James Bond locations refers to the many locations in which the James Bond series of films were filmed and set in, and the locations where the books were set in. Most often, James Bond visits countries in Western Europe and parts of the United States, but occasionally goes to other countries such as Japan or India. Some fictional countries, unnamed countries, or locations in unspecific areas are shown in the films.
Places James Bond visits in the films
Countries James Bond visited in the films (top) compared with countries the Bond films were shot in (bottom)
Most of the countries James Bond is shown to going to in the films, the films were actually shot in. The only ones that were shown as places that he went to but where the films were not shot in were Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Macau.
Europe
In almost all Bond films, Bond is shown in England, usually in London. However in You only live twice he is only in the Far East. He also goes to other areas outside London, such as areas in the country such as a retreat in Thunderball.
Bond goes to Paris in A view to a kill, climbing the Eiffel Tower. The start of Thunderball is set in France, where James Bond uses his jetpack. He is at a French port in Goldeneye, where a Tiger helicopter is stolen.
In Dr. No Bond is at a casino in Monte Carlo in Monaco where he first uses the phrase "Bond, James Bond".
He ends up in a fight in an elevator in The Netherlands in Diamonds are forever.
In Moonraker Bond is in Venice in Italy with a gondola which drives on land, he appears in Venice briefly at the end of From Russia with love; he is also in Italy in For Your Eyes Only when he is being chased by an East German olympic skiier. He visits the Italian island of Sardinia in The Spy who loved me (after the KGB agent XXX directed them there, Bond had originally thought of going to the French island of Corsica)
Bond goes to a villa in Spain in For Your Eyes Only. He also meets a contact in Spain in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The start of The World Is Not Enough is set in Bilbao in Spain. The start of The Living Daylights Bond is involved in an operation to test the defences of Gibraltar.
Much of On Her Majesty's Secret Service is set in Switzerland. He also follows Goldfinger into Geneva and to his secret facility in Switzerland.
Bond is in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in The Living Daylights, where he helps a Soviet general to defect. He goes to other parts of Czechoslovakia and escapes into Austria, where he visits Vienna. The start of The Spy who loved me is set in Austria also.
Bond is in Hamburg in Germany in Tomorrow Never Dies chasing media mogul Eliot Carver. In Octopussy Bond is shown in West Berlin heading into East Berlin, and also at Karl-marx-stadt (now Chemnitz) in East Germany, before going on a train into West Germany to an American air force base at the fictional location of Feldstadt.
Bond goes to Greece in For Your Eyes Only, including the Meteora monasteries.
Bond is in Istanbul in Turkey at the Hagia Sofia in From Russia with love. He is also in Istanbul in The World is not enough.
In From Russia with love, Bond travels through Eastern Europe from Istanbul on the Orient Express. Zagreb in Yugoslavia features prominently. He heads from the train, over land and by boat into the Adriatic Sea. He also is part of a raid into Albania in For Your Eyes Only.
Bond demolishes parts of St. Petersburg in Tomorrow Never Dies. This is the only time he is shown in a Russian city. He appears in a Soviet dam in a flashback in Goldeneye, and is also shown in Siberia at the start of A View to a kill.
Americas
The Golden Gate Bridge appears prominently in A View to a Kill
Several times James Bond has been to the United States; the places he has been to include Fort Knox, Kentucky in Goldfinger, New Orleans, Louisiana in Live and Let Die; Las Vegas, Nevada in Diamonds are Forever; San Fransisco, California in A View to a kill where the Golden Gate Bridge features prominently; Drax's French villa which he has transported to California; Miami, Florida at the start of Goldfinger and Licence to Kill . At the end of Live and Let die he takes the train from New Orleans to Washington which is presumably the Southern Crescent.
In Goldeneye and Die Another Day he visits Cuba. In Dr. No he visits Jamaica including Kingston and the fictional island of Crab Key; Thunderball is set largely in the Bahamas. The unofficial Bond film Never say never again is also set in the Bahamas.
In Licence to Kill Bond goes to the fictional city of Isthmus City, which is based on Panama City. In Live and Let die he goes to the fictional Caribbean island of San Monique.
The only time Bond has been to South America was in Moonraker when he goes to Rio de Janiero, and up the Amazon River in a speedboat, to Drax's secret facility in the Amazon jungle.
Asia
Most of You only Live Twice is set in Japan. He also appears there briefly at the start of Diamonds are forever.
Bond is "killed" in Hong Kong at the start of You only live twice, and he is also there in The man with the golden gun where he goes to a secret base inside a wrecked ship in the harbour. He also appears in Hong Kong in Die Another Day.
