About FilmMap
FilmMap answers one question: where was this actually filmed? Search a title to see the real places it was shot in, or open a place to see what was made there. 14,525 locations in 88 countries, 9,147 films and television series with a page of their own, and 1,853 video games. Free, no signup, no ads.
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Where the data comes from
The backbone is filming location (P915) statements on Wikidata, joined to each place's coordinates, its Wikipedia article and its photograph on Wikimedia Commons. Nothing is taken from fan wikis or listicles, and nothing is generated. If a page here says a production was shot somewhere, an editor wrote that down, and every page carries a “Source data” link straight to the record it was built from.
Three kinds of evidence, never mixed
Since August 2026 the atlas also reads the Filming section of each production's English Wikipedia article, because Wikipedia's prose often knows more than Wikidata's statements do — the article for a film can name fifteen towns where the database records none. Those places are on the map too, and every one is labelled “per Wikipedia” wherever it appears: on the card, on the production's page, in the downloads and through the MCP endpoint. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement an editor wrote as data, so the two kinds are kept in separate lists, separate columns and separate counts, and each prose claim links the exact section it came from. 21,117 links across 5,470 productions currently rest on Wikipedia evidence, including 1,680 productions for which Wikidata records no filming location at all.
The same stream carries a second kind of reading, added in August 2026 and used only for the media that are set somewhere rather than filmed: the categories Wikipedia's editors file a work under. 1,631 places on this site come from “Video games set in Tokyo” and 277 other categories like it, in English and in Japanese, across 880 games, anime and manga. It exists because Wikidata's narrative location is written at story scale: measured across every game here, it records 0 settings to a district, 0 to a county and 724 to a country and nothing finer. The category tree is the only place the layer below that is written down. Each one is labelled and linked like any other Wikipedia claim, and a category resolving to a whole country is dropped rather than added, because a country is exactly what this stream is for getting past.
The third kind is the weakest and the rarest, and it is the reason this heading counts to three. A handful of anime and video games have no recorded setting of their own while the work they adapt does, so they are placed by their source and every row that happens to says “per its source work”. That is a statement about a book, not about the screen, and an adaptation is free to move its story somewhere else entirely: Gankutsuou retells The Count of Monte Cristo in the year 5053 and largely in space, and it takes the novel's pins in Marseille and Paris anyway. It is here because it is sourced and checkable, and it is labelled because it is a step weaker than everything around it.
Games, anime and manga are a different claim
A video game is filmed nowhere, and neither is an anime or a manga: one is rendered and the other two are drawn. The places on their pages come from narrative location (P840) — where the story is set, not where a camera stood. They live under /game/, /anime/ and /manga/ rather than /film/ for that reason, and are never described as filming locations anywhere on this site.
Anime arrived in August 2026 and it corrected something as well as adding something. Anime films had been coming in as ordinary films, so this atlas showed Spirited Away at the hot spring its bathhouse was modelled on, filed under filming locations. It was never filmed there. Nothing is. The most famous titles are also the vaguest: Wikidata records the setting of Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Your Name as the whole of Japan, so they sit on a country dot that stands in for the whole area rather than on a place. And a real place an anime was modelled on stays off this map, for the same reason a place a film merely pretended to be does.
Manga followed a year’s worth of lessons later, in the same week as the setting categories, and it exists because of them: Wikidata records a narrative location for 27 manga in the world, which is not a medium, while Japanese Wikipedia files hundreds of them under the ward or the city they happen in. It shares the anime row of the map’s filter, because the two are one shelf to a reader and most anime began as one, and it keeps its own pages, because a manga is not an anime.
Which productions get a page
A production earns a page when the page has something to say: two or more recorded locations, or enough Wikipedia coverage that people ask the question. Roughly three thousand titles have a single location and almost no coverage, and a page each would be three thousand stubs, so they stay on the map and on their locations' pages, where they read as a detail rather than as a page that failed to be about anything.
What is missing, and why the map is not the world
This atlas is curated, and a sparse-looking country means sparse data or titles below that bar — never that nothing was filmed there. Coverage is as complete as volunteers have made it, which is unevenly: some famous productions have no filming location recorded at all, and 817 of the pages here are for productions Wikidata places only by country or state. Casablanca, Gladiator and Psycho are all in that group. A dot in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote, so those pages say what is known in words and leave the map alone.
What a scene row does and does not say
The ranking of 150 famous scenes pairs a place with the most widely covered production filmed there, ordered by how many languages Wikipedia covers that production in. A row asserts only that the production filmed at the place, never which scene. Where English Wikipedia describes what was shot there, one sentence is quoted and attributed in place.
The quoted sentences
A pin says a production was here. It cannot say what happened here, and since August 2026 the atlas quotes Wikipedia where Wikipedia says: 16,891 of the pairings on this site carry one sentence taken word for word from the production's own English Wikipedia article, in quotation marks, with a link to the article it came from. That is how a page can tell you the glacier by Finse was the planet Hoth, or that the streets of Grand Theft Auto IV are four boroughs of New York.
They are description and never evidence. A sentence is attached only to a pairing the atlas already holds, from either kind of evidence above, and it can never put a dot on the map, move one or keep one. Nothing is paraphrased, summarised or written here: the sentence you read is the sentence in the article, cut at its full stops, which is what makes it checkable in one click. About four fifths of pairings have none, because no sentence in the article named the place in a way this could quote honestly, and those simply stay quiet. Wikipedia's text is CC BY-SA 4.0, so the quotation marks and the link are a licence condition rather than a courtesy, and it is also why these sentences are the one thing on this site that is not in the CC0 downloads.
How often it changes, and how to correct it
The site is rebuilt from a fresh Wikidata query rather than on a fixed schedule. The data behind these pages was last rebuilt on . If something here is wrong, the fix belongs upstream: correct the statement on Wikidata and it flows into this site on the next rebuild, along with every other atlas and tool built on the same record. How to add a missing filming location sets out the five steps, and where to send a correction you would rather not make yourself.
Who makes it
A personal, non-commercial project published as “Flightmussy”. No ads, no advertising networks, no signup, nothing sold or shared. Visits are counted anonymously on this site's own server in the EU, and the privacy notice sets out exactly what that means.
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Licences
Data, and the one-line description under each place: Wikidata, CC0. Scene quotes: English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, verbatim and attributed. Photographs: Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence. Basemap: OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, from OpenStreetMap data.