In Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which country is the Burj Khalifa located in?

In Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, the Burj Khalifa is located in the United Arab Emirates.

The Dubai sequence sends Ethan Hunt to the world’s tallest building to retrieve information from a server room. Ethan climbs the exterior using specialized adhesive gloves, creating one of the franchise’s best-known practical stunts. The film identifies the setting as Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates.

The Burj Khalifa opened in Dubai in 2010, the same year Ghost Protocol was released. Its height and glass exterior made it a natural centerpiece for the film’s large-scale action. The building is sometimes incorrectly assigned to neighboring Gulf countries, but Dubai is an emirate within the United Arab Emirates. Ghost Protocol also travels to Moscow, Mumbai and other locations during its global pursuit of the nuclear strategist known as Cobalt.