James Bond locations

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James Bond chases May Day through Paris after she parachutes from the Eiffel Tower in A View to a Kill
James Bond chases May Day through Paris after she parachutes from the Eiffel Tower in A View to a Kill

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.

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Locations of the novels, blue=original Fleming novels, green=other novels
Locations of the novels, blue=original Fleming novels, green=other novels

Listed by country: Placename - (novel title)

  • Flag of England England - (Scorpius); London (Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia with Love, Doctor No, Goldfinger, "Risico", Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, "The Property of a Lady", Colonel Sun, Licence Renewed, For Special Services, Icebreaker, Role of Honour, No Deals, Mr. Bond, The Man from Barbarossa, Death is Forever, Never Send Flowers, SeaFire, COLD, "Blast From the Past", The Facts of Death, SilverFin, Blood Fever); Kent (Moonraker, Goldfinger (in Sandwich, Kent); Shrublands, Brighton (Thunderball); Quarterdeck (M's home), Windsor (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Colonel Sun); Oxfordshire (Role of Honour); Somerset (Win, Lose or Die); Cambridge (SeaFire)
  • Flag of Scotland Scotland - (Licence Renewed, SilverFin)
  • Flag of Republic of Ireland Ireland - (Diamonds Are Forever, No Deals, Mr. Bond)
  • Flag of Belgium Belgium - (Nobody Lives For Ever)
  • Flag of Austria Austria - ("Octopussy"; it's revealed that Bond had spent time in Kitzbühel as a teen.)
  • Flag of Italy Italy - (From Russia with Love, Win, Lose or Die); Rome ("Risico", COLD), Venice ("Risico", Death is Forever, "Casino Royale"); Naples (Win, Lose or Die); Milan (Never Send Flowers); Pisa (COLD); Tuscany (COLD)
  • Flag of Cyprus Cyprus - (The Facts of Death)
  • Flag of Russia Russia - Moscow (The Man with the Golden Gun, The Man from Barbarossa)
  • Flag of Greece Greece - (From Russia with Love, The Facts of Death); Athens (Colonel Sun); Vrakonisi (Colonel Sun)

US states Bond visited in the films and books (blue); books only (green)
US states Bond visited in the films and books (blue); books only (green)
  • Flag of Mexico Mexico - Goldfinger (in a flashback)
  • Flag of Jamaica Jamaica - (Live and Let Die, Zero Minus Ten, Doctor No, The Man with the Golden Gun, "Octopussy")

  • Royale-les-Eaux, a fictional French casino town (Casino Royale, On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

Countries James Bond has visited in the films
Countries James Bond has visited in the films

The countries Bond visits all over the world are almost always filmed on location. Only the following countries appear in Bond movies, but were not actually shot on location: Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Macau, China, Uganda, Madagascar, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Vietnam, North Korea, Bulgaria, and the USSR. (Although more recent Bond films were shot on location in Russia and Azerbaijan.)

  • Flag of England England
    • He is generally in MI6 (or in Dr. No MI7) HQ in central London, specifically the Vauxhall Cross building on the Thames from GoldenEye onwards, or a nondescript building near Whitehall, sometimes with a Universal Exports cover (for example in OHMSS and The Living Daylights).
    • In You Only Live Twice, however, he is only seen in the Far East.
    • In some films, 007 goes to other areas in England outside London, such as areas in the country – punting on a river in From Russia with Love; the golf course showdown with the villain, near the South Coast, in Goldfinger;
    • A health retreat Shrublands in Thunderball (and the remake Never Say Never Again); ** The Bladen safe house in The Living Daylights
    • An Oxford University college in Tomorrow Never Dies (Moneypenny is presumably joking when she tells him to be back in central London from the city in 30 minutes!).
    • It is also stated in You Only Live Twice (humorously) and The Spy Who Loved Me that Bond studied at Cambridge University.
  • Flag of Scotland Scotland
    • In The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond visits the Royal Navy submarine pens in Scotland and is briefed there.
    • Following its being damaged in an attack in The World is Not Enough, the MI6 building at Vauxhall in London is vacated and M et al. relocate their HQ to a lochside castle, presumably in the Highlands. Prior to this, Bond, her and others attend the funeral of Sir Robert King at his Scottish estate.
  • Flag of France France
    • 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.
    • Right after the pre-dredits sequence in Goldeneye, Bond, and another woman are chasing Xenia Onatopp in a car chase near the border with Monaco.
    • Also, Bond could have possibly been over France during the free-falling fight scene with Jaws in Moonraker.
  • Flag of Monaco Monaco
    • Bond is in Monaco in GoldenEye, when he meets Xenia Onatopp at the casino in Monte Carlo, and when a Tiger helicopter is stolen.
    • Monaco also figures prominently in the non-EON 007 film Never Say Never Again.
  • Flag of Montenegro Montenegro
    • Bond is in Montenegro in Casino Royale where he takes part in poker tournament to defeat Le Chiffre.
  • Flag of Italy Italy
    • 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 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy in For Your Eyes Only when he is being chased by an East German Olympic skier.
    • 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).
    • The latter part of Casino Royale (2006) takes place in Venice and around the shores of Lake Como.
James Bond parachutes into Gibraltar at the start of The Living Daylights
James Bond parachutes into Gibraltar at the start of The Living Daylights
  • Flag of SpainSpain
    • 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 in Madrid.
    • The start of The World Is Not Enough is set in Bilbao in Spain.
  • Flag of Gibraltar Gibraltar
    • At the start of The Living Daylights Bond is involved in an operation to test the defences of Gibraltar.
  • Flag of Austria Austria - In "The Living Daylights"he escapes from Czechoslovakia into Austria, where he visits Vienna. The start of The Spy Who Loved Me has a skiing chase sequence set in Austria also.
  • Flag of Iceland Iceland
    • The central portion of Die Another Day is set in Iceland, where Gustav Graves discovers diamonds and has an ice palace.
Bond goes through the Hagia Sophia in From Russia With Love
Bond goes through the Hagia Sophia in From Russia With Love
  • Flag of Albania Albania
    • Bond takes part in a raid into Albania in For Your Eyes Only
  • Flag of Russia Russia -
    • Bond demolishes parts of St. Petersburg in a tank in GoldenEye. This is the only time he is shown in a Russian city.
    • He is part of a secret operation in a Soviet dam in a flashback in GoldenEye
    • He is also shown in Siberia at the start of A View to a Kill before he escapes on a submarine.
    • He is on the Russian-Georgian border at the start of Tomorrow Never Dies doing a mission involving terrorists.

