Arcadia may refer to:

Places

Australia

Arcadia, New South Wales Arcadia is a semi-rural suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 42 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the Local government in Australia, local government area of Hornsby Shire. History Arcadia i ...

, a suburb of Sydney * Arcadia, Queensland * Arcadia, Victoria

Canada

Arcadia, New Brunswick Arcadia is a village in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It was formed through the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reforms. History Arcadia was incorporated on January 1, 2023 via the amalgamation of the former villages of Cambr ...

* Arcadia, Nova Scotia

Greece

Arcadia (region) Arcadia (; ) is a region in the central Peloponnese, Greece. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas, and in Greek mythology it was the home of the gods Hermes and Pan. In European Renaissance arts, Arcadia was celebrated as a ...

, a region in the central Peloponnese *

Arcadia (regional unit) Arcadia ( ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, administrative region of Peloponnese (region), Peloponnese. It is in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from ...

, a modern administrative unit covering the region * Arcadia (constituency), an electoral district covering the region *

Kyparissia Kyparissia () is a town and a former municipality in northwestern Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Trifylia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has ...

in Messenia, a town known in the Middle Ages as Arcadia **

Barony of Arcadia The Barony of Arcadia was a medieval Frankish fiefdom of the Principality of Achaea, located on the western coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, and centred on the town of Arcadia (; ; ), ancient and modern Kyparissia. History The Bar ...

, a medieval Frankish fiefdom of the Principality of Achaea * Arcadia (Crete), a town and city-state of ancient Crete

Ukraine

* Arcadia (Odesa), a quarter in Odesa ** Arcadia Beach ** Arcadia Park, Odesa

United States

* Arcadia (Phoenix), a neighborhood in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona *

Arcadia, California Arcadia is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located about northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley and at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. It contains a series of adjacent parks consisting of t ...

* Arcadia, Florida *

Arcadia, Illinois Arcadia is an unincorporated community in Morgan County, Illinois, United States. Arcadia is north of Jacksonville Jacksonville ( ) is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of North Flori ...

* Arcadia, Indiana * Arcadia, Iowa * Arcadia, Kansas * Arcadia, Louisiana * Arcadia, Maryland *

Arcadia, Michigan Arcadia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Arcadia Township, Manistee County, Michigan, United States. Its population was 309 as of the 2020 census. But in the 2024 census it was 125. The community is located al ...

* Arcadia Lake (Michigan) * Arcadia, Mississippi *

Arcadia, Missouri Arcadia is a city in Iron County, Missouri, United States. The population was 618 at the 2020 census. History Arcadia was laid out and platted in 1849. It was named after the Greek region of Arcadia. A post office called Arcadia has been in o ...

* Arcadia, Nebraska *

Arcadia, New York Arcadia is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States. The population was 14,244 at the 2010 census. The Town of Arcadia is on the south border of the county and is east of Rochester, New York. The primary postal district covering the To ...

Arcadia, North Carolina Arcadia is an unincorporated community in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. It is located in the northwestern section of the county along NC Highway 150. Neighboring communities and municipalities include Midway, Welcome and W ...

Arcadia, Ohio Arcadia is a village in Hancock County, Ohio, United States. The population was 564 at the 2020 census. History Arcadia was laid out in 1855. The village most likely was named after Arcadia, Greece. On July 21, 1903, Arcadia was damaged by a f ...

Arcadia, Oklahoma Arcadia is a town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The population was 169 at the 2020 United States census, a 31% decrease from 247 at the 2010 census. His ...

* Arcadia, Pennsylvania * Arcadia, Rhode Island * Arcadia, South Carolina * Arcadia, Tennessee * Arcadia, Santa Fe, Texas *

Arcadia, Shelby County, Texas Arcadia (formerly Arcada) is a small unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing ...

* Arcadia, Botetourt County, Virginia * Arcadia, Spotsylvania County, Virginia * Arcadia, Washington *

Arcadia, Wisconsin Arcadia is a city in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Trempealeau River. The population was 3,737 at the 2020 census. Arcadia is a Latino-majority city and the largest city in Trempealeau county. History Arcadia was fo ...

