How Big Is the GTA 6 Map? Vice City & Leonida vs GTA 5 — What's Confirmed (and What's Rumored) 2026

Rockstar has never printed a single square-mileage number for the GTA 6 map — so anyone telling you the exact size in miles is guessing. What Rockstar has confirmed is the setting: the entire state of Leonida, built around a modern Vice City, spanning six named regions from the Everglades to the Keys. Every credible estimate lands the map at roughly 2.4–2.7× the size of GTA 5.

This is the current, honest reference: what's officially confirmed about the GTA 6 map, what's community estimate, and exactly how it stacks up against Los Santos. Confirmed facts are cited to Rockstar; anything Rockstar hasn't published is labeled as an estimate — because on a launch this big, that line matters.

TL;DR — Quick answer

• How big is the GTA 6 map? Rockstar has not released an official size. Community mapping projects estimate Leonida at roughly 118–132 square miles, versus GTA 5's widely cited ~49 square miles — about 2.4–2.7× larger.
• What's 100% confirmed: the setting is the State of Leonida (a fictional modern Florida), the main city is Vice City, and six named regions have appeared in official trailers.
• The six confirmed regions: Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga.
• Dual protagonists Jason and Lucia headline the story — a first for the mainline series.

- Release: November 19, 2026, on **PS5 and Xbox Series X	S** only (no last-gen, no confirmed PC date yet).

• What's still rumored: the exact square mileage, water-vs-land split, and any "explorable interiors" count. Treat mileage figures as estimates, not facts.

One-line version: GTA 6's Leonida is confirmed to be a full multi-city state and is estimated at roughly 2.4–2.7× GTA 5 — but Rockstar has never published an exact size, so ignore anyone quoting one as gospel.

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How big is the GTA 6 map compared to GTA 5?

Here's the honest comparison. GTA 5's figure is the long-cited community/press number; GTA 6's is an estimate range, because Rockstar has published nothing official:

Game / world	Estimated playable size	Source type	Setting
GTA 5 (Los Santos & Blaine County)	~49 sq mi (~31 sq mi land)	Press/community (Wired, 2013)	Southern San Andreas
GTA 6 (Leonida)	~118–132 sq mi (est.)	Community mapping estimate	State of Leonida / Vice City
Red Dead Redemption 2	~29 sq mi	Community measurement	Rural America

The takeaway: even at the conservative end of the estimate, GTA 6's Leonida is comfortably the biggest map Rockstar has ever built for a Grand Theft Auto title. The upper estimates would make it more than double GTA 5's total area, and several multiples of Red Dead Redemption 2's map. But "estimate" is the operative word — the 118–132 mile figure comes from fans overlaying trailer footage and old 2022 leak material onto scale references, not from Rockstar.

What's officially CONFIRMED about the GTA 6 map?

This is the part you can actually rely on. Everything here traces back to Rockstar's own reveal and official trailers.

When Rockstar announced the game, its Newswire post set the stage directly:

"Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida — home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond — in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet."

— Rockstar Games, official Newswire reveal

From Rockstar's reveal and subsequent official trailers, the following are confirmed:

• The setting is the State of Leonida — a fictionalized modern-day Florida, not a single city. This is the first mainline GTA built around a whole state rather than one metro area.
• Vice City is the main city — the neon, Art Deco coastal hub, returning as the setting of a mainline GTA for the first time since 2002's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
• Six named regions have appeared in official marketing, spanning distinct biomes — dense urban, wetlands, keys, industrial port, rural interior, and forested highlands.
• Dual protagonists Jason and Lucia — Rockstar's first playable duo in the mainline series, framed as a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style pair.

- Platforms and date: PS5 and Xbox Series X	S, launching November 19, 2026.

Here are the confirmed named regions and what Rockstar's footage shows for each:

Region	What it is (from official trailers)
Vice City	The central metropolis — neon nightlife, beaches, high-rises; the Miami analog
Leonida Keys	Island chain off the coast, modeled on the Florida Keys
Grassrivers	Sprawling wetlands/Everglades — swamp, airboats, wildlife
Port Gellhorn	Run-down industrial port town with a criminal underbelly
Ambrosia	Rural, small-town Americana dominated by sugar refineries
Mount Kalaga	Forested highlands and a national park in the north — off-road country

That six-region spread is the strongest confirmed signal that the map is huge: GTA 5 was essentially one city plus a county. Leonida is a whole state with multiple distinct settlements.

