Towns & cities

Abidjan

major city and economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire

Ivory Coast · 5.3364, -4.0267

Official site

Abidjan is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 2 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.

“After Jean Rouch and his subjects agreed that they had captured enough footage, they recorded the dialog in a studio in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, France which he superimposed over ambient street noise recorded around Abidjan.”
Moi, un noir (1958) · Wikipedia

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Abidjan
Photo: RyansWorld · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Abidjan as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Other filming locations in Ivory Coast

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Abidjan?

2 productions are recorded as filmed in Abidjan, including Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? (2014) and Moi, un noir (1958). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Abidjan?

Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? (2014), covered by 32 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Abidjan?

Abidjan is in Ivory Coast. Its coordinates are 5.3364, -4.0267.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by RyansWorld, CC BY-SA 3.0.