Random Place Generators
The random place generators do two jobs: pick a real country, city, state or map point from a list, or invent a name for a town, village, street or planet that does not exist. Every entry on a list has the same chance.
The place tools fall into two groups, and it helps to know which one you are after.
Random real places: countries, cities, states and coordinates
The random country generator draws a country, optionally from one continent. The city generator and the US city generator draw a well-known city, and the state generator draws one or more of the fifty US states.
The random location generator works differently. It draws a latitude and a longitude and gives you a point on the map, which may well be in the middle of an ocean.
People use these for geography quizzes, for choosing a subject for a school project, for games that start with “you wake up in…”, and to let chance propose somewhere to read about.
Invented place names for stories, maps and games
The second group makes up names for places that do not exist. The place name generator covers towns, rivers, forests, mountains and more in several flavours, from plain to fantasy.
The town, village and street name generators build names from prefixes, roots and endings typical for their kind, much as real names grew from words for fords, hills and farms (the study of that is called toponymy). The planet generator sketches a whole fictional world with made-up statistics.
Fictional addresses for software testing live with the other test data generators.
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- Random Country GeneratorA random country, from the whole world or one continent.
- Random City GeneratorA well-known city, from anywhere or from one continent or country.
- Random State GeneratorRandom US states with abbreviation and capital.
- Place Name GeneratorMade-up names for towns, rivers, forests, mountains and more.
All place tools
- Flag GeneratorDesign a flag from patterns, colors and symbols.
- Place Name GeneratorMade-up names for towns, rivers, forests, mountains and more.
- Planet GeneratorA fictional planet with a name, statistics and a picture.
- Random City GeneratorA well-known city, from anywhere or from one continent or country.
- Random Continent GeneratorOne of the seven continents at random.
- Random Country GeneratorA random country, from the whole world or one continent.
- Random Location GeneratorRandom coordinates, worldwide or within a country's bounding box.
- Random Place GeneratorOne of 30 famous places, by kind.
- Random State GeneratorRandom US states with abbreviation and capital.
- Random US City GeneratorOne of 100 large US cities, optionally from one state.
- Street Name GeneratorStreet names for maps, stories and games.
- Town Name GeneratorMade-up town names by setting: coastal, mountain, plains, forest, desert.
- Village Name GeneratorMade-up village names in ten regional styles.
Random Place Generators: FAQ
Are all countries and cities included?
The country generator works from a list of about 195 countries. The city generators use much shorter lists of well-known cities, so they are a sample and not a complete gazetteer. Each tool page says what its list covers.
Is a bigger country or city more likely to be picked?
No. Every entry on a list has the same chance, whatever its size or population.
Are the invented place names real places?
They are assembled from word parts, so a result can coincide with a real town by accident. If it matters, for a published book for example, search for the name before you use it.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Toponymy — how real place names are formed, which the name generators imitate (checked October 16, 2026)