Though much of Season 2 takes place in Venezuela, filming took place in Colombia with Bogotá standing in for Caracas in certain scenes.
Noomi Rapace speaks five languages, including English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic.
The events of Episode 201 are loosely based on the plot of Tom Clancy's book Clear and Present Danger, though a Colombian drug cartel is not part of the TV series plot.
As Jack Ryan suggests during his Episode 201 lecture, Venezuela is one of the world's most wealthy countries in terms of its native natural resources.
The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow opened in 1981 and celebrates Soviet and Russian contributions to space exploration.