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Locations from the real world categorizes those individual locations which exist in the Doctor Who universe and originated in the real world. For locations which originated in the DWU, please see category:Locations. For those places in the real world, see category:Real world places
Writing " . . . from the real world" articles
Locations from the real world is a member of a category that organizes things within Doctor Who universe. As such it (or, if a subcategory, articles within it) must be written from that point of view. Care must be taken with articles or subcategories like this to ensure that we stress only what is known within the DWU.
Main body of article
Please remember that the main parts of articles within a DWU category should only give information that is actually provided in the story or stories concerned. For instance, an article about a song from the real world shouldn't state the writers of that song, its highest UK chart position or, generally, the year in which it debuted. Almost never is such information provided in a DWU source. Likewise, people from the real world usually are not given full birth and death dates or detailed career information in a DWU story. We don't know from a DWU source, for instance, even what the dates of Margaret Thatcher's prime ministership were. They could be different from that which obtained in the real world, especially given the presence of strictly fictional prime ministers, like Harriet Jones. While copying Wikipedia articles is not forbidden by our Manual of Style, it should be strictly avoided for subjects within the " . . . from the real world" categories. Limit yourself to only that information which can be seen or heard from the story concerned. Remember, all these articles will have a wikipediainfo link, anyway, allowing readers to easily access Wikipedia, if they so choose.
Behind-the-scenes sections
"Common knowledge" about subjects like these should only be given in the behind the scenes section, or, if brief, in an italicized section beneath the article proper. Information given in the behind-the-scenes section should be limited to only what is relevant to amplify the meaning of the main part of the article. For instance, the real world hosts of the television programme, What Not to Wear are relevant to the DWU article, because those presenters provided the voices of the hosts in the DWU version of What Not to Wear seen in Bad Wolf. However, their names should not be given in the main body of the article, because that fact is not established by the episode. Instead, the information is best included in the behind-the-scenes section. By contrast, Orlando Bloom's involvement in The Lord of the Rings and The Pirates of the Caribbean is completely irrelevant to the DWU — until and unless either of those facts are established by the DWU or he participates in a DWU production — and shouldn't be included in the behind-the-scenes section.
Subcategories
This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total.
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- Beaches from the real world (3 P)
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- Caves from the real world (3 P)
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- Deserts from the real world (12 P)
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- Forests from the real world (10 P)
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- Hills from the real world (14 P)
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- Islands from the real world (114 P)
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- Nations from the real world (184 P)
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The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 738 total.
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- Aberdeenshire
- Acre (location)
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- Africa
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- Aintree
- Aldgate
- Aldochlay
- Alert
- Algonquin
- Alice Springs
- Alsace
- Alsace-Lorraine
- Amalfi Coast
- American Samoa
- Americas
- Amsterdam Zoo
- Anfield (suburb)
- Angel (area)
- Angkor Wat
- Antarctica
- Apodyterium
- Appalachian Trail
- Aquitaine
- Arbourthorne
- Archway
- Arctic
- Ardennes
- Arecibo
- Arkansas
- Asia
- Asia Minor
- Assam
- Atlantic Ridge
- Atlantis
- Auschwitz
- Austerlitz
- Australasia
- Australian Capital Territory
B
- Baden-Württemberg
- Baggy Point
- Bahrain
- Bakerloo
- Balaclava
- Bali
- Balmoral
- Bangor
- Barbary
- Baron's Court
- Barrow
- Battersea
- Baugnez
- Beaumaris Zoo
- Bedfordshire
- Belsen
- Bengal
- Berkshire
- Bermondsey
- Bermuda
- Bermuda Triangle
- Bhutan
- Bickley
- Billingsgate Market
- Bishopsgate
- Bjornoya
- Blackfriars
- Blackley
- Bloomsbury
- Blue Peter garden
- Bognor Regis Pier
- Bollywood
- Borodino
- Borough Park
- Boscombe
- Boscombe Moor
- Botermarkt
- Bow, London
- Bradgate
- Brandenburg
- Brecon Beacons
- Brent
- Briançon
- Brighton Lanes
- Brightside
- Brittany
- Brixton
- Brockley
- Bromley
- Brompton
- The Bronx
- Brooklyn
- Buckinghamshire
- Burngreave
- Bus stop
- Butetown
- Byron Bay
C
- Caesarea
- Caithness
- Calakmul
- California
- Callaghan Square
- Caloundra
- Camberwell Green
- Cambrai
- Cambridgeshire
- Camden Town
- Canada Memorial
- Cannes
- Canning Town
- Canton
- Cape Arid
- Cape Canaveral
- Cape Cod
- Cape Comorin
- Cape Horn
- Cape Trafalgar
- Caracas
- Cardiff Bay
- Cardiff city centre
- Caribbean
- Castle Hill
- Catford
- Cathedrals
- Cave of Swallows
- Cavendish Square
- CBGB
- Central America
- Central Asia
- Central Europe
- Central Plateau
- Charles de Gaulle–Étoile
- Charles Square
- Chatham
- Chatswood
- Cheapside
- Chelmsford
- Chelsea
- Cheltenham
- Chiapas
- Chicxulub Crater
- Chingford
- Chiswick
- Chorley
- Church Square
- Church Street Market
- Cisalpine Gaul
- City of London
- City of London School
- Forbidden City
- Clapham
- Clontarf
- Coliseum Music Hall
- Colorado
- Columbia Plateau
- Concentration camp
- Congo
- Connecticut
- Copacabana Beach
- Corbières
- Cordoba
- Corinium
- Corinth
- Cornwall
- Cotswolds
- County Meath
- Covent Garden
- Crewe
- Crimea
- Croisette
- Crouch End
- Croydon
- Cumbria
- Cuzco
- Cyprus