🏙 Towns & cities
Samarkand
city in southeastern Uzbekistan
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · 39.6547, 66.9758
Samarkand is where 1 video game is set, according to its Wikipedia article — Wikidata records their setting only as the country. Nothing on this atlas was filmed here.
Set here, per Wikipedia
Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Samarkand, 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.
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Final Fantasy X
“The game is set in the fantasy world of Spira, a setting influenced by the South Pacific, Thailand and Japan, while the name of the city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan has been cited as an inspiration for Zanarkand.” Wikipedia
Other filming locations in Uzbekistan
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🌍 Countries & regions
Uzbekistan
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
sovereign state in Central Asia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Kyzyl Kum
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
desert in Central Asia
Frequently asked questions
Was anything filmed in Samarkand?
No. 1 video game is set there, and nothing drawn or rendered is filmed anywhere. This page is about where the story happens.
Where is Samarkand?
Samarkand is in Uzbekistan, at 39.6547, 66.9758.
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 Adam Harangozó, CC BY-SA 4.0.