Charting the GTA 6 map: Vice City, Ambrosia, and everything in between

While new, the GTA 6 map isn't an entirely unfamiliar destination. The Florida-inspired state of Leonida is home to places we've visited in Grand Theft Auto before, like Vice City, and other areas inspired by Miami's neighbors. Sure, it's been a couple of decades since Rockstar's last visit, but the scale and influence of its PS2-era heists loom over the series like a nostalgic hangover from a damn good night out.

The return voyage comes with years of will-they-or-won't-they anticipation and a delay, making it hard not to scour every official GTA 6 screenshot or trailer for a hidden detail. After all, those fancy GTA 6 cars are nothing without a world worth exploring, and Rockstar's 2026 sequel certainly looks like an ambitious trip back to Vice City in need of obsessive cartographers.

GTA 6 map locations and features

The reveal trailer introduced the setting, but it wasn't until GTA 6 Trailer 2 that we saw a more detailed dossier on where Rockstar will take us soon enough. So far, we've got six confirmed regions for the GTA 6 map, including some you may vaguely recognize from playing the 2002 game…or by visiting Florida.

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There are also a few fan projects and off-the-cuff developer remarks worth noting as the GTA 6 release date grows closer, like:

• Fans on GTAForums are mapping Vice City with an impressive thread of analysis and speculation that's quickly approaching the 11,000 post mark
• More eagle-eyed fans are also theorizing the fictional Florida panhandle won't make much of an appearance in GTA 6. It's not based on anything official from Rockstar, but the lack of North Florida likenesses sticks out
• The fan-made GTA 6 map is driven by a group of passionate folks who did the same thing for GTA 5 over a decade ago, and their exhaustive process included an initiative to sweep every StreetView of Panama City

Here are all the regions we know about so far, including key locations, shops, and the like you'll find there:

Vice City

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Inspired by real-life Miami proper, Vice City is home to Tisha-Wocka flea market, Little Cuba, the Vice City Port, and Ocean Beach. Leonida's sunny vacation capital is easily its most notable, with some early clips harkening back to the OG's Ocean View Hotel and Vice City International Airport.

Thanks to the info dump coinciding with GTA 6's pre-orders opening, we also know of a few shops that are likely based in Vice City. These are, at least partially, exclusive to the Ultimate Edition:

From the sounds of it, there's also an exclusive mission in the Ultimate Edition, where you raid PTT YOUNGIN$ Illegal Goods Store.

Mount Kalaga National Park

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Mount Kalaga sits on Leonida's northern border, and Rockstar notes it "offers prime hunting, fishing, and off-road trails." That's not a confirmation you can do any of those things, but what better way to cement its RPG-lite status than adding a fishing minigame?

Historically GTA hasn't offered much diversity in its flora or fauna, but GTA 5 and GTA Online changed that by adding dogs, sharks, deer, coyotes, mountain lions, and cows. Most of those are packed into Senora National Park, so maybe another local wildlife destination bodes well for even more GTA 6 animals.

Grassrivers

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Speaking of animals, the GTA 6 Grasslands are described as a home for more "deadlier predators and weirder discoveries" than just its gators. Who's to say what that entails, but damn near every screenshot of the wetlands in Rockstar's gallery includes a gator (or several). Take it as a bit of advice for visiting both the real Everglades and GTA's Grasslands—don't get too cozy near any substantial body of water. Especially if you can't see the bottom.

Leonida Keys

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The Florida Keys sit just to the south of Miami and the Everglades, so we're assuming that's Vice City in the distance while looking at the Leonida Keys screenshots. The waters are a far cry from the muddy, gator-infested mangroves elsewhere, but it's still "some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in all of America."

Sure, that could be a warning about local drug trade baddies, but there's definitely a shark waiting to snack on drunk party-goers in one screenshot. We're manifesting more sharks in GTA.

Like with Vice City, Rockstar has revealed some shops likely situated in Leonida's Stockyard area:

Ambrosia

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Ambrosia sounds like the classic American one-company town where a single industrial entity employs and controls the whole shebang. In GTA 6, the Allied Crystal sugar refinery does all the employing, while the Final Chapter biker gang "provides almost everything else." Whatever that means, we're assuming it's no good, as Rockstar says Ambrosia is where "the battle for health and wealth" in Leonida begins.

Port Gellhorn

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As "Leonida's forgotten coast," Port Gellhorn doesn't sound like it's faring much better than Ambrosia. It's a former vacation hotspot feeling the economic strife, packed with "cheap motels, shut-down attractions, and empty strip malls." The instability must've paved the way for more predatory industries because drugs, alcohol, and energy drinks are Gellhorn's primary moneymakers in GTA 6.

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