Where was Argo filmed?
2012 film directed by Ben Affleck
Argo (2012) was filmed in Washington, D.C., Istanbul and Los Angeles — 3 recorded filming locations in the United States, Turkey. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Los Angeles
🇺🇸 United States
seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Washington, D.C.
🇺🇸 United States
capital city of the United States of America
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🏙 Towns & cities
Istanbul
🇹🇷 Turkey
largest city in Turkey
Also per Wikipedia's article
The article names 4 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🎬 Studios & sets
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank
🇺🇸 United States
filmmaking facility owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Tehran
🇮🇷 Iran
capital city of Iran
“The film deals with the "Canadian Caper", in which Mendez led the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran, under the guise of filming a science-fiction film during the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
McLean
🇺🇸 United States
census-designated place and unincorporated community in Virginia, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Times Mirror Square
🇺🇸 United States
complex of buildings in Los Angeles
“The scene in which Mendez drives up to and walks into the CIA headquarters lobby was filmed with permission at the CIA's original headquarters building in Virginia; all other scenes set at the CIA were filmed in the basement of the Los Angeles Times Building.” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Virginia, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
- Pulp Fiction 1994
- The Dark Knight 2008
- Back to the Future 1985
- Fight Club 1999
- The Terminator 1984
- Interstellar 2014
- The Avengers 2012
- The X-Files 1993–2018
- How I Met Your Mother 2005–2014
- Blade Runner 1982
- Spider-Man 2002
- Iron Man 2008
Set in the same places
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- L.A. Noire
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Battlefield Hardline
- 24: The Game
- Duke Nukem
- Mario Kart Tour
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction per its source work 2022
- Track & Field
- Wasteland 2
- Great Pretender
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Argo have?
3 places recorded on Wikidata, and 4 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across 2 countries.
In which countries was Argo filmed?
the United States and Turkey.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Pulp Fiction (1994), The Dark Knight (2008), Back to the Future (1985), Fight Club (1999) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.