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The following is a list of significant cities and settlements on Earth.

Asia[]

  • Bangalore: A major city in the Indian Consortium. Doctor Lillian Hobbs earned her medical degree at the Tagore Medical School in Bangalore.[1]
  • New Delhi: Capital city of the Indian Consortium. Following EA President Clark's Martial Law Decree in 2260, New Delhi was one of many major cities in which shock troops were out in force.[2]
  • Sandakan: A city in East Malaysia. In 2148, IPX had an office branch in this city.[3]
  • Hong Kong: A major city in the southern region of the Chinese State. One of the many places Fiona Davion lived with her adopted grandfather Jack O'Hannlon while growing up in the underground.[3] Catherine Sakai spent a portion of her childhood living with her mother in Hong Kong following her parents' divorce. When her mother eventually passed she moved back to Alaska to live with her father.[4]
  • Kuala Lumpur: A major city in south-east Asia and capital of Malaysia. In 2180, after her capture and the death of Monkey in Kuantan, Fiona Temple was held in a Psi Corps internment camp in Kuala Lumpur where she met Matthew Dexter and Stephen Walters. The three later managed to escape together before hooking up with the Orang Ash and Brother Justin.[3]
  • Kuantan: A Malaysian city. In 2180, Monkey and Fiona Temple were living in a Kuantan safe house when they were compromised. Monkey stayed behind to set off a large explosive device, buying time from Fiona to escape. Though she made it out of the lethal blast zone, she was injured and quickly apprehended before being sent to the Kuala Lumpur internment camp.[3]
  • Singapore: An island city state in south east Asia, situated just off the Malaysian peninsula. In 2180, Singapore the location of a major Telepath Resistance "node" and the next connection in the underground railroad out of Malaysia. When the Psi Corps initiated a final purge of the underground in 2189, Singapore was one of the first to be hit alongside Andorra, Salt Lake City, the Styx Hotel in Tennessee and just about every major resistance stronghold.[3]
  • Tokyo: Capital of Japan. One of the many places Fiona Davion lived with her adopted grandfather Jack O'Hannlon while growing up in the underground.[3]

Australia[]

  • Melbourne: Major city in south east Australia. Following the death of Louise Bouet's father from a heart attack in 2265, Louise's mother remarried and moved from Paris to Melbourne as did her daughter Helen Bouet.[5]
  • Perth: Major city in western Australia. On the 21st of May, 2117, as part of the early tensions between telepaths and normals, Thana Neesom of Perth, Australia filed suit against her dentist Graham McKay - a recently identified telepath - for invasion of privacy while she was under general anaesthesia for root canal surgery.[3]

Americas[]

  • Boston: A major city near New York City. Michael Garibaldi's grandmother worked here as a police officer.[6]
  • Brasilia: A major South American City. Location of one of the more notorious Psi Corps re-education camps during the Telepath War. Both Justin Ackerman and the war criminal Alfred Bester were known to have served at the camp.[7]
  • Chicago: A major North American City. In 2261, while in hiding, David Sheridan was picked up in a safe house just outside of Chicago after Michael Garibaldi informed William Edgars that Sheridan could be tracked through his tenasticin prescriptions.[8]
  • Las Vegas: A major North American resort city known for its gambling establishments and entertainment. When Babylon 5 first came online in 2256, Las Vegas oddsmakers put the odds of Babylon 5 surviving at 350 to 1. By 2259 the odds had slightly increased to 200 to 1.[9]
  • Los Angeles: Incorporated North American city. On July 12th, 2244 Alisa Beldon was born in Los Angeles to Eliot and Esparanza Beldon.[10]
  • Mexico City: Capital of Mexico. One of the many places Fiona Davion lived with her adopted grandfather Monkey while growing up in the underground.[3]
  • Minneapolis: North American City. Miranda Sheridan went to be with friends in the city in an successful effort to hide from President Morgan Clark's forces.[11]
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Central Park, New York City, Circa 2301.

  • New Orleans: In 2092, the city was destroyed by a terrible flood, wiping out much of the city including the old French Quarter. So much of the city is destroyed that after the rebuilding many wanted to call it "New New Orleans", though the suggestion wasn't a very popular one.[12] In 2262, Psi Cop Alfred Bester was called in to deal with a runaway problem the New Orleans local Psi Corps field office couldn't deal with on their own.[13]
  • New York City: A Major Earth city located on the North American eastern seaboard. Places of interest include Central Park and New York University.[14][15] New York was one of the many places Fiona Davion lived with her adopted grandfather Monkey while growing up in the underground in the 2160s and 70s.[3] As a young man Leonard Anderson dropped out of school after his parents were killed and struggled to make a living for himself on the streets of New York[16] Following EA President Clark's Martial Law Decree in 2260, New York was one of many major cities in which shock troops were out in force.[2] Later that year, Earth had a late winter and it didn't snow in New York until late December.[17]
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San Diego, CA in 2259

  • Salt Lake City: In 2180 Salt Lake City was the location of one of the Telepath Resistance's major strongholds.[3]
  • San Diego: San Diego was once a city on the west coast of North America. The city was destroyed by an act of nuclear terrorism in 2157.[18][19] The weapon used to destroy San Diego was found to have been a left over nuke from the fall of the Soviet Union in the late 20th Century.[20] Prior to the city's destruction, Interplanetary Expeditions was based out of San Diego.[3] In 2259, Bureau 13 maintained a center of operations in the devastated ruins of the city.[21]
  • San Francisco: A city on the west coast of the North American continent. An earthquake caused major damage to the city in 2116.[3] After being adopted by human parents, Jerrica Thomas lived in this city and attended the Narn Academy of San Francisco from 2259 to 2269.[3]
  • Summit: A city in New Jersey, North American continent. Birthplace of Morden.[22]

Europe[]

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Earthdome, Geneva Switzerland

  • Madrid: A west European city. During his youth, Sandoval Bey used to spent the summers with his grandfather near the city.
  • Rome: Capital city of Italy. The city played a major role in human history since its founding about 2,900 years before the Third Age of Mankind. It had been the headquarters of the Roman Empire, and afterwards of the Roman Catholic Church. After the Great Burn the city regained some of its former prominence as the church took on a leadership role in post burn human society.[15]

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