Bond fights Zorin above the Golden Gate Bridge
Bond fights Zorin above the Golden Gate Bridge
  • Flag of Canada Canada
    • James Bond does not set foot in Canada in the films; however, in Goldfinger, Pussy Galore tells him that the plane they are on between Geneva and Baltimore is flying over Newfoundland.
  • Flag of Mexico Mexico
    • The finale of Diamonds Are Forever takes place on an oil rig in Baja California ** Also, in the pre-title sequence of Goldfinger, Bond destroys a drug plantation somewhere in Mexico.
  • Flag of Brazil Flag of Panama South America
    • The only time Bond has officially been to South America or Central America was in Moonraker when he goes to Rio de Janeiro, and up the Amazon River in a speedboat, to Drax's secret facility in the Amazon jungle, and in License To Kill, when he is in the fictional country of Isthmus (possibly Mexico).
    • The pre-credits sequence in Goldfinger is set in an undisclosed Central or South American country (possibly Mexico).

  • Flag of Japan Japan - Most of You Only Live Twice is set in Japan. 007 also appears there briefly at the start of Diamonds Are Forever. There is a reference in From Russia With Love about Bond and M visiting Tokyo, but in You Only Live Twice Bond tells Dikko Henderson that he's never been to Japan before.
The RMS Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbour serves as M's base in The Man With the Golden Gun
The RMS Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbour serves as M's base in The Man With the Golden Gun
  • Flag of Hong Kong Hong Kong
    • Bond is "killed" in Hong Kong at the start of You Only Live Twice
    • Bond is also there in The Man With the Golden Gun where he goes to a secret base inside the wrecked RMS Queen Elizabeth in the harbour (the very same ship the literary Bond had travelled on in Diamonds Are Forever).
    • He also appears at a hotel in Hong Kong in Die Another Day.

While several films involve China, Bond does not actually travel to the mainland (outside of Hong Kong).

    • 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 also appears at a US Air Force base in the South China Sea in that film.
    • In The Man With the Golden Gun the finale is on an island off the coast of China, where Bond and Scaramanga duel.
Bond passes the Taj Mahal in a helicopter in Octopussy
Bond passes the Taj Mahal in a helicopter in Octopussy
  • Flag of India India
    • Much of Octopussy is set in India where Bond visit's Octopussy's and Kamal's palaces.
  • Flag of Pakistan Pakistan
    • At the end of The Living Daylights Bond crashes a Soviet aircraft in Pakistan, where he heads off for Karachi, where he "knows a great restaurant".
    • Also, in Casino Royale, we see Bond killing one of his first targets in a cricket ground bathroom in Lahore.
  • Flag of Azerbaijan
    Flag of Georgia (country) Caucasus
    • 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. It is probably Georgia, because it is not mountainous like that on the Russian-Azeri border. The novelisation of the movie, however, refers to the location being on the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan.
    • Bond goes to Baku in Azerbaijan in The World Is Not Enough.

