World locations

This article is about the places featured in-universe. For the real-life filming locations, see Buffy the Vampire Slayer filming locations.

World locations from the Earth dimension listed with their known events:

Austria

Vienna

• In 1765, Angelus followed Darla from France intending to make her pay for abandoning him in a burning barn.
• In 1963, Spike slaughtered an orphanage, as well as two members of the Watchers Council.

Belize

• Riley Finn rejoined the military for a mission in the rainforest.
• Home of Manjet until he came to Los Angeles when the Ra-Tet was eliminated.

Brazil

• Drusilla and Spike went there after leaving Sunnydale in 1998.

Rio de Janeiro

• Willow Rosenberg and Kennedy spent a lot of time after the destruction of Sunnydale.

São Paulo

• Home of Willow and Kennedy while searching for recently activated Slayers.

Chile

Easter Island

• Location of a Hellmouth guarded by the Moai.
• Ultimate settlement of the Spike's crew.

China

Beijing

• Location of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when Spike killed his first Slayer, Xin Rong.

Hong Kong

• An unidentified Slayer was killed by the vampire Lothos.

Shanghai

• Home of the Potential Slayer Chao-Ahn.

Tibet

• Oz first learned to suppress his werewolf affliction. He met Bayarmaa with whom he later devised a more effective method, leading to the creation of a werewolf community a Tibetan monastery.
• Oz settled in Tibet with Bayarmaa and their son Kelden.
• Site of a brutal military conflict between the Twilight Group and the Slayer Organization.
• Burial site of the wrathful goddesses Ekajati, Remati, and Vajrayogini.

Czech Republic

• Monks from the Order of Dagon succeeded in transforming the Key into human form, but were attacked by Glorificus.

Prague

• Drusilla was tortured by an inquisitor and Spike was nearly dusted by an angry mob in 1997. Records claimed that Drusilla was killed during these events.

France

• Home of the sorcerer Cloutier, who created the Tirer la Couverture spell in the 16th century.

Marseilles

• Daniel Holtz chased Angelus, Darla, James, and Elisabeth in 1767.

Paris

• The Watcher Jean conspired for his Slayer Claudine to kill an unidentified aristocrat.
• In 1792, Angelus joined in the storming of the Tuileries palace during the French Revolution.
• Refuge of Harmony Kendall and Clem during the Supernatural Crisis Act.

Rouen

• In the 16th century, the cobbler Roche was sired by Die Einsame.

Germany

• Home of Frederick and Hans Gruenshtahler.

Berlin

• Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.
• Location of Hitler's bunker, which was temporarily used by Faith Lehane and Rupert Giles while in hiding.

Frankfurt

• An unidentified Potential Slayer was hunted down and killed by Harbingers of Death in 2002.

Hanselstadt

• Location of the Slayer Sanctuary.

Nuremberg

• In 1938, the Slayer Anni fought Nazis during the Kristallnacht.

Prussia

• In 1789, a lone Angelus encountered the Beast in Prussia, standing in a field of bodies.

Greece

• Whistler served as an advisor in ancient times.
• Home in ancient times to the vampire Kakistos.

Honduras

Yoro Mountains

• Darla visited a shaman and asked for help in finding out why and how she was pregnant.

Iceland

Reykjavík

• A meteor containing an extraterrestrial Queller demon impacted in the region in the 12th century.

India

• Home of the Order of the Nanjin.

Ireland

• In 1786, Angel sired a young Puritan named Penn.
• Birthplace of Allen Francis Doyle, circa 1974.

Dublin

• Angelus killed Daniel in 1838.

Galway

• Birthplace of Liam in 1727.
• Home of Liam and his family, before being sired by Darla in 1753.
• While on vacation, Fred and Angel discovered a coven using the blood of a Gachnar to harvest fear as a means of control.

Italy

• The Slayer, a barmaid at the height of the bubonic plague epidemic, was killed by Lothos.
• Spike and Drusilla visited the country in the 1950s.
• The Slayer Organization Italy headquarters was watched by Andrew Wells.

Cortona

• Home of Moloch the Corruptor, before being trapped inside a tome created by an order of monks in 1418.

Rome

• Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.
• Home of the Immortal.
• In 1771, Holtz tracked Angelus and captured him.
• In 1894, Angelus and Spike were captured in Rome, Italy by henchmen of the Immortal.
• Location of a partying Buffy Summers decoy.

Jamaica

• Home of the Slayer Kendra and her watcher Sam Zabuto.

Japan

Hiroshima

• Whistler witnessed the destruction in 1945 caused by the atomic bomb detonation.

