GTA 6 Map Guide: Leonida, Vice City and Every Confirmed Region

GTA 6 takes place in the state of Leonida — a fictional version of Florida — with Vice City returning as its urban centrepiece. Official material names six distinct regions across the state. What Rockstar has not published is a map size figure, which is why any "GTA 6 map size" number you see quoted is either an estimate or leak-derived. This page covers only the confirmed geography.

Last updated: September 10, 2026 · Official sources only · No leaks

The confirmed regions

Leonida was named in Trailer 1 (December 2023). Vice City's return was confirmed across both trailers and the 26-minute Netflix "An Extended Look" on August 27, 2026. Beyond the city, official material names five further locations:

Region	Type	What official material indicates
Vice City	City	The urban core and the series' 2002 setting, rebuilt for Leonida
Leonida Keys	Island chain	Florida Keys equivalent, to the south of the mainland
Grassrivers	Wetland interior	Swamp and marshland terrain, used for off-road travel
Ambrosia	Named locale	A separate named settlement/area within the state
Mount Kalaga National Park	Parkland	Inland national park, the state's elevated terrain
Port Gellhorn	Coastal settlement	Industrial port area on the coast

The naming pattern is deliberate: Leonida reads as a Florida analogue, the Keys mirror the real Florida Keys, and Grassrivers corresponds to the Everglades. Rockstar is building a state, not a city — which is the single biggest structural difference from every previous GTA map except San Andreas.

How big is the GTA 6 map?

Rockstar has not published a playable-area figure. The number that circulates most often is that Leonida is roughly three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2's playable region. That figure comes from published reporting, not from a Rockstar spec sheet, so we label it as reported rather than confirmed.

Here is how GTA 6 sits against the series in relative terms, using the community-relative index where GTA V's map equals 100:

Game	Setting	Relative map index	Basis
GTA III (2001)	Liberty City	≈15	Community estimate
Vice City (2002)	Vice City	≈20	Community estimate
San Andreas (2004)	San Andreas	≈80	Community estimate
GTA IV (2008)	Liberty City	≈25	Community estimate
GTA V (2013)	Los Santos & Blaine County	100	Reference point
Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)	Five states + New Hanover	≈110	Community estimate
GTA VI (2026)	Leonida	Not published	Reported ≈3× RDR2's playable region

Two honest caveats. First, larger has never meant better in this series — GTA IV's Liberty City is the smallest HD-era map and remains the most densely detailed. Second, a state-sized map raises a real question Rockstar has not answered publicly: how much of it is mission-critical versus open terrain. San Andreas answered that with three cities and countryside between them; on the evidence so far, Leonida looks like a similar structure with a much larger countryside.

The Vice City difference

The 2002 Vice City was two islands and a beach, built in about a year on the GTA III engine. The 2026 version sits inside a full state. What official material shows of the city itself:

• Coastal and beachfront areas, consistent with the original's Miami-inspired look
• A working nightlife and entertainment district — the Extended Look showed a strip club among other venues
• An in-game television and advertising layer, with satirical fake ads (one name surfaced in coverage: "Angstipan")
• An in-game social media app in the Snapmatic lineage, which implies photographable locations throughout the map

If you played the 2002 game, the nostalgia hook is explicit this time: the Vintage Vice City Pack pre-order bonus is a direct reference to that era, and the limited-edition DualSense controllers are themed around Vice City by day and by night.

What you can actually do out there

The August 27, 2026 Netflix Extended Look ran 26 minutes and was captured on PS5 — this is the most detailed official look at the world to date. Activities visible in it:

Activity type	Confirmed examples
Combat	Cover shooting with handguns and shotguns, slow-motion kills, vehicle-mounted shooting, melee with QTE prompts
Traversal	Swimming, off-road motorcycles, boats, diving and skydiving
Sports & leisure	Basketball, gyms, strip clubs, street racing
Crime	Store robberies (a pharmacy was shown), plus the weapon radial menu for throwables
Systems	In-game text messages between the two protagonists, fast travel implied by their ability to split up

The two-protagonist split matters for the map specifically: because Jason and Lucia can operate independently, Leonida is designed to support two simultaneous locations rather than one player position. That is a structural assumption about the map, not just a story feature.

What is not confirmed

Being precise about the gaps is more useful than filling them with rumour:

• Map size in square kilometres or miles — never published by Rockstar
• Number of explorable interiors — not stated
• Whether the full state is available from the start or unlocked through the story — not stated
• Fast travel and public transport systems — not detailed
• Whether the map expands after launch — not announced

Why we do not publish leak maps

Community projects have built detailed interactive maps of Leonida from leaked material. We do not reproduce, embed or link to those maps, and there is a practical reason on top of the legal one: leaked builds are unfinished, and the leak-derived map that circulated in August 2026 predated the Netflix reveal by nine days. Building expectations on unfinished geometry produces the "downgrade" arguments that follow every Rockstar release.

Our editorial rule is simple: official material only. If a location has not appeared in a trailer, the official site, the Extended Look or an on-record developer interview, it does not go on this page as fact. You can see the full official announcement sequence on our official timeline, and the series history for how Leonida compares to Liberty City, San Andreas and Los Santos.

Where to go next

• Series history and every map compared
• GTA games compared side by side — settings, protagonists, map indices and console-to-PC gaps
• Official announcement timeline
• Confirmed systems guide — NPC memory, crowds and the body system
• What is GTA 6? — the full confirmed-facts overview

FAQ

Is GTA 6 set in Vice City or in Leonida?

Both. Leonida is the state — a fictional Florida — and Vice City is the city inside it. Think of the relationship between San Andreas the state and Los Santos the city in GTA V.

How big is the GTA 6 map compared to GTA 5?

Rockstar has not said. Reporting has compared the playable area to roughly three times Red Dead Redemption 2's playable region, which sits slightly above GTA V in the community-relative index. There is no official square-mile figure.

Is the whole map a city, or is there countryside?

There is substantial countryside. Official material names a wetland interior (Grassrivers), an island chain (Leonida Keys), national parkland (Mount Kalaga) and a coastal port (Port Gellhorn) alongside Vice City.

Will the leaked map be accurate?

Nobody outside Rockstar can answer that. The leak-derived map that appeared in August 2026 was built from an unfinished build and was circulated before the official Extended Look. We do not treat it as a source.

Can I visit locations from the 2002 Vice City?

The city returns, and the pre-order bonus is explicitly a 2002-era reference. Whether specific 2002 landmarks are recreated one-to-one has not been confirmed by Rockstar.

GTA6GT is an independent fan-made site and is not affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. Sources: Rockstar Newswire, the official GTA VI site and Rockstar Games on X; the Netflix "An Extended Look" (August 27, 2026, PS5 capture); published reporting including IGN, VGC and Digital Foundry; community-relative map indices are estimates and are labelled as such.