Where are my pip packages installed?
When a package is installed globally, it's made available to all users that log into the system. Typically, that means Python and all packages will get installed to a directory under /usr/local/bin/ for a Unix-based system, or \\Program Files\\ for Windows.
How are pip packages installed?
By default, packages are installed to the running Python installation's site-packages directory. site-packages is by default part of the python search path and is the target directory of manually built python packages.