Fantasy Land Name Generator

One press names a region for your map on a real word for a stretch of country.

Fantasy Land Name Generator: 20 lands

The Tithe-Free Hinterland

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First wordTithe-Free
LandformHinterland

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The Cranefoot Delta
The Last-Harvest Coast
The Cloud-Shadowed Range
The Rustgrass Range
The Stillwind Scrubland
The Lordless Prairie
The Sourgrass Machair
The Goose-Loud Moor
The Bee-Loud Barrens
The Sourgrass Veld
The Three-Beacon Wilderness
The Mist-Hung Frontier
The Flintstrewn Grasslands
The Broken-Plow Delta
The Bittergrass Basin
The Bustard Foothills
The Halflit Uplands
The Nine-Barrow Scablands
The First-Thaw Plateau
The Wolfless Moor

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How it works

This fantasy land name generator names a region on a map: a first word, then a real word for a stretch of country, such as Marches, Fens or Downs. The list under the tool says what each word means.

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Name one region or fill a whole map

Press New land name. Tap a part to lock it, then press again for the other. Lock the landform on Fells and every press names another stretch of one high country. Lock the first word to try one name on several kinds of ground.

What the terrain words mean

Marches are border regions, first set up to defend a boundary. A carse is low, fertile land in Scotland. Barrens are raised, flat country that grows only small trees and shrubs. A steppe is a vast, cold, dry, grassy plain.

Tips

As a fantasy region name generator it works best with the landform locked: one terrain word, many names.
A fantasy geography name generator needs towns, woods and peaks too. Those have their own pages, linked below.

Questions and answers

How do you come up with fantasy land names?

Start from the ground itself. Pick the real word for that kind of country, such as moor, steppe or fens, then put one thing people notice in front of it: the weather, what grows there, an animal or an old story.

What is another word for a region or land?

English has dozens. Marches, downs, wolds, fells, dales, barrens, hinterland and backcountry all name a stretch of country. The list under the tool gives the dictionary meaning of each word this page uses.

Is this a fantasy location name generator for towns too?

No. It names regions, the large labels on a map. For a town or a city, use the fantasy city name page, which builds names on real place-name endings.

Can I use this as a region name generator for a real-world setting?

Yes. Every landform word is real English, and several are tied to a place: carse and machair to Scotland, veld to South Africa, pampas to South America. The names in front of them are made up.

Are these real places?

The names are made up. Each one was searched as a page title on Wikipedia and on fantasy fan wikis, and the hits were cut. No list is complete, so search a name before you publish it.

First word: all 64 first words

Weather and light 17

Cloud-Shadowed
Dry-Lightning
Evenlight
First-Thaw
Hail-Beaten
Halflit
Late-Frost
Long-Rain
Mist-Hung
Seven-Winds
Slow-Spring
Stillwind
Stormward
Summerless
Sunward
Whitewind
Windscoured

Show all 64 first words (47 more)

Ground and growth 19

Bittergrass
Black-Loam
Blueflax
Brackenbrown
Cairn-Marked
Chalkwhite
Dustgold
Flintstrewn
Gorse-Gold
Hollow-Hill
Honeyclover
Peat-Smoke
Red-Clay
Rustgrass
Saltgrass
Sourgrass
Thornbrake
Thousand-Well
Wild-Barley

Creatures 9

Bee-Loud
Boar-Rooted
Bustard
Cranefoot
Goose-Loud
Lark-Loud
Mothlit
Whimbrel
Wolfless

Old stories 19

Broken-Plow
Disputed
Drover's
Exile's
Gleaner's
Hundred-Hearth
Kingless
Last-Harvest
Long-Walk
Lordless
Lost-Legion
Nine-Barrow
Quarreled-Over
Reiver's
Saltmerchant's
Seven-Shepherd
Three-Beacon
Tithe-Free
Unfenced

How this list was compiled: Our own list of 64 first words for the name of a land, written on 2026-10-02. Every first word was joined to every word in the Landform row by script and screened that day: page titles on English Wikipedia (as printed, with and without "The", and again with a small letter on the landform and the hyphen opened); exact page titles on 4 fantasy fan wikis (forgottenrealms.fandom.com, elderscrolls.fandom.com, wowpedia.fandom.com, pathfinder.fandom.com); every page title of 16 more; and every list on this site. The first word behind a hit was cut. 46 candidates were cut (29 on another list of this site; 11 taken out on a second reading; 4 a Wikipedia page title, among them Tallgrass and Wild-Horse; 1 two letters from the title of a published fantasy novel; 1 a rude word inside or across the join), among them Fogbound, Leeward, Wind-Combed, Snowmelt, Thunderhead, Heatherback. No list of maps or of fiction is complete, so search a name before you publish it. Licence: own work

