The Leonida Standard

15 open questions

Geography 7 names published  /  0 maps published

The GTA 6 map A list of names is not a geography

Rockstar has published names. It has not published a map. Grand Theft Auto VI is set in the fictional state of Leonida, whose principal city is Vice City, and the whole of the official geography is seven place names with a phrase of description each.

Every full map image in circulation is therefore a reconstruction or material of unestablished origin, rather than a Rockstar document. The plate at the foot of this page is held at the size a state map is printed at, and it carries a photograph of real ground: a reconstruction would answer the question falsely, which is worse than not answering it.

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01Answers

What has actually been stated

What is the city?

Vice City, its principal city

The first mainline return to Vice City since the 2002 game of that name.

Confirmed Rockstar Games Trailer 1 /

Is it Florida?

Everyone says so. Rockstar never has.

Near-universally repeated by press and fans on the basis of the trailers' geography and culture. It is an inference, not a statement.

Rumoured Wikipedia (Grand Theft Auto VI) /

02The register

Named, named in passing, and never said

Names published7
Maps publishednone
Positions publishednone

Confirmed Named by Rockstar, in a trailer or on a location page

  • Vice City
  • Leonida Keys
  • Grassrivers
  • Port Gellhorn
  • Ambrosia
  • Mount Kalaga
Trailer 1 and the location pages · –

Confirmed Named in a character bio, not on a location page

  • Leonida Penitentiary

First-party, and missing from almost every list of Leonida locations, because it arrived in Rockstar’s bio for Lucia rather than in the location material. A name is a name wherever it is printed. Where the prison sits is as unstated as everything else.

Rockstar character bio, via Wikipedia ·

Unknown Never stated by anybody

The coastline. The area. Which regions touch. How long it takes to cross.

No map published · as of
Our own high-altitude photograph of flat wetland meeting a distant low coastline at midday, taken at the scale a state map is printed at. It is our picture of real ground, not a map of anywhere in the game.

A picture at map scale is not a map. This one is ours, of real wetland running out to a real coast, and it is here to show what that scale looks like rather than to stand in for a document nobody has published. Nothing in it was measured from anything, and no part of it depicts a place in the game.

03Not known

Three questions about this map that nobody has answered

Has a map ever been published?

Two trailers, around seventy screenshots and a set of location pages: a great many pictures of places, and not one document showing how the places fit together. No atlas, no in-game map export, no scale figure. The next scheduled occasion for that to change is An Extended Look on 27 August 2026, whose contents have not been announced. If a map appears in it, this page changes the same day.

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Statements to citenone
Would settle itRockstar publishing one — in a Newswire post, on a storefront listing, or in the material that ships with the game.
CitedAbsence of any first-party statement

How big is the state?

Take-Two’s investor material has had every commercial reason to boast about scale, and has talked instead about dates, editions and pre-orders. A number missing from all of the material that would carry it, in a campaign this long, is not an oversight waiting to be filled in from outside. How big is the map sets out where the circulating figures come from and why none of them can be checked.

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Statements to citeNone. Community mapping projects have produced estimates; an estimate is not a statement.
Would settle itA figure in square miles or square kilometres, given by Rockstar or printed on a storefront listing.
CitedAbsence of any first-party statement

How do the named places relate to each other?

This is the question a map exists to answer, and it is the one a list of names cannot. An archipelago, a wetland, a forgotten coast, a heart and a national park describe a range of terrain; they do not describe an arrangement. Anybody telling you how long it takes to drive from Vice City to the Keys is describing a map they have drawn.

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Statements to citeA one-line description of each place, and no position for any of them.
Would settle itFirst-party material putting two named places in one frame with a distance between them, or a map carrying the names.
CitedAbsence of any first-party statement

