What is first-party?
A fictional US state, and nothing beyond it
Described as "home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond".
Confirmed PlayStation.Blog (Rockstar-authored) /
Geography Rumoured 6 places described / 0 identified
What real places is the GTA 6 map based on?
GTA 6 is set in Leonida, a fictional state widely understood to be modelled on Florida, with Vice City generally read as Miami. Rockstar has never said so, and has never published a list of real-world sources, so every identification on this page is an inference from what appears on screen rather than a fact about the game.
Rockstar has named six places with a description each. Everything below keeps two things apart: what was published, and what readers have concluded from it. The first is printed as sourced fact. The second is printed in a quieter register that says, on every row, what it is.
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01Answers
The gap this whole page sits in
And Florida?
Universally read. Never stated.
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) /
02Not known
The question every identification depends on
Real places named by Rockstarnone
Landmarks identifiednone
Source lists publishednone
What is it drawn from?
A fictional US state is as far as first-party material goes. No real US state is named beside it, no real city and no real landmark. The Florida reading is drawn from the geography and the culture the trailers show, and it is repeated so uniformly by press and by fans that it is usually printed without qualification. Repetition is not confirmation, so it stays graded as an inference here.
The neighbourhood-level identifications — this stretch of seafront is that one, this island is that one — have no first-party basis at all. They are read off the trailers. What is actually known about the city is on the Vice City page
03Published
What Rockstar actually published
| State | Claim | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| Rumoured | Leonida is understood to be modelled on Florida, but Rockstar has never said so. | Wikipedia (Grand Theft Auto VI) |
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.
A seventh name exists — Leonida Penitentiary, named in Lucia’s bio rather than on a location page — and it is on the register of named places with the rest. It is left out here because a prison named in a character bio carries no description to identify anything against.
Three of ours, in the register the descriptions above are written in. None of them is a picture of a place in the game, and none of them is a picture of a real place that has been identified with one. That is the same distinction the table below is about: a photograph of the kind of country a phrase describes is not evidence of which country it is.
04Concluded
What readers have concluded, and what it rests on
Identifications recorded6
Confirmed by Rockstarnone
Moved since 06.05.2025none
This page is not going to pretend nobody makes these. The table records what is commonly said, so that a reader who arrived holding one of them can see exactly what it rests on. This site does not endorse the third column and does not grade it above rumoured.
| Named place | How Rockstar describes it | Commonly said to be | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vice City | The principal city of the state | Miami | Inference — not confirmed |
| Leonida Keys | A tropical archipelago | The Florida Keys | Inference — not confirmed |
| Grassrivers | A primordial wetland expanse | The Everglades | Inference — not confirmed |
| Port Gellhorn | The forgotten coast of Leonida | A Gulf-coast town on the Florida panhandle | Inference — not confirmed |
| Ambrosia | The heart of Leonida | None recorded here | Inference — not confirmed |
| Mount Kalaga National Park | A national park | None recorded here | Inference — not confirmed |
The status column says the same thing six times deliberately. Nothing in it has moved since Trailer 2, because nothing first-party has been published that could move it.
05The rule
Identification is not confirmation
A place is confirmed when first-party material names it, which is true of exactly the names in the table above. An identification with a real place is graded rumoured however obvious it looks, because obviousness is not a source. Nothing is upgraded by being repeated, by appearing in a news article, or by being drawn on a community map. The full rule is on how we grade a claim and the source policy
The corpus almost every frame-level identification is worked from is around seventy still images plus the location pages, and Rockstar captioned none of them with a real place name. An identification made from a still is a reading of a picture, and a good reading of a picture is still a reading — see what Trailer 2 actually showed
A second wave of identifications dates from 18 August 2026 and is worked from an image said to be the Leonida map. This site does not treat that material as evidence, does not reproduce any of it, and does not use it to add a single name to the table above — the point of a provenance rule is that it holds when the material is interesting. What that episode is and is not worth is set out on the August 2026 leaks, and the separate question of how large the map is has its own page
Obviousness is not a source
It is entirely possible that every identification in the table is correct. That would not make any of them confirmed, and it is why the third column and the second are printed in different registers rather than in the same table body.
No real place has been named
Every identification here is a reader’s, not Rockstar’s
Sources
- GTA 6 Trailer 2 Is Out Now Carries the location pages Rockstar published with Trailer 2 and their one-line descriptions — the source of every officially named place on this page, and the material cited here for the identifications it does not make.
- Grand Theft Auto VI plays best on PS5, November 19 Names Leonida and Vice City. Names no real place.
- Grand Theft Auto VI trailer
- Grand Theft Auto VI Cited for the fact that the Florida reading is universal, not for the reading itself.
- Apparent GTA 6 footage and map leak as Rockstar issues takedowns