🏞 Landscapes & nature
Sahara
desert on the African continent
🇳🇪 Niger · 23.0797, 12.6122
Sahara is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 5 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.
“Partly filmed on location near Sognefjord in Norway (as Soviet Union) and the Sahara (as Pakistan), the film is a homage to the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road to... film series.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Sahara 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.
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed at Sahara?
5 productions are recorded as filmed at Sahara, including Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), The Mummy (1999) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023). 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 Sahara?
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), covered by 96 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Sahara?
Sahara is in Niger, at 23.0797, 12.6122.
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 Project Apollo Archive, Public domain.