Narnia is the fictional country at the heart of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia novels.
The land of Narnia is created in The Magician’s Nephew and serves as the main setting for The Chronicles of Narnia. It contains forests, rivers, castles, talking animals, mythical creatures, and neighboring lands such as Archenland and Calormen.
Narnia is also the name of the larger fictional world in some discussions, although the country itself is only one part of that world. The books move beyond its borders to places including the Eastern Ocean, the northern land of Ettinsmoor, and the southern empire of Calormen.
Readers sometimes compare Narnia with Middle-earth because both are famous fantasy settings created by twentieth-century authors. They are separate fictional worlds: Middle-earth belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien, while Narnia belongs to Lewis.