Where is the Need for Speed game series set?

The Need for Speed game series — 18 video games, 1997 to 2019 — is set in 13 real places, and Wikipedia names 4 more. A game is filmed nowhere, so these are where the stories happen, from Wikidata's narrative location statements.

The games

Need for Speed II 1997
V-Rally 1997
V-Rally 2 1999
Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed 2000
Need for Speed: Underground 2003
Need for Speed: Underground 2 2004
Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2005
Need for Speed: Carbon 2006
Need for Speed: ProStreet 2007
Need for Speed: Undercover 2008
Need for Speed: Shift 2009
Need for Speed: Nitro 2009
Need for Speed: World 2010
Need for Speed: The Run 2011
Shift 2 Unleashed 2011
Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2012
Need for Speed 2015
Need for Speed Heat 2019

Named in Wikipedia's own articles

Places the members' Wikipedia articles name with no matching Wikidata statement — weaker evidence, listed apart here exactly as it is on every page of this site.