🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Liwa Oasis
oasis
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · 23.1333, 53.7833
Liwa Oasis is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikipedia names it for 5 more.
“The Liwa Oasis in the United Arab Emirates also served as a key backdrop for Arrakis, with filming there occurring across 11 days.”
Movies filmed at Liwa Oasis
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Liwa Oasis 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.
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Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
2015
“In April, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn confirmed that filming had begun, filming in secret in the United Arab Emirates around Liwa Oasis, part of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, by a second unit.” Wikipedia
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Sonic the Hedgehog
2020
“Key production scenes were also filmed in Liwa Oasis, United Arab Emirates.” Wikipedia
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Dune: Part Two
2024
“Desert scenes of the desert landscape of Liwa was filmed to represent the planet Arrakis in the 2021 film Dune and 2024 film Dune: Part Two.” Wikipedia
- Dune: Part Three 2026
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Deliver Us from Evil
2014
“Production filmed scenes at the Liwa Oasis desert in Abu Dhabi.” Wikipedia
Named here by Liwa Oasis’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Liwa Oasis, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2020
“Desert scenes in the 2020 film Sonic the Hedgehog were filmed in Liwa Oasis.” Wikipedia
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Liwa Oasis?
6 productions are recorded as filmed at Liwa Oasis, including Dune (2021), Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) and Sonic the Hedgehog (2020). 5 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed at Liwa Oasis?
Dune (2021), covered by 70 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Liwa Oasis?
Liwa Oasis is in the United Arab Emirates, at 23.1333, 53.7833.
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 NASA, Public domain.