James Bond locations
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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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Listed by country: Placename - (novel title)
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)
Scotland - (Licence Renewed, SilverFin)
Ireland - (Diamonds Are Forever, No Deals, Mr. Bond)
France - (Goldfinger, Casino Royale, Nobody Lives For Ever, On Her Majesty's Secret Service); Paris (From Russia with Love, "From a View to a Kill", Death is Forever); SHAPE headquarters ("From a View to a Kill"); Marseilles (On Her Majesty's Secret Service); Perpignan (Licence Renewed); Calais (Death is Forever); Euro Disney Resort (Never Send Flowers)
Belgium - (Nobody Lives For Ever)
Monte Carlo (Role of Honour)
Germany - (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Nobody Lives For Ever, Never Send Flowers, SeaFire); West Berlin, West Germany ("The Living Daylights"); East Germany (No Deals, Mr. Bond); Frankfurt (Death is Forever)
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)
Gibraltar - (Win, Lose or Die, Doubleshot)
Switzerland - (From Russia with Love, Nobody Lives For Ever, Never Send Flowers); Geneva (Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service); Piz Gloria, Swiss Alps (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service); Berne (Role of Honour); Lake Geneva (Role of Honour)
Cyprus - (The Facts of Death)


The Baltic States - (No Deals, Mr. Bond)
Albania - ("Risico")
Former Yugoslavia - (From Russia with Love) During his journey on the Orient Express, 007 travels through Belgrade, Serbia; Vinkovci, Slavonski Brod, and Zagreb, Croatia; and Ljubljana and Sežana, Slovenia
United States -
- New York City, New York, (Live and Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, Goldfinger, "007 in New York", For Special Services, "Blast From the Past");
- Washington, D.C. (Scorpius, COLD);
- the "Silver Phantom" train from New York, traveling through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to St. Petersburg,
- Florida (Live and Let Die, Nobody Lives Forever);
- Miami, Florida (Goldfinger);
- Saratoga Springs, New York (Diamonds Are Forever);
- Las Vegas, Nevada (Diamonds Are Forever);
- Fort Knox, Kentucky (Goldfinger);
- Vermont (For Your Eyes Only);
- The Adirondack Mountains of New York (The Spy Who Loved Me);
- Louisiana (For Special Services);
- Texas (For Special Services,Facts of Death);
- South Carolina (Scorpius);
- San Francisco (Brokenclaw);
- Washington (Brokenclaw);
- Virginia (COLD);
- Iowa (COLD);
- Los Angeles (Diamonds Are Forever, The Facts of Death, "Midsummer Night's Doom" at the Playboy Mansion)
Canada - Ottawa (For Your Eyes Only); British Columbia (Brokenclaw)
Mexico - Goldfinger (in a flashback)
Jamaica - (Live and Let Die, Zero Minus Ten, Doctor No, The Man with the Golden Gun, "Octopussy")
Puerto Rico - (SeaFire)
Japan - Tokyo (You Only Live Twice, The Facts of Death); Kuro Island, Fukuoka (You Only Live Twice); Naoshima (The Man with the Red Tattoo)
Hong Kong - (No Deals, Mr. Bond, Zero Minus Ten)
Macau - (Zero Minus Ten)
China - (Zero Minus Ten)
Russia - Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok (You Only Live Twice)
India-(Octopussy)
Sierra Leone (Diamonds Are Forever)
Seychelles - "The Hildebrand Rarity"
Libya - Icebreaker
Australia - (Zero Minus Ten)
- Queen Elizabeth (cruise ship) (Diamonds Are Forever)
- Orient Express (From Russia with Love)
- Channel Tunnel (Death is Forever)
- Royale-les-Eaux, a fictional French casino town (Casino Royale, On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Montenegro
- Bond is in Montenegro in Casino Royale where he takes part in poker tournament to defeat Le Chiffre.
The Netherlands
- He meets Tiffany Case in Amsterdam in Diamonds Are Forever.
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.
Gibraltar
- At the start of The Living Daylights Bond is involved in an operation to test the defences of Gibraltar.
Switzerland
- Much of On Her Majesty's Secret Service is set in Switzerland at Piz Gloria.
- He also follows Auric Goldfinger into Geneva and to his secret facility in Switzerland in Goldfinger.
Czechoslovakia
- Bond is in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in The Living Daylights, where he helps a Soviet general to defect.
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.
Germany
- Bond is in Hamburg in Germany in Tomorrow Never Dies chasing media mogul Elliot 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 U.S. Air Force base at the fictional location of Feldstadt.
Iceland
- The central portion of Die Another Day is set in Iceland, where Gustav Graves discovers diamonds and has an ice palace.
Turkey -
- Bond is in Istanbul in Turkey at the Hagia Sophia in From Russia With Love. **He is again in Istanbul in The World Is Not Enough.
Eastern Europe - In From Russia With Love, Bond travels through Eastern Europe from Istanbul on the Orient Express. A map in the film shows that the train has traveled through Sofia, Bulgaria. Zagreb in Yugoslavia (now Croatia) features prominently. Bond and Tatiana Romanova leave the train before reaching the Italian border, and make their way to a boat on the Adriatic Sea (as they depart, 007 says they are near Istria). .
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.
United States -
- Bond went to Fort Knox, Kentucky in Goldfinger to stop Auric Goldfinger.
- New York City, New York, Bond is briefly there in Live and Let Die.
- New Orleans, Louisiana in Live and Let Die.
- Las Vegas, Nevada in Diamonds are Forever.
- San Francisco, California in A View to a Kill where the Golden Gate Bridge features prominently.
- Baltimore, Maryland in Goldfinger where his plane stops on its way to Kentucky.
- Bond also goes to Drax's French villa which has been transported to California in Moonraker.
- Miami at the start of Goldfinger.
- The Florida coast along Miami is also involved in Thunderball when Bond and a team of parachuting navy seal frogmen prevent SPECTRE from destroying Miami with a hijacked atomic bomb.
- Bond visits Miami again and stops a terrorist plot at Miami International Airport in Casino Royale.
- Bond goes to Key West, Florida for Felix Leiter's wedding at the start of 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.
- While he is not shown there in the movie, at the start of A View to a Kill, Bond leaves Siberia for Alaska saying it will take him several days to get there.
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.
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.
- Caribbean
Cuba
Jamaica
The Bahamas
- Nassau - Bond follows Alex Dimitrios to the Bahamas in Casino Royale. It is here that he first picks up his famed Aston Martin DB5 after winning it in a game of poker.
- 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, Isthmus, which is based on Panama City, Panama. Franz Sanchez has a drug processing plant outside the city.
- In Live and Let Die Bond he goes to the fictional Caribbean island of San Monique. Much of the plot is based around this island.
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).
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.
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.
Vietnam
- He drives through Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam on a motorbike in Tomorrow Never Dies.

