GTA 6 Vice City: what Rockstar has confirmed

The short answer

Yes, GTA 6 goes back to Vice City. Rockstar confirmed this on the official GTA VI site. Vice City is the main city, and it sits inside a larger fictional state called Leonida.

What Rockstar has actually said

Rockstar’s official GTA VI site names Vice City directly as the central setting of the game. It describes the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and ties the city to the story of the two leads, Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos. This is not a leak or a fan theory. It is on Rockstar’s own site, linked at the bottom of this page.

Vice City is not the entire game world by itself. It is the biggest and most central place, sitting inside the wider state of Leonida. Rockstar’s official material also names several other destinations within Leonida, each with its own dedicated official screenshots and artwork.

Vice City and the state of Leonida

Leonida is the fictional state that GTA 6 takes place in. Vice City is its main city, but Leonida is bigger than the city alone. Rockstar has officially named these places as part of Leonida:

Place	What it is	Confirmed status
Vice City	The main city, the central urban setting	Officially confirmed
Leonida Keys	A tropical island chain, linked to Jason’s criminal work	Officially confirmed
Port Gellhorn	A worn down Gulf Coast area with cheap tourism and roadside businesses	Officially confirmed
Grassrivers	A wetland region away from the city	Officially confirmed
Ambrosia	An inland industrial area	Officially confirmed
Mount Kalaga National Park	A northern wilderness and national park	Officially confirmed

All six of these come from Rockstar’s own official screenshot and artwork library, each with its own dedicated set of images or a postcard. Rockstar has not published a full map, exact boundaries, a complete list of neighbourhoods, or the total size of Leonida or Vice City. Any page that gives you a precise size in square kilometres for GTA 6 is guessing, because Rockstar has not released that number.

A new Vice City, not the old one

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City came out in 2002, on PlayStation 2. It was set in a version of the city built around a 1980s theme, with a story about a mobster named Tommy Vercetti. That game is a fan favourite and a big part of why the name Vice City means so much to people who have followed the series for a long time.

GTA 6 is not that game rebuilt. It is a brand new title with its own story, its own two leads, and its own take on the city. Rockstar is reusing the Vice City name and the general idea of a neon, Florida-inspired city, not reusing the 2002 game’s map, characters or plot. Anyone expecting a direct remake of the 2002 game should adjust that expectation now. GTA 6 stands on its own.

The link between the two games is real, but it is a link of theme and identity, not of shared content. Vice City has represented Rockstar’s fictional version of Miami since 2002, and GTA 6 continues that same idea with a modern, current-generation game built around it.

Why Rockstar keeps returning to Vice City

Vice City has been part of the Grand Theft Auto series in more than one game. The 2002 title put it on the map for a generation of players, and its 1980s look, its music, and its story stuck with people long after the console it launched on stopped being sold. Rockstar has also referenced Vice City in other ways across the years since, which is part of why the name carries so much weight with longtime fans.

Bringing Vice City back as the main setting for a brand new mainline game is a different decision from a simple nostalgia nod. It puts the city at the centre of a full, current-generation Grand Theft Auto title, not a side reference or an easter egg. Rockstar’s official material treats the city as the heart of the GTA VI world, tied directly to the story of Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos.

How Leonida’s other destinations relate to the city

Vice City sits at the centre of Leonida, but the other named destinations each bring a different kind of environment. Leonida Keys is described in Rockstar’s own material as tropical and coastal, linked to Jason Duval’s criminal work and to a character named Brian Heder, who is described as a drug runner operating in that area. Port Gellhorn is shown as a worn down Gulf Coast area built around cheap tourism and roadside businesses.

Grassrivers is a wetland region, visually distinct from the dense streets of the city. Ambrosia is described as an inland industrial area, giving the state a working class setting away from both the coast and the city centre. Mount Kalaga National Park rounds out the confirmed list as a northern wilderness area, Rockstar’s official screenshot library includes six images specifically labelled for it. Together these six confirmed places give Leonida a range of environments well beyond Vice City’s own streets, even though Vice City remains the game’s central and best known location.

What is still not known about Vice City in GTA 6

Rockstar has not published a full city map, a neighbourhood by neighbourhood breakdown, or a list of every building and interior. Community made maps and guesses exist all over the internet, but none of them come from Rockstar, and they should not be treated as confirmed. This page sticks to what Rockstar has actually said and nothing more.

How this page stays honest

Every claim above about Vice City and Leonida traces back to Rockstar’s own GTA VI site and its Only in Leonida material, both linked below. Nothing here comes from a leak, a rumour, or a community map. If Rockstar publishes more detail about Vice City or Leonida, this page updates and the date at the top changes with it.