# What do other countries name their "Hollywood?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 21, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104 "2000-08-21T00:43:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/1 "2000-08-21T00:43:21Z")
What do other countries name, what one could call their version of Hollywood? (a place where all of the film industry is centralized?) I know that England has the famous Pinewood Studios (007, etc) but is that just one studio, or a place like Hollywood, full of different studios? The same goes for Japan’s TOHO Studios (Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera etc) ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/2 "2000-08-21T00:53:22Z")
Hollywood is [ital]sui generis[/ital] I thought. Especially since there is “Hollywood” as in the film/television production industry, which is located all over Southern California and “Hollywood”, a district of Los Angeles where there aren’t many studios anymore. (Although the gates to Paramount are pretty damn cool to look at when you drive by.) ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/3 "2000-08-21T00:55:35Z")
India’s is called Ballywood. I may have spelled it wrong, tho. I can’t remember why. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/4 "2000-08-21T00:56:43Z")
In India, it’s called Bollywood (in Bombay), but I’m not sure if that’s just a nickname given to the movie-industry area by other countries or if Indians call it Bollywood too. Rome, Italy, has Cinecittà. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/5 "2000-08-21T05:10:21Z")
I read in a book about the post war meeting between Churchill, Truman, and Stalin at Potsdam (a suburb of Berlin) a brief aside that Potsdam’s main previous fame was due to it being the center of Germany’s film industry. ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/6 "2000-08-21T06:36:09Z")
Wellington in NZ where LOTR is being filmed is being referred to as Wellywood ---
**Author:** ![PowerpuffKue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@PowerpuffKue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PowerpuffKue)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/7 "2000-08-21T07:22:52Z")
Wasn’t there a Hollywood, Yugoslavia in “Ren and Stimpy”? ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/8 "2000-08-21T13:03:32Z")
The one in Rome is called Cinecitta, which is Italian for “movie city.” ---
**Author:** ![Juggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/juggler/32/3194_2.png) [@Juggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juggler)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/9 "2000-08-21T16:29:18Z")
In Sweden we have Trollywood, it’s named so because it lies in the city Trollhättan. Actually I think its real name is Film i Väst but the media went on a creativity joyride and decided to call it Trollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-other-countries-name-their-hollywood/30104/10 "2000-08-21T16:59:51Z")
In Japan, it’s “Horrywood.”