GTA 6 Map: Confirmed Facts vs. Leaks

Most of what circulates online about the GTA 6 map is wrong, or at least unverified. That's the core problem. Two official trailers exist (December 2023 and May 2025), and between them they confirm a setting in the fictional state of Leonida, a return to Vice City as the main urban hub, and enough environmental variety to suggest the playable area stretches well beyond city limits. Everything else, the precise square-kilometre figures, the district names, the rural town layouts, comes from the 2022 leak footage, community pixel-counting, or outright guesswork dressed up as fact.

I've spent more time than I'd like cross-referencing GTA 6 map claims against their actual sources. The pattern is consistent: a leak-derived estimate gets repeated by three outlets, loses its "estimated" qualifier somewhere around the fourth, and lands on Reddit as gospel by the fifth. So this guide does one thing cleanly. Every claim below is tagged as either confirmed (visible in official Rockstar material) or leaked/estimated (sourced from unverified footage or community reconstruction). The size comparison to GTA V everyone keeps asking about is here too, with honest caveats about why pre-launch numbers have been wrong before.

If you played the original Vice City and want context on what's changed since 2002, that history is worth revisiting. The city Rockstar showed in Trailer 1 shares a skyline with its predecessor, but not much else. You can still play the original in the GTA Trilogy's corrected re-release, and the contrast between that map and what the trailers show is the clearest measure of how far Rockstar has pushed the scale.

What Rockstar Has Actually Confirmed About the GTA 6 Map (And What's Still a Leak)

Before running any size comparisons or naming districts, it's worth sorting what we actually know from what the internet has decided we know. The gap is wider than most coverage admits. Let's be precise about what sits on each side.

Confirmed from official trailers

Two trailers exist as primary sources. Trailer 1 dropped in December 2023. Trailer 2 followed in May 2025. Between them, Rockstar confirmed the following about the GTA 6 map:

• The GTA 6 location is the fictional state of Leonida, a Florida analogue. The name appears on screen in Trailer 1.
• Vice City is the main urban hub, confirmed by signage, skyline shots, and direct naming in both trailers. Neon-lit beachfront strips, high-rise clusters along a bay, and what looks like an Ocean Drive analogue are all visible.
• Surrounding areas include wetland terrain that reads as Everglades, highway corridors cutting through flat rural land, and at least one smaller coastal settlement outside the city limits.
• Wildlife (alligators, birds in swamp environments) and weather systems (a hurricane sequence in Trailer 2) suggest environmental variety across the map, not just urban density.

That's the confirmed inventory. Notice what isn't on it: no district names beyond Vice City itself, no interior map screen, no scale bar, no confirmed second city.

Leaked imagery and speculation, labelled as such

The September 2022 leak dumped early development footage across the internet. Some of it showed map fragments, debug menus, and location markers. I've seen the footage. Most people covering the GTA 6 map have built their expectations from it, and that's a problem, because the footage was pre-alpha. Proportions, road layouts, and region boundaries visible in those clips may not reflect the shipped game at all.

Community mapmakers have since stitched trailer frames and leak fragments into full "reconstructed" maps. These are impressive work. They are not data-extracted from a final build. Every district name, every road label, every boundary line on those reconstructions is an estimate until Rockstar says otherwise or the game ships.

Throughout the rest of this article, every claim carries one of two labels: confirmed (sourced from official trailers or Rockstar's own communications) or leaked/estimated (sourced from the 2022 footage, community reconstruction, or extrapolation). If a source isn't tagged, assume I'm being careful, not careless.

GTA 6 Map Size vs GTA V: Is Leonida Really That Much Bigger?

The short answer is yes, probably by a significant margin. The longer answer requires labelling every number on the table, because none of them come from Rockstar directly.

What the estimates actually say

The most cited figure for the State of Leonida's land area sits at roughly 125 km². GTA V's San Andreas, measured the same way (land only, water excluded), comes in at about 75 to 81 km² depending on who drew the coastline. That's a gap of roughly 50% to 65%. On paper, it's the largest single-map GTA environment ever shipped.

But "largest" needs a unit. If you include water, GTA V's total area balloons past 126 km², which is how some comparisons end up claiming the two maps are similar in size. They aren't, unless you think the ocean off the coast of Paleto Bay counts as playable space. Land area is the honest metric for a game you mostly drive across.

