Hollywood is such an iconic name that various other locations associated with the film industry are nicknamed with Hollywood-inspired names. Most starting with the first letter(s) of the location and ending in the letters "-ollywood" or "-wood".
- Bollywood is the informal name given to the Mumbai (Bombay) based film industry in India.
- Bulawood is the name given to the Fiji film industry, Bula being a greeting in the Fijian language
- Chinawood is a nickname for the Hengdian World Studio, the largest filmstudio in China.
- Chollywood refers to the Peruvian film industry. It is also spelled "Choliwood."
- Dhaliwood refers to the Bangladeshi film industry, based in the city of Dhaka.
- Dollywood is an amusement park owned by Dolly Parton. It may also be used as an alternative spelling for Dhaliwood.
- Etyekwood is the informal name given in the media to Hungary's new Korda Studios under construction in the wine-making village of Etyek near Budapest.
- Hollyhammar refers to the film industry in Hallstahammar, Sweden.
- Hollywood North refers to film and television production in Toronto and Vancouver and (more recently) throughout Canada.
- Kollywood is the name of the Tamil language film industry, based in the Kodambakkam district of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
- Kollywood West can refer to Tamil films produced in Tamil diasporal regions such as Canada, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
- Kollywood Nepal may also refer to the cinema of Nepal, the capital of which is Kathmandu.
- Lollywood refers to the Pakistani film industry, based in the city of Lahore.
- Mollywood may refer to the Malayalam film industry in India.
- Mollywood may also refer to the Mormon film industry in the United States.
- Mollywood is also sometimes jokingly used to describe the letters on the hillside of the north-eastern edge of the suburb of Mosgiel in Dunedin.
- Nollywood is the Nigerian film industry.
- Pinewood, name given because of the pine trees surrounding it. Is located in Buckinghamshire, England
- Ollywood is the colloquial name given to the Oriya language movie industry in Orissa, India.
- Pallywood is a term used to describe Anti-Israeli media manipulation through video footage
- Pollywood is the colloquial name given to the Pashtu language movie industry in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- Punjwood refers to the Punjabi language film industry in India.
- Sandalwood refers to the Kannada language Karnataka film industry in Karnataka, India.
- Sollywood has been used to refer to the Sindhi film industry.
- Somaliwood refers to the film industry that has sprung up around the Somali immigrant community of Columbus, Ohio.
- Tollywood may refer to the Bengali film industry in Tollygunge, West Bengal, India.
- Tollywood may also refer to the Telugu film industry in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
- Trollywood is the informal name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden.
- Valleywood is the informal name for the Dragon International film studio complex in Wales.
- Wellywood refers to Peter Jackson's film studio located in Wellington, New Zealand.
One Hollywood-inspired nickname does not refer directly to the film industry:
- "FC Hollywood" is a nickname for FC Bayern Munich, used especially widely by German media in the 1990s, an era in which Bayern players were as likely to appear in gossip pages as in sports pages.
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