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List of Hollywood-inspired nicknames

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Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the suffix "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been given to various locations around the world with associations to the film industry – inspired by the iconic Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, whose name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States. Some of the following names, however, did in fact exist before Hollywood.[clarification needed]

The first Hollywood-inspired nickname, dating back to 1932, was Tollywood,[1] referring to the Bengali film industry in Tollygunge, a neighbourhood in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India.[2] The most widely recognized Hollywood-inspired nickname is Bollywood, the informal name for the Hindi language film industry in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.

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Film industry

Asia

South Asia

  • Bollywood is the informal name given to the Mumbai-based (formerly Bombay) Hindi-language film industry.

East Asia

Others

Africa

The Americas

  • Hollywood North refers to film and television production in Canada, especially the cities of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
  • Mollywood may refer to the Mormon film industry in the United States.
  • Tamalewood may refer to the active film industry of the state of New Mexico.
  • Somaliwood refers to the film industry that has sprung up around the Somali immigrant community of Columbus, Ohio.
  • Y'allywood refers to film production in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Borikwood refers to the cinema of Borikén (Taíno name for Puerto Rico).
  • Latinwood refers to the Latin American film industry

Europe

Oceania

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Other

Some Hollywood-inspired nicknames do not refer directly to the film industry:

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