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🇳🇿 Filming locations in New Zealand

122 places in New Zealand recorded as a filming location for a film or television series, from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) down to the deep cuts.

🎬 3 studios & sets · 🏛 17 landmarks & buildings · 🛣 5 streets & squares · 🏞 48 landscapes & nature · 🏙 49 towns & cities

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Locations in New Zealand

The 120 most notable are above. Every place in New Zealand, A to Z, with how many productions each carries:

Set in New Zealand, not filmed there

2 more places in New Zealand appear on this atlas because a game, an anime or a manga is SET there. Nothing was filmed at them: a drawn or rendered work is filmed nowhere, and some of these places are invented and pinned on what Wikidata says they are based on.

Also shot in New Zealand, without a precise location

Wikidata records 100 more productions as shot in New Zealand while naming only the country or the state — true, and too coarse to pin, so they are named here rather than dropped or guessed at.

Frequently asked questions

How many filming locations are in New Zealand?

122 places in New Zealand are recorded on this atlas: 3 studios & sets, 17 landmarks & buildings and 5 streets & squares, among others. Every one is listed on this page.

Which is the most filmed place in New Zealand?

Wellington, with 5 recorded productions.

Which famous productions were filmed in New Zealand?

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and Mulan (2020), by number of Wikipedia language editions.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to each place's coordinates, photograph and Wikipedia article. A country that looks thin means sparse Wikidata coverage, never that nothing was filmed there.