The Complete GTA 6 Map: What Leonida Is, Its Six Regions and How Big It Really Is

Every Grand Theft Auto is remembered by its map, and GTA 6's is the most ambitious Rockstar has ever built: it's no longer a city, it's an entire state. It's called Leonida, it's Rockstar's take on Florida, and it packs in neon-soaked Vice City, a chain of tropical keys, the Everglades wetlands, a run-down Gulf coast, farm country, and even northern forests and canyons. Here's the no-hype rundown of everything we know about the GTA 6 map: the six confirmed regions, how big it really is, and where the things we think we know actually come from.

What is Leonida? The state GTA 6 takes place in

GTA 6 is set in the fictional state of Leonida, Rockstar's version of the real state of Florida. The distinction matters: we're not just "going back to Vice City" like returning to a neighborhood — we're returning to a whole state, with Vice City as its beating heart. Rockstar describes it as home to "the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond," and pitches the game as "the biggest, most immersive evolution of Grand Theft Auto yet."

The story of Jason and Lucia — a criminal duo Rockstar has likened to Bonnie and Clyde — kicks off when "an easy score goes wrong" and the pair end up "on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America," caught in a conspiracy that "stretches across the state of Leonida." That "across the state" is the whole point of the map: the action doesn't stay in the city.

Rockstar has never explained the name "Leonida." The community floats two readings — a phonetic echo of "Florida" → "Leonida," and a nod to Florida's real Leon County — but treat those as fan theory, not fact.

The six regions of the GTA 6 map

After the second trailer (May 2025), Rockstar published pages for six regions on its official site, each with its own tagline. These are the six — no more, no less, no matter how many low-effort sites try to pass off "counties" as regions:

Vice City — "Everything in Excess"

The capital, Rockstar's Miami: packed beaches, neon nightlife, Ocean Drive art deco, skyscrapers, a port and an international airport. It's the epicenter of "glamour, hustle, and greed," and the reference point for the entire state. Recognizable areas from classic Vice City return, like Ocean Drive and Little Havana, now in modern form.

Leonida Keys — "Gateway to Paradise"

The southern tropical archipelago, Rockstar's Florida Keys, linked by bridges and coastal highways. "The dress code is casual, the bars are loaded… life isn't flashy but it's easy," with waters as "beautiful as they are dangerous." This is where Jason and Lucia begin the story, with their first safehouse on one of the islands.

Grassrivers — "Welcome to the Wetlands"

The wetlands, Leonida's Everglades: mangroves, swamps and channels where "you never know what lies beneath the surface." It's the epicenter of the game's wildlife — alligators included — and, per Rockstar, hides "deadlier predators and weirder discoveries."

Port Gellhorn — "Live Hard"

Leonida's "forgotten coast," inspired by the Gulf Panhandle (think Panama City): cheap motels, shuttered attractions and half-empty strip malls, an economy of "malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks." The depressed flip side of the Florida dream.

Ambrosia — "Keeping Leonida Sweet"

The agricultural and industrial heart of the interior, beside Lake Leonida (the Lake Okeechobee analog). Here "American industry and old school values still reign supreme": farms, railroad, endless roads, and the Allied Crystal sugar refinery dominating the local economy — biker gang included.

Mount Kalaga National Park — "Wild, Wild Country"

The wild northern frontier of the state: dense forests, canyons, rivers and off-road trails for hunting, fishing and exploration. Rockstar describes it as home to "hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals." It's the rural, mountainous counterpoint to Vice City's glare.

Beyond the six regions, we already know a handful of official place names: Vice City International Airport, the Vice City port, Lake Leonida, and the Leonida Penitentiary, where Lucia gets out at the start of the game.

How big is the GTA 6 map?

Time to be honest: Rockstar has not given any official figure for the map's size. It only calls it the "biggest" in the series. Any square-kilometer or square-mile number you read out there is a community estimate, not a fact.

That said, the consensus among fan mapping projects — which reconstruct the map from the trailers and the 2022 leak — puts Leonida at roughly twice the size of GTA V, with estimates ranging from 1.5× to 2.7× depending on who's measuring. For context: GTA V is around 31 square miles of land and Red Dead Redemption 2 about 30; any of those estimates would leave GTA 6 well above both.

But raw size is the least of it. GTA 6's real leap is density: where GTA V had huge stretches of empty desert and mountain, Leonida chains six distinct biomes, continuous city, interiors everywhere and a far more populated world. It's not just bigger — it's much fuller.

The 2022 leak: where what we know comes from

A lot of what the community "knows" about the map came not from Rockstar but from the biggest leak in gaming history. On September 18, 2022, a user going by "teapotuberhacker" posted around 90 videos — roughly 50 minutes of development footage — from the then-unannounced GTA VI. The source was a breach of Rockstar's internal Slack; the culprit, 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj, tied to the Lapsus$ group, was later convicted in a London court.

For the map, that leak was a goldmine: it confirmed the return to a present-day Vice City (not the '80s one), the Jason-and-Lucia dual protagonists long before the official reveal, and — most useful for mappers — clips with debug coordinates on screen. Using those coordinates, the GTAForums community reconstructed a rough shape of Leonida that, cross-referenced with the 2023 and 2025 trailers, underpins nearly every size estimate floating around today. That's why those numbers exist… and why they aren't official.

Vice City: from 1986 to the present

Veterans will remember the 2002 Vice City, set in 1986 Miami: pastel tones, neon and Miami Vice aesthetics. GTA 6 returns to the same fictional city, but jumps to the present — "we're a long way from the '80s," Rockstar warns — and, above all, rescales it: from a compact island city to a metropolis inside a full state.

The generational leap shows everywhere: pedestrian and traffic density, explorable interiors, dynamic weather, living wildlife and tourist crowds. It's not a reboot, it's a recognizable continuity: Ocean Drive and Little Havana are still there, a wink to anyone who played the classic. Rockstar has even leaned into the nostalgia with the Vintage Vice City Pack, the '80s-styled pre-order bonus.

A living world: wildlife, weather and era

Leonida is set in contemporary Florida (the 2020s), with smartphones and social media front and center in the trailers' satirical tone. And above all it's a living world: the trailers have shown alligators (even in suburban pools and gas stations, a nod to real Florida headlines), flocks of pink flamingos and dolphins, with an ecosystem spread across biomes and Grassrivers as its epicenter. The weather is dynamic with a day/night cycle; many fans expect storms and hurricanes that shake up gameplay, though Rockstar hasn't confirmed that yet.

Rumors: Gloriana and map expansion

A couple of theories worth taking with a grain of salt. In the second trailer, some license plates read "Gloriana State," which fans associate with a version of Georgia north of Leonida; a "Visit Gloriana" domain even surfaced, redirecting to Rockstar. From that springs the theory that Rockstar could expand the map after launch with new regions or states. Careful, though: Rockstar has only named Leonida, and neither Gloriana nor any map expansion is confirmed. Interesting as speculation, nothing more.

For everything else confirmed about the game — date, price, characters — check our permanent GTA 6 guide, always up to date. If you want to see where a lot of these locations come from, don't miss our breakdown of both trailers. And once the game lands, the scene is already prepping its own maps: keep an eye on the upcoming GTA 6 map mods and drop by the forum to argue about which region has you most hooked. Mount Kalaga's national park is also the centre of the debate over whether GTA 6 will let you camp and live in an RV. The coastline is more than a backdrop: our breakdown of GTA 6's water physics, waves and possible storms covers how the ocean could shape life across Leonida.