Updated Sep 28, 2026: All six official Leonida regions checked against Rockstar’s site, plus the reported map size from August’s previews. Game Informer’s cover story lands tomorrow, and we’ll add anything new about the map.
The GTA 6 map is Leonida, Rockstar’s take on Florida, and it’s split into six official regions: Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park. Each one has its own page on Rockstar’s GTA 6 site. Vice City is basically Miami, the Keys are the Florida Keys, Grassrivers is the Everglades, and the other three take a little more detective work. You’ll get to explore all of it on Nov 19, 2026, on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Quick ground rule before we start: Rockstar has named the regions and described them, but it has never said which real places inspired them. Every “this is really X” pairing below comes from fans and outlets comparing official footage to the real Florida, and we label it that way. We’re not using anything from leaks. For the release date, price and preload details, our GTA 6 release date hub has you covered.
The GTA 6 map at a glance
Here’s the short version. The middle column is fan and press analysis, not anything Rockstar has confirmed.
| Region | Real-world inspiration (fan analysis) | What Rockstar has shown or said |
|---|---|---|
| Vice City | Miami and Miami Beach | Ocean Beach, Little Cuba, the Tisha-Wocka flea market and the VC Port |
| Leonida Keys | The Florida Keys | A laid-back island chain, boats, bars and “dangerous waters”; Jason lives here |
| Grassrivers | The Everglades | Mangrove wetlands, gators and airboats |
| Port Gellhorn | The Panhandle, often matched to Panama City | A faded vacation town full of cheap motels and empty strip malls |
| Ambrosia | Clewiston and the Lake Okeechobee sugar belt | A company town built around the Allied Crystal sugar refinery, plus a biker gang |
| Mount Kalaga National Park | North Florida and Georgia (Florida doesn’t do mountains) | Hunting, fishing and off-road trails on the state’s northern border |
How big is the GTA 6 map?
Rockstar still hasn’t published an official size or a full map. What we have is secondhand. After Rockstar ran hands-off previews for a small group of creators in August, YouTuber TGG reported that the studio described Leonida as about three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2‘s world, with Vice City alone roughly double Los Santos, per VICE. Screen Rant attributes the comparison to Rockstar’s Rob Nelson and adds that the whole map is twice the size of GTA 5’s.
That’s a Rockstar comparison relayed by an attendee, not a number Rockstar has put in writing. So treat it as “very likely” rather than gospel, and be extra skeptical of anyone quoting exact square miles. Those figures come from fan mapping projects.
Vice City: Miami, obviously
This one’s a gimme. Vice City has been Rockstar’s Miami since the very first GTA, and the 2002 game made it iconic. The official Vice City page runs with the tagline “Everything in Excess.” It name-checks four spots: the art deco hotels and white sand of Ocean Beach, the panaderías of Little Cuba, the bootleg brands of the Tisha-Wocka flea market, and the VC Port, “the cruise ship capital of the world.”
You don’t need a geography degree to decode these. Ocean Beach is the South Beach strip, and Little Cuba is riffing on Little Havana. The port line is a straight lift of PortMiami’s own brag: the real port calls itself the Cruise Capital of the World. Fans have gone a lot deeper. Dexerto’s real-life locations guide matches trailer shots to Ocean Drive, the Venetian Causeway, Miami’s Design District and the Heat’s arena.
The Extended Look filled in some neighborhoods. SVG’s breakdown spots a rooftop bar called Effluvia where Jason and Lucia meet Brian Heder, a firefight at Megamundo’s headquarters, and a police chase that ends in a district called Bayside. It’s also where the rest of the cast lives, with Boobie described as a local Vice City legend whose empire includes real estate, a strip club and a recording studio. (Our GTA 6 characters guide has everyone we’ve met so far.)
Leonida Keys: the Florida Keys, with more crime
Rockstar calls the Leonida Keys a “Gateway to Paradise,” a tropical archipelago where life “isn’t flashy but it’s easy.” The catch is that you’re on the doorstep of “some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in all of America.” Given that the Keys are where the drug runners live, we’re reading that two ways.
This region matters more to the story than its chill vibe suggests. Jason’s official bio puts him in the Keys working for local drug runners, and Brian, the old-school smuggler who lets Jason live rent-free, still moves product through his boat yard down there. The real-world match is the Florida Keys, the island chain south of Miami, and PC Gamer points out that one of Rockstar’s Keys screenshots has a shark hanging around the partygoers. Noted.
Grassrivers: the Everglades stand-in
The Grassrivers page goes with “Welcome to the Wetlands” and calls the region “the untamable jewel of Leonida’s crown.” Gators are the headline attraction, but Rockstar warns that there are “far deadlier predators and weirder discoveries among the mangroves.” That’s a very Rockstar way of saying “we hid something weird in the swamp.”
