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How Big Is the GTA 6 Map? What Rockstar Has Actually Said

On the community map Leonida measures about 17.4 km by 11.8 km, against 11.3 km by 7.6 km for GTA V's island. Rockstar has given no official figure.

By DuvalWirePublished 1 min read

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Added our own measurement of Leonida and of GTA V on the community maps. See history

A seaplane over the Leonida Keys in an official GTA VI screenshot.

Image: Rockstar Games · Image source. Responsive version; no content alteration.

Rockstar's Aaron Garbut told Game Informer that Leonida is the studio's biggest world "by some degree", and reports on the interview put it at about twice the size of GTA V's map.

How big is the GTA 6 map? We measured it. Watch on YouTube or TikTok.

We measured it on the map

On the community map of Leonida, the land runs about 17.4 km from north to south and 11.8 km from east to west. Measured the same way, GTA V's island is about 11.3 km by 7.6 km. Laid over Leonida at the same scale, the whole GTA V map fits inside it.

How we measured

Both maps come from the community project GTADB and share one scale in game metres. We measured the land from its northernmost point to its southernmost, and from west coast to east coast, small islands included. These are fan reconstructions, so treat the numbers as estimates, not official figures.

No official number

We found no square-mile or square-kilometre figure from Rockstar for Leonida. It didn't give one for GTA V either: in 2013 it said only that the map was bigger than GTA IV, San Andreas and Red Dead Redemption combined.

Our read

The measurement and the reports point the same way. Leonida is about one and a half times as long and as wide as GTA V's island, which makes its footprint more than twice as large. You can explore what's been mapped so far on our interactive map. We'll update this page once the game is out.

Sources

  1. Spong — GTA V map not so big after all (Published )
  2. KitGuru — GTA 6 map is twice as big as GTA 5 (Published )
  3. NME — Grand Theft Auto 6 map size (Published )
  4. GTADB — Community maps of GTA VI and GTA V (Observed )

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  • Opening Reported

    Rockstar's Aaron Garbut told Game Informer that Leonida is the studio's biggest world "by some degree", and reports on the interview put it at about twice the size of GTA V's map.

    Status: Opening · Reported

    Source details and history

    Why this status: Reported: a named outlet, store page or community source states this; Rockstar has not confirmed it in a first-party source reviewed for this guide. Statement is the exact body paragraph (link markup removed). Prepared from the source pages read on 2026-11-10; owner decision OWNER-GUIDES-20261110. Carried into r2 with a new claim ID; no earlier approval carries over. Owner decision OWNER-NEWS-20261113-MAP-SIZE.

    • KitGuru — GTA 6 map is twice as big as GTA 5

      Canonical ID
      www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/gta-6-map-is-twice-as-big-as-gta-5
      Accessed
      Last verified
      Reference
      KitGuru page text, read 2026-11-10

    • NME — Grand Theft Auto 6 map size

      Canonical ID
      www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/grand-theft-auto-6-map-size-gta-5-weather-animals-vice-city-3971544
      Accessed
      Last verified
      Reference
      NME page text, read 2026-11-10

    Reviewed by Milos Covilo on . Event revision r2.

  • We measured it on the map Reported

    On the community map of Leonida, the land runs about 17.4 km from north to south and 11.8 km from east to west. Measured the same way, GTA V's island is about 11.3 km by 7.6 km. Laid over Leonida at the same scale, the whole GTA V map fits inside it.

    Status: We measured it on the map · Reported

    Source details and history

    Why this status: Reported: DuvalWire's own measurement on GTADB's community maps of both games, which share one scale; a fan reconstruction, not a Rockstar figure. Statement is the exact body paragraph (link markup removed). Owner decision OWNER-NEWS-20261113-MAP-SIZE.

    • GTADB — community maps of GTA VI and GTA V

      Canonical ID
      github.com/rolux/gtadb.org
      Accessed
      Last verified
      Reference
      Map tiles of both games at the pinned commit 6acc1b5, measured by DuvalWire on 2026-11-13

    Reviewed by Milos Covilo on . Event revision r2.

