known simply as "Rakis" and Arrakeen as "Keen."
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Mass Effect 2: Planet example, with Aite. In the twenty-odd years since it was first settled, due to instability and political upheaval, it's been renamed eleven times. Most navigators and the Codex stick with calling it Aite because it came first.
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Traveller: The New Era gives us an example involving planets - the Reformation Coalition gave several of its planets new names relating to its philosophy of hope and rebirth, to make the point that the Imperium (the source of the former names) was gone and not coming back.
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In Brazilian telenovela Saramandaia (both the Seventies original and the 2013 remake), the ostensible dividing issue between two political factions is a proposal to change the town's name from "Bole-Bole" to "Saramandaia".
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In the backstory of The Lord of the Rings, the city of Minas Ithil ("Tower of the Moon") was renamed Minas Morgul ("Tower of Black Sorcery") when it was overrun by the forces of Sauron. In response, its sister city, Minas Anor ("Tower of the Sun") was renamed Minas Tirith ("Tower of Guard").
Similarly, the original Minas Tirith from the Silmarillion was on Tol Sirion ("the Island of the Sirion", i.e. the Sirion river). After being taken over by Morgoth, and used by Sauron to breed werewolves, was renamed Tol-in-Gaurhoth or "Isle of Werewolves".
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The capital of Karameikos, a nation from the Mystara D&D setting, was changed from Specularum to Mirros by royal decree. In-character, this was done because "Specularum" was a name imposed by the Thyatians and raised bad feelings among the Traladaran populace, whom King Stephan wanted to appease; out-of-character, it's because one of TSR's female employees pointed out that "Specularum" sounds unpleasantly like a gynecological implement. Side note: the speculum is a general name for any tool that holds a part of the body open, and there are several types, each less auspicious a name for your city than the last. The eye speculum, for instance...
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It is revealed that during the 23rd century, the Star Trek fandom became a religion so powerful that Germany was briefly renamed "Nazi-Planet Episode Land".
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The Finder arc "Third World" has a city called only "Third World", because it's occupied by several different ethnic groups, each with their own traditional name for it, and none of them will allow any of the others' names to be officially selected.
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Chasing Dragons:
After Tyrosh is sacked by the Abolitionist Alliance and annexed by Braavos, the latter rename it Martyros.
After Balon's Rebellion is crushed and the Iron Islands occupied by the mainland, the city of Lordsport is renamed Euronsport in honor of Euron's loyal service to Stannis and his death during the rebellion and made the headquarters of the Order of the Sea (The Order created to police the islands).
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Back to the Future:
Not a city, but it's a plot point in Back to the Future that Riverside Drive was renamed John F. Kennedy Drive after the events of the film.
Likewise, Shonash Ravine later became Clayton Ravine when schoolteacher Clara Clayton fell to her death there. Due to Doc's rescue of Clara and "Clint Eastwood"'s apparent disappearance there, it is instead renamed Eastwood Ravine in the new future.
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BattleTech has a few, but the cake has to be taken by Duenkelwalderduenkelerfluessenschattenwelt. This planet in the Draconis Combine labored under that jawbreaker of a name for centuries before deciding to change the name to something simpler, namely, "Bob". However, they did this right at the beginning of the First Succession War, and the paperwork was lost in the Draconis Combine's bureaucracy amidst the maelstroms of the conflict. With that paperwork missing, requests for urgent supplies going to Bob went unheeded, as the planet didn't officially exist, at least as far as the interstellar government was concerned.
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As part of the rich and complex history presented in The Wheel of Time series, many cities and countries have changed over the last Age. For instance, the city of Al'cair'rahienallen, "The Hill of the Golden Dawn," is now known as Cairhien, because it's so much less of a mouthful. Closer to the plot is an ancient city of Aridhol, which became consumed by its own evil and became known as Shadar Logoth, "The Shadow's Waiting."
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Sunless Sea: The distant eastern island of Aestival is deserted at the beginning of the game (due to the deadly sunbeam shining directly on it through a hole in the cavern roof), but with some investigation and effort your Captain can make it habitable again and establish a colony there - and, eventually, declare yourself an independent nation recognised by other states of the Neath. Unlike the 4X genre, the game engine isn't really equipped to let you name it yourself, but if you choose to give it a new name, you can become the founder of New London, Lastport, Freedom, Utopia Beneath ("...like the fruit?"), Sophia, Fiddler's Gold, Peachtree Isle, Head Office, Sanctuary, the Empire of Trees, or B____r Off.
