🏞 Landscapes & nature

Gobi Desert

desert in China and Mongolia

🇲🇳 Mongolia · 42.5000, 103.0000

Gobi Desert is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 3 productions — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.

“The first phase of shooting was in the Gobi Desert where it consistently rained.”
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) · Wikipedia

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Gobi Desert
Photo: Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Gobi Desert as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Other filming locations in Mongolia

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed at Gobi Desert?

3 productions are recorded as filmed at Gobi Desert, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) and Dragon Blade (2015). 3 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed at Gobi Desert?

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), covered by 66 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Gobi Desert?

Gobi Desert is in Mongolia, at 42.5000, 103.0000.

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 Christopher Michel from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0.