GTA 6 map size: about twice GTA V, per Game Informer

GTA 6’s map is about twice the size of GTA V’s, Aaron Garbut told Game Informer Reported. Rockstar has not given square miles Not confirmed. New here? Start here.

Quick answers

How big is the GTA 6 map?

Reported About twice GTA V’s, per Aaron Garbut to Game Informer.

Is there a square-mile figure?

Not confirmed No.

How many regions?

Official Six named regions.

Longread: Leonida, Region by Region: Where GTA 6 Takes You Now That It's Twice GTA 5

The GTA 6 map is about twice the size of GTA V’s, according to Rockstar North’s Aaron Garbut in Game Informer’s Issue 382 cover story, published 29 September 2026. That is a Reported developer statement printed by a magazine. Rockstar has not posted an area on its own site, and nobody has published an official square-mile figure.

What Rockstar told Game Informer about the map

Garbut, co-studio head at Rockstar North, told Game Informer that Leonida is the biggest map Rockstar has built “by some degree”, about twice the size of GTA V’s, with more detail packed in. VGC and Insider Gaming carried the line the same day. The magazine story itself is paywalled; the quotes here come from those outlets, so we label them Reported.

He also talked density, not just distance. As quoted by VGC: “We obsessed about every part – the rooftops, the alleys, the internals and everything in between to the point we hit a critical mass with the numbers of our interiors, and you start to feel the buildings are more real inside and out.” Translation for the couch: more doors that open, not just more road.

Twice GTA V is not a square-mile number

“About twice” is a ratio from a developer interview. It is not a surveyed area, and Garbut did not say whether it counts water, the Keys, or only land you can drive. So we do not print square miles or km². If a thumbnail says “GTA 6 map is 150 km²”, that number came from a fan, not from Rockstar.

Fan mapping projects have measured trailer footage for years, and their numbers are useful homework. The desk roundup of that work lives at the fan mapping piece. Treat those figures as Estimate. Rockstar also told The New York Times in August that the map is three times Red Dead Redemption 2’s playable area, another Reported comparison. The “Vice City is twice Los Santos” line does have a source: YouTuber TGG, after interviewing Rockstar co-studio head Rob Nelson, said “Vice City itself is twice the size of Los Santos,” as reported by SlashGear. That is Reported too, and it compares cities, not whole maps.

Six regions, now with Game Informer’s descriptions

The region list has not changed since Rockstar’s postcards: Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park. Game Informer added colour, as summarized by VGC: Port Gellhorn is declining tourist towns and cheap motels, Ambrosia is the industrial heart of the state with refineries and a biker gang, and Mount Kalaga leans on Florida–Georgia border culture. The full tour sits on the Leonida map hub.

What we still don’t know

• An official area in square miles or km².
• Whether the “twice” comparison includes ocean and islands.
• Whether more of the state opens after launch. Rockstar has said nothing about it.

GTA 6 launches 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

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Checked 14 October 2026: Rockstar still has not published a square-mile or km² figure Not confirmed. The six named regions are unchanged Official. Leaked map claims stay in the leak tracker, not here.

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