How the numbers were reached

The Leonida estimate comes from community cartographers who scaled leaked and trailer footage against known reference objects: road widths, vehicle lengths, building proportions visible in Trailer 1 (December 2023) and Trailer 2 (May 2025). The method is the same pixel-measurement approach that mapped GTA V's San Andreas before its 2013 launch. It's clever work. It's also not a tape measure on a shipped build.

What the GTA 6 map size gap means in practice: GTA V's map takes roughly 8 to 9 minutes to cross by car, highway to highway, at full speed. If the 125 km² estimate holds and road density is comparable, Leonida's equivalent run would land somewhere around 12 to 14 minutes. That's the difference between a map you memorise in a week and one that still surprises you in month two.

Honest caveats before launch

Pre-launch GTA map size estimates have been wrong before. GTA V's map was widely predicted at 100+ km² by the same community methods, then measured closer to 75 to 81 km² once the game shipped and modders could extract geometry. The tools got better after that miss, but the source material this time is lower quality: leaked footage from 2022 at reduced resolution, plus trailer frames that Rockstar deliberately crops and angles for cinematic effect, not cartographic accuracy.

The math says otherwise when you look at the raw pixel scaling, though. Even conservative re-estimates put Leonida above 100 km² of land, which would still be the largest map Rockstar has built. But I'd hold the 125 km² figure loosely until someone can walk the final build with a coordinate readout. Small sample of two data points (the 2022 leak geometry and the trailer scaling), and both carry noise. This article will be updated with measured figures once the game ships.

Leonida's Cities and Regions: What the Map Actually Contains

Both trailers show a layered geography that borrows from Florida's full north-to-south spread. The variety on display suggests Rockstar wants the map to feel like a state, not a city with outskirts bolted on.

Vice City and Its Urban Core

The GTA 6 Vice City reveal across both trailers confirms a dense coastal metropolis. Visible in the footage: a long barrier island that maps to Miami Beach (art-deco storefronts, neon signage at night), a downtown cluster of glass towers that reads as Brickell, and what looks like a working port district. The second trailer, released May 2025, added shots of an inland commercial strip, a stadium, and residential neighbourhoods that sit somewhere between Coral Gables and Little Havana in their real-world reference points. Specific district names haven't been confirmed by Rockstar, so any labelled map you've seen online is a fan reconstruction.

For players who remember the original Vice City (released 2002), the callback is obvious. Ocean Drive, the Malibu Club, the Vercetti Estate on Starfish Island. Rockstar is clearly drawing on that geography again, scaled up and filled in. Whether named locations like Starfish Island return is unconfirmed, but the island geography visible in Trailer 1 lines up.

For a breakdown of the confirmed protagonists set in this world, see our GTA 6 Characters guide.

Beyond the City: Rural Leonida and Its Florida Analogues

This is where the GTA 6 location set gets interesting. Trailer footage confirms several distinct regions outside Vice City, each mapping to a recognisable part of real-world Florida:

• Wetland region → Everglades. Airboat gameplay visible, alligators, flooded grassland stretching to the horizon. The flatness and vegetation match the sawgrass marshes south of Miami.
• Smaller coastal town → Florida Keys or Gulf Coast. A low-rise settlement on the water, visible briefly in Trailer 2, with a marina and what looks like a fishing-town economy.
• Flat agricultural land → Central Florida interior. Long highway corridors cutting through open fields. One brief shot in Trailer 2 shows what appears to be a motel strip on a rural two-lane road, the kind of location GTA V reserved for Blaine County's Sandy Shores.

Real-life Florida runs roughly 800 km north to south. Leonida won't replicate that literally, but the biome compression (wetland, farmland, coast, urban sprawl) suggests Rockstar is modelling the state's geography in miniature rather than building Miami and calling it done.

Named Locations: Confirmed vs Estimated

Let's be precise. The confirmed named locations from official materials are: the state of Leonida and Vice City. That's it. Everything else (Port Gellhorn, Grassrivers, Kelly County, and the other names circulating on fan maps) comes from the 2022 leak footage or from community extrapolation based on trailer frames. Some of those names appeared in low-resolution UI elements in the leaked build, which was early and unfinished. They could ship. They could also be placeholder text.

The honest answer is that the full GTA 6 map contents won't be confirmed until the game launches. I'll update this section with every named location the moment the final in-game map is available.

Three Things That Will Trip You Up When Reading GTA 6 Map Coverage

Every week a new GTA 6 map breakdown hits YouTube or Reddit with confident square-kilometre figures and district labels. Most of them share the same three problems, and once you know what to look for, you can filter bad claims in about ten seconds.

