Grand Theft Auto 6 Map

For years the GTA 6 map was something fans pieced together from trailer frames and leaked clips. That changes on November 19, 2026, when Rockstar adds an official printable map of Leonida to its website on the day the game comes out. Until then, this guide covers what Rockstar has named, shown and said about the state, region by region.

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Grand Theft Auto VI takes place in the present day in Leonida, a satirical take on Florida. Vice City, the game’s Miami, is the main city, but Jason and Lucia’s story stretches across the whole state. Rockstar introduced Leonida’s six regions on its website in May 2025, each with a tagline and a short description, and this new Vice City has no story link to the 2002 game beyond the name and a few returning landmarks.

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Rockstar has never published a figure in square miles, but it has given clear comparisons. In August 2026 the studio said the map is about three times the playable area of Red Dead Redemption 2, and Aaron Garbut later called it about twice the size of GTA V’s map. A magazine preview went further and described the landmass as nearly as large as the GTA IV, GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 maps combined.

Those numbers do not line up perfectly, because each older map has a different shape and amount of water. Rob Nelson has even said that nobody on the team knows all of it. Rockstar has not confirmed any GTA 6 cheat codes either, so there is no known shortcut yet for crossing a state this size.

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Leonida is not locked behind blocked bridges in the first hours. Rob Nelson has explained that the story opens at the bottom of the map in the Leonida Keys, at Jason’s house, and that the map then opens completely. Getting around is helped by an in-game map styled like satellite imagery and by RydeMe, a ride-share app that works as fast travel. In earlier games, vehicle spawn cheats were the quickest way to get a ride in the middle of nowhere, and whether anything similar returns will only be known after launch.

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The fan mapping effort began after the 2022 leak, when development clips gave the first look at streets, coastlines and landmarks. Since then the community has matched every official trailer, screenshot and the Extended Look against that footage, adding roads and buildings one frame at a time. Its latest map puts Leonida’s land area at roughly 85.6 square kilometres, but it is still an estimate built partly on an unfinished 2022 build that Rockstar has never confirmed.

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Rockstar’s six regions are the best way to read the map, because each one has its own look and type of trouble. The table uses Rockstar’s taglines and the features it lists for each area. Rockstar has not published county borders, so these regions are the only official way to divide the state for now.

Region	Rockstar’s tagline	What Rockstar highlights
Vice City	Everything in Excess	Ocean Beach, Little Cuba, the Tisha-Wocka flea market, the VC Port
Leonida Keys	Gateway to Paradise	A tropical archipelago next to dangerous waters
Grassrivers	Welcome to the Wetlands	Gators, mangroves and deadlier predators
Port Gellhorn	Live Hard	Cheap motels, shut-down attractions, empty strip malls
Ambrosia	The heart of Leonida	The Allied Crystal sugar refinery and a biker gang
Mount Kalaga National Park	Wild, Wild Country	Hunting, fishing and off-road trails on the northern border

County names also turn up in official footage. A Vice-Dale police helicopter appears in the second trailer, highway signs point to Mariana County, Vice-Dale County, Leonard County and Kelly County, and an Ambrosia County sheriff sign shows up in a screenshot. Their borders are still unknown, and the official map should settle them.

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Rockstar calls Vice City “the sun and fun capital of America”, from the pastel art deco hotels of Ocean Beach to the panaderías of Little Cuba and the VC Port, billed as the cruise ship capital of the world. The Extended Look added Bayside, the rooftop bar Effluvia and a road sign for Starfish Island, the mansion island from the original game. According to Rob Nelson, Vice City alone is about twice the size of Los Santos.

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Rockstar describes the Keys as a tropical archipelago where life “isn’t flashy but it’s easy”, right on the doorstep of some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in America. Rockstar’s character profile has Jason ending up here after the Army, working for local drug runners, and his house is where the story begins. Scuba diving is confirmed, which gives the waters around the islands a reason to be explored.

