GTA 6 Map & Leonida State: Everything You Need to Know

Leonida is the fictional state powering Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar’s crime-soaked, sun-scorched take on Florida, built around the neon of Vice City, the swamps of the Grassrivers, the island chain of the Leonida Keys, the decaying resort coast of Port Gellhorn, the industrial heartland of Ambrosia, and the wilderness of Mount Kalaga. With Trailer 2 in May 2025, Rockstar officially named all six regions of the GTA 6 map, making Leonida the most fully-sketched open world the studio has ever revealed before launch.

This guide breaks down everything known about the GTA 6 map: every official region, every confirmed location, real-life Florida inspirations, size estimates vs. GTA V, what the trailers actually show, and where confirmed fact ends and fan speculation begins.

What Is Leonida? GTA 6’s New State Explained

Leonida is to GTA VI what San Andreas was to GTA V: the entire playable state, not just one city. Rockstar’s own announcement framed the game as a return to “Vice City, USA,” with the story of Jason and Lucia, its Bonnie-and-Clyde leads, unfolding across the whole state. The name itself reads as layered Florida wordplay: a Latin-inflected echo of real-world Leon County (home of Tallahassee), though Rockstar has never confirmed the pun.

The tone is set by Rockstar’s official synopsis:

“Vice City, USA. Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them.”

Rockstar Games, official GTA VI synopsis (December 2023)

Like Florida itself, Leonida is a state of extremes: obscene wealth and visible poverty, beachfront towers and trailer parks, protected wetlands and industrial sprawl. The full GTA 6 map of Leonida is built to hold all of it in one seamless world.

The Six Official Regions of the GTA 6 Map

Alongside Trailer 2 (May 2025), Rockstar published official area write-ups naming six regions of Leonida. This is the firmest map information that exists:

Region	Identity	Real-Life Inspiration
Vice City	The neon metropolis: beaches, high-rises, clubs, and organized crime	Miami
Port Gellhorn	“Leonida’s forgotten coast”: cheap motels, shuttered attractions, a new pill-and-malt-liquor economy	Panama City Beach / Panama City
Leonida Keys	Island chain of marinas, dive bars, and smugglers’ coves	Florida Keys
Grassrivers	Vast subtropical wetlands: airboats, gators, and hidden airstrips	The Everglades
Mount Kalaga	Forested highlands and national-park wilderness in the state’s north	North Florida highlands and springs country
Ambrosia	The industrial heartland: refineries, chemical plants, and working-class towns	Central Florida industry (sugar, power, phosphates)

Vice City is the obvious marquee, but the structure mirrors GTA V‘s Los Santos-plus-Blaine County formula multiplied across an entire state: one glittering core, and five very different hinterlands each with their own economy and crime ecology. We’ve covered the standout secondary region in depth in our Port Gellhorn guide.

How Big Is the GTA 6 Map? Size vs. GTA V and RDR2

Rockstar has not published an official square-mileage for Leonida. What’s known:

• Community reconstructions, built by geolocating trailer shots and stitching the 2022 development-leak geometry, consistently indicate the largest GTA map ever, with landmass commonly estimated at roughly 1.5 to 2 times the size of GTA V’s.
• Density is the bigger story: Leonida packs swamps, an island chain, a full lake system, national-park wilderness, multiple towns, and a major metro into one map, a spread GTA V never attempted.
• Water coverage is dramatically higher than San Andreas, matching Florida’s geography and fueling persistent boat and submersible speculation.

Treat every exact figure circulating online, including the popular “twice the size of GTA V” claim, as an estimate, not a spec sheet.

Real-Life Inspiration: The Florida DNA of the GTA 6 Map

Leonida is a near one-to-one composite of Florida, and the mapping is unusually clean:

• Vice City (Miami): the pastel art-deco beachfront (Ocean Drive analog), glass downtown skyline, Cuban-flavored neighborhoods (Trailer 2 signage references a “Little Cuba” district), cruise-ship port, and skyline-hugging expressways.
• Leonida Keys (Florida Keys): long causeway bridges over teal water, stilt houses, charter-fishing marinas, and the Overseas Highway’s unmistakable silhouette.
• Grassrivers (The Everglades): sawgrass seas, airboat trails, boardwalks, and alligators used for both wildlife comedy and menace.
• Lake Leonida (Lake Okeechobee): the huge inland lake anchoring the state’s center (name reported, not officially confirmed).
• Port Gellhorn (Panama City Beach): the faded spring-break motel strip, with a full breakdown in our Port Gellhorn deep dive.
• Ambrosia (Central Florida industry): sugar mills, refineries, and chemical plants that Florida tourism brochures crop out.