The Everglades comparison is about as unanimous as fan analysis gets. The name looks like a nod to the Everglades’ famous “river of grass” nickname, and the Extended Look shows Jason steering a boat through the swamp and a separate snorkeling scene, per SVG.
Port Gellhorn: Leonida’s forgotten coast
This is where the map gets bleak, on purpose. Port Gellhorn is “Leonida’s forgotten coast,” a former vacation hotspot of cheap motels, shut-down attractions and empty strip malls. Its new economy, per Rockstar, runs on malt liquor, painkillers and truck stop energy drinks. The tagline is “Live Hard,” and the page tells you to jump on a dirt bike and hold onto your wallet.
Here’s the fun part for Florida nerds: “Forgotten Coast” is a real nickname for a stretch of the Florida Panhandle along the Gulf, from Mexico Beach to Apalachicola (the region’s tourism site uses it proudly). Most fan analysis puts Port Gellhorn up there. Dexerto matches it to Panama City, and PC Gamer reports that the fan mapping crew went as far as sweeping Panama City on Street View. Not everyone agrees, though. CNET’s rundown compared it to Key West instead. We’re team Panhandle, but it’s still a guess.
Ambrosia: sugar country
Ambrosia is “the heart of Leonida,” where “American industry and old school values still reign supreme.” The Allied Crystal sugar refinery provides the jobs, and the local biker gang “provides almost everything else.” Rockstar also says the battle for “the health and wealth of Leonida” starts here, which sounds like a big story thread and not just scenery.
Fans have a strong match for this one: Clewiston, the Lake Okeechobee town that literally calls itself “America’s Sweetest Town” thanks to its sugar industry. Dexerto ties Ambrosia to the Clewiston and Lake Okeechobee area, and other fan guides note that the big inland Lake Leonida seems to sit right where Okeechobee would. That last bit is fan mapping, not an official map.
Mount Kalaga National Park: wait, Florida has mountains?
No, it doesn’t, and that’s the point. Mount Kalaga is “a national landmark up against the state’s northern border” with “prime hunting, fishing, and off-road trails.” Out in the backwoods, Rockstar says, “hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals” live far from the government. The tagline is “Wild, Wild Country.” The Ultimate Edition’s ’67 Vapid Dominator buggy is even pitched as a Mud Club monster for “the backwoods of Mount Kalaga.”
Since the real Florida is famously flat, Rockstar is clearly borrowing from next door. The GTA Wiki says the region’s terrain is mostly inspired by Georgia, and fan guides point to spots like Providence Canyon and the Suwannee River. That’s fan research, so file it under “probably.”
Let’s be real: what’s bugging us about the map
We’re excited to explore Leonida. But a few things about how it’s been rolled out are worth side-eyeing:
- Three months of pre-orders, and still no official map. Rockstar has shipped region pages, screenshots, a half-hour Netflix special and a $99.99 Ultimate Edition, but not a single overhead map. Fans have filled the gap themselves, which is impressive and also kind of absurd.
- The map size came through a YouTuber. The biggest map fact we have, “three times Red Dead 2,” reached the public secondhand from a hands-off preview instead of from Rockstar itself. For a game this big, that’s a weird way to share the headline number.
- Bigger isn’t automatically better. If the reported size is right, Leonida is huge. But GTA 5’s best stuff was packed into Los Santos, and a lot of the countryside was scenery you drove through on the way somewhere else. Rockstar’s region pages promise a lot of personality for Port Gellhorn and Ambrosia. We’ll believe those areas are packed with things to do when we see it.
- The Florida jokes could get old. Painkillers, malt liquor, “hillbilly mystics”: Rockstar’s regional writing leans hard on Florida Man energy. That’s the franchise’s whole thing, sure. But the Game Informer cover story is promising deep research into Miami and Florida, and we’d like to see that show up as more than punchlines.
To be fair, the pieces Rockstar has shown are genuinely strong. Six distinct regions with their own economies, gangs and vibes is a big step up from GTA 5’s city-plus-desert setup. And Game Informer’s cover story, due Sep 29, is all about the world: Push Square says it covers the weather system, wildlife and Rockstar’s aim for its most “culturally and aesthetically accurate” world yet.
What’s next
Game Informer’s 14-page feature goes live Sep 29 with a dozen new screenshots, so expect a few new place names soon. We’ll update the table the moment Rockstar confirms anything, and if an official map ever shows up before Nov 19, it’s going right at the top of this page. If you’re a PC player wondering whether you’ll get to see any of this, our GTA 6 PC explainer has the bad news and the history behind it.
So where are you heading first: the neon of Vice City, an airboat in Grassrivers, or straight to the dirt bike trails of Mount Kalaga? Tell us in the comments.
