GTA 6 Map Guide: Leonida's Six Regions Explained

Rockstar has been oddly generous with Leonida's geography and stingy with its numbers. The official site gives every one of the six regions its own postcard, tagline and screenshot set, and Rockstar's edition copy names several more neighbourhoods and landmarks. What Rockstar has not done, five days before the November 19 launch, is publish a map. So this guide stitches together everything Rockstar has actually said about where things are, and keeps the fan-made "leaked map" stuff out entirely.

If you want the release date, editions and cast first, start with our GTA 6 everything-we-know page. This one is purely about the place. Everything below is as of November 14, 2026.

Leonida at a glance

Leonida is the fictional state GTA VI is set in. Rockstar's official story blurb calls it "the darkest side of the sunniest place in America", and the Only in Leonida section of the site invites you to tour "the sunshine state". Neither the Only in Leonida page nor the Ultimate Edition page uses the word Florida; outlets do (more on that below).

The six regions, in the order Rockstar's site presents them, with the tagline Rockstar gives each one:

Only two of those come with a direction attached in Rockstar's text: Ambrosia is "in the heart of Leonida", and Mount Kalaga is "up against the state's northern border". One official Grassrivers screenshot shows the Vice City skyline in the distance, so the two are within sight of each other. Beyond that, nobody outside Rockstar knows the layout yet.

How big is the GTA 6 map?

Rockstar has not published a square-mile figure. What it has given is comparisons, all from developer interviews rather than an official spec sheet:

"Twice GTA V" is the figure to remember, because it is the one that comes from the studio head, in print, and is repeated by multiple outlets. Note what it is not: there is no area figure, and none of these claims says how much of that space is open from the start.

Garbut's other point is density. In his Game Informer interview (reported by VGC) he says the team hit "a critical mass" with the number of interiors, and in his Edge interview (reported by GameSpot) he puts it at an "order of magnitude more interiors" than any previous Rockstar game. That matters more to how the map feels than the raw size does, but nobody outside Rockstar can measure it until launch.

Vice City

Rockstar's line on Vice City: "We're a long way from the '80s", but it is "still the sun and fun capital of America". The site pitches it as "the glamour, hustle, and greed of America captured in a single city", and two of the supporting characters Rockstar has profiled are tied to it: Boobie Ike is "a local Vice City legend", and Dre'Quan has "set his sights on the Vice City scene" (the pillar page has the full cast).

Rockstar's screenshot set for Vice City shows a skyline at night with a ferris wheel, a beach lifeguard stand, a strip club, a street of bikers doing tricks, and a basketball court among palm trees.

The Vice City neighbourhoods Rockstar has named

The Only in Leonida page and the Ultimate Edition descriptions on Rockstar's site name these places in or around the city:

Some of these names are old friends. Ocean Beach, and Washington Beach (named in Rockstar's Ultimate Edition copy, see the table further down), were both neighbourhoods of the original Vice City in 2002's GTA: Vice City and in Vice City Stories, according to the GTA Wiki. Rockstar also describes the Ultimate Edition's Hawk revolvers as "sourced from the Vercetti Estate", which was Tommy Vercetti's mansion on Starfish Island in GTA: Vice City. Whether the estate is a visitable location in VI has not been said.

Leonida Keys

"Life in this tropical archipelago isn't flashy but it's easy," says Rockstar, with a warning that you are on the doorstep of "some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in all of America". This is Jason's patch: Rockstar's profile has him working for local drug runners in the Keys, living rent-free in one of Brian Heder's properties, and Brian still moving product through his boat yard there.

Rockstar's Keys screenshots show a seaplane over a long road bridge linking islands, a beach bar, scuba divers among coral and a sea turtle, and a boat party with jet skis.

The seaplane shot is a useful map clue: the Keys bridge runs toward a big city skyline on the horizon, so Rockstar is showing the islands and a city in the same frame. Rockstar's caption does not name the skyline, so I am not going to either.

Grassrivers

"The untamable jewel of Leonida's crown." Rockstar describes Grassrivers as a "primordial expanse" where gators "may be the most famous attraction", with "far deadlier predators and weirder discoveries among the mangroves".

The official screenshots are airboats and alligators: a mud-covered crew on an airboat with a dead gator and wildcat, a top-down shot of an airboat surrounded by gators, and a police helicopter and cruisers chasing a pickup through the swamp. One shot shows a speedboat heading for buildings on piers, which Rockstar's own caption says has the Vice City skyline in the distance.