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Grassrivers is Leonida’s Everglades, which Rockstar calls “the untamable jewel of Leonida’s crown”. The official text says the gators may be the most famous attraction, but there are far deadlier predators and weirder discoveries among the mangroves. The small town of Watson Bay is here too, with its name painted on a water tower in official footage and repeated in the Ultimate Edition description.

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Rockstar calls Port Gellhorn Leonida’s forgotten coast, a once-popular holiday spot now full of cheap motels, shut-down attractions and empty strip malls. Its new economy, the studio says, runs on malt liquor, painkillers and truck stop energy drinks. Fans usually compare it to Panama City, one of the towns Rockstar’s environment team studied while building northern Leonida.

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Rockstar says “the battle for the health and wealth of Leonida begins here”, in a region where American industry and old school values still reign supreme. The Allied Crystal sugar refinery provides the jobs, while the local biker gang provides almost everything else. Official frames show a Xero gas station and campaign signs for a mayoral candidate, but Rockstar has shown less of Ambrosia than of any other region.

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Mount Kalaga National Park is a national landmark up against the state’s northern border, with prime hunting, fishing and off-road trails. Rockstar says its backwoods are home to “hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals”. Activities reported for the wider north include ATV trails, mud parks, demolition derbies, golf and bass fishing, which points to a part of the map built for side activities rather than heists.

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Gloriana is so far only a name on licence plates, seen in the second trailer and in official screenshots, and fans read it as the game’s Georgia. The same trailer shows Liberty City plates, and nobody expects Liberty City on the map. Every region Rockstar has named sits inside Leonida, so Gloriana is best treated as the state next door that you hear about but do not visit.

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Rockstar has said there are hundreds of interiors to explore, but it has not given an exact number, and the often repeated figure of more than 700 is an unconfirmed rumour. Official footage already shows bars, nightclubs, motels, convenience stores and Jason and Lucia’s home from the inside. Named landmarks include the Ocean View Hotel, Hotel Valetta, the Sahara Arena, Starfish Island, the VC Port and the Allied Crystal refinery.

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Leonida has more than 170 animal species, including over 60 kinds of birds and more than 30 land mammals. Confirmed animals range from alligators, manatees and flamingos to iguanas, armadillos and rhesus macaques, while the sea holds sharks, whales, rays and turtles. Some can be tracked and are graded as Rare, Discoverable or Legendary, and weather is local and persistent, with tropical storms and hurricanes confirmed.

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Size is only half the comparison, and Rockstar has talked more about density. Rob Nelson has said that, counting every small town across the state, Leonida has about 11 times the built-up area GTA V had outside its main city. Aaron Garbut has described the world as denser than GTA V, with many more interiors, so there should be fewer empty stretches between points of interest even though the distances are far greater.

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Fan renditions of Leonida range from simple overlays on the GTA V map to interactive maps with hundreds of pins, each tied to a trailer frame or screenshot. They have been useful for following the trailers, and many details they predicted have since appeared in official material. After November 19, the in-game map and Rockstar’s printable version become the reference, and fan maps will shift to marking collectibles and secrets.

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A single game holding Liberty City, Los Santos, San Fierro, Las Venturas and Vice City has been a fan wish for years. In 2022, Bloomberg reported that Rockstar planned to add missions and cities through updates, and in October 2026 it reported on an early concept called Project Americas that was cut down to Leonida. Rockstar has not announced any new cities or map expansions, so for now the Liberty City plates are the only sign of other places.

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Is there an official GTA 6 map?
Yes, from launch day. Rockstar will add a free printable map of Leonida to its website on November 19, 2026, and a double-sided poster with the map will follow on the Rockstar Store for $0.99, or free with any store order.

How big is the GTA 6 map?
Rockstar has not given an area, but it puts Leonida at about twice the size of GTA V’s map and three times the playable area of Red Dead Redemption 2.

Is the whole map open from the start?
The story begins in the Leonida Keys, and according to Rockstar the map then opens completely, so you can travel anywhere once the opening is done.

Can you visit Gloriana or Liberty City?
Neither has been announced as a playable area. Both appear only on licence plates, and every region Rockstar has named is inside Leonida.

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