GTA 6's Leonida Map: Everything We Know So Far
22 facts · 12 confirmed · updated Aug 30, 2026
Vice City is just the beginning. GTA 6 is set in Leonida, an entire state inspired by Florida, and its map is Rockstar’s best-kept secret: six confirmed regions ranging from tourist-filled keys to alligator-infested swamps, including a forgotten coastline, a sugar-producing industrial belt, and a national park on the northern border. In this living dossier, we’ve compiled everything that’s actually known about the GTA 6 map: what Rockstar has confirmed region by region, which neighborhoods in Vice City already have their own names, the community’s estimates of the map’s size compared to GTA V, and what wildlife and activities—including hunting and fishing—are shown in the official screenshots. Each piece of information includes its source and a reliability rating, separating confirmed facts from rumors. And we’ll update it as soon as Rockstar makes a move between now and November 19, 2026.
What's inside this dossier
- Six confirmed regions: This is Leonida
- Vice City, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
- Leonida Keys and Grassrivers: Paradise and the Swamp
- Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga: The Deep Interior
- Map Size: What the Numbers Say (and What They Don't)
- A Living World: Wildlife, Activities, and What We Still Don't Know
Six Regions Confirmed: Here’s What Leonida Is Like
GTA VI isn’t set in a single city, but in an entire state. Leonida—Rockstar’s version of Florida—was officially unveiled on May 6, 2025, when the second trailer was released alongside a complete overhaul of the official website: dozens of screenshots and profiles of characters and locations (the full texts were compiled by Gematsu that same day). There, Rockstar named six regions: Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park.
The parallels with real-life Florida are almost textbook: Vice City is Miami; the Keys are the Florida Keys; Grassrivers mirrors the Everglades; Port Gellhorn evokes the run-down northwest coast of the state; Ambrosia corresponds to the inland sugar belt; and Mount Kalaga to the forested north bordering Georgia. As of today (July 13, 2026), with the third trailer still pending, those six remain the only official regions: the GamesRadar+ guide, updated on June 19, 2026, makes this clear.
And one important caveat to keep in mind: Rockstar has not yet released the map. Everything circulating online as “the GTA 6 map” consists of fan-made reconstructions based on trailers, screenshots, and leaks. Well-researched, but not official.
Vice City, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
Its official motto is Everything in Excess, and the official description defines it as “the glamour, the hustling, and the greed of America captured in a single city.” The neighborhoods confirmed by Rockstar (via Gematsu and Game Informer, May 6, 2025): Ocean Beach, with its pastel-colored Art Deco hotels and white sand; Little Cuba and its bustling bakeries; the Tisha-Wocka flea market, a haven for knockoff brands; and VC Port, the “cruise capital of the world.”
The June 2026 pre-order materials added specific locations by name: the Rideout Customs shop (interiors, rims, and donk styling), Sara’s Unisex Salon (haircuts, makeup, and manicures for Jason and Lucia), and the Southside neighborhood, stronghold of the PTT Youngin$, a gang of marijuana growers and dealers whose illegal shop can be raided (PC Gamer, June 24, 2026). A nostalgic bonus: that same article mentions a Vercetti Estate, a direct nod to Tommy Vercetti that suggests the legacy of the 2002 drug lord is still alive and well (GamesRadar+).
Leonida Keys and Grassrivers: Paradise and the Swamp
Leonida Keys (Gateway to Paradise) is the tropical archipelago in the south: casual dress code, packed bars, and “some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in all of the Americas,” according to the official description. It’s Jason’s home: he lives rent-free on a property owned by the former smuggler Brian Heder in exchange for odd jobs, and in June 2026, Rockstar confirmed his beachfront safehouse—Jason’s Safehouse—as a playable base where players can store vehicles (GamesRadar+). Official screenshots also show an explorable seabed with giant turtles… and the occasional shark lurking around the partygoers.
Grassrivers (Welcome to the Wetlands) is “the untamed jewel in Leonida’s crown”: a pristine wetland of mangroves and stilt houses where alligators are “the most famous attraction,” but there are “more lethal predators and rarer discoveries” lurking beneath the surface. This is the location of one of the already confirmed garages, the Paradise Garage in Watson Bay, complete with a weapons locker and a stash for stolen goods (PC Gamer, June 24, 2026).
Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga: The Deep Interior
Port Gellhorn (Live Hard) is “Leonida’s forgotten coast”: cheap motels, closed attractions, and empty shopping malls that no longer draw tourists, with a new economy “fueled by malt liquor, painkillers, and gas station energy drinks”. Screenshots show venues like the Delights Cabaret or the Starlet Motel, and drug trafficking reigns supreme here (GamesRadar+, June 2026).
Ambrosia (Keeping Leonida Sweet) is industrial America with outdated values: the Allied Crystal sugar refinery provides the jobs “while the local biker gang supplies almost everything else”; PC Gamer identifies that gang as the Final Chapter. The official description concludes: “The battle for Leonida’s health and wealth begins here.” Inland lies the state’s largest lake, Lake Leonida (GTABase), where in-game lore places One-Eyed Willie’s, a shop specializing in off-road customization (PC Gamer).
Mount Kalaga National Park (Wild, Wild Country) borders Leonida to the north: a national park with “top-notch hunting, fishing, and off-road trails” and forests where “mystical rednecks and paranoid radicals live far from the government’s watchful eye” (official profile; PC Gamer, May 6, 2025). Screenshots show kayaks, hunters in camouflage, and a Florida panther stalking deer.
Map Size: What the Numbers Say (and What They Don’t)
Rockstar hasn’t released a single official figure on the map’s area. The most frequently cited reference is the GTA VI – Vice City & Leonida State Mapping Project, a community-driven project—the same team that reconstructed the GTA V map a decade ago— which, using measurements from the RAGE engine, estimated about 125 km² of land area: 2.55 times the size of GTA V, whose map is roughly 49 km² (Wccftech, Apr. 2024). Note: that estimate predates the second trailer, and the ranges cited vary from 2 to 2.6 times, depending on how water and islands are accounted for. The mapping thread on GTAForums is now nearing 11,000 posts (PC Gamer, Jun-2026).
Leaks and community analysis also point to a figure of over 700 accessible interiors compiled by GTABase: plausible, but not officially confirmed. And here’s a fan theory to keep an eye on: the absence of references to northern Florida in the official material suggests that the equivalent of the “Panhandle” will have little presence on the final map (PC Gamer).
In August 2026, a new leak circulated on social media: a group calling itself CyberLeek presented what it claims to be the complete map of Leonida, accompanied by several GTA VI gameplay videos, just eight days before the official extended teaser that Rockstar is set to premiere on Netflix on August 27, 2026.
As with the other leaks surrounding the map—including the unofficial figure of more than 700 accessible interiors—neither the content nor its authenticity has been confirmed by Rockstar, so it’s best to treat this as just another rumor until the company reveals the map through its own channels.
Rob Nelson, head of development at Rockstar Games, has put the first official figure on the table: the Leonida map in GTA VI is three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2’s map and twice the size of GTA V’s. This is the first time someone from Rockstar has compared the map’s size to the company’s previous games, though they did not provide an exact figure in square kilometers.
The statement does not contradict the community’s estimate of about 125 km² of landmass (about 2.5 times that of GTA V): it places it within a compatible range and, above all, backs it up with the first official confirmation that Vice City will be, by far, the largest map Rockstar has ever built.
A Living World: Wildlife, Activities, and What We Still Don’t Know
Wildlife takes center stage like never before in a GTA game: alligators everywhere in Grassrivers (including the one that sneaks into a store in the first trailer), flamingos, sea turtles, sharks, and that panther hunting deer in Kalaga. The GTAForums community has cataloged more than twenty species from trailers and official screenshots (compiled by GTABase). Will you be able to hunt and fish? Kalaga’s official page mentions “top-notch hunting and fishing,” and the official description of a boat in the Ultimate Edition adds: “perfect for casting a line in Gambit Bay and reeling in all kinds of catches” (GamesRadar+, Jun 2026). Everything points to Red Dead Redemption 2-style minigames, but as PC Gamer notes, describing the landscape doesn’t confirm the gameplay system: we’ll leave it at “very likely.”
What has been confirmed since June 2026: personal garages scattered “throughout Leonida,” each with a weapons locker and a safe for loot; a local fence who buys goods “at a reasonably discounted price”; and the Classic Car Collection, an activity involving tracking down classic cars abandoned throughout the map on behalf of the eccentric collector Wyman (GamesRadar+ and PC Gamer, June 24, 2026).
And what’s missing? The big stuff: the official map, the actual land area, the complete street map of Vice City, the weather (not a single official word about hurricanes), and the third trailer—by now, the most anticipated event of the year. Every item on this list is exactly what we’re keeping an eye on every day: as soon as Rockstar makes a move, this dossier will be updated.
