🏙 Towns & cities
Sulaymaniyah
city in Iraq
🇮🇶 Iraq · 35.5500, 45.4333
Sulaymaniyah 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 Sulaymaniyah, 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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Battlefield 3
“The game features maps set in Paris, Tehran (as well as other locations in Iran), Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, New York City, Wake Island, Oman, Kuwait City, and other parts of the Persian Gulf.” Wikipedia
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🎭 Fictional places
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structure stated in Genesis to have been under construction by humans while they all spoke a single language, and abandoned unfinished after their tongues were confused
Frequently asked questions
Was anything filmed in Sulaymaniyah?
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 Sulaymaniyah?
Sulaymaniyah is in Iraq, at 35.5500, 45.4333.
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 D. Zuppinger, uploaded by Giorces, CC BY 3.0.