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GTA VI map: the State of Leonida and Vice City

GTA VI is set in the state of Leonida, a fictional Florida with Vice City at its center.

Illustration of the state of Leonida with its six regions numbered north to south
Our own illustration. Rockstar has published no map: each region's position is indicative.
  • 6 regionsNamed by Rockstar.
  • Approximate positionsWhere each region sits is our estimate, not a fact from the game.
  • Sources and updatesEvery claim with its source, in the map status.

State of the map

Regions
6/6
Officially named
Vice City neighborhoods
6
Named by Rockstar
Official map
No
Rockstar hasn't published one
Size
No figure
Fan estimates only

What Rockstar has said

What nobody has said

  • Total map sizeNo dataWhat circulates is a fan estimate
  • Continuity with 2002's Vice CityNo dataThe reading is ours
  • Whole state reachable from the startNo data
  • Travel between regionsNo data

Changes to this guide

  1. Added Washington Beach and Gambit Bay (Ultimate Edition)
  2. Six regions named after Trailer 2
  3. Page created with Leonida and Vice City

The State of Leonida: a whole state, not one city

Leonida is the fictional version of Florida, and what you travel is the whole state, not just its metropolis. Rockstar has named six regions: Vice City, the Grassrivers wetlands, the Leonida Keys archipelago, the coastal city of Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park. Three have a recognisable real counterpart (Miami, the Everglades and the Florida Keys); for Ambrosia and Port Gellhorn little more than the name is known. Each one is broken down below.

Vice City and its neighborhoods

Vice City is the state's big city. On its official site Rockstar names Ocean Beach for its art deco hotels, Little Cuba for its panaderías, the Tisha-Wocka flea market for its bootleg brands, and the VC Port, which it calls the cruise ship capital of the world; the Ultimate Edition material adds Washington Beach and Gambit Bay. Ocean Beach and Washington Beach already existed in 2002's Vice City, but Little Cuba did not: that game had Little Havana. The company changing that name is the strongest hint at a new city rather than a rebuild, though that reading is ours: Rockstar hasn't confirmed any continuity between the two games.

What changed since 2002's Vice City

The 2002 game was a city split across two islands, set in 1986, on a map far smaller than any modern GTA. In GTA VI the city is one piece of a state that also holds swamps, keys and a national park, with highway in between. The setting moves too: the trailers show present-day phones and social media, against the original's eighties.

Size: where the twice-as-big figure comes from

Rockstar has published no square mileage and no comparison with earlier entries. The number going around (roughly twice the size of GTA V's map) is a community estimate, measured on layouts that fans rebuild from trailer frames and the real Florida coastline. It's useful for an order of magnitude; it is not a fact. We publish it as what it is: an estimate with no official source.

Fan maps: how to read them

The detailed maps going around, with roads and place names, are not Rockstar's. They're assembled by cross-referencing trailer frames, promotional stills and real Florida geography, and they get corrected every time a new frame appears. As a reference they help; as a source they don't: a map like that can nail the coastline and miss everything inland. The diagram on this page only draws the confirmed regions, without inventing their exact shape.

What isn't known about the map

There's no confirmation on whether the whole state is reachable from the start, how many interiors it has, whether there are playable underwater areas, or whether any city from earlier entries appears. Rockstar hasn't detailed travel between regions either. When any of it is announced it comes from the Newswire, and it shows up in the news section with the source next to it, not on a leaked map.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Leonida, and is it a real place?
Leonida isn't real: it's GTA VI's fictional state, and Rockstar places it where the real world has Florida. The match shows in the confirmed names themselves: the Leonida Keys against the Florida Keys, Grassrivers against the Everglades and Vice City against Miami. What Rockstar hasn't published is a map of its fictional country or which states border it, so the location is inferred from the real counterpart rather than from anything internal to the game.
Is Leonida just Vice City?
No. Vice City is the main city, but Leonida is the whole state: it includes Grassrivers, the Leonida Keys, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park. That's six regions confirmed by Rockstar, and the city is one of the six.
Which regions are confirmed?
Vice City, Grassrivers, Leonida Keys, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park. Any other region name you see going around does not come from Rockstar.
Is it true the map will be twice the size of GTA V's?
It's a community estimate, not a Rockstar figure, and it comes from measuring maps rebuilt out of trailer footage. Rockstar has published no surface area for the state of Leonida.
Is this the same Vice City as the 2002 game?
It shares the name, the real-world reference (Miami) and a couple of districts: Ocean Beach and Washington Beach were already in the 2002 game. But other names changed (where that one had Little Havana, this one has Little Cuba), Rockstar hasn't confirmed any continuity or shared timeline, and the settings don't line up: that one sat in 1986, and GTA VI's trailers show present-day phones and social media.
Has Rockstar published an official GTA VI map?
No. Rockstar has released no map of the state of Leonida. Everything circulating with roads, districts and points of interest is a community reconstruction built from the trailers and promotional material.
Which real parts of Florida is the map based on?
Vice City draws on Miami, Grassrivers on the Everglades and the Leonida Keys on the Florida Keys. For Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga there's no real counterpart that Rockstar has named.
Will the whole state be open from the start?
Not confirmed. The series has done it both ways: GTA V's map was open almost from the off, while GTA IV unlocked its islands as the story progressed. Two precedents from the same studio settle nothing.

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