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| [[Cloud cuckoo land]] || Fiction/Playwright || A perfect city between the clouds in the play ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'' by [[Aristophanes]].
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| [[Chryse and Argyre]] || Misinformation/Lie || A pair of legendary islands, located in the [[Indian Ocean]] and said to be made of gold (chrysos) and silver (argyros).
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| [[Elysium]] (Elysian Fields) || Mythological || In [[Greek mythology]], the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous.
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| [[Hyperborea]] || Mythological || A land to the north in Greek mythology.
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| [[Laestrygon|Laistrygon]] || Fiction
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| [[Meropis]] || Fiction/Joke || A gigantic island created purely as a parody of [[Plato]]'s [[Atlantis]].
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| [[Mount Olympus]] || Mythological || "Olympos" was the name of the home of the [[Twelve Olympians|Twelve Olympian gods]] of the ancient Greek world.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Nigel|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon, England|date=31 October 2005|page=516}}</ref>
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| [[Nysa (mythology)|Nysa]] || Mythological || A beautiful valley full of [[nymphs]] in Greek mythology.
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| [[Oceanus#Geography|Okeanos]] || || The cosmic river encircling the Earth in Ancient Greek cosmology, also sometimes depicted as one of the Titan gods.
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