What's still RUMORED or estimated?

Here's where you should keep your guard up — because most "GTA 6 map size" content online states estimates as if they were confirmed.

• The exact square mileage is not confirmed. The popular 118–132 sq mi and 2.4–2.7× figures are community estimates from trailer analysis and 2022 leak footage. Some more conservative models put it closer to 1.5–2× GTA 5's landmass. Both are guesses.
• Water vs land split is unknown. A big chunk of any coastal/Keys map is ocean. If you strip out water, the drivable land difference over GTA 5 shrinks — but community consensus still puts the landmass comfortably above GTA 5's.
• Explorable interiors are not quantified. Rockstar has shown interiors in trailers, but there's no official count, and "hundreds of enterable buildings" claims are speculation.

- A PC version has not been dated. GTA 5 and RDR2 both came to PC later; GTA 6 is widely expected to follow, but Rockstar has confirmed only PS5 and Xbox Series X	S so far.

The rule of thumb: if a number is attached to the size in miles, it's an estimate. If it's about what regions exist or what platforms, it's confirmed.

Why the GTA 6 map will feel even bigger than the numbers

Raw square mileage undersells it, for three reasons that come straight from confirmed footage:

• Density, not just size. Rockstar's trailers show packed streets, crowds, traffic, and destructible detail well beyond GTA 5. A denser map "plays" larger even at the same acreage.
• Verticality and interiors. Vice City's high-rises and shown interiors add explorable volume that a flat top-down mileage figure doesn't capture.
• Biome variety. Six confirmed regions means the map covers city, swamp, islands, port, farmland, and mountains — you traverse more kinds of space than GTA 5's city-plus-desert layout, which makes the world feel far larger to actually play.

GTA 6 map vs GTA 5 map: what actually changes for players?

If you've spent years in Los Santos, here's the practical difference:

• One city → a whole state. GTA 5 gave you Los Santos and the rural Blaine County around it. GTA 6 gives you Vice City plus five other named regions, each with its own identity.
• More distinct destinations. The Keys, the Everglades-style Grassrivers, and a northern national park are entirely new environment types for a modern GTA.
• A returning fan-favorite city. Vice City hasn't been playable in modern GTA since 2002 — that alone is a headline for long-time players.
• Built for current-gen only. Because it targets PS5/Xbox Series hardware exclusively at launch, the map's scale and density aren't held back by last-gen consoles the way GTA 5's original 2013 release was.

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FAQ

How big is the GTA 6 map exactly? There is no confirmed exact size — Rockstar has never published a square-mileage figure. Community mapping projects estimate Leonida at roughly 118–132 square miles of playable area, versus GTA 5's widely cited ~49 square miles, which works out to about 2.4–2.7× larger. Treat any precise mileage number as an estimate, not an official stat.

Is the GTA 6 map bigger than GTA 5? Yes — this is effectively confirmed by the setting alone. GTA 6 covers the entire State of Leonida with six named regions, while GTA 5 was Los Santos plus Blaine County. Every credible estimate puts Leonida well above GTA 5's landmass; the debate is only about how much bigger.

What locations are confirmed on the GTA 6 map? Six named regions have appeared in official Rockstar trailers: Vice City (the main city), the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers (wetlands), Port Gellhorn (industrial port town), Ambrosia (rural sugar-refinery country), and Mount Kalaga (a forested national park in the north).

Will GTA 6's whole map be open from the start? Rockstar hasn't confirmed the map-unlock structure. In past GTA games the full map was accessible early with a few story-gated exceptions, but for GTA 6 this is currently unconfirmed — anything stating the whole state is open at launch is speculation.

When does GTA 6 come out and on what platforms? GTA 6 launches on November 19, 2026, for PS5 and Xbox Series X	S. A PC version has not been dated by Rockstar, though one is widely expected to follow later, as it did for GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2.

Is Vice City the only city in GTA 6? No. Vice City is the main metropolis, but Leonida also includes several other named settlements and regions — including the port town of Port Gellhorn and rural Ambrosia — making it a multi-settlement state rather than a single-city map.