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Abu Dhabi

capital city of the United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates · 24.4511, 54.3969

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Abu Dhabi is recorded as a filming location for 4 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Abu Dhabi, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 31 more.

2 productions were filmed at 11 places inside Abu Dhabi rather than at Abu Dhabi itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Other locations for the movie included a terminal still under construction at the Abu Dhabi airport and various sites in the Italian cities of Rome (including the 20-minute-long car chase) and Venice.”
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) · Wikipedia

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Abu Dhabi
Photo: Валерий Дед · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies filmed in Abu Dhabi

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Abu Dhabi as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Abu Dhabi

2 productions shot at 11 places inside Abu Dhabi, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Abu Dhabi itself.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Abu Dhabi, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement: two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Drawn from this place

Anime whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Abu Dhabi as a real place their setting was modelled on. Nothing was filmed here and no story happens here: somebody drew it from here. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, which is why it sits under its own heading, and each production’s page links the article the claim came from.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Abu Dhabi?

37 productions are recorded as filmed in Abu Dhabi, 2 of them at places inside it, including Furious 7 (2015), Dune: Part Two (2024) and Bunty Aur Babli 2 (2020). 31 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Abu Dhabi?

Furious 7 (2015), covered by 61 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Abu Dhabi?

Abu Dhabi is in the United Arab Emirates. Its coordinates are 24.4511, 54.3969.

What other filming locations are near Abu Dhabi?

Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (5 km south-east), Abu Dhabi Global Market (6 km north), Etihad Towers (8 km west), Emirates Palace (8 km west) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

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 Валерий Дед, CC BY 3.0.