How Many Planets Have We Visited In The Star Wars Movies? (2024)

What’s a galaxy far, far away without planets? A tremendously empty one, that’s what – which is why the Star Wars movies have taken the liberty of rocketing us between a great number of them. From the desert worlds of Tatooine and Jakku, to the verdant Naboo, to the multi-levelled metropolis of Coruscant, there’s no shortage of planetary variety.

However, across the core films of the Skywalker Saga, exactly how many worlds have we visited? There’s a fair amount to keep track of, and some are even recurring locales! Well, worry no more, young Padawan: we’ve broken down the complete checklist of planets by each Star Wars trilogy, plus the anthology films to boot. The total will leave you blown away – much like Alderaan.

Prequel Trilogy

Episode I: The Phantom Menace

The prequel trilogy kicks off with the divisive Phantom Menace, which has a surprisingly slight selection of planets. Much of the action occurs on Naboo, a lush, boggy world known for its valuable plasma mines. Once our heroes escape it, much of the second act is spent on Tatooine, its first chronological appearance in canon.

After a brief stop off at Coruscant, the capital city-planet of the Republic, it’s back to Naboo to see off the greedy Trade Federation.

Episode II: Attack Of The Clones

Attack of the Clones doesn’t add a great deal to the roster, either. It’s Coruscant, Naboo, and Tatooine again; but Obi-Wan Kenobi also spends some time on Kamino, a remote oceanic planet struck from the records of the Republic.

Kamino is populated by a society of cloners, who produce the Republic’s clone army – while the Separatists’ droid army is manufactured by the insectoid beings of planet Geonosis, where Episode II’s climax takes place.

Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith

Revenge of the Sith dials up the diversity when it comes to planets, fittingly so for a trilogy-capper. There’s the usual suspects (Naboo, Tatooine, and Coruscant once more feature) but we also get to see Utapau, a cavernous land under siege by General Grievous. Yoda visits Kashyyyk, homeworld of the Wookiees, to help Chewbacca liberate his people from the Separatists – and who could forget the fiery expanses of Mustafar, where Anakin’s transformation into Darth Vader is sealed?

During Palpatine’s execution of Order 66, we also get a quick montage of assorted Jedi being gunned down across the galaxy. While the planets they are on are not named, and are only shown for a couple of seconds each, we thought we’d acknowledge them in a quick list:

• Mygeeto (where Ki-Adi Mundi meets his end).
• Cato Neimoidia (where Plo Koon meets his end).
• Felucia (where Aayla Secura meets her end).
• Saleucami (where Stass Allie meets her end).

Original Trilogy

Episode IV: A New Hope

The original trilogy was, naturally, operating on greater budgetary and technological constraints than the glitzier prequels – so it’s perhaps to be expected that their planet roster isn’t gigantic. Episode IV: A New Hope adds only one planet we’ve yet to see: Yavin 4, where the Rebel base is located. The remainder of the plot takes place on Tatooine and on the Death Star, an artificial space station.

Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back, meanwhile, tosses a few new contenders into the mix. We open on Hoth, a barren snowy wasteland in which the Rebels are forced to set up shop following A New Hope. Luke trains with Yoda on Dagobah, which is essentially one giant swamp populated with altogether unpleasant fauna. Lastly, there’s Cloud City on planet Bespin, run by Han’s old chum Lando Calrissian, who manages a mining business there.

Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi

Return of the Jedi falls back on the familiar once again. Tatooine and Dagobah are all we get for the vast majority of the runtime – until the third act, when things shift to the forest moon of Endor. Inhabited by cute, cuddly marketing opportunities known as Ewoks, it’s here that the Empire makes its last stand.

Emperor Palpatine falls in the second Death Star above, while Han, Leia, and the Ewoks fight the ground troops below.

Sequel Trilogy

The sequel trilogy, produced by Disney after their acquisition of Lucasfilm in the 2010s, has a curious case going on when it comes to planets. While most of them are technically “new,” it’s often in name only; their biomes and tropes deliberately evoke planets we’ve seen before, because nostalgia is nothing if not powerful trailer fodder.

