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Dubai

most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · 25.2697, 55.3094

Dubai is recorded as a filming location for 6 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Dubai, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 14 more. 2 video games are also set here.

2 places inside Dubai have a page of their own — listed below. Everything shot at them is already named above, recorded against Dubai as well.

“Additional filming locations were Seoul, South Korea, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the Nahanni National Park Reserve in Canada's Northwest Territories.”
Star Trek Beyond (2016) · Wikipedia

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Dubai
Photo: Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Movies and TV series filmed in Dubai

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Dubai 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.

Filming locations inside Dubai

2 places inside Dubai, each with a page of their own. Every production shot at them is already listed above, because Wikidata records them against Dubai 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 Dubai, 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

Productions whose Japanese Wikipedia article names Dubai 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

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Dubai?

20 productions are recorded as filmed in Dubai, including Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Star Trek Beyond (2016) and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). 14 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Dubai?

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), covered by 54 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Dubai?

Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, at 25.2697, 55.3094.

What other filming locations are near Dubai?

Burj Khalifa, Atlantis, The Palm, Palm Jumeirah and Emirates Towers, 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 Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 3.0.