* Arcadia (town), Wisconsin * Arcadia Lake (Oklahoma) * Arcadia Management Area, Rhode Island * Arcadia Township (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

* Arcadia, Tucumán, Argentina *

Arcadia Aegypti Arcadia or Arcadia Aegypti was a Late Roman province in northern Egypt. It was named for one of the reigning ''Augusti'' Augusti, of the Roman Empire, Arcadius () of the Theodosian dynasty when it was created in the late 4th century. Its capital ...

, an ancient region of Roman-controlled Egypt *

Arcadia, Pretoria Arcadia is a suburb in Pretoria, South Africa, that is known for its historical buildings, embassy, embassies and hotels. The Union BuildingsStandard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa vol.7 and the President of South Africa, president's residence ...

, a residential suburb in South Africa * Arcadia, a suburb of

Harare Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metrop ...

, Zimbabwe * Arcadia Park (Odesa), an urban park in Odesa, Ukraine * Arcadia Park (Warsaw), an urban park in Warsaw, Poland *

Arcadia Planitia Arcadia Planitia is a smooth plain with fresh lava flows and Amazonian volcanic flows on Mars. It was named by Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1882 after the Arcadia region of ancient Greece. It dates from the Amazonian period's arcadia formation's l ...

, a plain on Mars

Businesses

* Arcadia Brewing Company, a former brewery in Kalamazoo, Michigan * Arcadia Corporation, the original name of video game company Starpath *

Arcadia Group Arcadia Group Ltd (formerly Arcadia Group plc and, until 1998, Burton Group plc) was a British multinational retailing company headquartered in London, England. It was best known for being the previous parent company of British Home Stores (B ...

, formerly a British retail company * Arcadia Machine & Tool, commonly known as AMT, an American firearms company * Arcadia Productions, an Italian theatre company *

Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing is an American Publishing, publisher of neighborhood, local history, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.(analysis of the successful ''Images of America'' series). Arcadia Publishing also runs th ...

, an American publisher of local community histories * Arcadia Systems, an arcade game division of the company Mastertronic

Film and television

* ''Arcadia'' (2012 film), an American film * ''Arcadia'' (2024 film), a Greek film * "Arcadia" (''The X-Files''), a 1999 television episode * Arcadia, a fictional city on

Gallifrey The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their non-linear perception of t ...

in the ''Doctor Who'' series * Arcadia, a fictional location in '' Resident Evil: Afterlife'' * '' Tales of Arcadia'', an animated television series created by Guillermo del Toro * ''Arcadia'' (TV series), a Belgian-Dutch science fiction television series

Gaming

* American Arcadia, a 2023 puzzle-platformer video game by Out of the Blue * Arcadia (card game), a 1996 collectible card game by White Wolf Publishing * ''Arcadia'' (video game), a 1982 game for the Vic 20 and ZX Spectrum platforms * Arcadia 2001, a gaming console * Arcadia (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a fictional plane of existence in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' * Arcadia (''The Longest Journey''), a fantasy realm in ''The Longest Journey'' * Arcadia Bay, a fictional location in ''

Life Is Strange ''Life Is Strange'' is a series of adventure games published by Square Enix's Square Enix External Studios, External Studios. Created by Dontnod Entertainment, the series debuted with the Life Is Strange (video game), eponymous first install ...

'' * Arcadia, a human colony in '' Halo Wars'' * Arcadia, a playable character in

Brawlhalla ''Brawlhalla'' is a free-to-play platform fighting game developed by Blue Mammoth Games. It was originally released for macOS, PlayStation 4 and Windows in 2017, with ports for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android and iOS released later. Full ...

