GTA 6 Map: Every Confirmed Location in Leonida Explained

November 1, 2026 GAMEPLAY GTA6

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GTA 6 Map: Every Confirmed Location in Leonida Explained

GTA 6 is set in Leonida, Rockstar's fictional version of Florida, and its main city is Vice City. Rockstar has officially named six regions: Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga. There's no official full map yet, and no official square mileage, though Rockstar developers have described the world as roughly twice the size of GTA 5's.

Last verified: October 30, 2026. We only call something confirmed when Rockstar has named or shown it.

Where is GTA 6 set?

Grand Theft Auto VI takes place in the state of Leonida. Rockstar's own tagline for the game is "Vice City, USA", and its official story summary describes a criminal conspiracy "stretching across the state of Leonida". Leonida is clearly modelled on Florida: Vice City stands in for Miami, the Leonida Keys for the Florida Keys and Grassrivers for the Everglades.

It's the series' first return to Vice City since Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) and Vice City Stories (2006). Those games used a smaller 1980s version of the city. GTA 6 is a modern-day Vice City inside a whole state.

Every officially confirmed GTA 6 location

These are the places Rockstar has named on its official GTA VI website, in its trailers, or in its own edition descriptions. Real-world comparisons are labelled: where Rockstar hasn't drawn the comparison, it's our reading or a fan theory.

Location	Type	What Rockstar has said or shown	Real-world comparison	Status
Vice City	Major city	The heart of the story; "Vice City, USA"	Miami	Official
Leonida Keys	Island chain	Where Jason worked for drug runners; the Launch Trailer opens here	Florida Keys	Official
Grassrivers	Wetlands	A wild, swampy expanse	Everglades	Official
Port Gellhorn	Coastal town	A faded resort town of cheap motels and shut-down attractions	Not stated by Rockstar	Official
Ambrosia	Inland region	Described as where "the battle for the health and wealth of Leonida begins"	Not stated by Rockstar	Official
Mount Kalaga National Park	Wilderness	"Room to breathe" on the state's northern fringes	Not stated by Rockstar	Official
Southside Vice City	Neighbourhood	Home of the PTT Youngin$ gang in an Ultimate Edition job	Not stated	Official (edition text)
Leonida Penitentiary	Prison	Where Lucia served time	Not stated	Official (character profile)

Vice City

Vice City is GTA 6's main city and the centre of its story. Rockstar's website text, as quoted at the region reveal, sums it up as "the glamour, hustle, and greed of America captured in a single city." Its characters are rooted here: Boobie Ike's businesses and the Only Raw Records label are Vice City operations.

Trailers have shown beaches, high-rises, waterways, nightclubs and traffic-packed streets. Rob Nelson of Rockstar North told IGN that streets in GTA 6 are "narrower and more realistic in terms of scale" than in past games, which matters for how the city feels to drive and walk.

Leonida Keys

The Keys are a chain of islands linked by bridges and open water. Rockstar's profiles tie them closely to the story: Jason worked for drug runners in the Keys, and Brian Heder, a smuggler from the Keys' old smuggling days, runs a boat yard there and lets Jason live rent-free on one of his properties. The October 15 Launch Trailer opens in the Keys, the region's biggest showing so far.

Grassrivers

Grassrivers is Leonida's wetland region, Rockstar's answer to the Everglades. Rockstar called it "the untamable jewel of Leonida's crown". The Extended Look showed an Everglades-style area explored by fan boat, and alligators are among the wildlife Rockstar has highlighted.

Port Gellhorn

Port Gellhorn is a coastal town that has seen better days. Rockstar's description: "Cheap motels, shut-down attractions, and empty strip malls won't bring the tourists back." Rockstar hasn't named a real-world inspiration. Fan comparisons vary, so we don't state one.

Ambrosia

Ambrosia sits inland. Rockstar's line, "The battle for the health and wealth of Leonida begins here", hints at an industrial or political storyline, but Rockstar hasn't explained it. Fan theories link it to Florida's sugar country around Clewiston, according to CNET's summary of Reddit discussion. That's a theory, not a confirmation.

Mount Kalaga National Park

Mount Kalaga is the wilderness region, described by Rockstar as "room to breathe on the state's northern fringes", with woodland suited to hunting, fishing and off-roading according to coverage of the reveal. It's the biggest change of scenery from GTA 5's desert and mountains, and the most likely home for much of the wildlife Rockstar has talked about.