Tokyo

• The Slayer Organization Tokyo headquarters was led by Aiko then Satsu.
• Location of a battle between the Slayer Organization and Toru's pack.
• Location of an attack of the Swell, intercepted by Satsu and Kennedy.

Mexico

• Home to an unidentified Aztec Slayer.
• Nikki lived with an infant Robin in 1974, until they returned to New York.
• Cordelia Chase and the Groosalugg took a vacation in 2002.
• Jonathan Levinson and Andrew Wells ran away from Willow in 2002.

Ciudad Juárez

• Angel and Boone fought for three and a half hours over a senorita in the 1920s.

Puerto Peñasco

• Location of the Las Palmas resort where Cordelia and her family spent the summer of 1998.

Nepal

• After visiting Sunnydale, Riley and Samantha Finn had their next mission in this country.

New Zealand

Lake Taupo

• Home to one of two entrances to the Deeper Well.

Nicaragua

Puerto Cabezas

• A man presented Darla with contact information for a shaman.

Paraguay

• Riley and Sam took out nests of Suvolte demons in jungles that included Paraguay's.

Peru

• Location of the Crown of Coils.
• The place where the Inca Princess was born and sacrificed.
• Home of Ampata Gutierrez.

Portugal

Azores

• A Slayer Organization squad was attacked by Pearl and Nash during a training, having Nadira as the sole survivor.

Russia

Saint Petersburg

• Angelus, Darla, Spike, and Drusilla attended the ballet Giselle, performed by the Blinnikov World Ballet Corps in 1890.
• Anyanka and Halfrek observed the start of the Russian Revolution in 1905.
• Giles traveled there to instruct a Slayer Organization squad.

Ural Mountains

• A sorcerer in a village in the Koskov Valley became the embodiment of the demon Lohesh, circa 1200.

Romania

Borşa

• Home of the Kalderash people who cursed Angelus with his soul in 1898.

Transylvania

• Location of Dracula's castle.

Singapore

• Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.

Spain

• Home of an unidentified Slayer in late 1590s.
• At some point, Spike and Drusilla observed the running bulls.
• Hank Summers lived there with Francesca.

Barcelona

• Donna was the leader of the Slayer Organization Barcelona headquarters.

Madrid

• In 1843, Luke lost a fight to an enemy who caught him sleeping.
• Darla and Angel once killed a poet in Madrid.
• Spike, Nostroyev, and the Prince of Lies were captured by Nazi agents at a virgin blood party.

Sri Lanka

• Angel spent the summer at a monastery in Sri Lanka in order to help him cope with Buffy's death.

Suriname

• Faith led a team of Slayers in pursuit of Riley and Walt Zane.

Switzerland

• Buffy led a group of Slayers in the robbery of a Swiss bank vault stocked with Nazi-stockpiled treasure.

Turkey

Istanbul

• An unidentified Potential Slayer was hunted down and killed by Bringers in 2002.

United Kingdom

England

• Whistler guided the future King Arthur to the Sword in the Stone.
• In the Middle Ages, a noblewoman was called as the Slayer.

Bath

• Giles kept a flat there.

Cotswolds

• Location of the Deeper Well.
• Location of the Watchers Retreat.

Devon

• Location of the Devon Coven.

Guildford

• Location where the servant of Eyghon the Sleepwalker possessing Giles' body lived following the end of magic.

Hampshire

• Location of the Watchers Academy.
• In 1813, at the Porter Hall, the Slayer Elizabeth Weston slayed the vampire Catherine after disguising herself as a man.

London

• Location of the Watchers Council headquarters until it was destroyed by the First Evil.
• Darla brought Angel here to meet the Master in 1760.
• Home of Drusilla and her family, before being sired by Angel in 1860.
• Location of the Pratt residence in 1880.
• Angelus killed Margaret in 1883.
• The Giles residence was home of the Giles family for several generations, passed to Faith after Rupert's death.
• Ripper's crowd was first introduced in the 1970s, in Soho.
• Potential Slayer Nora was killed along with her Watcher Robson in 2002.
• Home of Nadira,, Daphne, Marianne, and other members of the London Slayer squad.
• Kensington in West London was home to Clement and Harmony in her celebrity career.
• Hackney in East London was the site of Whistler's plan to unleash a magical plague on the world. After many of the locals were mutated into magical creatures, this borough became known as the Magic Town.

Westbury

• Giles helped Willow overcome her dark side in his country house.

York

• Home of Daniel Holtz until Angelus and Darla killed his family in 1764.

Northern Ireland

Belfast

• Birthplace of Roden.^{[citation needed]}

Scotland

• Home of Buffy Summers and her squad of Slayers as the Slayer Organization command center.
• Birthplace of the Slayer Leah.