Among the official screenshots Rockstar posts on its website is one, titled “Vice City 03” and published in May 2025, showing Jason and Cal engaged in a game of street basketball. At first glance, it’s just background scenery, but the community has interpreted it as a clue: GTA San Andreas (2004) featured a playable basketball minigame, and this image has reignited the theory that it could return as an activity in Leonida.
For now, it remains just that—an unconfirmed theory: Rockstar hasn’t mentioned any basketball minigame among the activities in GTA VI, and the scene could very well be a simple depiction of everyday life in Vice City with no gameplay behind it.
The leaker who brought the alleged Leonida map to light has faced unexpected backlash on his own turf: On August 19, 2026, the player advocacy group Stop Killing Games—known for pressuring publishers not to render games unusable once support is discontinued—publicly distanced itself from CyberLeek. Its director, Moritz Katzner, called the leaker’s illegal methods “unacceptable” and asked people not to send him money, noting that he also promotes a meme cryptocurrency to fund himself.
Katzner clarified that some of CyberLeek’s demands regarding access to video games are legitimate, but insisted on separating that cause from a leak that still lacks any official confirmation from Rockstar—neither regarding the map nor the gameplay videos that have been released.
The wave of leaks from CyberLeek has not stopped: the leaker has posted as many as eight gameplay videos in just 24 hours, one of which shows the interior of a strip club—a type of venue that had not previously been confirmed on the Leonida map. Take-Two has tried to stop him—including by taking down his website—but to no avail: the material continues to circulate.
As with the rest of CyberLeek’s content, neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has confirmed the authenticity of what’s been shown, so this specific location remains to be verified until official material is released.
Among the batch of videos released by the leaker CyberLeek, the seventh stands out: a scene that sneaks Jason into a strip club in Leonida. What’s striking isn’t just the content, but the condition the leaker himself has set for releasing it—a condition unrelated to the game, but to his own pocketbook: he claims he’ll only release the full version once the value of his own cryptocurrency reaches $3 million—the same meme coin that had already earned him public condemnation from the Stop Killing Games movement.
Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has confirmed the authenticity of this seventh video. The crypto condition fuels doubts about whether the goal of the leak is to inform or simply to monetize the buzz surrounding GTA VI.
A still-unconfirmed transportation system adds another layer to the map: part of the community has dubbed a supposed free elevated train that would run through downtown Vice City the “Metro Mule,” inspired by Miami’s real-life MetroMover. The theory is based on three separate clues: a background scene in the second trailer, a mention of this mode of transportation in the massive leak from September 2022, and a faded logo with the text “Vice City MetroMule” hidden on the Nightmare Scarab vehicle, which Rockstar added to GTA Online in 2018 with the Arena War update.
None of this has been confirmed by Rockstar, and it’s also unclear whether Jason and Lucia will be able to ride it in the final game: the community itself recalls cases like Cyberpunk 2077, where transportation systems announced in trailers ended up not being playable.
The facts, one by one
ConfirmedJul 13, 2026GTA VI is set to be released on November 19, 2026, for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and is set in the state of Leonida, with Vice City serving as the urban hub of Jason and Lucia's story.
- ConfirmedJul 13, 2026
Rockstar's official website confirms six regions on the map: Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga National Park, which were featured in the second trailer on May 6, 2025.
- ConfirmedJul 13, 2026
Vice City (official motto: “Everything in Excess”) has the following confirmed neighborhoods: Ocean Beach with its Art Deco hotels, Little Cuba, the Tisha-Wocka flea market, and VC Port, the “cruise capital of the world.”
- ConfirmedJul 13, 2026
Leonida Keys is a tropical archipelago (“Gateway to Paradise”) with “some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in all of the Americas”; Jason lives there on a property owned by Brian Heder, and his beachfront safe house was confirmed as a playable base in June 2026.
- ConfirmedJul 13, 2026
Grassrivers are the Everglades-style wetlands on the map: Rockstar calls them “the untamed jewel in Leonida’s crown,” with alligators as a famous attraction and “even deadlier predators” lurking among the mangroves.
- ConfirmedJul 13, 2026
The June 2026 reservation information confirmed the existence of private garages scattered throughout Leonida (complete with a weapons locker and a secure stash), a local fence who buys stolen goods, and the activity of searching for abandoned classic cars across the open world.