Bond meets Anya Amasova near the Great Pyramids in The Spy Who Loved Me
Bond meets Anya Amasova near the Great Pyramids in The Spy Who Loved Me

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  • Flag of Egypt Egypt -
    • In the pre-credits sequence of Diamonds Are Forever, Bond is briefly shown punching a man in the face in Cairo at a blackjack table while looking for Blofeld, he then follows a lead to a lady called Marie who is possibly at a nearby Egyptian resort on the Red Sea.
    • In The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond returns to Egypt, encountering a sheik contact (and riding a camel) in the Sahara, pursuing leads in Cairo and at the son et lumiere show at the Great Pyramids and Sphinx. He also travels many miles through the desert overnight to an encounter amid the temples at Luxor, and sails the Nile with Anya Amasova. There is a hidden MI6 base shown within an Ancient Egyptian temple.
  • Flag of Morocco Morocco
    • In The Living Daylights, Bond pursues General Pushkin, head of the KGB, to Tangier, and fakes Pushkin's assassination. Near the end of the film, he returns to Tangier to take down the villain Brad Whitaker.
  • (Flag of Tunisia possibly Tunisia)
    • Also, Bond rescues Domino in Never Say Never Again from an unnamed North African country where Largo has a Moorish-style castle on the coast (possibly Tunisia).
  • Flag of Madagascar Madagascar
    • In Casino Royale, one of Bond's earliest missions sees him in Madagascar off Africa's east coast. He chases Mollaka through a construction site and follows him into the fictitious Nambutu embassy.

Several fictional countries have appeared in the Bond films:

  • San Monique, fictional island in the Carribean, setting for part of Live and Let Die
  • Ithmus, fictional country based on Mexico in Licence to Kill
  • Nambutu, fictional country which Bond enters the embassy of in Madagascar at the start of Casino Royale

  • Outer Space
    • In Moonraker Bond flies one of Drax's shuttles from his launch center in the Amazon to his space station. In You Only Live Twice, Bond very nearly went into space, disguised as an astronaut, but was stopped from boarding the SPECTRE craft at the last second by Blofeld.

James Bond fights Jaws on cable cars at Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker
James Bond fights Jaws on cable cars at Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker

A number of well-known international landmarks figure prominently in the 007 series. These include:

This list shows which films were shot in which countries.

The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte was Drax's villa, transported in the film from France to California, in Moonraker
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte was Drax's villa, transported in the film from France to California, in Moonraker
  • 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, Hertfordshire), 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 (Faslane), The World Is Not Enough (Eilean Donan Castle)
  • Germany - Diamonds Are Forever, Octopussy, The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies(Hamburg)
  • 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
  • Turkey - From Russia With Love (Istanbul), The World Is Not Enough (Istanbul)

Exterior shots of the Fort Knox Bullion Depository were taken for the movie Goldfinger.
Exterior shots of the Fort Knox Bullion Depository were taken for the movie Goldfinger.
  • Bahamas - Thunderball (Nassau), For Your Eyes Only, The World Is Not Enough, Casino Royale (Nassau, Coral Harbour, Paradise Island)
  • Jamaica - Dr. No, Live and Let Die

  • Japan - You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me (Okinawa)
  • Macau - The Man With the Golden Gun

  • Egypt - The Spy Who Loved Me

Throughout both the films and novels, various British intelligence "sections" are named with a letter. The letter is usually the first name of the country or city in which it is located. They are:

Section Locations Story Novel or film Personnel
A United States Live and Let Die Novel Head of section:
A Australia Novel Head of section:
A Austria Novel Head of section:
B West Germany (Berlin) The Living Daylights Short story Head of section: Sender
C Canada Film Head of section:
D Germany (Deutschland) Novel Head of section:
F Finland Novel Head of section:
F France Novel Head of section:
G Greece Colonel Sun Novel Head of section: Stuart Thomas (formerly 005)
H Finland (Helsinki) Novel Head of section:
H Hong Kong Novel Head of section:
I India Octopussy Film Head of section: Sadruddin
J Jamaica Casino Royale Novel Head of section: Charles da Silva
J Jamaica Dr. No Both Head of section: John Strangways
Secretary: Mary Trueblood
J Jamaica The Man with the Golden Gun Novel Head of section: Commander Ross
Secretary: Mary Goodnight
J Japan Novel/Comic strip Run from the UK
M Munich Novel Head of section:
N Cyprus (Nicosia) The Facts of Death Novel Head of section:
P Paris Novel Head of section:
S Soviet Union Colonel Sun Novel Head of section:
S Rio de Janeiro (?!) Comic strip Head of section:
T Turkey From Russia with Love Film Head of section: Darko Kerim (Kerim Bey)
V Vienna The Living Daylights Film Head of section: Saunders
VH Rio de Janeiro (?!) Moonraker Film Head of section: Manuela?
W West Germany Novel Head of section:
WB West Berlin The Living Daylights Short story Captain Paul Sender
Y Zagreb From Russia With Love Film Head of section:N/A
Z Zurich Novel Head of section:


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