United States

California

Antioch

• The Black Diamonds Mine was the lair of the Mistress, the Soul Glutton, and the Sculptor.

Greenville

• In 1978, Spike betrayed a gang of criminals after stashing their loot beneath a pawnshop's floor.
• In 2002, Spike returns town while struggling with his new soul and meet Dylan Turner.

Los Angeles

• Birthplace of Buffy Summers.
• Location of Angel Investigations' base of operations.
• Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.
• In 2004, the city was sent to the hell, though memories of the event faded.

Mill Valley

• Location of the safe house Andrew hid Buffy's body with Buffybot's mind.

Monterey

• Dingoes Ate My Baby played a gig.

Oakland

• Giles followed a lead to this city, to find out of Buffy was here during her absence.
• Location of Andrew's home after the return of magic.

Ojai

• Home of the T'ish Magev.

San Francisco

• Home of Robert Dowling and the San Francisco Police Department.
• Home of Buffy, Dawn, Xander, Willow, Andrew, Spike, and Joyce Summers since the end of magic.

Santa Monica

• The vampire Tom Mitchell visited the pier with his son Cyrus twice: first in 1930 then in 2000.
• Bro'os became the Lord of Santa Monica during the fall of Los Angeles.

Santa Rosita

• Home of Billy Lane.
• The Scoobies slay the last zompires and face the first new vampires.

Stockton

• Location of Northern California Women's Facility, where Faith was incarcerated.

Sunnydale

• Location of a Hellmouth.
• Location of the original Seed of Wonder.
• In 1841, location of the battle between the Navajo Slayer Naayéé'neizgháni and vampire Tó Bájíshchíní, caused both to die.
• Home of Buffy and the Scooby Gang from 1997 to 2003.
• Location of a battle in 2003 between the First Evil's Turok-Han army and Buffy's Slayer army. The Hellmouth collapsed, destroying the city in the process.

Florida

Miami

• Home of Seth Anderson and his family before they moved to Akron.

Hawaii

Kauai

• A sorcerer became the embodiment of the demon Olvikan, but was killed in a volcanic eruption.

Illinois

Chicago

• Home of Stewart Burns until 1914.
• Home of Angel in the 1920s.
• Home of Buffy Summers' aunt Darlene.
• The Slayer Organization Chicago headquarters was led by Rona.

Indiana

Muncie

• Location of a branch of Wolfram & Hart.

Iowa

Huxley

• Birthplace of Riley Finn.

Kansas

• Home of the vampire Joe Cooper when he was sired in 1933.

Salina

• Judy Kovacs was fired from the City Trust Bank when they discovered she was biracial.

Louisiana

Baton Rouge

• Home of Seth Anderson and his family before they moved to Akron.

Morgan City

• Home of the Slayer Cori and her squad.

Massachusetts

Boston

• Birthplace of Faith Lehane.

Minnesota

• Birthplace of Dylan Turner.

Montana

Missoula

• Angel spent time in town during the Great Depression, finding it "pretty country."

Nevada

Las Vegas

• Location of the Tropicana casino.
• Location of Hart, the casino and branch of Wolfram & Hart.
• Location of the first VampCon.

Death Valley

• Home of Semkhet, Angel and Gwen travelled there to protect this totem.
• Location of the Cup of Perpetual Torment.

New Hampshire

Nashua

• Home of the vampire Jacob and his classmate the Slayer Alexia.

New York

Bethel

• Spike attended the Woodstock music festival in 1969.

New York City

• Home of Angel in 1902, the 1970s, and 1996.
• Home of Nikki Wood (born 1955) and her son, Robin Wood (born in the early 1970s).
• In 1977, location where the vampire Spike fought and killed the Slayer Nikki Wood.
• Home of Violet and her team of Slayers following the battle at the Hellmouth.
• In the 23rd century, it became known as Haddyn, a derivation of Manhattan.
• Home of Melaka Fray and her family.

Ohio

Akron

• Home of Merl until he moved back to Los Angeles.
• Home of Seth Anderson and his family until they moved to Los Angeles.

Cleveland

• Location of a Hellmouth.
• Location of a squad of Slayers, led by Robin Wood.

Oklahoma

• In 1935, Susan Finney summoned a demon to impregnate her, leading to the birth of the half-demon twins Pearl and Nash.

Texas

Dallas

• Home of the Burkle family.

Virginia

Virginia Colony

• Home of the young woman who would be known as Darla.
• In 1609, the Master sired Darla.

Wisconsin

Gills Rock

• Location of Thorpe's Academy, where Gwen Raiden enrolled in 1985.