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Likewise, Shonash Ravine later became Clayton Ravine when schoolteacher Clara Clayton fell to her death there. Due to Doc's rescue of Clara and "Clint Eastwood"'s apparent disappearance there, it is instead renamed Eastwood Ravine in the new future.
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Fire & Blood: The town of Stonebridge gets renamed Bitterbridge shortly after the crowning of Maegor, due to his first fight with the Faith Militant taking place there, which ends with the nearby river turning red due to all the blood.
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Futurama:
It is revealed that during the 23rd century, the Star Trek fandom became a religion so powerful that Germany was briefly renamed "Nazi-Planet Episode Land".
And of course, after one of the (apparently several) times that New York was destroyed and rebuilt over the past thousand years, it was renamed New New York.
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The New Jedi Order: A Vision of Confluence: After Pirve is taken over by Roboute Guilliman's newly-founded Imperium Exsilius, the formerly independent planet gets renamed Eboracum.
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Adar claims the Southlands for the orcs and renames it Mordor after initiating the eruption of Mount Doom to block out the sun with volcanic ash.
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ARIA does this to the planet Mars, which is said to have been renamed Aqua after being terraformed.
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One of Private Eye's stock parodies is of an African tin-pot dictatorship called "Rumbabwe, formerly British Rumbabaland" (referencing Zimbabwe and Bechuanaland/Botswana). There are also less frequent parodies of other name changes, such as the Soviet ones.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind's Tribunal expansion has the city of Almalexia, which was originally named Mournhold, but then was named after the Physical Goddess who arranged for it to be reconstructed and expanded after it was sacked. The name Mournhold is still used to refer to the large temple compound within the city, as it's an historical site, and the oldest ruins that the modern city was built on top of (from another time the city was razed, centuries prior to the aforementioned sacking) are known as Old Mournhold.
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Bechuanaland → Botswana. In The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency TV adaptation Grace references this when complaining the office does not have a computer.
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In Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, the titular city-state is much damaged and renamed Lower Corte years before the opening of the book. Even the memory of that name is magically expunged from virtually everyone who didn't live there. The main plot of the book is about a quest to restore the city and its name. (Since it is a city-state, Air Strip One also applies.)
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X-Factor (2006): In the future timeline Bishop comes from, JFK Airport has been renamed to BHO Airport sometime in the last eighty years.
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A sidestory of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines starring young Samuel Oak and Agatha reveals that Pallet Town was originally named Blank Town, and was renamed after Pallet Oak, Samuel's grandfather, who was considered the greatest Pokémon Master of all time. Agatha snarks that with a name like Blank Town, people probably jumped at the chance to change the name.
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Astro City was originally called Romeyn Falls, but was renamed in 1947 to honor Golden Age hero the Astro-Naut, who'd stopped an alien invasion that devastated the city.
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Yekaterinburg → Sverdlovsk (1924-91) → Yekaterinburg, but the oblast retains the "Sverdlovsk" name. You can see them struggle with the older name in the 80s TV show Airwolf.
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Homestar Runner: Strong Bad says that one of the requirements for becoming an officially licensed unlicensed seller of cheap Strong Bad and The Cheat knock-off merchandise is that it has to be made in a country that's changed its name at least five times since Strong Bad was in seventh grade. This is spoken over a visual of a country getting its name crossed off and replaced five times (Gunkistan → East Paunch → Republic of Wad → Double G → West Paunch → Guttenberg).
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In Star Wars Legends, this trope occurred on a massive scale when the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong invaded the capital planet/global city of Coruscant, terraformed it into a humid jungle world, and renamed it Yuuzhan'tar, in an attempt to recreate their lost/destroyed original homeworld.
Earlier, Coruscant was renamed Imperial Center during The Empire's rule and reverted to its traditional name under the New Republic. Only die-hard Imperials used the new name in the first place. It's been taken over by resurgences of the Empire and renamed Imperial Center again twice since then.
Also, while the planet is called Coruscant, the city that covers it officially has another name, which changes from Galactic City to Imperial City to New Republic City. There's not much point in making the distinction anymore so it doesn't come up much.
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According to Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen (2019), Metropolis was originally known as New Oberstad in the 17th century. It presumably changed its name at around the same time as New Amsterdam became New York.
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A number of cities which were part of the German Empire had German names, only to get Polish ones in 1918 when Poland regained its independence. Most reverted to longstanding Polish names: examples include Posen → Poznań, Hohensalza → Inowrocław and especially Danzig → Gdańsk, which was the subject of one of The Other Wiki's lamest edit wars, to the point its talk page has eleven archives arguing about it.
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