🏙 Towns & cities
Cairo
capital city of Egypt
🇪🇬 Egypt · 30.0444, 31.2358
Cairo is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Cairo, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 10 more. 6 video games are also set here.
1 place inside Cairo has a page of its own — listed below. Everything shot at it is already named above, recorded against Cairo as well.
“On October 6, he arrived in Cairo to make "the greatest production of my life"; the following day, he met the Prime Minister of Egypt, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser.”
TV series filmed in Cairo
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Cairo 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.
- The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
- The Ten Commandments 1956
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Sometimes Happiness Sometimes Sadness...
2001
“The song "Suraj Hua Maddham", featuring Khan and Kajol, was filmed at the Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt.” Wikipedia
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Death on the Nile
1978
“Four weeks filming were on the steamer Karnak (the historic ship SS Memnon) and the rest at places such as Aswan, Abu Simbel, Luxor, and Cairo.” Wikipedia
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
“The film was shot on location in Nairobi, Kenya, Cairo, Egypt, and the French Riviera, and studio work was done at Stage 14 in 20th Century Fox Studios.” Wikipedia
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
2010
“Additional scenes were shot in Mortagne-au-Perche, Normandy and in Cairo.” Wikipedia
- Khartoum 1966
- Ruby Cairo 1992
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Drishyam 2
2021
“Jeethu Joseph and Mohanlal were filming for Ram prior to the COVID-19 lockdown in India, however the shooting of the film was stalled as some sequences they want to film in foreign locations, such as London and Cairo.” Wikipedia
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Desert Warrior
1957
“Some scenes were shot on location in Cairo, but this coincided with the outbreak of the Suez Crisis.” Wikipedia
Filming locations inside Cairo
1 place inside Cairo, with a page of its own. Every production shot at it is already listed above, because Wikidata records it against Cairo too.
Set here
Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood — a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Cairo, 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.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
“The video game is set in the city of Cairo in 1936, represented by an entrance room and a marketplace.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Shubra El-Kheima
🇪🇬 Egypt
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Giza pyramid complex
🇪🇬 Egypt
archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, Egypt
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
The Great Sphinx
🇪🇬 Egypt
ancient Egyptian monumental sculpture
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Gayer-Anderson Museum
🇪🇬 Egypt
art museum in Cairo, Egypt
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Mosque of Ibn Tulun
🇪🇬 Egypt
Mosque in Cairo, Egypt
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🏙 Towns & cities
Abu Rawash
🇪🇬 Egypt
village in Giza Governorate, Egypt
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Cairo?
11 productions are recorded as filmed in Cairo, including Miss Farah (2019–2022), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and The Ten Commandments (1956). 10 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Cairo?
Miss Farah (2019–2022), covered by 9 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Cairo?
Cairo is in Egypt, at 30.0444, 31.2358.
What other filming locations are near Cairo?
Shubra El-Kheima, Giza pyramid complex, The Great Sphinx, Gayer-Anderson Museum 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 Faris El-Gwely, CC BY 4.0.