He drives through Saigon in Vietnam on a motorbike in Tomorrow Never Dies.
He is captured in North Korea in Die Another Day, and is later released across the border into South Korea.
While several films involve China, Bond does not actually travel to the mainland. He is onboard a stealth ship off the coast of China in Tomorrow Never Dies, and also in that film is parachute dropped into ocean which is believed to be Chinese, but which ends up being Vietnamese. He appears at a US airforce base in the South China Sea in that film also.
Bond goes to Thailand in The man with the Golden Gun.
Much of Octopussy is set in India where Bond visit's Octopussy's and Kamal's palaces.
The finale of The Living Daylights is set in Afghanistan where Bond escapes from a Soviet air force base, joins the mujahadeen, takes control of a Soviet aircraft and crashes it in Pakistan, where he heads off for Karachi, where he "knows a great restaurant".
The start of Tomorrow Never Dies involves an arms bazaar "on the Russian border". It is close to the Black Sea where a British ship fires a missile on it, so it could be presumed to be Azerbaijan or Georgia but it is not actually identified.
Bond goes to Baku in Azerbaijan in The World is not enough.
In The Man With the Golden Gun he goes to Beirut in Lebanon
Africa
Bond goes to Egypt near the Great Pyramids in The Spy who loved me; he also briefly is shown punching a man in the face in Cairo at a Blackjack table while looking for Blofeld at the start of Diamonds Are Forever. In The Living Daylights Bond pursues Soviet general Pushkin to Tangier in Morocco. Bond rescues his girl in Never Say Never Again from an unnamed North African country. The start of Moonraker shows Bond returning from "Africa" where he and Jaws fight on their way out of a plane. Bond thinks he will be sent to South Africa in Diamonds are Forever, saying "I've always wanted to go to South Africa" but he is in fact sent to the Netherlands.
Shooting locations
This list shows which films were shot in which countries.
Europe
- Pinewood Studios, - Almost all the films except for Licence to Kill.
- Other places in England - Goldfinger (Stoke Poges Golf Club), Thunderball (Silverstone Circuit), For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill (Ascot Racecourse), GoldenEye (Leavesden Aerodrome, Hertsfordshire), Tomorrow Never Dies (Frogmore Studios, HMS Dryad, Oxford, IBM building Middlesex, RAF Lakenheath), The World Is Not Enough (London, Wiltshire and Halton House, Buckinghamshire), Die Another Day (London, RAF Odiham, Church Crookham, Hampshire, The Eden Project, Cornwall, Holywell Bay, Newquay, Cornwall)
- Scotland - From Russia with Love (Argyll), The Spy who loved me, The World is not enough (Eilean Donan castle)
- France - Thunderball (Chateau d’Anet outside of Paris), Diamonds are forever, Moonraker (Studios De Boulogne Paris Studios - Cinema Eclair Studios), A View to a Kill (Eiffel Tower, Château de Chantilly), GoldenEye, The World Is Not Enough
- Monaco - GoldenEye
- Germany - Diamonds are forever, Octopussy, The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies(Hamburg)
- Austria - The Living Daylights
- Netherlands - Diamonds are forever
- Italy - The Spy who loved me (Sardinia), Moonraker (Venice), For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights
- Greece - For Your Eyes Only
- Switzerland - From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Piz Gloria), The Spy who loved me, A View to a Kill, GoldenEye (Verzasca Dam)
- Portugal - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Malta - The Spy who loved me, For Your Eyes Only
- Iceland - A View to a Kill, Die Another Day
- Russia - GoldenEye (St. Petersburg)
Americas
Exterior shots of the Fort Knox Bullion Depository were taken for the movie Goldfinger.
- United States - Goldfinger (Louisville, Fort Knox), Diamonds are forever, Octopussy, A View to a Kill (San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge), The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill (Key West), Die Another Day (Maui, Hawaii)
- Canada - The Spy who loved me (Auyuittuq National Park
- Bahamas - Thunderball (Nassau), For Your Eyes Only, The World Is Not Enough
- Jamaica - Dr. No, Live and Let Die
- Brazil - Moonraker
- Guatemala - Moonraker
- Mexico - Licence to Kill (Churubusco Studios in Mexico City), Tomorrow Never Dies (Fox Baja studios)
- Puerto Rico - GoldenEye (Arecibo Observatory)
Asia
- Japan - You only live twice, The Spy who loved me (Okinawa)
- Hong Kong - The Man With the Golden Gun
- Macau - The Man With the Golden Gun
- India - Octopussy
- Azerbaijan - The World Is Not Enough
Africa
- Egypt - The Spy who loved me
- Morocco - The Living Daylights