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Where is GTA 6 set? Vice City and the state of Leonida

Last verified 5 Nov 2026By HeistNotes Desk · Updated 5 Nov 2026

GTA 6 is set in Vice City and the surrounding state of Leonida. Those are Rockstar's own words: its official GTA VI site calls the setting "Vice City, USA" and describes it as "the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida." Leonida is fictional; Vice City returns from the 2002 game, rebuilt for a new era.

What Rockstar has said

  • Vice City is the main city. Rockstar's site introduces the game with the heading "Vice City, USA."
  • Leonida is the state around it. The story is described as a conspiracy "stretching across the state of Leonida", so the map goes well beyond the city.
  • The leads are Jason and Lucia, who, in Rockstar's words, "have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America."
  • Rockstar has said the map is twice the size of GTA V's, as reported by Dexerto from Rockstar's launch details.

Is Leonida Florida?

Rockstar doesn't use the word Florida on its site. Everything it has shown does: Vice City has a Miami skyline, art-deco beachfront and neon strip; the trailers show wetlands, keys, a prison, a strip of hotels, swamp roads and airboats. Leonida is Rockstar's version of Florida in the same way GTA V's San Andreas was its version of Southern California, and Vice City stands in for Miami. Treat specific real-world matches (which county is which, which real towns are parodied) as fan interpretation until Rockstar names the places itself.

How it compares

  • GTA V (2013) was set in Los Santos and Blaine County, Rockstar's take on Los Angeles and its surroundings.
  • GTA: Vice City (2002) was set in a 1986 Vice City. GTA 6 returns to the city in the present day; it is a new map, not a remaster.
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 showed how Rockstar now builds regions as whole ecosystems rather than one city with outskirts; "stretching across the state of Leonida" points the same way.

When we'll know more

Rockstar's site is the source of record. Our Facts Ledger entry on the setting is updated the day Rockstar names new places, and the collectibles tracker will map the state once the game is out.

Sources

This guide was drafted by the HeistNotes desk with AI, from the sources listed above, and hasn't yet been reviewed by a named editor. Every claim is labelled confirmed, reported or expected. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.

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