What is Leonida?
An invented US state, and the whole game
Described as "home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond".
Confirmed PlayStation.Blog (Rockstar-authored) /
Geography 7 names / 0 positions
What is in the state of Leonida?
Leonida is an invented US state, not a real one, and it is the whole game: everything announced for Grand Theft Auto VI takes place inside it. Only seven places in it have a name anybody can source. No other place in the state does.
All but one of the seven carry a phrase of description from Rockstar; Mount Kalaga National Park was published as a name and nothing else. A separate one of the seven arrived in a character bio rather than in the location material, and is missing from almost every other list. Nothing first-party says where any of them sits.
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01Answers
What the state is, in two sourced lines
What is at the centre of it?
Vice City, its principal city
The first mainline return to Vice City since the 2002 game of that name.
Confirmed Rockstar Games Trailer 1 /
02The register
Every place with a name
Names7
From location pages5
Descriptions of positionnone
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Vice City
The state’s principal city, returning to the series
Trailer 1 Rockstar Games Trailer 1
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Leonida Keys
A tropical archipelago
Location page, Trailer 2 Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
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Grassrivers
A primordial wetland expanse
Location page, Trailer 2 Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
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Port Gellhorn
Leonida’s forgotten coast
Location page, Trailer 2 Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
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Ambrosia
The heart of Leonida
Location page, Trailer 2 Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
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Mount Kalaga National Park
Named, with no description given
Location page, Trailer 2 Rockstar Games material published with Trailer 2 (via GTABase)
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Leonida Penitentiary
A prison, named in Rockstar’s bio for Lucia rather than in the location material
Character bio Wikipedia (Grand Theft Auto VI), summarising Rockstar's official bios
Rockstar’s own descriptions are a phrase each, and those phrases are what appear above. They say what a place is. They do not say where it sits, how large it is, or how it connects to anything else — which is the whole of the official geography, and the reason the map hub opens the way it does.
Two of ours, in the register the descriptions above are written in. Neither is a picture of a place in the game, and neither is a picture of a real place that has been identified with one. A phrase like “a tropical archipelago” describes a kind of country; it does not describe a location, and a photograph of that kind of country cannot be made to either.
03Not known
The question this register cannot answer
Is there an eighth name?
Far more of the state has been shown than has been named. The Trailer 2 drop is the largest body of official material in existence — around seventy screenshots and two trailers — and it still names only five locations. Almost everything shown of the state carries no first-party name at all.
Fan atlases supply names for a great deal of it, and some of those names are repeated often enough to read as official. None of them is. This register grows only when first-party material names something, which is exactly why it is short — and why it has grown by nothing in fifteen months.
04Provenance
Names that appear only in unverified material
Two kinds of claim circulate. The first is a number presented as a specification: the enterable-buildings figure in the table below, which no first-party material contains. The second is material taken from a build — in August 2026 a group published what it said was a map of Leonida, along with footage.
None of that material is reproduced here, and no name taken from it has entered the register above. Not because it is certainly false, but because nothing about it has been established, and an unverified image of a map is not a source for what a place is called. What was claimed, and what has happened since, is set out on the August 2026 leaks
05The index
The register, and the claims around it
| State | Claim | Source and date |
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| 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 |
| 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.
06The material
Why this register will stay short
Because there have only ever been three chances for it to grow. Two trailers and one scheduled showing, with no press previews and no hands-on events in between, is a very small amount of material to name a state from. The Extended Look on 27 August 2026 is the next opportunity for a name to enter this list. If one does, it will appear here with the date it was said, and nothing else about the page will change. Until then seven is the number, and the honest answer to what else is in Leonida is that nobody outside Rockstar knows.
What the state is generally taken to correspond to in the real world is a separate question, and a different kind of claim: real-world counterparts sets out which places the fandom maps onto which, and on what basis. How large any of it is has its own page, and the answer there is blank.
7 names. No positions.
A name is not a place until somebody says where it is
Sources
- GTA 6 Trailer 2 is out now Carries the location pages Rockstar published with Trailer 2, which is where five of the seven names below come from — and, cited for an absence, where an eighth would have been.
- Grand Theft Auto VI plays best on PS5, November 19
- What we learned from the first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer
- Grand Theft Auto VI Cited for the Florida reading, which is an inference and is graded as one.
- Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look
- Apparent GTA 6 footage and map leak as Rockstar issues takedowns Cited for the existence of the claim. None of the material is reproduced here.