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===Duckburg===
'''Duckburg''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ʌ|k|b|ɝ|ɡ}}<ref>{{YouTube|frGLMtGsotc|Ducktales Intro}}</ref> is the [[fictional city]], located in the fictional [[U.S. state]] of [[Donald Duck universe#Calisota|Calisota]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++422-02&redirected=1|title=The Gilded Man|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-10|archive-date=April 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409064745/https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++422-02&redirected=1|url-status=dead}}</ref> that serves as the home of [[Donald Duck]], [[Scrooge McDuck]], [[Huey, Dewey, and Louie]], [[Daisy Duck]] and most of their supporting cast. Duckburg was first mentioned in ''[[Walt Disney's Comics and Stories]]'' #49 in 1944, and was created by [[Carl Barks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seriesam.com/barks/comicswdc031.html#ccus_wdc0049-02|title=A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe: W WDC 49-02 tight-wire walkers|access-date=7 February 2011}}</ref>

The city is populated by various [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphized]] animals, with dogs, different birds (including [[duck]]s, [[Goose|geese]] and [[chicken]]s) and pigs as the most dominant ones. The [[mayor]] of the city is often depicted as a pig, whose name most of the time goes unmentioned and is referred instead by readers{{clarify|date=July 2018}} as the [[List of Donald Duck universe characters#Pig Mayor|Pig Mayor]]. However, in some stories the office of mayor is held by various dog characters.

The size and [[Urban structure|structure]] of Duckburg varied in the works by Barks: it was adjusted to better fit the story he wanted to tell; it could vary from a small town to a medium-sized city, to a bustling [[metropolis]]. Later writers and artists adhere to this tradition recurrently. In one specific story by Barks, ''Monsterville'' (1961), Duckburg was even transformed into a futuristic city by [[Gyro Gearloose]], however it proved that the citizens were not ready for the high level of technology that the new city provided. Thus the city was turned back to its old city structure.

In comic writer [[Don Rosa]]'s stories, Duckburg and the state of Calisota is located on the [[West Coast of the United States]], though Carl Barks himself and other writers often leave the city's location more vaguely defined. However, in [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: "I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast… but if you get out a good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city." Knowing how Don Rosa used gags, it is likely that this city would be [[Eureka, California]] (''[[Eureka (word)|Eureka]]'' meaning 'I found it'!). This fits with the river and a large forest south of Eureka.<ref name="DB1">{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter0.html |title=Welcome to Duckburg! |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld, Jr. |first=Sigvald |publisher=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607083448/http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter0.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 }}</ref> In the [[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]] episode "Double O' Duck", a map is shown which shows Duckburg as being located somewhere in Virginia or North Carolina.

There are no references to the governor, legislature, Capitol, etc., of Calisota in any of the many stories about Duckburg. However, Duckburg seems to have its own governor, if it is not a sort of [[city-state]]. In more than one story a "Duckburg embassy" has been shown, which would place it outside the US at a diplomatic level. In the story ''Treasure of Marco Polo'' (Uncle Scrooge #64, 1966) by Carl Barks, the Duckburg embassy displays a flag of Duckburg, which consists of a white duck over a green field. However, in the Don Rosa story "[[His Majesty, McDuck]]" (Uncle Scrooge Adventures #14, Gladstone Aug. 1989) Scrooge gains a short-lived independence from the United States for Killmotor Hill, thus placing Duckburg within the [[United States]].

The most prominent landmark in Duckburg is Scrooge McDuck's [[money bin|Money Bin]], a giant building sitting on Killmotor Hill (formerly known as Killmule Hill) in the center of town. The money bin contains both office space, Scrooge's private living quarters and, most famously, three cubic acres of money, the results of Scrooge's lifetime of business and treasure-seeking adventures. Another major landmark in some stories is a large [[statue]] of Duckburg's founder, [[Cornelius Coot]].<ref name="MB">{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/scrooge.html |title=Scrooge McDuck |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld jr. |first=Sigvald |publisher=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317021400/http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/scrooge.html |archive-date=2011-03-17 }}</ref>

Duckburg is a major center for [[Space exploration]], mainly operated and overseen by [[Gyro Gearloose]], and has had expeditions to the [[Moon]], [[Mars]], [[Venus]], the [[Asteroids]], and more remote parts of the [[Galaxy]]. The city also features a sea port and is in proximity of a large forest called the Black Forest and to several [[mountain]]s, the most notable being "Old Demon Tooth", usually depicted as a towering pointed peak leaning slightly to the side.<ref name="DB1" /> The main river of the city is the Tulebug River, first mentioned in ''The Money Well'' (1958) by Carl Barks, and it is located near Killmotor Hill.