04The index

Every claim about the map, and its standing

Every claim this site holds about the geography of Leonida

16 entries

Every claim this site holds about the geography of Leonida
State Claim Source and date
Confirmed The game is set in the fictional US state of Leonida. PlayStation.Blog (Rockstar-authored)
Confirmed Vice City returns as the game's principal city. Rockstar Games Trailer 1
Confirmed Leonida Keys is an officially named location, described by Rockstar as a tropical archipelago. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Grassrivers is an officially named location, described as a primordial wetland expanse. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Port Gellhorn is an officially named location, described as Leonida's forgotten coast. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Ambrosia is an officially named location, described as the heart of Leonida. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Mount Kalaga National Park is an officially named location. Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
Confirmed Rockstar's character bio has Lucia serving time at Leonida Penitentiary after an incident defending her family. Wikipedia (Grand Theft Auto VI), summarising Rockstar's official bios
Rumoured Leonida is understood to be modelled on Florida, but Rockstar has never said so. Wikipedia (Grand Theft Auto VI)
Rumoured The widely repeated figure of "700+ enterable buildings" has no first-party source. Circulated by fan and aggregator sites
Rumoured On 18 August 2026 a group calling itself CyberLeek posted material it claimed came from Grand Theft Auto VI, including footage and an image said to be the Leonida map. GameSpot
Confirmed Take-Two has pursued DMCA takedowns and court filings seeking account records over the August 2026 leak. GameSpot
Confirmed Rockstar has issued no public statement about the August 2026 leak. Den of Geek
Confirmed Rockstar published around 70 screenshots and new character and location pages alongside Trailer 2. GTABase
Confirmed As of 21 August 2026 there have been two official trailers, with a third showing scheduled. Rockstar Games Newswire
Unknown The size of the map has never been stated. Absence of any first-party statement
Open since · statements to cite: none

Stated in first-party material, or shown in official footage. Two attributable sources where possible. Nothing reliable exists. Stated plainly rather than filled with speculation.

05Provenance

Two things get called the GTA 6 map

The first is a reconstruction: a drawing assembled from trailer frames and screenshots, with coastlines interpolated between them. The good ones are careful work and the best of them will turn out to be roughly right. None of them is evidence, because the thing being measured is not visible — you cannot recover the distance between two coastlines from footage that never shows both at once, which is also why the size estimates built on them are unusable.

The second is material taken from a build, and it carries a different problem entirely: nobody outside Rockstar can establish that it is genuine, that it is current, or that a map inside a stolen build resembles the map that ships. Describing that episode is commentary and belongs on a reference site. Hosting the material is not. Where the August 2026 claims stand is tracked on the leaks page

The rule, as the codebase holds it

  • stills, video or audio taken from leaked or stolen builds
  • game assets, models, textures or source code from any breach
  • reuploaded first-party trailers or artwork presented as our own
  • AI-generated images passed off as official art or as real screenshots
A stand of cypress at the edge of open water, photographed frontally by us at midday, the surface completely still.
Our own picture of moored boats at a marina, taken frontally at midday, masts standing evenly across the whole frame.

The named places do at least say what kinds of terrain the state contains, and they are not all city: an archipelago, a wetland, a national park and a stretch of coast Rockstar itself calls forgotten. On the names alone, the state is not only urban. How much of it is not urban has never been said.

06The section

Where each map question is graded

Question Answered on What it says today
How big is the map? Map size No figure has ever been published. The circulating numbers are reconstructions.
What is in the state? The state of Leonida Six named places beyond Vice City — five from Rockstar’s location material, one from a character bio.
What is Vice City now? Vice City The principal city, and the first mainline return since the 2002 game.
Which real places is it based on? Real-world counterparts Florida is a near-universal inference. Rockstar has never said it.

If a claim about this map is not on one of those pages with a source beside it, we have not been able to establish it — which, on a map that has never been published, covers most of what is written about it.

Sawgrass filling the entire frame, photographed by us from directly above at midday as an even texture.

No map has been published

A reconstruction would answer the question falsely

Sources

  1. Grand Theft Auto VI plays best on PS5 — November 19 PlayStation.Blog, written by Rockstar · First-party description of the setting: the state of Leonida, home to Vice City and beyond.
  2. GTA 6 Trailer 2 is out now GTABase, reproducing Rockstar’s own trailer material · The source of the five named regions and their one-line descriptions, and the material cited here for what those pages do not say.
  3. Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer The Washington Post · Cited for Trailer 1 and for Vice City’s return as the principal city.
  4. Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look Rockstar Games Newswire · The third official showing, and the next occasion on which any of this could change.
  5. Grand Theft Auto VI Wikipedia · Cited for the absence of a published map size and for the provenance of the enterable-buildings figure.
  6. Apparent GTA 6 footage and map leak as Rockstar issues takedowns GameSpot · Cited for the August 2026 material and the takedown activity around it. We reproduce none of it.