Rockstar named six regions and released images for each. With the extended look it added size ratios too — three times Red Dead 2. An area in kilometres, still not.
Checked 2 September 2026. The regions come from the official game website, not leaks.
Websites were answering “how big is the GTA 6 map?” with a figure years before Rockstar first said one. Those figures came from estimates based on the trailer or on leaked material, and were copied until they began to look like fact.
This page therefore draws a hard line. What Rockstar published carries a link — to its own website for the regions, and to the August 2026 interviews for the size, where the ratios were first given. What it did not announce is listed as unannounced, including the area in kilometres. Earlier games are included as documented examples, not predictions.
GTA 6 takes place in the fictional state of Leonida, based on present-day Florida. Vice City is part of it, not the whole map — the relationship is reversed from earlier games: before, there was a city and its surroundings; now there is a state with a city inside it.
The names and descriptions come from the official game website
In May 2025, alongside the second trailer, Rockstar published pages for the individual regions and a set of official screenshots. The extended look of 27 August 2026 then showed them in motion for the first time — driving, walking, at night and in the rain. They are the only places we know for certain are in the map, and under what names.
A present-day return to Vice City. Beaches, dense development, entertainment districts and waterfronts. The game's centre, but not the whole map.
A chain of southern islands connected by bridges. Based on the real Florida Keys.
A vast marshland based on Florida's Everglades.
A wooded, hilly region that contrasts with the coast and city.
A smaller waterside city with a different character from Vice City.
An area away from the coast. Rockstar lists it among Leonida's regions.
There is finally a figure from Rockstar. But it is a ratio, not an area.
Until August 2026 the studio said nothing about size. In interviews published alongside the extended look it gave ratios for the first time: the whole map is meant to be three times the playable area of Red Dead Redemption 2. Vice City alone is meant to be twice the size of Los Santos, and the built-up areas outside the city eleven times what surrounded Los Santos in GTA V.
Rockstar has not given an area in square kilometres, and still has not. The figures in kilometres you will find elsewhere are calculated from leaked map images, not stated by the studio — and there is still a wide gap between “three times Red Dead 2” and a specific area.
If Rockstar publishes an area, it will appear here with a source. Until then it is ratios, not kilometres.
Documented examples, not a promise — the past cannot tell us what Rockstar will do now
Liberty City was split into three islands unlocked through the story. A closed bridge was then a common way to keep players in the first area.
A state instead of one city: three cities with countryside between them. It unlocked in stages.
Almost the entire map was accessible from the start, a change from everything before it.
According to Rockstar, three times the playable area of Red Dead Redemption 2. Vice City alone is meant to be twice the size of Los Santos. The ratios were given in interviews around the extended look in August 2026. Rockstar still has not stated an area in square kilometres, so you will not find such a figure here.
No. Vice City is one of six named regions in the state of Leonida. The relationship is reversed from older games: before, a city with surroundings; now, a state with a city inside it.
Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Mount Kalaga, Port Gellhorn and Ambrosia. The names and descriptions come from the official game website, where each region has its own page with screenshots, and all six were also seen in the extended look.
No, it is fictional. It is based on present-day Florida — Leonida Keys correspond to Florida Keys and Grassrivers to the Everglades.
It has not been announced. GTA V had almost the entire map open from the start; older games unlocked it through the story. That does not tell us what will happen now.
Not here. We report the 2022 leak as an event, but we neither publish the leaked material nor link to where it can be found. It is subject to legal action, and distributing it is not the same as reporting on it.
No. Images from the August 2026 leak are circulating, but they are not from Rockstar and we neither publish nor link to them. Officially there are only screenshots of the individual regions on the game's website.
Every official announcement goes into our dated timeline with a citation. Claims have a separate tracker — and for the 2022 leak, we report what happened, not what it contained.