Little Whinging is the fictional Surrey village where Harry Potter lives with the Dursleys at the start of J.K. Rowling’s series.
Harry’s address is 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging. The house belongs to Vernon and Petunia Dursley, who raise Harry after the deaths of his parents, James and Lily Potter. Rowling presents the neighbourhood as an ordinary suburban setting that contrasts sharply with the hidden wizarding world.
The name is fictional, but the books place Little Whinging in Surrey, England. The opening and closing sections of the series repeatedly return to Privet Drive, making the location an important boundary between Harry’s life with the Dursleys and his life as a wizard.
Little Whinging is different from Hogsmeade, the wizarding village near Hogwarts, and Godric’s Hollow, a village associated with Harry’s family history. Those locations are sometimes mixed up because all three are significant places in the novels.