The shooting locations for every "Fast & Furious" movie except "The Fate of the Furious" are compiled on the website Movie-Locations.com. Per that site, the franchise had rather modest beginnings — 2001's "The Fast and the Furious" was shot entirely in Los Angeles, and "2 Fast 2 Furious" relocated the action and the production to the Miami, FL area.
It wasn't until "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" that the globe-trotting began. Although many of the film's supposed "Tokyo" scenes were actually shot in the Los Angeles unit, there was a Japan unit as well, and much of the Tokyo scene-setting was, indeed, shot on location. The U.S.-Mexico border-set "Fast and Furious" followed a similar production model, with most of the shoot taking place in California and key scenes shot on location in the Mexican town of Magdalena de Kino. A bonus-feature prequel short film, "Los Bandoleros," was shot in the Dominican Republic, helmed by Vin Diesel himself (via Dominican Today).
Then there was "Fast Five," memorably shot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in addition to the L.A. and Atlanta units, with the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico standing in for Rio in a few scenes. "Fast & Furious 6" took to England, Scotland, and the Spanish Canary Islands; though IMDb also cites Hong Kong, China as a location, FilmSchoolRejects reports that the Hong Kong scenes were filmed on a sound stage. The sprawling action of "Furious 7" made stops at Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. (the real thing) and the mountains of Azerbaijan (actually shot in Colorado, U.S.).
