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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

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Dubai is recorded as a filming location for 8 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Dubai, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 43 more. 2 video games are also set here.

3 productions were filmed at 9 places inside Dubai rather than at Dubai itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“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.

And 41 more, per Wikipedia:

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Dubai

3 productions shot at 9 places inside Dubai, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Dubai itself.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Dubai?

95 productions are recorded as filmed in Dubai, 3 of them at places inside it, including Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Star Trek Beyond (2016) and Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). 84 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. Its coordinates are 25.2697, 55.3094. The day trip guide for Dubai lists 20 filming locations within 100 km.

What other filming locations are near Dubai?

Bur Dubai (2 km south-west), Dubai Creek (2 km south-east), Al Souk Al Kabir (2 km south-west), Dubai International Airport (6 km east) 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 Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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