Every Confirmed Location on the GTA 6 Map

Assembled from official Rockstar descriptions, trailer footage, and signage analysis, with an evidence tier for each entry.

Location	Region	Evidence
Vice City	Vice City	Official: named region, both trailers
Vice Beach boardwalk / art-deco strip	Vice City	Confirmed footage
Downtown Vice City skyline & highways	Vice City	Confirmed footage
Little Cuba district	Vice City	Confirmed signage (Trailer 2)
Port Gellhorn	Port Gellhorn	Official: named region
Starlet Motel	Port Gellhorn	Confirmed footage (Trailer 1)
Bocamar Bridge	Port Gellhorn	Reported
Gellhorn International Raceway	Port Gellhorn	Reported
Uncle Jack’s Liquor / Pawn & Gun	Port Gellhorn	Reported
Kelly County (county signage)	Port Gellhorn area	Confirmed signage
Leonida Keys	Leonida Keys	Official: named region, both trailers
Grassrivers	Grassrivers	Official: named region, trailer footage
Mount Kalaga	Mount Kalaga	Official: named region
Ambrosia	Ambrosia	Official: named region
Lake Leonida	Central Leonida	Reported (widespread)
Vice City International Airport	Vice City	Speculative

What the GTA 6 Trailers Reveal About the Map

• Trailer 1 (December 2023): Introduced Vice City’s beachfront, the keys-style causeways, downtown traffic, downtown nightlife, the Starlet Motel brawl, and the viral alligator-in-a-pool gag. News-chyron gags (“only in Leonida”-flavored local news) established the state’s satirical media layer.
• Trailer 2 (May 2025): The map bomb. Released alongside official per-region descriptions of all six areas, it showed footage spanning the entire state, Keys drug runs, Grassrivers swamp patrols, Ambrosia’s industrial sprawl, Port Gellhorn’s motel strip, and Vice City’s beaches and towers, effectively functioning as a cinematic flyover of Leonida.

GTA 6 Map Leaks & Fan Projections: What’s Actually Real?

Three layers of “leaked map” content circulate online, and they’re not equal:

• The 2022 development leak: Real, but pre-alpha. It revealed early map geometry and helped community cartographers orient Leonida, but regions shifted and matured significantly afterward.
• Trailer projections: Fans geolocate every trailer shot and screenshot onto a master map. Genuinely useful and frequently accurate, but still unofficial.
• Fabricated maps: Clickbait “full map reveals” built from nothing. If a map shows street names, district labels, or detail beyond Rockstar’s six regions, it’s fan art.

The only hard ground remains Rockstar’s own: six named regions, plus confirmed landmarks like the Starlet Motel and Kelly County signage. Our interactive GTA 6 map tags every pin with its evidence tier so you always know what’s confirmed and what’s community-sourced.

Geography & Borders: How Leonida Is Laid Out

Leonida’s layout tracks Florida’s real geometry closely:

• Vice City sits on the southeastern coast (Miami’s position), backed by inland suburbs and highways.
• Port Gellhorn anchors the western coast, roughly opposite Vice City across the state, bordered by Mount Kalaga’s highlands to the north.
• Lake Leonida dominates the interior, with the Grassrivers wetlands sprawling to the south.
• The Leonida Keys curve away to the south in an island arc, mirroring the Keys’ run toward Key West.
• Ambrosia occupies the industrial center, the connective tissue between the coasts.

Kelly County is the only county name Rockstar footage has confirmed; expect more county lines as marketing continues.

Jason, Lucia & How the Story Uses the GTA 6 Map

Trailer footage ties Jason to a low-slung waterfront life in the Keys and Grassrivers end of the state, while Lucia’s arc, fresh out of prison and hungry for the big score, pulls the pair toward Vice City. The working read: the duo’s crime spree is the tour of Leonida, moving from small-time Keys operations up through the interior and into Vice City’s high-stakes economy, the reverse commute of every GTA before it. Which regions serve as story hubs, and whether any area functions as a “starting town,” remains speculation until Rockstar says otherwise.

Explore the Full GTA 6 Map of Leonida

Every confirmed, reported, and speculated location above is pinned on the interactive GTA 6 map of Leonida and Vice City, with region boundaries, landmark callouts, and the evidence tier behind every claim, updated as new trailers and Rockstar reveals drop.

▶ Explore the Full GTA 6 Map of Leonida