Lost City Explained

In the popular imagination, a lost city is a real, once-prosperous and well-populated area of human habitation that fell into terminal decline and whose location was later forgotten.

Lost City, The Lost City, or Lost Cities may also refer to:

Places

• Ciudad Perdida, a lost city on the Caribbean coast of Colombia
• Lost City, California, in Calaveras County
• Lost City, Oklahoma, USA, the landing site of the Lost City Meteorite
• Lost City, West Virginia, USA, named for the nearby Lost River
• Pueblo Grande de Nevada also known as "Nevada's Lost City", a complex of villages, located near Overton, Nevada, USA
• The Palace of the Lost City, a luxury holiday resort near the Sun City casino and resort in the North West Province of South Africa
• Lost City (hydrothermal field), Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge; a field of hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic Ocean

Films

• The Lost City (1920 serial), a film serial directed by E.A. Martin and starring Juanita Hansen
• The Lost City (1935 serial), two science fiction films directed by Harry Revier and starring Kane Richmond
• The Lost City (1950 film), a Mexican drama film
• The Lost City (1955 film), an Italian-Spanish drama film
• The Lost City (1997), a feature-length compilation of the South African TV series, The Legend of the Hidden City
• The Lost City (2005 film), a film about the owner of a Havana nightclub in 1958 directed by Andy Garcia
• The Lost City (2022 film), a romantic comedy adventure film

Games

• Lost Cities (video game), an Xbox 360 game planned for release in 2008 and based on the card game
• Lost Cities, a card game published by both Kosmos and Rio Grande Games
• The Lost City (Dungeons & Dragons), a 1982 adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
• The Lost City (video game), a 2012 iOS point-and-click adventure game

Other uses

• "Lost City" (Stargate SG-1), a two-part episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
• Lost City (novel), a 2004 novel by Clive Cussler
• , a children's novel by Dale Peck

See also

• Lost (disambiguation)
• City (disambiguation)
• Atlantis (disambiguation)
  • Atlantis, a legendary lost city
• Lost villages (disambiguation)