The wider state of Leonida — regions and towns, geography, and the inspiration it takes from real Florida without copying it.
Leonida is the fictional state that Vice City is based in. Leonida was inspired by Florida and has cities, swampland, beaches, and an island chain similar to the Keys. Here's your breakdown of the new state map.
Just south of Vice City sits a series of islands connected by bridges, extending out into the ocean: GTA 6's version of the Florida Keys. Here's what we can learn about the area from trailer footage, its likely role in gameplay, and where content inspired by Key West might sit.
A true wetland lies inland from Vice City. Rockstar has never created one of these before, and this one is modelled after the Everglades. There are airboats, alligators, dense waterways and more. Here's how the region works, and the gameplay you can find there.
The stretch of islands south of Vice City unmistakably looks like the Florida Keys. Below is a side-by-side comparison, with explanations as to what is similar, condensed, or omitted.
GTA 6's wetlands area screams Everglades. Let's take a tour through what's visible, what's probable, and what's risky to claim.
Leonida is based on Florida but is not a 1:1 replica. Below is a rundown of where the two match up and where Rockstar has taken creative liberties.
It's hard not to pay attention to the bridge route going from Vice City out into the Keys analogue. It's one of the most notable stretches of road on the entire GTA 6 map. Let's take a closer look.
North of Vice City, the map shifts through suburbs into small towns. Here's what the trailer cameras have caught of Leonida's rural settlements.
The highway system connects all the regions in GTA 6. Here is our best read of what we see in the trailer footage.
A proposed pre-launch route plan for the GTA 6 map. An educated interpretation of the visible road network, clearly hedged.
There is no official GTA 6 county map for Leonida. This is our best guess based on the visible regional structure - clearly conjectural.
It's no secret inland Leonida is citrus country. Watch Trailer 2 and see for yourself.
Trailer parks are one way that Rockstar signals blue-collar settings. Trailer 2 has them sprinkled in - here's the careful read.
The transition zone connecting Vice City proper to the inland small towns - suburban Leonida.
The Keys are not the only islands. You can see smaller barrier islands off the coast in trailer aerials.
Leonida is a wet state with many rivers, canals, and tidal waterways. Here's our working overview.
Florida is known for being flat. Leonida is the same way. Read below for a careful look at everything that could possibly be considered elevation on the GTA 6 map.
Leonida invents its own place names. Here is a working index of the fictional names that map to real places in Florida, clearly hedged where uncertain.
Leonida probably has smaller regional airports outside of Vice City's main one. Read below for the working list.
Florida runs on tourism. Leonida should too. Here is where you can see the tourist coding.
What the trailers showed us from overhead looks like theme-park content. Here's our careful read.
Industrial zones are where GTA missions have historically taken place. Here's what we see throughout Leonida.
Industrial infrastructure we can see, or that's implied, across the GTA 6 map.
Trailer 1 starts out with a prison-coded scene. Here are some thoughts on Leonida's correctional facilities.
GTA 5 featured Fort Zancudo. We're still wondering whether Leonida has a military base.
A look at the small-town life that Leonida's rural scenery shots suggest.
Beyond the orange groves, trailer aerials show other farmland. This is the working list.
The same comparison from a different angle - written from Leonida's perspective.
Driving around the GTA 6 map: three core long-form routes.
Editor's picks: scenic drives around the GTA 6 map.
Taking a deeper dive into the bridges that connect the Keys themselves.
Let's dive into one specific route: the headline drive of the entire GTA 6 map.
Buses. Trains. Trams. Let's speculate about what we might see in GTA 6.
Bus networks: speculative details grounded in GTA history.
Taxis have existed in GTA games. The question now is whether ride-hailing services will be featured in GTA 6.
GTA 6 rail discussion - will there be a real train system, and what might it look like?
Florida has toll roads. GTA games typically don't model tolls. Let's speculate.
Highway. US-route. County road. Dirt track. Leonida's road vocabulary.
Analysis of how Rockstar treats map borders, based on its past games.