Episode VII: The Force Awakens

The Force Awakens, then, makes this thesis statement abundantly clear off the bat. Our heroes Rey, Finn, and Poe all spend a hefty chunk of the story on Jakku, a clear cipher for Tatooine. It’s a featureless desert where scavengers and junk traders eke out a living selling scrap. The second act takes us to Takodana, similar to Endor in its dense forestation and assortment of critters, and onto D’Qar, a Rebel base you could be forgiven for mixing up with Yavin 4.

Lest we forget the First Order’s Starkiller Base, an upgraded Death Star-alike built into Ilum, a frigid world where Jedi of old harvested kyber crystals. It fires upon the New Republic capital of Hosnian Prime, which we see for a split second before it's obliterated.

Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

The Last Jedi bucks a Star Wars trend (one of many it revels in bucking) by having almost all the action occur in space aboard a ship, as the Resistance seeks to outrun their foes. Aside from that, we join Rey on planet Ahch-To, where she finds a grizzled, jaded Luke and must convince him to help the war effort.

Finn and his new pal Rose also busy themselves with a sidequest to Canto Bight, a planet known for its opulent casinos and ritzy society. Finally, the climax takes us to Crait, a mineral world whose white, salty surface is not a thousand miles away from the imagery of Hoth.

Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker

The Rise of Skywalker, as befits its kinetic, breakneck pace and status as the grand finale of the nine movies, has an embarrassment of riches planet-wise. Within the first ten minutes, we’ve been to Exegol, a hidden world where Sith cultists work to revive Palpatine; Sinta Glacier, where a First Order mole awaits to deliver intelligence; Cardovyte, Ivexia, and the Typhonic Nebula, seen when Poe ‘lightspeed skips’ the Millennium Falcon; and Ajan Kloss, yet another Rebel base.

This rapid-fire approach doesn’t let up, either. Next comes Pasaana, a desert planet harbouring ancient secrets, then it’s onto Kijimi, the arctic home of Poe’s old flame Zorri Bliss. We then head to Kef Bir, a planet neighbouring Endor where the Death Star ruins crash-landed, before ultimately circling back around to Exegol for the final battle. Episode IX easily sets the record!

Anthology Series

For a brief period, Star Wars flirted with the idea of taking the MCU route and alternating each mainline film with a spinoff anthology flick. Whether it worked out is open for debate, but the ‘Story’ subseries managed two entries nonetheless.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rogue One is a grittier, harsher movie than the usual Star Wars fare, highlighting the realities of war for common folk. As such, it shows off a broad selection of planets. First, there’s Lah’mu, where young Jyn Erso lives in peace with her family until her father is conscripted to work on the Death Star. Next comes Kafrene, a backwater asteroid where agent Cassian Andor is sent to retrieve information.

There’s also the work camp on planet Wobani, where an adult Jyn is liberated by the Rebels; Jedha, a planet of great spiritual significance to the Jedi and the base of insurgent Saw Gerrera; Eadu, a wet mountainous world with an Imperial presence; and most importantly, Scarif, where the Death Star plans are kept. The Battle of Scarif is easily near the top of the greatest Star Wars battles ever committed to film.

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo is, to date, the last Star Wars anthology film, and explores the backstory of a young Han (played here by Alden Ehrenreich as opposed to Harrison Ford) starting out as a smuggler. Much like its Rogue One cousin, it boasts a rich tapestry of planetary destinations.

The events kick off in Corellia, the drab industrial world where Han and his girlfriend Qi’ra grew up – but it isn’t long before Han elects to join the Imperial army and is assigned to a battle on Mimban. There, he defects with smuggler Tobias Beckett and his crew, and with Chewbacca they pull off a coaxium heist on planet Vandor, which sees the death of Tobias’ lover, Val.

From there, the gang recruits scoundrel Lando Calrissian for an even bigger score on planet Kessel, home of spice mines and forced manual labour. The Falcon completes the Kessel run in record time, and the story comes to a close on planet Savareen, where through a series of twisty events the resources end up in the hands of a nascent Rebellion.