Literature and drama

* Arcadia (comics), a character in Marvel Comics * ''Arcadia'' (magazine), a 2005 Colombian magazine on arts, literature and movies * ''Arcadia'' (play), a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard * ''Arcadia'' (poem), a 1504 poem by Jacopo Sannazaro * '' The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia'' or ''Arcadia'', a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney * '' Monthly Arcadia'' (月刊アルカディア), a 2000 Japanese video and arcade game magazine * ''Arcadia'', a 1979 poetry collection by Christopher Reid * ''Arcadia'', a fictional spaceship in ''

Space Pirate Captain Harlock , also titled Captain Harlock, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's ''Play Comic'' from January 1977 to June 1979, with the chapters collected into five volumes. The ser ...

'' * ''Arcadia'', a 2015 book by

Iain Pears Iain George Pears (born 8 August 1955) is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. Personal life Pears was born on 8 August 1955 in Coventry, England. He was educated at Warwick School, an all-boys public school in Warwick. He st ...

Music

* Arcadia (band), a British pop music group composed of members from Duran Duran * "Arcadia" (Hardwell and Joey Dale song), a 2014 song by Hardwell and Joey Dale * ''Arcadia'' (Ramona Lisa album), a 2014 album by Caroline Polachek, under the name Ramona Lisa * Arcadia (Alison Krauss & Union Station album), 2025 * "Arcadia", a 2015 song by the Kite String Tangle * "Arcadia" (Lana Del Rey song), 2021 * Arcadia, a mid-1990s London club night, central to the

Romo Romantic Modernism, more commonly known as Romo, was a musical and nightclubbing movement, of glam/style pop lineage, in the UK circa 1995–1997, centred on the twin homes of Camden-based clubnight Club Skinny and its West End clone Arcad ...

movement

Schools

* Academy of Arcadia, a historical Italian literary academy * Arcadia College, Missouri *

Arcadia University Arcadia University is a private university in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, with a Glenside mailing address. The university enrolls approximately 3,200 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students. The 94-acre (380,000 m2) Glenside cam ...

, Glenside, Pennsylvania * Arcadia High School (disambiguation)

Ships

* See List of ships named Arcadia * ''Arcadia'' (steamboat), a steamboat that operated in the state of Washington, United States * MV ''Arcadia'' (1988) or MV ''Columbus'', a cruise ship * MV ''Arcadia'' (2004), a cruise ship * SS ''Arcadia'' (1922) * SS ''Arcadia'' (1953) * USS ''Arcadia'' (SP-856), a patrol boat possibly in commission during 1918 * USS ''Arcadia'' (ID-1605), a troop transport commissioned in 1919 * USS ''Arcadia'' (AD-23), a destroyer tender commissioned in 1945

Visual arts

* ''Arcadia'' (painting), an 1883 painting by Thomas Eakins * ''Arcadia'', a 1973 artwork by

Ian Hamilton Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. Life Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to James Hamilton Finlay and his wife, Annie Pettigrew, both of Scots descent. He was educa ...

* ''Arcadia'', an 1893 mural by Amanda Brewster Sewell * ''Arcadia'', a painting by Eugeniusz Zak

Other uses

Arcadia (utopia) Arcadia (; ) refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature. The term is derived from the Greek province of the same name which dates to antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and sparse population of pastoralists later c ...

, a utopian vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature * Arcadia (daughter of Arcadius) (400–444) *

Arcadia (engineering) ARCADIA (Architecture Analysis & Design Integrated Approach) is a Systems engineering, system and Software engineering, software architecture engineering method based on architecture-centric and model-driven engineering activities. History In ...

, a system and software architecture engineering method * ''Arcadia'' (genus), an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian * Arcadia (house), a historic house in Frederick, Maryland * Arcadia (Los Angeles Metro station) *

Arcadia Conference The First Washington Conference, also known as the Arcadia Conference (ARCADIA was the code name used for the conference), was held in Washington, D.C., from December 22, 1941, to January 14, 1942. President Roosevelt of the United States and Prime ...

, a 1942 military conference * Arcadia Fund, a foundation sponsoring preservation of media for culture, nature, and scholarship * Arcadia Plantation, a historic plantation near Georgetown, South Carolina * Arcadia Spectacular, a performance art collective that builds electronic dance music stages * Arcadia 30, a French sailboat design * Arcadia, one of 4 Rolls-Royce Droptail car