Places
- Golden, Colorado, originally named Golden City
- Golden City, Missouri, a city in Golden City Township, Barton County, Missouri, United States
- Golden City Township, Barton County, Missouri, a township in Barton County, Missouri, United States
- Egoli (disambiguation) (City of Gold), Zulu name for Johannesburg, South Africa
- Colloquial names
- Troy, also known as the "gilded city", best known for being the focus of the Trojan War
- Chrysopolis, an ancient Greek city, the name of which means literally Golden City in Greek. Nowadays part of Istanbul
- Prague, the capital of Czech Republic, commonly referred to as Zlatá Praha (Golden Prague in Czech)
- Ballarat and Bendigo two cities in Victoria, Australia are both nicknamed "Golden City" due to the wealth of their gold production during the Victorian Gold rush
- Fictional places
- Golden City (comics), a fictional city that appears in comic books published by Dark Horse Comics
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