What planet do Mormons think God the Father was born on?
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As others have mentioned, there is no official doctrine or even speculation on this point.
We believe that God created the universe (see, e.g., this talk, "Our Heavenly Father created the universe that we might reach our full potential as His sons and daughters.") As such, God could not have come from any planet in this universe.
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LDS do not really concern themselves with useless speculation. The main point is that the Bible refers only to this planet, and God's dealings with the Hebrew people, we are never informed in it about God, His existence, or His origins. "In the Beginning" (is about this planet), In the beginning is not about God's beginning, it is only refering to our mortal existence, and How we can return to our Father's kingdom.
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LDS believe in Worlds Without Number, and that the Earth has been patterned after other worlds. This is not the first time a world has been created for people to dwell on and face trials, and it will not be the last.
As for which planet God the Father may have been Born on, the only clue we have to speculate on is from the Book of Abraham:
2 And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;
3 And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.
We are taught that when the Earth has fulfilled it's purposes, that it will receive it's paradisiacal glory, and we will dwell on it. If God dwells near Kolob, then it may be reasonable to assume that he might have been born and lived there (or near there) as a man also, before it received its paradisiacal glory (assuming Kolob is actually a planet an not a star, there isn't a unanimous consensus on which it is).
As with many other mysteries about God, knowing where our Father lived as a man is not pertinent to our salvation. All that matters in this life is knowing that he exists, that he has sent us here for a reason, and that he has told us how to return to live with him in glory.
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