Grand Theft Auto VI doesn't just return to Vice City — it hands you the entire state of Leonida, Rockstar's fictional take on Florida and the biggest world the studio has ever built. Between two trailers, waves of official screenshots and the artwork Rockstar has released, we can already name and describe the map's major regions. Here's the complete guide to every confirmed area, what's been shown of each, and the honest line between what Rockstar has verified and what the community has worked out on its own.
Leonida at a glance
Leonida is to Florida what GTA 5's San Andreas was to California: a compressed, satirical, playable version of the real thing. At its heart sits Vice City, the series' Miami — returning as a modern metropolis for the first time since 2002. Around it, Rockstar has confirmed or shown wetlands, island chains, port towns and forested uplands. Reporting and community mapping suggest the whole map spans five or more counties at roughly twice the size of GTA 5's world — worth knowing, but treat those numbers as estimates until Rockstar publishes official specs, because it never has.
Vice City
The centrepiece. Modern Vice City is a neon-soaked sprawl of art-deco beachfront, high-rise downtown, and the humid glamour that made the 2002 original the series' most beloved setting. Trailer footage has shown Ocean Drive-style strips at night, beach crowds by day, and street-level density — pedestrians, traffic, wildlife — beyond anything in GTA 5. Expect the city to anchor the story too: Jason and Lucia's Bonnie-and-Clyde run is framed against its skyline, and the Vintage Vice City Pack pre-order bonus (a '55 Vapid Stanier and an Ocean Beach garage) roots itself in the city's classic districts.
The Grassrivers
Rockstar's Everglades. A vast wetland of sawgrass, airboat channels and stilt shacks glimpsed in trailer footage — alligators included. The Grassrivers promise the map's wildest terrain, and the series' most atmospheric swamp since RDR2's bayous. Expect airboats to matter here, and expect the region to hide the kind of off-grid characters Rockstar loves writing.
Leonida Keys
An island chain modeled on the Florida Keys, strung off the state's southern tip. Official material shows causeway bridges over turquoise water, marinas, and diving culture — strongly suggesting boats and water activities get real attention this generation. If GTA 6's world has a holiday-postcard corner, this is it; Rockstar has literally released a Leonida Keys postcard artwork.
Port Gellhorn
The industrial counterweight to Vice City's glamour: a port town of docks, cranes and working-class sprawl. Port Gellhorn has drawn intense community interest for one reason — mapping sleuths matched a racetrack in leaked material to Florida's real Sebring International Raceway, appearing in-game as Gellhorn International Raceway, with Trailer 2 even showing Lucia in a "Gellhorn International" shirt. If that community detective work holds, GTA 6 will have the series' first proper asphalt racing circuit. Rockstar hasn't confirmed the track's role, so file it under strong evidence rather than announcement.
Ambrosia
A smaller Leonida settlement shown in official screenshots — sugar-refinery country, by its look, with a rural industrial character distinct from both Vice City and Port Gellhorn. Rockstar has said little; the region's postcard artwork and screenshots suggest classic small-town GTA mischief territory.
Mount Kalaga National Park
Leonida's wilderness: forested uplands, ranger country, and the map's best answer to "does Florida have mountains?" (Rockstar's version does.) Official material shows dense pine forest and park infrastructure — prime territory for hunting, hiking-trail ambushes and the rural weirdness the series does so well. It also signals real geographic variety: this is not a map that's all beach.
What about the rest?
Community mapping projects — built from trailer frames, screenshot backgrounds and the 2022 leak footage — sketch a Leonida considerably larger than the six named regions, with speculation around additional towns and counties. Some of it will prove right; the Gellhorn raceway shows how good the community's track record is. But none of it is official, and this guide deliberately sticks to what Rockstar has named or shown. When the full map leaks or launches, we'll chart every district here.
What the map means for how GTA 6 plays
Read the regions together and a design philosophy emerges: one dense signature city surrounded by radically different rural zones — swamp, islands, port, farmland, forest. That's the RDR2 world-building model applied to modern Florida, and it implies travel matters: seaplanes to the Keys, airboats through the Grassrivers, long coastal highways between. It also explains the map-size estimates — variety like this needs room.
The next big look arrives August 27, when Rockstar's Extended Look premieres on Netflix — the community's best hope for extended map footage before the November 19 launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Until then: six regions confirmed, a state to explore, and one hundred days to go.
