Towns & cities
Pyongyang
capital city of North Korea
North Korea · 39.0167, 125.7475
Pyongyang is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Pyongyang, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 1 more.
1 place inside Pyongyang has a page of its own: listed below. Everything shot at it is already named above, recorded against Pyongyang as well.
Movies filmed in Pyongyang
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Pyongyang 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 Pyongyang
1 place inside Pyongyang, with a page of its own. Every production shot at it is already listed above, because Wikidata records it against Pyongyang too.
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Pyongyang, 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
What was filmed in Pyongyang?
2 productions are recorded as filmed in Pyongyang, including Under the Sun (2015) and Pulgasari (1985). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Pyongyang?
Under the Sun (2015), covered by 12 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Pyongyang?
Pyongyang is in North Korea. Its coordinates are 39.0167, 125.7475.
What other filming locations are near Pyongyang?
Mansu Hill Grand Monument (2 km north), 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 Christophe95, CC BY-SA 4.0.