GTA VI map
GTA VI is set in Leonida, Rockstar’s take on Florida: one big city, Vice City, surrounded by keys, swamps, run-down towns, industrial farmland and a national park. Rockstar calls it the biggest map it has ever made, roughly twice the size of GTA V’s.
Rockstar hasn’t released the map ahead of November 19, 2026, so here’s every region with what’s actually known, its named neighborhoods and landmarks and the official screenshots. Plus, kept separate and clearly labeled, the map the community has pieced together.
· Images: Rockstar Games.
Six officially revealed regions: one city and a lot of wild country. Tap a name to jump to its chapter.
The city
On the water
Inland
By the numbers
The big city
The ’80s are long gone, but it’s still America’s capital of sun and fun: art deco hotels, white sand, glass towers, Cuban bakeries and the busiest cruise port in the world.
Vice City is back more than twenty years after GTA Vice City, now in the present day and part of the GTA V-era universe. It sits at the center of Leonida and, according to the press previews, it covers roughly twice the area of Los Santos, with streets 15% narrower and far more traffic.
The official website pitches it as America’s glamour, hustle and greed packed into one city, and every neighborhood has its own personality. These are the ones Rockstar has named so far.
Neighborhood
Pastel art deco hotels and bright white sand: the same neighborhood that headlined GTA Vice City back in 1986. By day the beach is packed; by night it’s neon, expensive cars and cops. The Vintage Vice City Pack adds a garage at Shore Court, steps from the sand.
Neighborhoods
Little Cuba is all about its panaderías; the Tisha-Wocka flea market, about knockoff brands. Stockyard is Vice City’s Wynwood (opens in a new tab), with murals by real street artists. And the Southside is home to the PTT Youngin$ compound you can raid in an Ultimate Edition activity.
Downtown
Glass towers over a bay full of speedboats, a Ferris wheel and VC Port, billed by the official site as the cruise ship capital of the world, just like the real Port of Miami. This is the postcard Vice City, where the money is.
After dark
Once the sun goes down, Vice City changes: pink and blue neon on wet asphalt, strip clubs and nightclubs. Weather is local and persistent, and rain leaves puddles long after the storm has passed, according to Game Informer (opens in a new tab).
Where the story starts
A laid-back tropical island chain of cold beers and deck chairs, right on the edge of some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in America. This is where Jason lives.
The Leonida Keys are Rockstar’s Florida Keys: islands strung together by bridges, coastal towns and constant boat traffic. Jason lives here, doing jobs for local drug runners, and it’s where Brian Heder, the smuggler he works for, runs his boat yard.
According to the press previews, the story opens here, near Jason’s place, and the rest of the map opens up later. Meet the locals in our GTA 6 characters guide.
Keys life
Nothing fancy here: bars like The Rusty Anchor, crab festivals and people passing out at the table. Iguanas roam the streets, and that’s no throwaway detail: Game Informer confirmed Florida’s invasive species, the green iguana among them, are in the game.
The water
In the Keys, the water is the highway: speedboats, jet skis, boat parties and, below the surface, reefs to dive among sea turtles. It’s also the smuggling route. And keep an eye on the sky: Leonida gets tropical storms and hurricanes.
Swamps and mangroves
A wild, primordial stretch of wetlands and mangroves. The gators get top billing, but they aren’t the deadliest thing out here, or the strangest.
Grassrivers is Leonida’s Everglades: miles of tall grass, water and mangroves where, per the official site, there are worse predators than alligators and some very weird discoveries. The screenshots put it within sight of the Vice City skyline.
It sums up what Rockstar is going for with this map: wilderness that matters as much as the city, and corners you’ll only find by straying off the path.
Wildlife
Leonida has over 170 species, including more than 60 kinds of birds and over 30 land mammals, and some of them can be tracked: there are rare, discoverable and legendary animals. The swamp is where it shows most, with gators, herons, deer and flocks everywhere.
The locals
Gator hunters with rifles over their shoulders, wooden porches and sheds with the day’s catch hanging up. The people out here have nothing in common with the Ocean Beach crowd, and the screenshots make it clear you shouldn’t bother them.
Getting around
Cars won’t get you far here: you cross the swamp by airboat, one of the confirmed activities. The cops follow you in, too, with boats, trucks and a helicopter, as Trailer 2 (opens in a new tab) and the screenshots show.
A vacation town gone to seed
Cheap motels, closed-down attractions and empty strip malls. The tourists aren’t coming back, but a different kind of economy has moved in.