Airboating is one of the activities Rockstar listed to Game Informer, according to both VGC and GameSpot, so expect the swamp to be a place you drive on water rather than around it.

Port Gellhorn

"This is Leonida's forgotten coast." Rockstar's description is the bleakest of the six: cheap motels, shut-down attractions and empty strip malls in a "once-popular vacation spot", now running on "malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks". Its suggestion for getting around: "Jump on a dirt bike and hold onto your wallet."

Rockstar's screenshots match: a motel with its vacancy sign lit at night, two men in a grow room with a shovel and a baseball bat, a cabaret club parking lot, a package handed through a car window, and a bonfire party.

Ambrosia

"In the heart of Leonida, American industry and old school values still reign supreme — whatever the cost." Ambrosia's economy, per Rockstar, is the Allied Crystal sugar refinery, which "provides the jobs, while the local biker gang provides almost everything else."

The screenshots show smokestacks over a night skyline, a motorcycle club riding in matching leather vests, a field of crops burning at sunset, and a man getting his car washed by women in bikinis.

It is also the only region whose location Rockstar states plainly: the heart of the state.

Mount Kalaga National Park

"Room to breathe on the state's northern fringes." Rockstar calls Mount Kalaga "a national landmark up against the state's northern border" with "prime hunting, fishing, and off-road trails", and says the backwoods around it are home to "hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals" who keep away from the government.

The screenshots back up the outdoors pitch: dirt bikes and an ATV in mud, two people carrying rifles through the woods, a cougar stalking deer at a stream, a kayaker heading toward a bridge, a news helicopter over a ridge, and a road winding between steep hills.

The Ultimate Edition's '67 Vapid Dominator Buggy is pitched by Rockstar as an off-roader "for the backwoods of Mount Kalaga and beyond", which tells you the off-road trails are meant to be driven.

Other places Rockstar has named

These turn up in Rockstar's edition and character copy without a region attached. I have listed them as Rockstar describes them and not guessed which region they belong to:

For what the edition-locked shops actually give you, see our GTA 6 editions and pre-order bonus breakdown.

The real Florida behind Leonida

Rockstar's Only in Leonida and Ultimate Edition pages use no real-world place names for Leonida. The comparisons below are the ones at least two of the outlets I checked state outright, from Game Informer's preview as written up by VGC and GameSpot:

Leonida Keys is the obvious Florida Keys analogue by name alone, and VGC says so, but it was the only outlet I found stating it directly. VGC also says Mount Kalaga draws on the culture of the Florida-Georgia border; I found no second outlet confirming that, so treat it as one report. You will see specific county and city match-ups on fan sites; those come from community analysis and leaked material, and none of them is confirmed by Rockstar.

A side note on naming: one GameSpot round-up calls the Keys "Leonida Quays". Rockstar's site says Leonida Keys throughout, so that is the name to search for.

Weather is part of the regional identity too. Both VGC and GameSpot report Rockstar telling Game Informer that weather is now localised, so one part of Leonida can be in a downpour while another is sunny. GameSpot says hurricanes feature, and VGC lists tropical storms and hurricanes. How storms affect play has not been explained.

Getting the official map

Rockstar's November 3 Newswire post says that on November 19 it will add an official printable cover art poster and map of Leonida to the GTA VI site as a free digital download. A double-sided physical version follows "shortly after launch" from the Rockstar Store, for $0.99 on its own or free with any Rockstar Store order. That is the first official map; until it lands, any full map you see is not from Rockstar.

What is not confirmed about the map

As of November 14, 2026, none of the following has been announced by Rockstar. Each one is "not announced yet", not "no":

• An official map image (due November 19, see above).
• A square-mile or square-kilometre size. Only the comparisons in the table above exist.
• Whether all six regions are open from the start or unlock through the story.
• Where Port Gellhorn and the Keys sit relative to the other regions. Rockstar has placed only Ambrosia (the heart of the state) and Mount Kalaga (the northern border).
• Any region beyond the six on the Only in Leonida page. Several named places, like Washington Beach, Gambit Bay and Watson Bay, have no region attached yet.
• Whether the Vercetti Estate or Starfish Island appear. Rockstar has only mentioned the estate in an item description.

This page will be updated once Rockstar's printable map is live on launch day.