🏰 Castles & palaces
Great Wall of China
series of fortifications built along the historical border of China
🇨🇳 China · 40.4314, 116.5644
Great Wall of China is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 3 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on. 2 video games are also set here.
“Part of the set was a large wall inspired by the Great Wall of China.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Great Wall of China as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014
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The Karate Kid
2010
“The Chinese government granted the filmmakers access to the Forbidden City, the Great Wall of China, and the Wudang Mountains.” Wikipedia
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Jeans
1998
“The team made a thirty-day trip around the world stopping to can scenes at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Empire State Building, the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Egyptian pyramids, the Colosseum and the Eiffel Tower.” Wikipedia
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.
Other filming locations in China
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🏙 Towns & cities
Central
🇨🇳 China
central business district in Hong Kong
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Victoria Harbour
🇨🇳 China
harbour between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong
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🛣 Streets & squares
Central–Mid-levels escalators
🇨🇳 China
covered escalator system in Hong Kong
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
International Finance Centre
🇨🇳 China
commercial development in Central, Hong Kong
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🛣 Streets & squares
Queen's Road
🇨🇳 China
series of roads in north Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
The Center
🇨🇳 China
skyscraper in Hong Kong
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Great Wall of China?
3 productions are recorded as filmed at Great Wall of China, including X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), The Karate Kid (2010) and Jeans (1998). 3 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Great Wall of China?
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), covered by 60 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Great Wall of China?
Great Wall of China is in China, at 40.4314, 116.5644.
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 Severin.stalder, CC BY-SA 3.0.