Port Gellhorn used to be a popular vacation spot. Now, per the official site, it’s cheap motels, shuttered attractions and strip malls with no stores, running on a new economy of malt liquor, painkillers and truck stop energy drinks.
Rockstar’s advice: jump on a dirt bike and hold onto your wallet. It’s Leonida’s least welcoming face, and it hints at plenty of small-time dealing.
Landmarks
The official screenshots show off two local businesses: the Starlet Motel, neon sign and vacancies and all, and the Delights Cabaret, which promises new food, stays open all night and is hiring dancers. Port Gellhorn in a nutshell.
The locals
Deals through a car window, homegrown plants and bonfires in the parking lot. According to Rockstar, Port Gellhorn runs on cheap drugs and booze.
The industrial heartland
In the heart of Leonida, industry and old-school values still rule. The Allied Crystal sugar refinery provides the jobs; the local biker gang provides almost everything else.
Ambrosia sits in the heart of Leonida and revolves around the Allied Crystal sugar refinery, which employs half the town. Whatever the refinery doesn’t run, per the official site, the local biker gang does.
Around it is farm country: crop dusters, ranches and mud parks. That fits what Game Informer described of inland Leonida, with motocross and demolition derbies.
The refinery
Pylons, smokestacks and burning fields at sunset. The refinery is Ambrosia’s reason for being, and you can tell from miles away.
The locals
Ambrosia’s biker gang shows up in more screenshots than any other inland crew: riding down Main Street, in neon-lit roadside bars and at gunpoint. What part they play in the story, Rockstar hasn’t said.
Downtime
Mud parks full of off-roaders, car washes and beer cans: inland Leonida has its own idea of a good time, and Rockstar gives it as many screenshots as the beach.
National park
A national landmark on the state’s northern border, with hunting, fishing and off-road trails. In the backwoods around it live people who’d rather the government never found them.
Mount Kalaga National Park sits in the north of Leonida, right up against the state line, and it’s the closest GTA VI gets to Red Dead Redemption 2: forests, rivers and hills for hunting, fishing and off-roading.
The official site adds a very Rockstar touch: the surrounding backwoods are home to hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals living off the government’s radar. That smells like strange side jobs.
Hunting and fishing
The screenshots show hunters in orange vests, deer drinking at a creek and a predator lying in wait. Game Informer confirms trackable animals, including legendary ones in the style of Red Dead 2, and catch-and-release fishing.
Off-road
Dirt bike and ATV trails through mud and abandoned silos. The Ultimate Edition adds a Mud Club off-roader built for these backroads and opens a custom off-road shop in Lake Leonida.
Rivers and trails
Kayaking and hiking are both confirmed, and hiking doubles as a date for Jason and Lucia. Iron bridges, waterfalls and clear water: Leonida at its most peaceful.
State of Leonida
While Rockstar keeps its map under wraps, the community has spent years drawing its own. State of Leonida is a fan-made interactive map that rebuilds the state from the trailers, the official screenshots, the 2022 leaks and Florida’s real geography, complete with roads, coastline and the name of every region.
In their version, Vice City sits on the east coast, with Vice Beach across the bay; Mount Kalaga National Park takes up the north; Port Gellhorn lies to the west; the Grassrivers wetlands stretch across the south, and the Leonida Keys trail off at the bottom. Flip the switch to go from the road view to the terrain view.
Treat it for what it is: an educated guess, not the official map. Some coastlines and roads are estimates, and the game may have changed a lot since the leaks. Still, it’s the best way to picture the whole thing until November 19.
Rockstar hasn’t given a square-mile figure. These are the numbers from the studio and the press who’ve played it, with who said what.
Rockstar hasn’t given an exact figure. According to Rockstar North’s Aaron Garbut, it’s roughly twice the size of GTA V’s and the biggest map the studio has made. The New York Times puts it at around three times Red Dead Redemption 2’s playable area.
In Leonida, a fictional state based on Florida, with Vice City (Rockstar’s Miami) as its big city.
Rockstar has revealed six: Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park. There may be more.
Not yet. The maps going around online are fan reconstructions built from trailers and leaks (the most complete is State of Leonida), and Take-Two has even had a mod taken down (opens in a new tab) that recreated one.
Not entirely. The story begins in the Leonida Keys and the rest of the world opens up from there; the map starts covered in fog and fills in as you explore. The story won’t drag you everywhere either: some areas you’ll only find on your own.
Yes. Ocean Beach, GTA Vice City’s art deco hotel district, is one of the confirmed neighborhoods of the new Vice City.
It hasn’t been announced. Lucia is from Liberty City, but everything Rockstar has shown takes place in Leonida.
