🏙 Towns & cities
Jaffna
capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · 9.6647, 80.0167
Jaffna is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia article of 1 production — 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 Sri Lankan scenes of the film were shot in India, where the city of Jaffna and large parts of inner Sri Lanka were recreated.”
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Jaffna 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Jaffna?
1 production is recorded as filmed in Jaffna, including Madras Cafe (2013). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Where is Jaffna?
Jaffna is in Sri Lanka, at 9.6647, 80.0167.
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 Anton 17, CC BY-SA 3.0.