How big is the GTA 6 map? Leonida against GTA 5 and RDR2

Rockstar has not published the GTA VI map, or its area in square miles. What it has given is a comparison with its own games, and that is more useful than it sounds.

What Rockstar has said

The figures come from Rob Nelson, co-head of Rockstar North, the studio making the game. He gave them to the YouTuber TGG during the preview sessions Rockstar held in July, and VGC and Eurogamer have reported them Reported VGC Reported Eurogamer.es.

Comparison	Ratio
Leonida against the GTA 5 map	twice the size
Leonida against Red Dead Redemption 2’s playable area	three times
Vice City against Los Santos, the city alone	twice the size
The built-up area around Vice City against the built-up area around Los Santos	eleven times

In September a second Rockstar executive said the same. Aaron Garbut, head of development and co-studio head, told Game Informer, in the cover story of its November issue, that Leonida is twice the size of the GTA 5 map and by a distance the biggest Rockstar has made, with more detail and far more interiors Reported VGC. The whole story is in what Game Informer’s cover story says.

They carry a Reported label rather than Confirmed for one reason: Rockstar has not published them in writing on its own channels. Two people at Rockstar have said them, to a creator and to a magazine, and the press carried them. Two executives giving the same ratio separately makes it firmer, but it does not make it an official figure. If they appear in a Rockstar statement, we will upgrade the label right here.

How it looks to scale

On our map of Leonida, the equivalent size of GTA 5 and of Red Dead Redemption 2:

Compare with

GTA V Red Dead Redemption 2 Both

Estimate

• GTA V: half of Leonida's land.
• RDR2 (playable area): a third.

It is an equivalent area, not the shape of those maps: a square holding half (or a third) of the land in our drawing. And our drawing is our own and approximate, because Rockstar has not published the real map. What is exact is the ratio, which is precisely what Nelson said.

Why we give no square miles

Because there is no official figure. Rockstar has not given Leonida’s area, and the square-mile numbers going round for GTA 6 come from community reconstructions built from the trailers. Doubling a fan measurement of GTA 5 gives an estimate on top of an estimate. We would rather give you the ratio, which does come from Rockstar.

The six regions

Rockstar has named six regions, and published official screenshots of each Confirmed Rockstar Games:

• Vice City, the state’s big city, back in the series.
• Leonida Keys, the island chain to the south.
• Grassrivers, the wetland of airboats and alligators.
• Port Gellhorn, on the west coast.
• Ambrosia, inland.
• Mount Kalaga National Park, the forested north.

You will find all of them, with their screenshots and credit, on our region pages.

Places Rockstar has already named

The official Ultimate Edition page, describing what it includes, puts each item somewhere specific. They are the first Leonida place names Rockstar has published beyond the regions Confirmed Rockstar Games:

• Ocean Beach and Shore Drive, where the ’55 Vapid Stanier has its garage.
• Washington Beach, where the Squalo boat is docked, and Gambit Bay, to go fishing in it.
• Stockyard, with a clothes shop and a tattoo parlour.
• Watson Bay, home to the Paradise Garage.
• Lake Leonida, with an off-road mod shop.
• Southside, a Vice City neighbourhood.
• Mount Kalaga, for the mud buggy.

As Rockstar publishes more, we will place them on the interactive map, each with its source.

What is not confirmed

The counties. Names like Lummox, Leonard, Kelly, Vice-Dale or Mariana come from leaked maps and get repeated on forums as if they were official. They are not. That counties exist can be seen in an official screenshot, with a sign for the Ambrosia County Sheriffs Office, but that confirms there are counties, not what they are called.

The shape of the map. None of the maps going round is official. They are community reconstructions, some of them very thorough, all of them approximate. Ours is no exception: it is our own drawing to find your way around until Rockstar publishes theirs. That day we replace it and move every point on top.