Checkpoint Six/GTA 6 Map
Six regions revealed, one city everyone recognises, and a lot of confident nonsense in between. This page keeps to a simple rule: if a place is on it, Rockstar has shown it — in a trailer, a screenshot or An Extended Look. No leak maps, no guesswork dressed up as fact.
Grand Theft Auto VI is set in Leonida — Rockstar’s satire of present-day Florida, named with a wink at Ponce de León. It is not just a city with suburbs stapled on. The state Rockstar has shown runs from Art Deco beachfront to swamp channels where airboats are the only sensible transport, from a national park with exactly one cougar too many to a fading port town where the fun stopped decades ago and nobody told the residents.
That range is the point. GTA V gave you one city and a desert. Leonida, on what has been shown so far, behaves more like a country: six named regions, each with its own economy, its own light and its own kind of trouble.
The sun and fun capital of America
The most detailed city Rockstar has ever built, and the one place on the map everyone thinks they already know. They do not. The beachfront Art Deco strip is there, Ocean Drive is there — but the city that appears after dark in the footage is a different animal: high-rises, freeways, an international airport, and neighbourhoods the 2002 game never dreamed of.
Gateway to paradise
A chain of tropical islands strung off the mainland: bars, reefs, boats and marine life. Also, per the footage, Brian Heder’s boat yard — and the route every smuggler in the state knows by heart. If open water plays any real role in GTA 6, this is where it happens.
Wetlands with a long memory
Endless waterways, airboats, and wildlife that considers you an ingredient. The Everglades stand-in, and the kind of place where things disappear and nobody goes looking. Every GTA needs somewhere to lose a body; Leonida’s candidate is obvious.
National park, no rules
Streams, steep forest roads and muddy trails shared by kayakers, dirt-bike riders, deer — and at least one cougar. The first proper wilderness in a GTA since the Chiliad backwoods, and judging by the footage, built for off-road machinery rather than postcards.
Where the boardwalk ran out of luck
A faded resort-and-port town on the other coast: motels past their prime, a boardwalk that peaked in another decade, and an economy that quietly switched from tourism to things you do not declare. The footage puts race tracks and strip malls here — the Leonida nobody puts on a postcard.
Sugar-mill country
Industrial flatland around a working sugar mill: smokestacks, freight rail, canals cut in straight lines through the cane. It looks like the part of the map where jobs are done rather than taken — and where the trucks on the highway are worth following.
Nobody outside Rockstar knows, and every number you have seen is somebody’s extrapolation. The famous “twice the size of GTA V” line traces back to the 2022 leak — material we do not publish and would not build a map from. Rockstar itself has given exactly zero square kilometres of official figures.
What can be said from the footage: the state is dense where it matters and wide where it breathes, and An Extended Look showed seamless travel between city, keys and backcountry with no loading in sight. We keep the full size question tracked — alongside install size — on our file & map size page, claim by claim.
On launch day, Checkpoint Six opens an interactive map of Leonida with one rule the big map sites will never copy: it does not show you what you have not found. Every location is sourced and dated. Nothing unlocks until you reach it in your own game. No accounts, no subscription, no leak content — your first run through Leonida stays yours.