Other places Rockstar has named

Southside Vice City: the Ultimate Edition describes raiding "the compound of one of Southside Vice City's loudest and most socially active gangs", the PTT Youngin$. We cover it with the Ultimate Edition jobs.
Leonida Penitentiary: where Lucia served time, according to her official profile.
Ultimate Edition businesses: Rideout Customs, One-Eyed Willie's, Electric Fang Tattoo, Stock 305 and the PTT Youngin$ Illegal Goods Store are named shops that "aren't open for business" in the Standard Edition.
Liberty City: mentioned only in Lucia's backstory. There's no sign it's a place you can visit in GTA 6.

GTA 6 map size: what do we actually know?

Rockstar hasn't released an official map or a square-mile figure. Every size claim so far is a comparison made by a Rockstar developer in a preview or interview, and some reached us secondhand. Here's each one, with how much weight it deserves.

Claim	Who said it	Where and when	How reliable
About twice the size of GTA 5's map	Rob Nelson, Rockstar North	Studio preview, relayed by YouTuber TGG on August 27, 2026	Reported, secondhand
About three times Red Dead Redemption 2's map	Rob Nelson, Rockstar North	Same preview, via TGG	Reported, secondhand
Vice City about twice the size of Los Santos	Rob Nelson, Rockstar North	Same preview, via TGG	Reported, secondhand; unclear how the city was measured
About twice GTA 5's map; Rockstar's biggest "by some degree"	Aaron Garbut, Rockstar North co-studio head	Game Informer cover story, September 29, 2026	Reported from a Rockstar interview
Landmass nearly as large as GTA 4, GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 combined	Rockstar	Edge cover story, October 29, 2026, as reported by Forbes	Reported; we haven't seen Edge's exact wording
Exact size in square miles or kilometres	Nobody official	—	Not announced

Our reading: "about twice the size of GTA 5" is the safest summary, because two separate Rockstar North leads have now used it. The other comparisons don't line up neatly. GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 are usually estimated at similar sizes, so "twice GTA 5" and "three times RDR2" can't both be exact, a point PC Gamer also raised. Treat them as rough impressions, not measurements.

Rockstar has used this kind of comparison before. Before GTA 5 launched, Aaron Garbut said its world could fit the maps of Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas and GTA IV inside it. "Combined" comparisons describe ambition, not exact square miles.

Garbut also stressed density over raw size, telling Game Informer: "This world is a cohesive whole with the density of content and a hand-crafted quality to every bit." According to NME's report of the interview, Rockstar says the number of interiors is high enough that buildings feel real inside and out.

GTA 6 map vs GTA 5 map

	GTA 6	GTA 5
State	Leonida (based on Florida)	San Andreas (based on Southern California)
Main city	Vice City (Miami)	Los Santos (Los Angeles)
Countryside	Wetlands, inland towns, forested park, island chain	Blaine County desert, farmland and mountains
Islands	Leonida Keys chain	Small offshore islands only
Size	About twice GTA 5's, per Rockstar developers	The baseline
Weather	Localised weather, including occasional hurricanes (Game Informer)	No hurricanes
Wildlife	More than 170 species, tracked by rarity (Game Informer)	Far fewer species
Official map	None published yet; expected in-game at launch	Full in-game map from launch

The biggest change isn't size. It's terrain. GTA 5's Los Santos sat beside dry hills, desert and one big mountain. Leonida is flat, wet and coastal: wetlands, waterways, beaches and islands. That suits boats and seaplanes, which Rockstar's footage keeps showing. Our full GTA 6 vehicles list already includes water vehicles such as the Crest Kayak and the Shitzu Squalo. For every other change between the two games, see our GTA 6 vs GTA 5 comparison.

Official GTA 6 map vs fan-made and leaked maps

There is no official GTA 6 map yet. Rockstar hasn't published one, and it usually reveals the full map at launch, in the game itself.

Fan-made maps are the maps you'll see most often. The community GTA6 Mapping project and maps shared on Reddit are built by matching trailer and screenshot details to Florida's real geography. They're impressive detective work, and they've often placed revealed locations sensibly. But they're estimates, and the empty areas on them are simply places nobody has seen yet.

Leaked maps are a different matter:

September 2022: early development footage leaked after a network intrusion, and Rockstar confirmed it was real. It came from a build years before launch, so its layout may not match the final game.
August 18, 2026: a group calling itself CYBERLEEK posted gameplay clips and a claimed full map of Leonida. Take-Two issued takedowns, and Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reportedly confirmed the clips were genuine, according to GTA Intel. The map itself was contested: community mappers called it fake or placeholder, and Rockstar hasn't authenticated it.

