GTA 6 map size: how big is Leonida?

What Rockstar has said

Both ratios arrived on August 27, 2026, the day the Extended Look premiered. The New York Times reported that Rockstar described the overall map as three times as large as the playable area of Red Dead Redemption 2. The same day, Rob Nelson, co-studio head at Rockstar North, told the creator TGG that the map is roughly twice the size of GTA 5's and that Vice City by itself is about twice the size of Los Santos.

Nelson also told the Times that his own recent playthrough took about 80 hours, covering the main story plus some optional objectives that carry narrative consequences. The story length page has the detail. Art director Aaron Garbut's line to the Times was about density rather than acreage: "Every room in the game, somebody thought about this."

That is the whole record. Rockstar has not published a full map image, a square-mile figure or a size for each region, and because every number came through an interview, we tag them reported rather than official.

What "playable area" means

Rockstar's RDR2 comparison is about playable area. Rockstar did not define the term, but it usually leaves out unreachable ocean, out-of-bounds land (most of RDR2's Mexico) and decorative mountains that pad a game's raw map. That makes it a fairer yardstick than total map dimensions, and it means the 3x figure does not line up neatly with the fan measurements below, most of which count total area including water.

Unofficial estimates, labeled

Two warnings before you quote any of these. First, the fan numbers disagree with each other by almost double. Second, each measurer uses its own GTA 5 baseline: the Reddit method counts 49.3 km² of GTA 5 land, while estimates that include water start from a bigger GTA 5, so "2x" from one source and "2x" from another are not the same area.

If you want one sentence for a group chat: about twice GTA 5, with a Vice City that dwarfs Los Santos, and a lot of it is water and wetland you will cross by boat and airboat in Grassrivers and the Keys.

For scale: the old Vice City

Fan measurements put the 2002 Vice City at about 9 km² including water (Wikipedia's estimate is a little over 4 km²), and Vice City Stories reused the same map in 2006. The 83.2 km² land measurement of Leonida is roughly nine times the larger figure and about 20 times the smaller. And Leonida is a whole state built around a city that Rockstar staff say is twice Los Santos, with the Keys, the Everglades-style wetlands, a Panhandle town, sugar country and a national park around it.

Read Vice City through the years for the full lineage, the Leonida map guide for what each region holds, Vice City in GTA 6 for the city itself, and the full GTA 6 vs GTA 5 comparison for what else changed since Los Santos.