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|title = Night City

|image = NC-Profile-2077-Placeholder.jpg

|aka = NC

|type = [[Free City]]

|region = [[Greater Night City Area]]

|location = [[Del Coronado Bay]] area

|appears_other = {{CP|EDGE}}

|website = [https://www.nightcity.love/en/ Nightcity.love]

In the following years since their comeback, Arasaka extended its dominion over Night City. They were able to take out a number of corporate rivals, and build the impressive, yet ominous [[Arasaka Waterfront]] in [[Watson (2077)|Watson]] as well as their new [[Arasaka Tower|regional headquarters]] in [[Corporate Plaza (2077)|Corporate Plaza]].<ref name="CEMKHB" />

In [[2076]], an incident occurred in the [[Corporate Center (2077)|Corporate Center]] of Night City which involved the megacorps of Arasaka and Militech. The event caused damage to the surrounding area, with the media putting the blame on a terrorist attack by an unknown party. Rumors circulated suggesting that in reality it had been the last stand of [[David Martinez]], an edgerunner who had quickly risen to prominence in the previous year.<ref name="CEMKHB" /> By the end of 2076, studies showed that the city's birthrate had fallen by 7%, becoming the third worst decline in North America.<ref>{{CP|2077}} (Loading screen text: ''"In the year 2076, Night City's birthrate fell by 7% - the third worst decline in North America."'')</ref>

!Districts & Areas

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|[[City & Corporate District]] ([[Bank Block]], [[City Center (2020)|City Center]], [[Corporate Center (2020)|Corporate Center]], [[Medical Center (2020)|Medical Center]]), [[Little Asia]] ([[Japantown (2020)|Japantown]], [[Little China (2020)|Little China]]), [[Little Europe (2020)|Little Europe]] ([[Little Italy]], [[Marina District (2020)|Marina District]] ([[East Marina]], [[Upper Marina (2020)|Upper Marina]]), [[Northside (2020)|Northside District]]), [[Nightlife District]] ([[Charter Hill (2020)|Charter Hill]], [[New Harbor]], [[Studio City]], [[Upper Eastside]]), [[University District (2020)|University District]] ([[University District (2020)|Lake Park]], [[University District (2020)|Night City University]]), [[Upscale Brownstones]] ([[Old Downtown]], [[West Hill]])

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Night City Map 2013WTNC.jpg|Night City in the 2010s (Cyberpunk 2013)

Night City Map CP2020.jpg|Night City in the 2020s (Cyberpunk 2020)

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|[[City Center (2077)|City Center]]

|The City Center is Night City's corporate showcase. Sleek skyscrapers form a brutalist, fortress-like skyline, presenting the unrivaled power of megacorps in all its arrogance. Since 2020, the City Center has become the most fortified and secure part of Night City.

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|Pacifica could have been Night City's money-making vacation resort, but once the investment dried up it became a husk left to rot. Now, instead of tourists, the district is a [[Combat Zone]] overrun by gangs and violence, with the [[Voodoo Boys]] protecting the community forsaken by the [[NCPD]]. The walled-up Dogtown is ruled by Colonel [[Kurt Hansen]] and his [[BARGHEST]] militia.

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|[[Arroyo]], [[Rancho Coronado (2077)|Rancho Coronado]]

|Santo Domingo is one of Night City's oldest districts. Corporations use it as a testing ground for industrial projects, destroying old factories just to build new ones, while residents scrape a desperate living in crowded megabuildings — wishing for something better.

===Freeways===

==Development==

:''I'll fill you in now; you won't be able to fit the NCART transit map over the old Night City Map because the 2077 map includes larger surrounding areas equivalent to Oakland, Berkeley, South San Francisco and San Jose. The Night City paper game maps are only of the Central City, the equivalent of San Francisco.''

:''In addition, during all the back and forth, we (RTG and CDPR) shifted and moved some locations so that players wouldn't have HUGE transit times between regions. This is described in Cyberpunk RED, where we talk about how the Bay and surrounds were moved and partially filled in (with radioactive mud!) to a level equivalent to three or four Treasure Islands (see San Francisco Bay maps for reference). We also made the mapping match up closer to the original Morro Bay location (in the interval between the 1980's and now, I took up the study of geology and now know more about how to shape and change land forms). So in both 2077 and RED, Night City is a compromise between what was in the past and what works in the present, both in game reality and game design. Especially as we figured no one wanted to spend 45 minutes in commute traffic between Watson and Pacifica.''<ref group="R">{{RefReddit|user=therealmaxmike|url=r/cyberpunkgame/comments/cgxffj/metro_map_overlay/eup35ql/?context=3|text=I'll fill you in now; you won't be able to fit the NCART transit map over the old Night City Map because the 2077 map includes larger surrounding areas equivalent to Oakland, Berkeley, South San Francisco and San Jose. The Night City paper game maps are only of the Central City, the equivalent of San Francisco. In addition, during all the back and forth, we (RTG and CDPR) shifted and moved some locations so that players wouldn't have HUGE transit times between regions. This is described in Cyberpunk RED, where we talk about how the Bay and surrounds were moved and partially filled in (with radioactive mud!) to a level equivalent to three or four Treasure Islands (see San Francisco Bay maps for reference). We also made the mapping match up closer to the original Morro Bay location (in the interval between the 1980's and now, I took up the study of geology and now know more about how to shape and change land forms). So in both 2077 and RED, Night City is a compromise between what was in the past and what works in the present, both in game reality and game design. Especially as we figured no one wanted to spend 45 minutes in commute traffic between Watson and Pacifica.|altuser=Mike Pondsmith}}</ref>

===Location===

[[Category:Cyberpunk 2020 Cities]]

[[Category:Cyberpunk RED Cities]]

[[Category:Cyberpunk 2077 Cities]]

[[Category:CyberGeneration Cities]]