Narnia is the fictional land at the center of C.S. Lewis’s seven-book series The Chronicles of Narnia.
The series begins with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in which children enter Narnia through a magical wardrobe. Across the books, readers encounter talking animals, kings and queens, forests, islands, and the lion Aslan. Narnia is both a country and, in broader usage, the imagined world containing the stories’ principal settings.
The books were published between 1950 and 1956. Lewis arranged them around Christian themes, mythic patterns, moral choices, and imaginative adventure, but the stories are not simple retellings of biblical narratives. Aslan, in particular, is a fictional figure with clear symbolic significance within the series.
Narnia is sometimes confused with Middle-earth, the setting created by Lewis’s friend J.R.R. Tolkien. Middle-earth belongs to Tolkien’s writings, especially The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Archenland, by contrast, is a neighboring kingdom inside the Narnian world.