Munchkin Country

Munchkin Country (or Munchkinland in the 1939 film and its imitators) is a region in the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In Wizard it was originally called "the land of Munchkins," and "Munchkin Country" in all subsiquent Oz books. It is often referred to as "Munchkinland", which was introduced in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. Munchkin Country is linked to the Emerald City by means of the yellow brick road. As its name suggests, the inhabitants of Munchkin Country are little people called Munchkins. Munchkin Country is distinguished by the color blue, which is worn by most of the Munchkins as well as the color of their surroundings.

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1939 film - Land of Oz - L. Frank Baum - Oz books - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - 1939 - The Wizard of Oz - Emerald City - Yellow brick road - Munchkins - Blue

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Munchkin Country is the site where Dorothy Gale's house lands after being carried to Oz by a cyclone. The ruler in Munchkin Country is the Wicked Witch of the East, but upon Dorothy's arrival in Oz, she is eliminated when the house lands on top of her, causing much celebration among the Munchkins.

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Dorothy Gale - Wicked Witch of the East

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In Gregory Maguire's novel, ' (which uses "Munchkinland"), the people are not all Munchkins, and so they are actually called Munchkinlanders. Munchkinland is also shown to be the native home of Elphaba, or the Wicked Witch of the West, and her younger sister Nessarose. In the Broadway musical Wicked, based on the novel, their father is the governor of Munchkinland. In both adaptions, Nessarose eventually comes to power, but her corrupt ruling earns her loathing by the Munchkinlanders and the name, the Wicked Witch of the East.

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Gregory Maguire - Elphaba - Wicked Witch of the West - Nessarose - Broadway musical - Wicked

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