Korea
- 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 (outside of Hong Kong).
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- 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.
Afghanistan
- The finale of The Living Daylights is set in Afghanistan where Bond escapes from a Soviet air force base and joins the mujahideen

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.
*Central Asia
- Bond travels to Kazakhstan in The World Is Not Enough, where Renard steals weapons-grade plutonium from a Russian ICBM base.
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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.
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.
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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).
(South Africa)
- 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 instead sent to the Netherlands.
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.
Uganda
- In Casino Royale, we do not see Bond, but the villain, Le Chiffre, is having a meeting with Steven Obanno, a high-ranking member of the Lord's Resistance Army, in Mbale, Uganda.
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.
A number of well-known international landmarks figure prominently in the 007 series. These include:
- Dunn's River Falls, Jamaica (Dr. No)
- The Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey (From Russia With Love)
- The Canals of Venice, Italy (From Russia With Love, Moonraker, Casino Royale)
- Fort Knox, Kentucky (Goldfinger)
- Himeji Castle, Himeji, Japan (You Only Live Twice)
- The Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada (Diamonds Are Forever)
- Bourbon Street, New Orleans, Louisiana (Live and Let Die)
- The Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt (The Spy Who Loved Me)
- Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Moonraker)
- The Taj Mahal, Agra, India (Octopussy)
- The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France (A View to a Kill)
- The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California (A View to a Kill)
- The Rock of Gibraltar (The Living Daylights)
- The Prater Ferris Wheel, Vienna, Austria (The Living Daylights)
- Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria (The Living Daylights)
- The Casino at Monte Carlo, Monaco (GoldenEye)
- Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico (GoldenEye)
- The Millennium Dome, London, the United Kingdom (The World Is Not Enough)
This list shows which films were shot in which countries.
- Pinewood Studios - All films except for Licence to Kill and GoldenEye.
- 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)
- France - Thunderball (Chateau d’Anet, near 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
- Austria - The Living Daylights
- Netherlands - Diamonds Are Forever
- Italy - From Russia With Love (Venice), The Spy Who Loved Me (Sardinia), Moonraker (Venice), For Your Eyes Only (Cortina d'Ampezzo), The Living Daylights, Casino Royale (Lake Como and Venice)
- 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)
- Norway - Die Another Day
- Czech Republic - Casino Royale (Prague, Karlovy Vary, Loket, Planá)
- United States - Goldfinger (Miami, Louisville, Fort Knox), Diamonds are forever (Los Angeles, Las Vegas), Live and Let Die (New York City, New Orleans), Moonraker (Los Angeles), A View to a Kill (San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge), 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, Casino Royale (Nassau, Coral Harbour, Paradise Island)
- 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)
- Hong Kong - The Man With the Golden Gun
- Macau - The Man With the Golden Gun
- Thailand - The Man With the Golden Gun (Bangkok, Phang Nga Bay), Tomorrow Never Dies (Bangkok, Phuket)
- India - Octopussy
- Azerbaijan - The World Is Not Enough
- Egypt - The Spy Who Loved Me
- Morocco - The Living Daylights
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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