Narnia is the fictional country and world at the center of C.S. Lewis’s seven-book fantasy series. The Chronicles of Narnia follows human visitors and Narnian inhabitants through the land’s creation, major conflicts, changing rulers, and final destruction.
In Lewis’s stories, Narnia contains talking animals, magical beings, giants, dwarfs, and other creatures drawn from European folklore and classical mythology. Aslan, a powerful lion, is its principal symbolic and political figure. Human children from our world repeatedly enter Narnia through unusual gateways, including a wardrobe, a painting, and magical rings.
Narnia is sometimes confused with other famous fantasy settings because all appear in major twentieth-century literature. Middle-earth belongs to J.R.R. Tolkien, Earthsea to Ursula K. Le Guin, and Westeros to George R.R. Martin. Lewis’s world is specifically Narnia, although the wider fictional universe also includes places such as Archenland, Calormen, and the Wood between the Worlds.