Landform: all 51 words for a stretch of country

Edges and empty country 8

Backcountry A remote region: countryside that is hard to reach.
Borderlands A borderland is land near a border.
Expanse A wide stretch, usually of sea, sky or land.
Frontier The part of a country that borders or faces another country or an unsettled region.
Hinterland The land next to and inland from a coast, or a remote or undeveloped area.
Marches A march is a border region, especially one first set up to defend a boundary. The word is archaic or historical and often plural.
Wastes A waste is an uninhabited, desolate region, or a large tract of uncultivated land.
Wilderness Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state.

Show all 51 words for a stretch of country (43 more)

High ground 11

Badlands An arid terrain marked by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
Downs A down is a hill, in England especially a chalk hill. In the plural the word also means poor, sandy, rolling land near the sea, covered with fine turf and grazed by sheep.
Fells A fell is a high and barren landscape such as mountain terrain above the tree line. In northern England and Scotland it also means a wild field or upland moor.
Foothills A foothill is a hill at the base of a mountain or a mountain range.
Highlands A high area of land: lands higher than the areas around them.
Karst A kind of land, usually with many caves, formed where underground drainage dissolves limestone.
Piedmont Any region of foothills of a mountain range.
Plateau A largely level expanse of land at a high elevation.
Scablands In the United States, scabland is high, flat land of igneous rock with thin soil and deep channels cut by glaciers or glacial floods.
Tableland A relatively flat region of raised terrain.
Uplands An upland is the area in the interior of a country that generally stands higher.

Open country 15

Barrens Usually plural: a raised, flat expanse that supports only small trees and shrubs, little farming and few people.
Champaign An archaic word for open countryside.
Grasslands A grassland is an area where grass or grasslike plants dominate.
Heath A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby plants.
Moor A wide waste with patches of heath and a poor, light soil, sometimes marshy and full of peat.
Pampas The wide plains of South America south of the Amazon.
Plains A plain is an expanse of land with fairly low relief and few trees, especially a grassy one.
Prairie A wide area of fairly flat grassland with few trees or none, especially in North America.
Range An area of open grazing land, often unfenced.
Savanna A mix of woodland and grassland where the trees stand so far apart that the canopy does not close.
Scrubland Country of low shrubs mixed with grasses and herbs.
Steppe A vast, cold, dry, grassy plain, and the name of the grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia.
Tundra A flat and treeless Arctic biome.
Veld The open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and the countries next to it.
Wolds A wold is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland or a moor. The word is archaic or regional.

Low ground and valleys 6

Basin An area of land from which water drains to one common outlet.
Bottomland Chiefly in the United States: flat, naturally fertile land along a river, lying a little above normal high water.
Carse A Scottish word for low, fertile land, or a river valley.
Dales A dale is a valley, often in country that is otherwise hilly. The word is British and at home in Yorkshire.
Lowlands A lowland is an area that lies lower than the areas around it.
Vale A valley. The word is mostly poetic.

Wet ground 5

Delta The landform at the mouth of a river, where it empties into a body of water.
Fens A fen is a wetland fed by ground water and runoff, with peat below the waterline. Loosely, any swamp or mire.
Marshes A marsh is an area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.
Mire A bog or fen, or simply mud: moist, spongy earth.
Polder Ground won back from a sea or a lake by means of dikes.

By the sea 6

Coast The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, a sea, a gulf, a bay or a large lake.
Littoral A shore, coastline or coast.
Machair Sandy, lime-rich ground formed mostly from seashells, found by the coast in parts of Scotland and Ireland.
Peninsula A piece of land that projects into water from a larger land mass.
Shore Land beside a body of water that does not flow, such as an ocean, a lake or a pond.
Strand The shore or beach of the sea. In poetry and old or regional speech, the shore of a lake or river too.

How this list was compiled: 51 real English words for a stretch of country. Each meaning, and the place a word is used, was checked against the word's English Wiktionary entry on 2026-10-02 (CC BY-SA 4.0); the wording of each line is ours. No word for a wood and no word for a state is in the list. Licence: own work