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Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the suffix "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been given to various locations around the world with associations to the film industry – inspired by the iconic Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, whose name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States. Some of the following names, however, did in fact exist before Hollywood.

The first Hollywood-inspired nickname, dating back to 1932, was Tollywood, referring to the Bengali film industry in Tollygunge, a neighbourhood in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India. The most widely recognized Hollywood-inspired nickname is Bollywood, the informal name for the Hindi language film industry in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.

Film industry

Asia

South Asia

  • Bollywood is the informal name given to the Mumbai-based (formerly Bombay) Hindi-language film industry.

East Asia

Others

Africa

The Americas

  • Hollywood North refers to film and television production in Canada, especially the cities of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
  • Mollywood may refer to the Mormon film industry in the United States.
  • Tamalewood may refer to the active film industry of the state of New Mexico.
  • Somaliwood refers to the film industry that has sprung up around the Somali immigrant community of Columbus, Ohio.
  • Y'allywood refers to film production in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Borikwood refers to the cinema of Borikén (Taíno name for Puerto Rico).
  • Latinwood refers to the Latin American film industry

Europe

  • Borehamwood has been home to several film and TV production studios since the 1920s; this earned it the nickname of "British Hollywood".
  • Etyekwood is the informal name given in the media to Hungary's new Korda Studios in the wine-making village of Etyek near Budapest.
  • Gaulywood is an informal name for France's film industry that has been in use since 2001.
  • Görliwood is the informal name for the German city of Görlitz, which frequently serves as a filming location.
  • Hollyhammar was used to refer to a TV production facility in Hallstahammar, Sweden, in the 1990s.
  • Hollywood on the Tiber refers to when Rome's Cinecittà Studios was a popular choice for international (and domestic) film productions between the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Olivewood is a metonym for Cyprus's efforts to mature into a high-value movie production destination.
  • Pinewood, the name given because of the pine trees surrounding it. It is located in Buckinghamshire, England. This studio dates from the 1930s so its real name predates the "-wood" suffix.
  • Trollywood is the informal name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden.
  • Valleywood is the informal name for the Dragon International film studio complex in Wales.

Oceania

Other

Some Hollywood-inspired nicknames do not refer directly to the film industry:

See also

References

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