  • How we measured Reported

    Both maps come from the community project GTADB and share one scale in game metres. We measured the land from its northernmost point to its southernmost, and from west coast to east coast, small islands included. These are fan reconstructions, so treat the numbers as estimates, not official figures.

    Status: How we measured · Reported

    Source details and history

    Why this status: Reported: DuvalWire's own measurement on GTADB's community maps of both games, which share one scale; a fan reconstruction, not a Rockstar figure. Statement is the exact body paragraph (link markup removed). Owner decision OWNER-NEWS-20261113-MAP-SIZE.

    • GTADB — community maps of GTA VI and GTA V

      Canonical ID
      github.com/rolux/gtadb.org
      Accessed
      Last verified
      Reference
      Map tiles of both games at the pinned commit 6acc1b5, measured by DuvalWire on 2026-11-13

    Reviewed by Milos Covilo on . Event revision r2.

  • No official number Reported

    We found no square-mile or square-kilometre figure from Rockstar for Leonida. It didn't give one for GTA V either: in 2013 it said only that the map was bigger than GTA IV, San Andreas and Red Dead Redemption combined.

    Status: No official number · Reported

    Source details and history

    Why this status: Reported: a named outlet, store page or community source states this; Rockstar has not confirmed it in a first-party source reviewed for this guide. Statement is the exact body paragraph (link markup removed). Prepared from the source pages read on 2026-11-10; owner decision OWNER-GUIDES-20261110. Carried into r2 with a new claim ID; no earlier approval carries over. Owner decision OWNER-NEWS-20261113-MAP-SIZE.

    • Spong — GTA V map not so big after all

      Canonical ID
      spong.com/article/30507/GTA-V-Map-Not-So-Big-After-All
      Accessed
      Last verified
      Reference
      Spong page text, read 2026-11-10

    Reviewed by Milos Covilo on . Event revision r2.

Event source grouping and references

4 sources grouped into this one event. Ordered by where a report came from, then by time. Order is not a confidence rating; each claim above has its own status.

Reporting

  1. Lead source

    Spong

    GTA V map not so big after all

    Published

    Supports: No official number

    Source details
    Source ID
    spong.com/article/30507/GTA-V-Map-Not-So-Big-After-All
    Accessed

  2. KitGuru

    GTA 6 map is twice as big as GTA 5

    Published

    Supports: Opening

    Source details
    Source ID
    www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/gta-6-map-is-twice-as-big-as-gta-5
    Accessed

  3. NME

    Grand Theft Auto 6 map size

    Published

    Supports: Opening

    Source details
    Source ID
    www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/grand-theft-auto-6-map-size-gta-5-weather-animals-vice-city-3971544
    Accessed

Community and other signals

  1. GTADB

    Community maps of GTA VI and GTA V

    Observed

    Supports: We measured it on the map, How we measured

    Source details
    Source ID
    github.com/rolux/gtadb.org
    Accessed

Every claim names its source; links go to the original publishers. The selected image is a local responsive copy of Rockstar Games artwork. Attributions

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  1. Updated ·

    Added our own measurement of Leonida and of GTA V on the community maps.

    Reason: The earlier version declined to give any size; the owner approved publishing DuvalWire's own measurement, labelled as an estimate. Updates published r1, whose claims, approvals and history stay unchanged. Owner decision OWNER-NEWS-20261113-MAP-SIZE. Update instant recorded when the revision was prepared for merging (2026-11-13T13:56:07Z). · Reviewed by Milos Covilo

  2. Published ·

    First published.

    Reason: Recorded on 2026-11-13 from the repository history: this revision was merged to the main branch in commit eeebc40 at 2026-11-10T09:55:39Z, and the site deploys from main within minutes. Owner decision OWNER-SEO-20261113-FIXES ("Yes go, fix this"). · Reviewed by Milos Covilo