GTA 6 Regions: The Six Areas of Leonida

The six regions at a glance

We list the six regions below in the same order Rockstar uses on its official Only in Leonida tour. Click any region name to jump down to its full breakdown, or open our GTA 6 interactive map to see where each area sits across the state.

Every region profile below follows a consistent four-part layout covering the Name, Real-world prototype, Description, and Image source. Because all game screenshots belong to Rockstar Games, we link directly to the official galleries where they are published rather than rehosting them.

About Leonida

Leonida is the fictional American state where Grand Theft Auto VI is set, nicknamed "The Goodtime State" on Rockstar's merchandise and edition pages. Rockstar launched the six regional profiles alongside Trailer 2 in May 2025, and as of November 9, 2026, they remain the only officially profiled areas of the map. You can follow the order of every reveal on our GTA 6 news timeline.

Rockstar's descriptions offer several clues about how the geography fits together. Mount Kalaga National Park sits against the state's northern border, Ambrosia occupies the central heartland, and the Leonida Keys form a tropical archipelago to the south. Port Gellhorn is described as a neglected stretch of coast without specifying which side of the state it faces, while one official Grassrivers screenshot shows the Vice City skyline rising in the distance behind the pier town of Watson Bay.

Rockstar has not published an official map of Leonida yet, though it plans to release a free printable map on launch day, November 19, 2026 (see our GTA 6 release date guide). Until then, every marker on our GTA 6 interactive map is an approximate placement drawn from these official clues and real-world comparisons rather than any leaked material. If you want to compare the layout with Los Santos in the meantime, check out our GTA 5 interactive map or our GTA 6 FAQ.

Vice City

Name

Vice City is the official name. The city has been part of the franchise since the original 1997 Grand Theft Auto and headlined 2002's 1980s-set Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. For GTA 6, Rockstar brings the metropolis firmly into the modern day.

Real-world prototype

Miami and Miami Beach, Florida High confidence

Basis: Press outlets consistently link Vice City to Miami. Game Informer's cover story notes that the city draws heavily on modern Miami, and Miami New Times matched numerous shots from Trailer 1 directly to real streets and landmarks in Miami and Miami Beach. Community researchers on GTA Wiki also connect Little Cuba to Little Havana, VC Port to PortMiami, and Vice-Dale County to Miami-Dade County.

Description

Rockstar bills Vice City as America's capital of sunshine and excess, a sprawling coastal metropolis where every district has its own distinct energy. On the official tour, Rockstar highlights Ocean Beach with its pastel Art Deco hotels and white sand, the busy Cuban bakeries of Little Cuba, the bootleg stalls of the Tisha-Wocka Flea Market, and VC Port, which it calls the cruise ship capital of the world.

Official screenshot captions and the November 2026 Launch Gallery show a passenger jet flying low over a giant Vice City sign, a neon-lit skyline with a Ferris wheel, riders pulling stunts on dirt bikes and ATVs down busy boulevards, and speedboats passing beneath a drawbridge. Rockstar's Ultimate Edition page also names neighborhoods such as Stockyard, Washington Beach, Shore Drive, and Southside, while character profiles connect local mogul Boobie Ike and record label boss Dre'Quan Priest to the city's nightlife and music scene.

Vice City is also the primary setting shown in An Extended Look, Rockstar's 26-minute August 2026 gameplay showcase, which features drives across the Venetian-style causeways, a meeting at the Effluvia rooftop bar, and a parachute jump over the city's islands. You can read a full breakdown in our GTA 6 gameplay guide.

Image source

See Rockstar's Only in Leonida: Vice City gallery and the Launch Gallery for official screenshots, or watch An Extended Look on Rockstar's official videos page.

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Leonida Keys

Name

Leonida Keys is the official name for the tropical island chain south of the mainland, often shortened to "the Keys" in Rockstar's character bios.

Real-world prototype

The Florida Keys High confidence

Basis: Game Informer's cover story identifies the archipelago as Rockstar's version of the Florida Keys. On GTA Wiki, community researchers also point to an island town named Key Lento (where Jason lives) as a stand-in for Key Largo and Islamorada.

Description

Rockstar describes the Leonida Keys as a relaxed tropical archipelago where dress codes are casual, the bars stay full, and life moves at a slower pace, even if the surrounding ocean waters are among the most dangerous in the country. Official screenshots show highway bridges linking the islands, a seaplane skimming over turquoise water, packed beach bars, jet skis around a boat party, and scuba divers swimming alongside coral reefs, sea turtles, and eels.

The Keys also serve as protagonist Jason Duval's home base at the start of the story. According to Rockstar's character profiles, Jason drifted down to the islands after leaving the Army and works for veteran smuggler Brian Heder, who runs product through his local marina with his third wife, Lori, and lets Jason stay rent-free in a safehouse in exchange for help with local shakedowns.

