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The GTA 6 Map: Everything We Know About Leonida

By the CoastLoot Team · July 12, 2026 · Updated August 29, 2026

GTA 6 trades a single city for an entire state: Leonida, Rockstar’s take on Florida. Vice City is its beating neon heart, but this time it’s one region among many — swamps, islands, beach towns and backwoods included. Here’s every area Rockstar has officially showcased.

This guide covers what’s confirmed before launch. On November 19, CoastLoot’s interactive Leonida map goes live — every location, collectible and point of interest, searchable and trackable.

Vice City

The Miami-inspired metropolis returns for the first time since 2006’s Vice City Stories — and it’s unrecognizable in the best way. Expect South Beach-style strip, art deco hotels, glittering downtown towers and neighborhoods that Rockstar says are its most detailed urban environment ever. Jason and Lucia’s story runs through Vice City’s underworld, from street-level hustles to the empire of music mogul Boobie Ike.

Leonida Keys

Rockstar’s version of the Florida Keys: a chain of islands strung together by long ocean highways, ending at Ambrosia Keys-style tropical outposts. Trailer footage shows boating, diving and beach-town life — strongly suggesting water gameplay is a major feature this time.

Grassrivers

The Everglades, in everything but name. Swamplands, airboats, alligators and communities living deep in the wetlands. If you saw the viral trailer shots of gators wandering into convenience stores — that energy lives here.

Port Gellhorn

A faded Gulf-coast port town inspired by Florida’s panhandle. Trailer 2 showed its dilapidated motels, dive bars and demolition-derby track. Early impressions suggest this is where the story’s “small-town crime” chapters play out.

Mount Kalaga

Yes, GTA 6 has highlands — Mount Kalaga National Park brings pine forest, hiking country and off-road terrain, a first for a series that’s mostly stayed at sea level.

Ambrosia

Sugar-refinery country inland — industrial farmland with its own rough-edged character, seen briefly in official material.

Community sleuths have also spotted references to additional areas (like a “Hamlet” region) in promotional material. We’ll confirm the full region list the moment the game is out.

What the Extended Look added

The August 27 Extended Look was the first gameplay Rockstar has ever shown, and it revisited most of the state: Vice City, the Keys, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, Mount Kalaga and the wetlands. Three places got names for the first time — Effluvia (a rooftop bar mission hub), Megamundo HQ (an in-world satirical TV network) and Bayside (a built-out bayfront district thick with side activities). All three are now on our interactive map, marked approximate: Rockstar showed the places, not their coordinates.

Be careful what you read elsewhere this week. Full “leaked Leonida map” images with county and island names attached are circulating widely. Those are leaks, not reveals, and nothing from them appears on our map or in this guide.

How big is the map?

Rockstar has still never published a square-kilometre figure — but during previews around the Extended Look, Rockstar North developers finally gave comparisons:

  • The full Leonida map is about twice the size of GTA 5’s
  • It is about three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2’s
  • Vice City alone is about twice the size of Los Santos, making it the biggest city Rockstar has built

Those two ratios don’t quite reconcile with years of fan measurement — together they imply Red Dead 2 is smaller than GTA 5, which the community generally disputes. Our full size comparison unpacks that.

Size was never really the pitch, though. The number Rockstar keeps repeating is over 600,000 unique NPC animations, against roughly 55,000 in GTA 5 — density, not acreage.

What we’re building for launch day

CoastLoot’s interactive map goes live with the game: every mission, collectible, weapon, business and hidden location in Leonida, pinned and searchable, with progress tracking. Get notified when it launches.

FAQ

Is the whole map open from the start? Rockstar hasn’t confirmed whether regions unlock progressively. GTA 5 opened its full map immediately; GTA 4 gated islands behind story progress. We’ll know at launch.

Is Vice City the same as the 2002 game’s map? No — this is a completely rebuilt, modern Vice City, far larger and denser than the PS2-era version.

Can you enter buildings? Yes, and more than any previous GTA. The Extended Look showed interiors including a rooftop bar, an office building, storefronts and homes. Rockstar has not given a count.

How big is the GTA 6 map officially? Rockstar gives ratios, not measurements: roughly 2× GTA 5 and 3× Red Dead Redemption 2. No square-kilometre figure exists for any Rockstar map.

Will the map expand after launch? Nothing announced. GTA Online historically added new areas sparingly; any GTA 6 expansion talk is pure speculation right now.