Our rule: we don't present any leaked or fan-made map as accurate, and we don't show one on this page. When GTA 6 launches, we'll use the real in-game map.

Locations shown in Rockstar's trailers

Video	Date	Places shown
Trailer 1	December 2023	Vice City streets and beaches, the Keys, wetlands, and a prison scene introducing Lucia
Trailer 2	May 6, 2025	Vice City nightlife, the Keys, wetlands, small towns; regions named on Rockstar's website the same day
GTA 6: An Extended Look	August 27, 2026	About half an hour of in-game footage: Vice City streets, an Everglades-style wetland with a fan boat, open water, rooftops (a parachute jump) and dirt-bike tracks
Launch Trailer	October 15, 2026	Opens in the Keys; Vice City's waterways, a low-flying seaplane, a bank vault heist and police chases

For a scene-by-scene look at the newest video, read our breakdown of the Launch Trailer.

Places tied to Jason, Lucia and the story

Rockstar's character profiles connect people to places, which gives a rough idea of where the story travels:

Jason: worked for drug runners in the Leonida Keys and lives rent-free on Brian Heder's property there.
Lucia: served time in Leonida Penitentiary; her family's past includes Liberty City.
Brian and Lori Heder: run a boat yard in the Keys.
Boobie Ike, Dre'Quan Priest and the Real Dimez: Vice City's music and club scene.
Cal Hampton: stays home, listening in on Coast Guard communications, which fits the Keys' smuggling world.

Meet everyone in every confirmed GTA 6 character.

What the GTA 6 map could mean for exploration

Rockstar has said plainly that the story won't show you everything. Rupert Humphries, Rockstar's senior vice president of narrative, told Game Informer: "We don't have time to take you everywhere, but we want to be able to explore." Garbut said players would be helped to explore most of the map, but not every corner, according to Dexerto's report.

What Rockstar and its interviews have confirmed so far:

Activities across the state: Game Informer's coverage lists base jumping, scuba diving, kayaking, airboats, jet skis, racing, billiards, hiking dates, gyms, zoos and mini golf (as summarised by Forbes).
Wildlife to find: more than 170 species, including over 60 types of bird, tracked as Rare, Discoverable or Legendary.
Weather that changes the world: localised, persistent weather and occasional hurricanes.
Quicker navigation: Nelson told IGN you can set waypoints quickly by holding down on the D-pad.
Time together: Jason and Lucia can hang out, train and pull robberies around the map. Here's how Jason and Lucia spend time together.

Press previews also describe a rideshare app called Ryde Me. That's reported by preview coverage, not described by Rockstar in its own materials yet.

MissionPassed analysis: a world this size, with a story that deliberately skips parts of it, means plenty of players will finish the campaign with much of Leonida unexplored. That's also why we expect how long GTA 6 is to vary a lot from player to player. Once the game is out, the GTA 6 Story Guide will tie each story mission to where it happens.

GTA 6 map FAQs

Is the GTA 6 map bigger than GTA 5?

Yes, according to Rockstar's own developers. Aaron Garbut (via Game Informer) and Rob Nelson (via a studio preview) both described it as roughly twice the size of GTA 5's map. No exact figure has been published.

How big is the GTA 6 map in square miles?

Rockstar hasn't said. Any square-mile or square-kilometre figure you see is a fan estimate or a writer's own calculation.

Is there an official GTA 6 map?

Not yet. Rockstar hasn't released a full map. Maps online are fan-made or leaked.

What cities are in GTA 6?

Vice City is the only major city Rockstar has confirmed. Port Gellhorn is a smaller coastal town, and the other regions are islands, wetlands, inland areas and wilderness.

Is Liberty City in GTA 6?

Liberty City is mentioned in Lucia's backstory, but nothing suggests you can visit it. Leonida is the whole confirmed setting.

Is the leaked GTA 6 map real?

Rockstar hasn't confirmed any leaked map. The map that surfaced in August 2026 was widely disputed, and older leaked footage came from a much earlier build.

Where is GTA 6 set in real life?

Leonida is a fictional state based on Florida. Vice City is based on Miami, the Leonida Keys on the Florida Keys and Grassrivers on the Everglades.

How we verified this

Every location in the confirmed table comes from Rockstar's official GTA VI website, Rockstar's trailers or Rockstar's edition descriptions. Map-size statements are labelled by who said them and where we read them. Several come from Game Informer's and Edge's print features, which we've read through other outlets' reporting, so we call them reported. Leaks are described, never shown. The full source list is below.