Where is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 set?
2009 video game developed by Infinity Ward
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009): 1 real place Wikidata records as its setting in the United States. Where the game takes place, not where it was made: a game is filmed nowhere, so this is the only kind of location it has.
Part of the Call of Duty game series
Where it is set
Also per Wikipedia: setting categories
Wikipedia’s setting categories list 4 more places. A category is an editor’s choice, not a sourced sentence, so these places are listed apart. Each links to its category.
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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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New York City
United States
Most populous city in the United States
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Moscow
Russia
Capital and most populous city of Russia
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Towns & cities
Karachi
Pakistan
Provincial capital of Sindh, Pakistan
Drawn from these real places
Japanese Wikipedia says this game’s setting was modelled on these real places. Nothing was filmed at them.
Places whose own article says it is set there
1 place says on its own Wikipedia page that this game is set there. Not on the map: the quote is linked so you can check it.
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Towns & cities
Rocinha
Brazil
Neighborhood in municipality of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
“In the 2009 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, two of the main campaign missions and a multiplayer map based on it are set in the favela.” Wikipedia
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