Antwerp: Tintin in the Congo, The Blue Lotus, The Broken Ear, The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star, Red Rackham's Treasure, Land of Black Gold
Southampton: Tintin in America (The ship returning Tintin to Europe is the
SS Normandie sailing on route New York-Southampton-Le Havre), The Blue Lotus (The ship carrying Tintin back from China is the
SS Ranchi, with final destination of Southampton)
London: Flight 714 to Sydney (Starting point for Tintin, Haddock and Calculus on their journey towards Australia)
São Rico (fictional): The Shooting Star (Tintin never actually visited this country, and nothing is revealed about it except it is in South America. It was adapted to replace the United States in post-war editions.)
Borduria is the historical rival of Syldavia and attempts a
fascistannexation similar to the 1938 Anschluss of Austria in King Ottokar's Sceptre. Borduria is ruled by the military dictator
Marshal Kûrvi-Tasch, who oppresses his own people and attempts to influence
Third World conflicts by sending "military advisors" to countries such as San Theodoros.
Most of the events of Flight 714 to Sydney take place on the island of Pulau-Pulau Bompa ("pulau-pulau" is Indonesian for "islands") involving people Hergé calls the
Sondonesians. Said to be undergoing a civil war or a war for independence and now rebels for hire, the people may be based on separatist fighters of the
Republic of South Maluku.[2] It was a self-proclaimed republic of seismically active islands in the
Molucca Sea, whose residents fought for independence from
Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s. The inclusion of Jakarta's
Kemajoran Airport and the radio message from
Makassar just before the plane is hijacked suggests that the location is within the Indonesian archipelago. The Sondonesians' conversations in the album are in Indonesian Malay (
Indonesian). The
Proboscis monkey, which appears in the album, is exclusive to
Borneo.
San Theodoros in
South America, a prototypical
banana republic where US-based companies and Borduria (meant as an allusion to the
USSR or
Cuba) vie for power, with "advisors" of local generals. The capital is Los Dopicos, which is later renamed Tapiocapolis.
São Rico in South America. São Rico was added as a reference in a later versions of The Shooting Star. The original version had the villainous masterminds as stereotypical Jewish American puppet-masters; the later version darkens their skin tone and inserts São Rico as a reference.
Gran Chapo, after the South American
Chaco region. The Broken Ear is set in a war inspired by the Chaco War.
Pilchardania and Poldavia are both mentioned in The Blue Lotus. Pilchardania is mentioned on a
newsreel that Tintin views while he hides in a cinema from the police. The Poldavian consul gets mistaken for Tintin in a beard and
wig in the Blue Lotus
opium den.
Gaipajama: an Indian
princely state. In the original French language version, Gaipajama is called Rawhajpoutalah and is located to the north of Delhi.[3]