The 2022 leak footage is pre-final and low-resolution. The footage that leaked from a development build in September 2022 showed an early version of Vice City and surrounding areas. Proportions in that footage are unreliable. Assets were incomplete, terrain was placeholder in places, and the camera angles used to stitch together "full map" composites introduce distortion that compounds with every frame. Treating those stitched images as a 1:1 representation of the GTA 6 map at launch is like measuring a building from a blurry photo taken through a bus window. The shape might be roughly right. The measurements won't be.

"Interactive maps" are fan reconstructions, not data extracts. Several sites host zoomable maps of Leonida that look polished enough to pass as official. None of them are extracted from a shipped build, because no shipped build exists yet. The best of these reconstructions are useful for general orientation: getting a feel for Vice City's coastline shape, the rough position of the wetland region relative to the city, the highway network's skeleton. But they can't tell you distances, they can't confirm district names, and they can't show interiors or underground sections. A proper data-extracted interactive map will only be possible once the game launches and someone can pull coordinates from the actual files.

GTA 6 map size comparisons often mix land and water area. This is the quiet one. GTA V's total area balloons from roughly 75-81 km² of land to well over 100 km² if you include the ocean. The GTA 6 map vs GTA 5 comparison gets distorted the same way. Any comparison that cites a single km² figure for either game without specifying land-only or total area is, at best, sloppy. At worst it's inflating or deflating the gap on purpose. When you see a number, check what it measures.

The filter from earlier in this article still applies: if a claim traces back to official trailer footage, treat it as confirmed. If it traces back to the 2022 leak or community extrapolation, label it estimated and move on. This article will be updated with final in-game map data once GTA 6 ships and the numbers can be pulled from an actual build.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will GTA 6 have the largest map in the series?

Probably, but "largest" is doing a lot of work without a unit attached. The current leaked estimates put Leonida's land area at roughly 125 km², which would clear GTA V's San Andreas by a wide margin. The catch is measurement method. GTA V's total area balloons past 126 km² if you count ocean, but sits closer to 75-81 km² as land only. Until Rockstar ships the game and someone walks the full boundary, every "biggest map" headline is comparing an estimate to a known quantity. The gap looks real. The exact ratio doesn't exist yet.

Is Vice City the only city in GTA 6, or are there multiple?

Vice City is the confirmed main urban hub, visible across both official trailers. Surrounding it, the trailers show what look like smaller coastal towns, inland settlements, and highway-connected rural clusters across Leonida. Whether any of those qualify as a second city on the scale of, say, San Fierro or Las Venturas in the original San Andreas is unconfirmed. The honest answer is that Leonida appears to be one large city plus a wider state, not a multi-metropolis layout.

Where does GTA 6 take place? Is it just Florida or a wider area?

The confirmed setting is the fictional state of Leonida, which maps to Florida as its real-world reference. No official material has shown anything outside that state boundary. Leonida covers the urban Vice City core, Everglades-style wetlands, and what appears to be Florida Keys-adjacent coastline. If Rockstar has content beyond Leonida's borders, it hasn't appeared in either trailer or any confirmed source.

Will the GTA 6 map be available as an interactive map before launch?

Not a reliable one. The "interactive maps" circulating online are fan reconstructions stitched together from trailer frames and the 2022 leak footage. None of them are extracted from a shipped build, because no shipped build exists yet. They're useful for general orientation (coastline shapes, rough region placement), not for planning routes or measuring distances. A proper interactive map will only be possible once the game launches and someone can extract coordinate data. This article will be updated with final in-game map details at that point.

How much will GTA 6 cost?

That's a separate question from the map, but it comes up often enough in the same searches. We've covered edition breakdowns and regional pricing in our GTA 6 Price guide.

Here's where the GTA 6 map picture stands right now: Rockstar has confirmed the state of Leonida, confirmed Vice City as its urban anchor, and shown enough trailer footage to know the scale is real. Every km² figure, every district name pulled from the 2022 leak, every fan-made interactive map sits in the estimated column until the game ships.

Two bins. Confirmed from trailers, or estimated from leaks. If a claim doesn't fit cleanly into one, it's speculation dressed up as news.

I think the gap between Leonida and GTA V's San Andreas is genuine based on what Trailer 2 showed. But I've watched pre-launch size estimates miss badly before (GTA V's own map was a moving target for months), and I'd rather update this article with real numbers from a shipped build than pretend leaked coordinates are facts. That update will happen the week the game launches, with final measurements, confirmed region names, and a proper traversal-time breakdown.