🌍 Countries & regions
New Zealand
island country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
🇳🇿 New Zealand · -41.2000, 174.0000
New Zealand is on this map as a whole country rather than as a place, because Wikidata records 5 video games as set here and nothing finer. The dot sits at its centre, which is not where anything happens: it stands in for the whole area. Nothing is claimed to have been filmed at this point, and no film or series is placed this way anywhere on the atlas.
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.
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Contra
“Contra is set in the distant future of the year 2633 A.D., when the evil Red Falcon Organization have set a base on the fictional Galuga archipelago near New Zealand in a plot to wipe out humanity.” Wikipedia
- The King of Fighters 2003
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in New Zealand, 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.
Filming locations nearby
Frequently asked questions
Was anything filmed in New Zealand?
No. 5 video games are set there, and nothing drawn or rendered is filmed anywhere. This page is about where the story happens.
Where is New Zealand?
New Zealand is on the map as a whole country. The dot marks its centre, at -41.2000, 174.0000, and stands for the whole area.
What other filming locations are near New Zealand?
Te Hoiere / Pelorus River, 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 DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0.