🏙 Towns & cities
Tozeur
city in southwest Tunisia
🇹🇳 Tunisia · 33.9197, 8.1336
Tozeur is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Tozeur, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.
“The Sidi Bouhlel canyon near the city of Tozeur is where a rocket launcher-equipped Jones confronts the Nazis for the Ark.”
Movies filmed in Tozeur
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Tozeur 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.
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Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
1977
“Meanwhile, a construction crew in nearby Tozeur spent eight weeks creating additional Tatooine locations.” Wikipedia
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
1999
“The Tunisian desert was again used for the Tatooine scenes; Mos Espa was built outside the city of Tozeur.” Wikipedia
Named here by Tozeur’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Tozeur, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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“Tozeur was used as a filming location for the Star Wars saga and Raiders of the Lost Ark (specifically Sidi Bouhlel canyon outside the town and the salt-flats of nearby Nefta).” Wikipedia
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The English Patient 1996
“The English Patient (9 Oscars) with Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas was partially filmed outside Tozeur.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Chott el Djerid
🇹🇳 Tunisia
chott in Tunisia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Nafta
🇹🇳 Tunisia
Tunisian town
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Tozeur?
3 productions are recorded as filmed in Tozeur, including Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Tozeur?
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), covered by 80 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Tozeur?
Tozeur is in Tunisia, at 33.9197, 8.1336.
What other filming locations are near Tozeur?
Chott el Djerid and Nafta, 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 BishkekRocks, CC BY-SA 3.0.