The Geography of James Bond

The trailer for Skyfall was released on Tuesday, and for once, the urban eye candy is underwhelming. As any fan knows, you can learn quite a bit about the world's cities just by watching James Bond movies. The franchise has featured 41 cities in its 22 films, beginning with London and Kingston, Jamaica, in 1962's Dr. No, and only a few cities have been featured more than once. The all-time leaders, besides London, are Venice and Hong Kong, which Bond has visited three times. Cairo, Istanbul, Tokyo, St. Petersburg and Miami each make two appearances. There are also a number of surprising places to which, as the films approach their 50th anniversary, Bond has never traveled: Moscow, Washington D.C., Beijing, Rome, and the U.A.E., to name a few.

The map below, which tracks James Bond's film travels over the last five decades, is coded by symbol to indicate era, and in the linked larger version, an alphabetical list is available: