GTA 6 Map: Vice City and Leonida Explained
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Rockstar has actually confirmed a lot more about GTA 6’s map than most casual coverage gives it credit for. Between two official trailers and a batch of released promotional screenshots, there are six named regions on record, a confirmed overall setting, and a reasonably clear picture of how the world is laid out, well before any actual hands-on gameplay has been shown. This guide walks through exactly what’s confirmed, what’s credible based on trailer footage and community mapping work, and where the line into pure speculation actually sits.
The Setting: Leonida, Not Just Vice City
GTA 6 is set in the fictional state of Leonida, Rockstar’s reimagined take on Florida, with Vice City, its version of modern Miami, serving as the central hub rather than the entire map. This distinction matters more than it might seem. Vice City existed as its own standalone setting in Rockstar’s earlier 3D Universe era. This version is different, built within the modern HD Universe and expanded into an entire surrounding state, with Vice City as one major region among several rather than the whole picture.
Rockstar has described this as its biggest and most immersive open world to date. While an official size figure hasn’t been published, community estimates built from trailer analysis and mapping projects suggest the world is somewhere in the range of one and a half to two times the size of GTA V’s map, though that specific multiplier remains an estimate rather than a confirmed number.
Vice City: The Urban Core
Vice City is the beating heart of the map and, based on Rockstar’s own framing, the most detailed city the studio has built for any of its titles. Trailer footage shows Art Deco beachfront architecture, dense downtown skyscrapers, waterfront luxury developments, and the kind of neon-lit nightlife the Vice City name has always been associated with, going back to the original 2002 game.
What stands out most in the confirmed footage is the deliberate contrast the city is built around, extreme wealth sitting directly alongside visible poverty, which feeds into the Bonnie and Clyde style narrative driving Jason and Lucia’s story. Confirmed characters tied to Vice City’s world include a supporting figure named Boobie Ike, described as a music industry figure within the game’s world.
One detail worth highlighting because it changes how you’ll actually move through the world: Vice City’s confirmed layout includes an extensive network of canals, bays, and coastal waterways, mirroring how the real Miami has hundreds of miles of navigable water running through it. Based on this, boats appear set to play a considerably more practical, central transportation role than in any previous mainline GTA title, rather than functioning as a side novelty.
Grassrivers: The Everglades Equivalent
Grassrivers is Rockstar’s version of the Florida Everglades, and it’s confirmed as one of the largest natural regions in the game. Trailer footage has directly shown airboats, alligators, dense wetland vegetation, and murky waterways throughout this area. It’s described as the most biodiverse zone in the game and is confirmed as a primary setting for hunting, fishing, and wildlife encounters, which lines up with the side activities separately confirmed through a GTA Online crossover update referencing these same systems.
The tonal shift here is deliberate and significant. Where Vice City is dense, urban, and neon-soaked, Grassrivers is isolated, rural, and built around slow-moving rivers, cypress forests, and small, scattered communities rather than skyscrapers and nightlife.
Leonida Keys: The Southern Island Chain
Modeled on the real Florida Keys, this region consists of a chain of tropical islands connected by long highway bridges stretching across the map’s southern edge. Based directly on Trailer 2 footage, this is where Jason and Lucia’s early safehouse appears to be located, making it a meaningful starting point for the story rather than just a scenic backdrop.
Community mapping projects working from trailer footage have identified a settlement within this region resembling Key Largo, tentatively referred to as Key Lento, with several specific named points of interest appearing to be confirmed through trailer shots. This region is expected to lean into diving, saltwater fishing, and scenic coastal driving, offering a laid-back tonal contrast to Vice City’s intensity, similar to the contrast Grassrivers provides but with a distinctly tropical, resort-adjacent feel rather than a wilderness one.
Mount Kalaga National Park: The Northern Wilderness
Sitting along Leonida’s northern border, Mount Kalaga introduces forests, mountains, rivers, and off-road trails, marking a clear departure from both the urban density of Vice City and the wetland environment of Grassrivers. This region is confirmed as a setting focused on wilderness exploration, hiking, and remote communities, continuing the pattern of hunting and fishing activities that also appear in Grassrivers, just in a colder, higher-elevation environment.
Port Gellhorn and Ambrosia: Confirmed via Official Screenshots
Beyond the four regions detailed above, Rockstar’s official screenshot release specifically confirmed two additional named locations, Port Gellhorn and Ambrosia. Port Gellhorn appears to be a coastal port area, with screenshots showing industrial waterfront infrastructure and a working harbor, suggesting a working-class, blue-collar atmosphere distinct from Vice City’s glamour. Ambrosia’s exact character is less detailed in what’s been released so far, though it’s confirmed by name directly through Rockstar’s own materials rather than through leaks or fan speculation, which puts it on solid confirmed footing even with fewer visual details currently available.
What’s Strongly Suggested but Not Yet Officially Confirmed
It’s worth being precise about where confirmed information ends and educated inference begins, since a lot of GTA 6 map coverage blurs this line without saying so. A number of specific district names, including references resembling Little Haiti, Leaf Links, Rockridge, Washington Beach, South Beach, Stockyard, and the Venetian Islands, have strong supporting evidence from trailer footage and community mapping analysis, but haven’t been directly named or confirmed by Rockstar itself. Treat these as credible, well-supported inferences rather than confirmed facts, since they’re built from careful frame-by-frame trailer analysis rather than anything Rockstar has stated outright.
Similarly, claims about a specific number of enterable interiors, with community estimates suggesting more than 700 walk-in locations across the full game, come from fan mapping projects analyzing trailer density rather than an official Rockstar figure. It’s a reasonable estimate given the level of detail shown, but it isn’t something Rockstar has directly confirmed as a specific number.
Why the Community Mapping Projects Are Actually Worth Trusting
This is worth explaining rather than dismissing outright, since fan-made maps can sound like unreliable speculation at first glance. Dedicated community mapping efforts have worked from trailer footage to extract coordinate data and stitch together a working model of Leonida’s layout well before any official map was released. When Trailer 2 dropped, several of these community-mapped predictions lined up directly with what appeared on screen, which gave the broader mapping effort real, demonstrated credibility rather than just optimistic guesswork.
That track record is exactly why some of the region details above, while not stated verbatim by Rockstar, carry more weight than typical unverified rumors. They’re built from checkable, frame-by-frame analysis of real official footage, not fabricated claims with no supporting evidence at all.
How This Map Compares to GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2
Without an official size figure, direct comparisons remain estimates rather than settled fact, but the general consensus across careful analysis puts Leonida somewhere between one and a half and two times the physical size of GTA V’s map. What’s more clearly evident from trailer footage, regardless of the exact size multiplier, is the environmental variety on display. GTA V’s map contrasted a dense city with surrounding desert and mountain terrain. Leonida appears to be leaning into a different kind of contrast entirely, urban density against wetlands, tropical islands, and northern forest, which lines up with the range of side activities, fishing, hunting, scuba diving, kayaking, already confirmed through the GTA Online crossover reference.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Vice City the entire GTA 6 map? No. Vice City is the central urban hub within the larger state of Leonida, which includes several other confirmed regions like Grassrivers, the Leonida Keys, and Mount Kalaga National Park.
How many regions has Rockstar officially confirmed? Six: Vice City, Grassrivers, the Leonida Keys, Mount Kalaga National Park, Port Gellhorn, and Ambrosia, based on official trailers and released screenshots.
Is the GTA 6 map bigger than GTA V’s? No official number exists, but community estimates built from trailer analysis suggest it’s somewhere between one and a half and two times the size of GTA V’s map.
Are the fan-made GTA 6 maps accurate? Reasonably so. Community mapping projects working from trailer coordinate data have had several predictions confirmed once new official trailers were released, giving the broader effort real demonstrated credibility.
Are district names like Little Haiti or Washington Beach officially confirmed? Not directly by Rockstar. These come from careful community analysis of trailer footage and carry strong supporting evidence, but should be treated as credible inference rather than officially confirmed fact.
The Bottom Line
Rockstar has confirmed considerably more about GTA 6’s map than the noise around this topic usually suggests, six named regions across two trailers and an official screenshot release, along with a clear sense of how Leonida’s environments contrast against each other. Community mapping work adds real, demonstrated value on top of that confirmed foundation, but it’s worth keeping the line clear between what Rockstar has actually shown and what’s careful, well-supported speculation built around it. For everything else confirmed so far, including characters and gameplay details shown directly in the trailers, our breakdown of what’s actually verified versus fake in GTA 6 leaks and gameplay claims covers the full picture beyond the map alone.
