🏙 Towns & cities
Abu Dhabi
capital city of the United Arab Emirates
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · 24.4511, 54.3969
Abu Dhabi is recorded as a filming location for 3 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Abu Dhabi, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 9 more.
3 productions were filmed at 6 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.”
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.
- Dune 2021
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023
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Sex and the City 2
2010
“As a result, the Abu Dhabi scenes were instead shot in Morocco.” Wikipedia
- The Kingdom 2007
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Dabangg
2010
“Some scenes were also filmed at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi.” Wikipedia
- Dune: Part Three 2026
- Deliver Us from Evil 2014
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Neerja
2016
“Director Ram Madhvani and Rucha Pathak initially thought of shooting in Abu Dhabi, UAE or the United States due to the convenience of leasing a retired 747 but later decided to re-create the plane because a major part of the film required shooting against the plane backdrop.” Wikipedia
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Baby
2015
“The second part was shot in Nepal and the team completed their final schedule in Abu Dhabi in October.” Wikipedia
Movies filmed elsewhere in Abu Dhabi
3 productions shot at 6 places inside Abu Dhabi, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Abu Dhabi itself.
- Captain Marvel Louvre Abu Dhabi per Wikipedia 2019
- F1 Yas Marina Circuit per Wikipedia 2025
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't Louvre Abu Dhabi per Wikipedia 2025
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Louvre Abu Dhabi
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
art museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Yas Marina Circuit
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
race track
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
CLYMB Abu Dhabi
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
indoor adventure hub
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
theme park in Abu Dhabi
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Yas Island
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Emirates Palace
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi
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.
Filming locations nearby
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Louvre Abu Dhabi
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
art museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Yas Marina Circuit
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
race track
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
CLYMB Abu Dhabi
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
indoor adventure hub
-
🏞 Landscapes & nature
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
theme park in Abu Dhabi
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Yas Island
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Emirates Palace
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Abu Dhabi?
15 productions are recorded as filmed in Abu Dhabi, 3 of them at places inside it, including Furious 7 (2015), Dune: Part Two (2024) and Bunty Aur Babli 2 (2020). 9 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, at 24.4511, 54.3969.
What other filming locations are near Abu Dhabi?
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Yas Marina Circuit, CLYMB Abu Dhabi, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
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.