Where Is GTA 6 Set? New ‘Leonida’ Map Revealed

Rockstar Games has finally lifted the lid on GTA 6, providing gamers the world over with a short trailer that perfectly showcases the upcoming, open-world epic. It’s only a short thing, but the trailer offered up a flawless glimpse at the new GTA 6 map, which we now know is called ‘Leonida’. At the heart of Leonida sits Vice City, but there’s so much to pick at in the surrounding area that it becomes mind-boggling just how diverse and expansive this map truly is.

For the new GTA 6 map – Leonida – size seems to be the order of the day. It’s absolutely massive, and in the panoramic and cinematic shots revealed in the recent trailer, we get an idea of the scale of this thing. From Vice City itself to the swamps, islands, highways, and forests that surround the neon-soaked urban sprawl, it looks like we’ll have plenty to stick our teeth into when the game launches in 2025.

So, where is GTA 6 set, exactly? Let’s dive into the location.

Where Is Leonida?

Leonida, like GTA 5’s San Andreas, is a fully fictional state – but it’s modelled on a real-world location, of course. In this case, Leonida is modelled on Florida, featuring everything from the white, sandy beaches to the ‘Keys’ that stretch out away from the mainland, a series of islands interconnected by strips of highway. It’s as diverse a location as you could ever have hoped for, and in the trailer (which you can see below), it’s clear that opportunities to explore this map will be staggering.

Leonida has never been mentioned before in Grand Theft Auto history, so it’s totally fresh, even if Vice City is a well-known location. For the die-hard fans of the franchise, Vice City remains one of the best GTA games ever released, but GTA 6 will definitely steal away that crown from whatever title came before.

Vice City’s up-to-date remaster in GTA 6’s map looks like everything we could have hoped for. It’s a modern-day rendition of the age-old map that still manages to retain its 1980s synth-laden vibe, boasting nightclubs, classic supercars, and more drugs changing hands than you can shake a stick at.

There’s no doubt that the new GTA 6 map will soak up hundreds of hours of our time as we explore every corner of the thing.

Is GTA 6 Open World?

You’d have thought that this would be obvious by now, but it’s still a question that people ask. We’ve answered the key query of, ‘Where is GTA 6 set’, but there’s still the question of whether it’ll be fully open world. After all, some of the older Grand Theft Auto games adopted a model that only unlocked one portion of the map at a time. Is that the case in GTA 6?

We can’t say for sure, but we don’t assume that’s going to be the way it works in GTA 6. It looks as though this enormous map will be open for exploration from the moment you land in it in 2025. It’s likely going to take forever to uncover everything that the map has to offer, so despite it being open from the get-go, it’s well worth bearing in mind that you’ll have a hard time scouring the whole thing right off the bat.