The State of Leonida

Locations

Vice City and the counties, keys and backcountry of Leonida - Rockstar’s modern take on Florida.

The State of Leonida is the setting of Grand Theft Auto VI - Rockstar's fictional version of modern-day Florida. Its marquee city is Vice City, a Miami analogue, but Leonida is far larger than one city: it stretches from sun-bleached island keys through primordial swamp, forgotten Gulf coast, sugar-country farmland and a wooded northern national park. Rockstar has published descriptive copy for six official areas of the state, which is the framing to trust when reading anything about the map.

The single most useful thing to understand about Leonida is that it is organized on two layers that do not line up one-to-one. Rockstar markets the world through regions (also called "places"): curated biomes chosen for tonal variety. Underneath that sits a Florida-style county grid - Vice-Dale, Leonard, Kelly, Ambrosia and Mariana - which the community reconstructed largely from on-screen road signs, police badges and datamined map data. A region can span more than one county, and only a few county names have actually been seen in official footage.

This page treats those two layers separately and tags every claim with its evidence tier, because most other resources present the county map as settled fact when much of it is still inference. Everything here reflects the pre-release picture as of July 2026; the game launches on 19 November 2026.

Regions & landmarks

6 places

Area

Vice City

The neon-soaked urban heart of Leonida — a present-day take on Miami, and the base of operations for protagonists Lucia and Jason.

Area

Leonida Keys

Leonida's tropical island chain — loaded bars, easy living, and some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in the game.

Area

Grassrivers

Leonida's Everglades — a flooded wetland of sawgrass, mangroves, gators and airboats, and the untamable jewel of the state's crown.

Area

Ambrosia

Leonida's sugar-refinery company town, run by one factory and one biker gang, on the shore of Lake Leonida.

Area

Port Gellhorn

Leonida's forgotten coast — a decayed resort town where the tourists left and the crime economy moved in.

Landmark

Mount Kalaga

Leonida's mountainous northern wilderness — prime hunting, fishing and off-road trails, with hillbilly mystics living off-grid in the backwoods.

The county grid

This is where the evidence tiers matter most.

Seen in official footage (names confirmed, roles inferred):
- Vice-Dale County has the strongest case - a county sheriff/police seal reading "Vice-Dale County" appears during the in-game Mega Noticias newscast in Trailer 2, and county-road signage recurs in official footage. Miami-Dade to "Vice-Dale" is an obvious pun.
- Kelly County - the name is read off street/road signage in official footage.
- Leonard County - the name appears on a police vehicle in an in-game fictional social-media post shown by Rockstar.

Because these turned up in official material, the names are confirmed as shown; the boundaries and administrative roles are reported inference.

Community-assembled model (reported). Established fan wikis and press converge on a five-county picture with Florida analogues:

County	Position	Florida inspiration	Anchor(s)
Vice-Dale	South-east	Miami-Dade	Vice City
Leonard	East / north-east	Broward	Waning Sands
Ambrosia	North	Hendry	Ambrosia town, Lake Leonida
Kelly	North-west	Collier / Panhandle blend	Port Gellhorn
Mariana	South-west	Monroe	Leonida Keys, Grassrivers

The mapping is deliberately imperfect: real Monroe County is the Keys and Everglades, which fits Mariana well, but Kelly is a composite (its Panama-City-style Port Gellhorn is Panhandle geography, not southwest Florida). Rockstar compresses and rotates real geography rather than copying it.

Rumor tier. The name "Mariana County" leans mostly on datamined road signage rather than a clean trailer sighting, and the exact county count and every border come from community map projects. Reliable as a pattern - the equivalent GTA V fan map proved very accurate - but not canon.