- ConfirmedJul 13, 2026
The promotional material lists specific stores and locations on the map: Rideout Customs, Sara's Unisex Salon, Stock 305, Electric Fang Tattoo, One-Eyed Willie's (Lake Leonida), Paradise Garage (Watson Bay), the PTT Youngin$ store in Southside, and a "Vercetti Estate."
- ConfirmedJul 13, 2026
The trailers and official stills show an abundance of wildlife: caimans, flamingos, a panther stalking deer on Mount Kalaga, sea turtles, and sharks, among more than twenty species cataloged by the community.
LikelyJul 13, 2026Hunting and fishing appear to be playable activities: Kalaga's official profile mentions them, and a boat from the Ultimate Edition is described as "perfect for casting a line in Gambit Bay," but Rockstar has not yet shown the system in action.
SpeculationJul 13, 2026There is no official figure for the map's size: the community mapping project estimates about 125 km² of landmass, roughly 2.5 times the size of the GTA V map, measured in RAGE engine units.
- SpeculationJul 13, 2026
Leaks and community analysis suggest there are more than 700 accessible interiors on the map, a figure that has not been officially confirmed by Rockstar.
- SpeculationJul 13, 2026
Fan theory to watch: The lack of references to northern Florida in the official material suggests that the equivalent of the “Panhandle” will barely be represented on the final map.
- SpeculationAug 16, 2026
The official "Vice City 03" screenshot, released by Rockstar in May 2025, shows Jason and Cal playing a game of street basketball; this detail has reignited the theory that the basketball minigame from San Andreas (2004) could return as a playable activity in GTA VI.
VandalRockstar Games — capturas oficiales de GTA VI (incluye 'Vice City 03', mayo 2025)@GTA6LeonidaHQ (X) — tuit que repopularizó el detalle, 22-jun-2026Leonida Bay
- LikelyAug 19, 2026
In August 2026, a group identifying itself as CyberLeek leaked what it claims to be the complete map of Leonida online, along with at least three GTA VI gameplay videos, just eight days before Rockstar’s official teaser on Netflix (August 27, 2026). Neither the content nor its authenticity has been confirmed by Rockstar.
- LikelyAug 20, 2026
On August 19, 2026, the player advocacy group Stop Killing Games distanced itself from the leaker CyberLeek: its director, Moritz Katzner, called his illegal methods “unacceptable” and urged people not to fund him, warning that he is also promoting a meme cryptocurrency.
- LikelyAug 23, 2026
The leaker CyberLeek has already posted eight videos of GTA VI in 24 hours, including one showing the interior of a strip club, despite Take-Two's attempts to stop him (including taking his website offline).
- LikelyAug 24, 2026
The seventh video posted by the leaker CyberLeek shows Jason sneaking into a strip club in Leonida; the leaker himself states that he will only complete the release once the value of his cryptocurrency reaches $3 million.
- SpeculationAug 24, 2026
Part of the community has dubbed a supposed free elevated train that would run through downtown Vice City the “Metro Mule,” inspired by Miami’s real-life MetroMover: the theory is based on a background scene in Trailer 2, a mention of that transit system in the September 2022 leak, and a faded logo with the text “Vice City MetroMule” hidden on the Nightmare Scarab vehicle, which was added to GTA Online in 2018 with the Arena War update.
- ConfirmedAug 30, 2026
Rob Nelson, head of development at Rockstar Games, officially confirmed that the Vice City map in GTA VI is three times the size of the one in Red Dead Redemption 2 and twice the size of the one in GTA V.
Change history
- Jul 13, 2026Dossier created: 6 official regions, Vice City neighborhoods, garages, and activities from the June backup files, along with estimates of size and wildlife.
- Aug 16, 2026Added the basketball reference in the official "Vice City 03" screenshot and the unconfirmed rumor that the San Andreas minigame might return.
- Aug 19, 2026CyberLeek has posted a leaked image of what appears to be a complete map of Leonida, eight days before the Extended Look.
- Aug 20, 2026Stop Killing Games' public condemnation of the leaker CyberLeek has been added (Aug. 19, 2026).
- Aug 23, 2026CyberLeek's leak has expanded to eight videos, including one from a strip club, despite Take-Two's attempts to block it.
- Aug 24, 2026The 7th leaked video (Jason at a strip club) and CyberLeek's crypto element are added to complete it.
- Aug 24, 2026Added the fan theory about the "Metro Mule," a possible elevated train in Vice City inspired by the Miami Metro (unconfirmed by Rockstar).
- Aug 30, 2026Official confirmation from Rob Nelson has been added: the map is three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2's and twice the size of GTA V's.
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