Duckburg is home to Yarvard University (a play on the universities of [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Yale University|Yale]]), an institution more notable for its athletic teams than for its academic achievements.<ref name="DB1" /> It also has had international students, like the [[bey]] of El Dagga from [[Egypt]], who is mentioned in Yarvard's first appearance; ''[[Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring]]'' by Carl Barks from 1943. One of the things the bey learned at the university was that [[Mummy|mummies]] do not eat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS+++29-01&redirected=1|title=The Mummy's Ring|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref> Duckburg is also the home of the Billionaires Club of some of which Scrooge McDuck, [[John D. Rockerduck]] and, according to some stories, [[Flintheart Glomgold]] are influential members. Duckburg also has a [[The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company|Ritz Hotel]], first mentioned in Carl Barks' story ''Turkey with All the Schemings'' (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #148, 1953) at which Scrooge McDuck had a business meeting with Donald Duck; who was disguised as the Duke of Baloni, the World's Second-Richest Duck at that time. In the same story Scrooge later buys the Ritz Hotel and he still owns it in Don Rosa's story ''Attaaaaaack!'' (2000).

Located near Duckburg is a [[farm]] owned and run by [[Elvira Coot|Grandma Duck]], a direct descendant of [[Cornelius Coot]] and Donald's paternal [[grandmother]].<ref name='DB1' /> Donald's cousin [[Gus Goose]] also lives on Grandma's farm as a farmhand. The farm is often a gathering site for various Duck family holiday celebrations.<ref name='GC'>{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/grandma.html |title=Grandma Duck |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld jr. |first=Sigvald |publisher=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514100810/http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/grandma.html |archive-date=2011-05-14 }}</ref>

In other languages, Duckburg (for example ''Duckstad'' in Dutch, ''Entenhausen'' in German, ''Ankeborg'' in Swedish, ''Rațburg'' in Romanian, ''Andeby'' in Danish, or ''Patópolis'' in both European and Brazilian Portuguese) is not only home of "the Ducks", but Mickey Mouse and friends live there too. This has occasionally been implied also in English-language publications, as when [[Super Goof]] is referred to as "Duckburg's greatest hero" in a poster seen in the initial panel of the 1973 story ''Galactic Gourmet'' (''Super Goof'' #27, [[Gold Key Comics]]). The story moreover pits Super Goof against the Beagle Boys, normally portrayed as living and operating in Duckburg.

====History====
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| footer = The unofficial Calisota map shown on the left indicates the location of Duckburg. The map resembles a map of Northern California (right), with Duckburg corresponding to a coastal area in [[Humboldt County, California|Humboldt County]] near the city of [[Eureka, California|Eureka]], located on [[Humboldt Bay]], California.<ref name = "Rosa">[[Don Rosa]], On The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Gemstone Publishing, 2005, {{ISBN|0911903968}}</ref>
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In the comics by Don Rosa, Duckburg was a fort built on Killmule Hill on June 17, 1579, by [[United Kingdom|British]] explorer [[Sir Francis Drake]] in the area he named ''[[New Albion|Nova Albion]]'', in what would later become the state of Calisota. It was originally known as "Fort Drakeborough". In the year 1818, during the [[History of California before 1900#Spanish colonization and governance (1697–1821)|Spanish colonization of California]] (1697–1821), the fort had been handed over by its departing British occupants to the visiting [[Hunting|hunter]] and [[fur trade]]r [[Cornelius Coot]], who Americanized the British name of the fort to "Fort Duckburg". "Drake" means a male duck, while "borough" and "burg" are [[synonyms]]. Cornelius Coot turned the old fort into a [[trading post]] for fellow traders and hunters, and their families. Eventually a small town grew around the fort on top of Killmule Hill. In Carl Barks' story ''The Day Duckburg Got Dyed'' (1957), it is revealed that Cornelius Coot at some point in Duckburg's history managed to pipe mountain water into the town. During the [[American Civil War]], a decisive battle was fought on top of an unnamed hill in Duckburg, led by the Duckburgian General Stonewall Duck.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+239-01|title=The Village Blacksmith|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-11}}</ref> It is not known on which side the city fought, but with General Stonewall Duck being based on the real-life [[Stonewall Jackson]], it can be assumed they fought for the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. However, the real-life state of California, in which the fictional state of Calisota is located according to Don Rosa, was a Unionist state, making Duckburg a more likely member of the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]].

Duckburg remained a quiet, small town until the arrival of wealthy businessman Scrooge McDuck. He had bought the old fort and the hill from fellow [[Prospecting|prospector]] [[Casey Coot]], a descendant of Cornelius Coot, during the [[Klondike Gold Rush]] in 1899.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=AR+113&redirected=1|title=Last sled to Dawson|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref> Scrooge proceeded to construct his famous [[Money Bin]] on the location, which would eventually cause McDuck an incredible variety of problems and dilemmas. The first one was caused by the [[Junior Woodchucks]], who were squatting in the site and using the old fort as their headquarters, even though they did not have legal title to it. The dispute led to a small war in 1902, involving the United States [[United States Marine Corps|marines]] and [[United States Navy|navy]], led by then [[President of the United States|President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter3.html |title=The Lives and Times in Duckburg |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld, Jr. |first=Sigvald |work=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607080630/http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter3.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 }}</ref> Eventually however, the construction of the Money Bin, and Scrooge's establishment of various businesses in and around Duckburg, caused Duckburg's population to swell, and turned the small town into a bustling city and a global [[financial centre]] within a few decades.<ref name="LTSM" />