Zootopia (location)

Zootopia is the eponymous city and the central location of the 2016 Disney animated feature film Zootopia.

Background
Zootopia is described as a "modern, civilized world that is entirely animal", meaning it is a world where humans are nonexistent, and anthropomorphic animals thrive in their place. Originally a mammal watering hole thousands of years prior, Zootopia grew into a city built by animals, for animals. Unfortunately, Zootopia is, similar to the human world, plagued with prejudice. Prey animals, especially small herbivorous ones like sheep and rabbits, are often disrespected for being small and weak, and find themselves being underestimated and underappreciated as a lesser group. Predators, on the other hand, are often seen as cunning, vicious, powerful, loud and arrogant and are distrusted by the prey animals, who make up the majority of the population. In spite of this, the city holds the mantra of "In Zootopia, anyone can be anything", coined by the city's noble head, Mayor Lionheart, who has worked on a project known as the Mammal Inclusion Initiative that, in theory, provides all species of mammals high-ranking opportunities in every part of Zootopian society.

To accommodate the residents of each district's environmental requirements, Zootopia's districts feature artificial climate zones. For districts with opposing climate zones, there are massive walls separating them designed to ventilate the air temperatures between the two environments, similar to air conditioners. Zootopia also features an extensive train system for all sizes of mammal, including a smaller section for rodents to board safely from larger animals.

Development
During story development, there were other districts in the city of Zootopia that were developed but not used in the film. These include Outback Island, The Meadowlands, The Nocturnal District, The Burrows,, The Canals and Happytown. The Burrows may have been a precursor of Bunnyburrow, and Happytown (actually a slummy district) seems particularly geared toward the darker, more dystopian versions of the story that were later abandoned.

Some existing cities in the diverse world of Zootopia had to get cut out of the film, although some remain on the map, as seen in the film. Those include the Meadowlands, which is all sheep; an Australian district named Outback Island; the Nocturnal District, a city of caves; and "probably other cities with reptiles and birds" - classes of animals also not present in the film - as opposed to Zootopia's all-mammal population.

Districts

 * Sahara Square
 * Tundratown
 * Little Rodentia
 * Rainforest District
 * Savanna Central / Downtown
 * Meadowlands *
 * Canal District *

* These districts were shown on the official map of Zootopia, but not directly mentioned.

Trivia

 * 90% of the city's population is prey animals.
 * In ecology, this is called the Rule of Ten: for every predatory animal, there must be ten times as many prey animals to sustain them.
 * According to the filmmakers, the carnivore citizens do not eat other mammals because the dietary supplements for them are fish, plant protein and insects since bugs are not sentient.
 * Zootopia's currency features deer on dollar bills (a pun on "buck" being a homonym).