GTA 6 Locations: Rockstar’s People and Places Explained

Grand Theft Auto V had one city and a hinterland. Grand Theft Auto VI has a state.

That’s the structural change worth understanding before November 19. Leonida is Rockstar’s fictional state — a world that stretches far beyond Vice City, and not simply Vice City with countryside attached. It’s a coastal metropolis, an island chain, a wetland basin, a collapsed resort town, an industrial interior and a mountain park, each with its own economy and its own page on Rockstar’s website.

Here are the destinations named in Rockstar’s People and Places material accompanying Trailer 2. For everything beyond the map, start with our complete GTA 6 guide.

The six regions

• Vice City — the metropolis
• Leonida Keys — the island chain
• Grassrivers — the wetlands
• Port Gellhorn — the faded coast
• Ambrosia — the industrial interior
• Mount Kalaga National Park — the northern wilderness

Two caveats before we go further, both of which get flattened in most coverage.

“Six regions” isn’t quite Rockstar’s claim. Six places have dedicated pages on the Only in Leonida site, which is where the number comes from. But Rockstar introduces them as a few of the must-see destinations across the state — phrasing that plainly leaves room for more. Other place names already appear in official copy without pages of their own.

And Rockstar has never said “Florida.” The word doesn’t appear on the official GTA VI site. Neither does “Miami.” Leonida-as-Florida and Vice City-as-Miami is how everyone reads it, and the geography backs the reading up completely — but it’s an interpretation, not a Rockstar statement. Worth holding lightly.

Vice City

The economic and cultural centre, and the series’ first mainline return since 2002.

Rockstar’s pitch is the glamour, hustle and greed of America in a single city: oceanfront high-rises, neon strips, cruise terminals, crowded beaches and container ports, all in the same frame.

Named districts and landmarks so far include Ocean Beach and Washington Beach (the Art Deco coastal strip), Little Cuba, the Stockyard industrial district, VC Port, the Tisha-Wocka flea market, and Watson Bay.

The city’s underworld is anchored by named businesses rather than gangs: the Jack of Hearts strip club, owned by Boobie Ike, and Only Raw Records, the label he runs with Dre’Quan Priest — home to rap duo Real Dimez. The Electric Fang tattoo parlour and Stock 305 clothing store sit in the Stockyard, both confirmed through pre-order listings rather than trailers.

Leonida Keys

A low-lying archipelago running southwest, linked by causeway bridges over open water. Rockstar’s framing is that life here isn’t flashy, but it’s easy — sitting on the doorstep of waters that are both beautiful and dangerous.

Visually: stilt houses, boatyards, marinas, jet skis, seaplane docks, turquoise shallows.

Narratively it’s where the game starts. Key Lento is home to the stilt house where Jason Duval lives rent-free courtesy of Brian Heder, and Brian’s Boat Works & Marina is the smuggling operation Jason works for alongside Cal Hampton.

Grassrivers

The wetland basin, and the most atmospheric thing Rockstar has written. The official copy calls it a primordial expanse and makes a point of the fact that alligators aren’t the worst of it — there are deadlier predators and stranger discoveries in the mangroves.

Sawgrass marsh, mud flats, winding water channels, airboats skimming over ground too shallow for anything else. Trailer 2 has a helicopter chasing an airboat across it.

What Rockstar has not confirmed: any survival mechanics, crafting, or animal AI systems. The gators are visible. What they do is unexplained.

Port Gellhorn

The most interesting region on paper, and the one nobody’s talking about.

Rockstar describes a former vacation town of cheap motels and shut-down attractions, with a replacement economy running on malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks. That’s a sharper piece of writing than anything in the Vice City copy.

Sun-bleached strip malls, the Starlet Motel, dirt bike packs, degraded coastal residential strips. Where Vice City is excess, Port Gellhorn is what’s left when the money leaves. Our Trailer 2 breakdown covers the footage.

Ambrosia

The inland industrial and agricultural core. The dominant landmark is the Allied Crystal sugar refinery, which Rockstar frames neatly: the refinery provides the legitimate jobs, and the local biker gang provides almost everything else.

Expect smokestacks, freight rail, agrarian tracts, heavy machinery and dry heat — the deliberate opposite of the coast.

Mount Kalaga National Park

Pressed against Leonida’s northern border. Pine and hardwood forest, rock bluffs, dirt trails, rivers and lakes.

Rockstar’s copy leans into the human geography rather than the terrain: the backwoods are full of hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals living well away from government attention. The site mentions hunting, fishing and off-road trails as things the park offers — though that’s world-description, not a confirmed mechanic. No hunting system, camping system or survival loop has been announced.

Named but not placed

Several locations appear in Rockstar’s official materials without dedicated pages or confirmed positions: Lake Leonida, Gambit Bay, Shore Drive, Paradise Garage, and Leonida Penitentiary, which Lucia Caminos’s profile connects to her past.

These are real, officially named, and geographically unplaced. Treat any map that positions them confidently as a fan project.

What the People and Places material does not establish

No map in these profiles. People and Places presents destinations through descriptions and images; it does not provide a measured world map.

No size figures in this material. These profiles give neither square mileage nor a comparison such as twice the size of GTA V’s San Andreas. The accompanying announcement calls this the series’ biggest evolution — a statement about scope, not a measurement. Community mapping projects produce estimates; they remain estimates.

No region-unlock information in these profiles. All six are presented as destinations, without specifying how access changes through the story or which interiors can be entered outside missions.

No enterable-building figures in these profiles. Place descriptions do not establish a percentage of accessible buildings.

And several “locations” aren’t real. There’s no confirmed theme park district. Liberty City appears in Lucia’s backstory, not as a visitable area. The South American landmass traces to abandoned 2018 “Project Americas” reporting. Vice-Dale County circulates widely but isn’t among the named destinations.

The bottom line

The structural bet here is multi-hub. GTA V pulled you back to Los Santos; Leonida looks built so that Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and the Keys can each hold a section of the story on their own terms.

The destination descriptions establish a varied state, rather than a measured map or a playable route through it. Netflix confirms that An Extended Look premiered on August 27, 2026 and is now available to subscribers; the presentation is no longer upcoming. For later announcements, see our GTA VI guide.

Correction — October 1, 2026: Updated the expired August 27 preview. This guide’s regional descriptions refer to Rockstar’s People and Places material, rather than a scene-by-scene analysis of the Extended Look.