Image source

Browse Rockstar's Only in Leonida: Leonida Keys gallery and the Launch Gallery for official screenshots.

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Grassrivers

Name

Grassrivers is the official single-word name for Leonida's southern wetlands, often referred to as "the Grassrivers" in Rockstar's captions.

Real-world prototype

The Everglades, South Florida High confidence

Basis: Game Informer's cover story links Grassrivers directly to the Florida Everglades (whose real-world nickname is the "River of Grass"). GTA Wiki also notes that the stilt-house town of Watson Bay borrows architecture from Cedar Key while sitting roughly where Everglades City and Chokoloskee meet the Gulf coast.

Description

Rockstar frames the Grassrivers as an untamed maze of sawgrass and mangroves where alligators are the best-known attraction, while teasing that far deadlier predators and stranger discoveries hide beneath the surface. The official screenshots show airboats cutting through flooded marshes, mud-splattered hunters posing with a dead gator and bobcat, and police cruisers and a chopper chasing a pickup truck through shallow swamp water.

One screenshot also reveals Watson Bay, a waterfront town built on wooden piers with a painted water tower and the distant Vice City skyline on the horizon. Rockstar's Ultimate Edition page places the player-owned Paradise Garage in Watson Bay.

Image source

View the official screenshots on Rockstar's Only in Leonida: Grassrivers page and in the Launch Gallery.

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Port Gellhorn

Name

Port Gellhorn is the official name of this run-down coastal town.

Real-world prototype

Panama City and the Florida Panhandle coast Medium confidence

Basis: Game Informer describes Port Gellhorn broadly as a composite of smaller Florida vacation towns that have seen better days. Community researchers on GTA Wiki match specific storefronts from the trailers, such as a pawn shop and strip mall, to real buildings in Panama City and nearby Callaway. Because Rockstar has not confirmed which coast Port Gellhorn sits on, its placement on any pre-launch map remains an estimate.

Description

Port Gellhorn is Leonida's forgotten vacation coast. Cheap motels, boarded-up tourist traps, and half-empty strip malls have replaced the old resort crowds, giving way to an underground economy fueled by malt liquor, painkillers, and truck-stop energy drinks. Rockstar warns visitors to watch their wallets as dirt bikes tear through the streets.

Official imagery highlights the neon vacancy sign of the Starlet Motel, an indoor grow-light operation, a handoff through a car window, a beach bonfire, and the neon-lit parking lot of Delights Cabaret.

Image source

See Rockstar's Only in Leonida: Port Gellhorn page and the Launch Gallery for official screenshots.

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Ambrosia

Name

Ambrosia is the official name of this industrial town in central Leonida.

Real-world prototype

Clewiston, Florida, on Lake Okeechobee Medium confidence

Basis: GTA Wiki editors link Ambrosia to Clewiston, a sugar-refining town on the southwestern shore of Lake Okeechobee, matching the in-game Allied Crystal refinery to Clewiston's U.S. Sugar mill. Game Informer characterizes the area more generally as the industrial heartland of Leonida.

Description

Located in the center of Leonida, Ambrosia clings fiercely to old-school American industry and traditional values. The Allied Crystal sugar refinery provides the bulk of the jobs, while a local outlaw biker gang controls almost everything else behind the scenes. Official screenshots show smokestacks towering over the night skyline, crop fields burning at dusk, and a column of bikers riding in matching leather cuts.

Image source

Official screenshots are available on Rockstar's Only in Leonida: Ambrosia page.

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Mount Kalaga National Park

Name

Mount Kalaga National Park is the full official name, often shortened to Mount Kalaga on Rockstar's website.

Real-world prototype

No single real-world match Low confidence

Basis: Because Florida has no mountain ranges of its own, Mount Kalaga appears to blend northern Florida with the foothills and canyons of Georgia and the southern Appalachians. Game Informer notes that the park draws on the culture of the Florida-Georgia border, while GTA Wiki editors compare its cliffs and gorges to Georgia's Providence Canyon and North Carolina's Table Rock.

Description

Set against Leonida's northern border, Mount Kalaga National Park is the state's rugged wilderness playground. It offers prime hunting, fishing, kayaking, and muddy off-road trails, while its deep backwoods shelter eccentric hillbillies, mystics, and anti-government survivalists living off the grid.

Rockstar's screenshots show dirt bikes and ATVs tearing up muddy forest tracks, hunters trekking through pine woods with rifles, a mountain lion stalking deer beside a creek, and a kayaker paddling through a rocky gorge.

Image source

Browse the official gallery on Rockstar's Only in Leonida: Mount Kalaga National Park page.

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