Grand Theft Auto VI is already confirmed to return players to a modern Vice City, but a trail of older leaks and newer hints suggests the map may stretch far beyond a single neon-soaked metropolis. Among the most intriguing threads is the idea of a full overseas trip, with Cuba and nearby islands emerging as serious candidates for a major secondary location. As Rockstar Games keeps official details tightly controlled, the community has been piecing together clues that point to a far larger, more ambitious world than the trailers alone reveal.
Those clues range from early map leaks and insider claims to fan mapping projects that try to reconcile everything we have seen so far. Taken together, they sketch a version of Grand Theft Auto VI that treats Vice City as a hub inside a wider Caribbean playground, where smuggling routes, offshore islands, and even the Bermuda Triangle could play a role in the story.
The expanding map: from Leonida to offshore islands
Rockstar Games has already confirmed that the next Grand Theft Auto is set in a state called Leonida, a clear stand in for Florida, with Vice City as its urban centerpiece. Community breakdowns of official footage describe a map split into several distinct zones, from dense city blocks to rural backroads and wetlands, with the overall layout positioned as the biggest and most varied world Rockstar has built so far. One detailed analysis of the biomes notes that the geography is loosely based on Florida, which fits with the series’ long running habit of remixing real American regions into heightened playgrounds for crime and satire.
Beyond Vice City itself, Rockstar has already acknowledged locations outside the core metropolis. One report highlights Ambrosia, described as an industrial hub located on the outskirts of Leonida, full of factories and smokestacks and even pitched as a hotspot for illegal street racing. That kind of named satellite city suggests a structure where Vice City is only one part of a broader state, and it sets a precedent for Rockstar to push even further outward, potentially into offshore territories that mirror the real world Caribbean.
How an old Cuba leak refuses to die
The idea that Grand Theft Auto VI will let players travel to Cuba did not start with the latest trailer cycle. One of the earliest and most persistent claims came from insider chatter that pointed to a Cuban inspired island as a key part of the game’s world. A widely shared breakdown on social media notes that Cuba was previously leaked by insider Tyler McVicker, and According to the same thread, another leaker who correctly described story beats also mentioned an island inspired by the Bahamas. That combination of a Cuban setting and a Bahamas style counterpart has since become a recurring motif in fan expectations.
Video creators quickly seized on those hints. One analysis framed the possibility of a Cuban expansion as a natural extension of Rockstar’s own teases, arguing that based off leaks and a hint from Rockstar themselves it seems that we may be heading to Cuba in Grand Theft Auto 6. Another breakdown of early footage stressed how good the game already looks and asked what the final GTA release might resemble if those leaks about a second country sized map hold up. None of this is official confirmation, but the consistency of the Cuba references across insiders and fan commentary has kept the theory alive far longer than most pre release rumors.
Flags, islands and the Bahamas connection
The Cuba speculation gained a new layer when fans began poring over screenshots and marketing images for hidden details. One fan page pointed to a Cuban flag seen in a GTA 6 screenshot and, According to the same rumor, suggested the game will feature three islands, including Cuba, the Bahamas and a potential third unknown island. A separate community post echoed that structure, stating that GTA 6 is rumored to feature up to 3 islands inspired by Cuba, Bahamas and a potential third unknown island in addition to the mainland. The repetition of that three island structure, even across different fan channels, has helped solidify the idea of a multi island archipelago as part of the final map.
Those rumors also dovetail neatly with the real world geography Rockstar is drawing from. The state of Leonida is modeled on Florida, which in reality sits just north of Cuba and west of the The Bahamas, a chain of islands that has long been associated with tourism, offshore finance and smuggling routes. Another reference to the region uses the shorter Bahamas label, underlining how naturally these locations slot into a Vice City era crime story. If Rockstar wants to lean into drug trafficking, boat chases and cross border heists, a network of islands inspired by Cuba and the Bahamas is an obvious narrative fit.
Community cartographers and the Leonida Keys
While official information trickles out, fans have been building their own composite map of Leonida by stitching together every frame of footage and every credible leak. One long running mapping project on Reddit has become a focal point for this effort, with contributors constantly revising coastlines, highways and city blocks as new material appears. In a recent update, the project’s curator noted that they had, in entry [#259] and [#266], Updated the speculative named location from Gator Keys to the confirmed name, Leonida Keys, and Penciled in the speculative coastline around that area. That small naming tweak matters, because it confirms Rockstar is thinking in terms of keys, the same language used for the island chains off southern Florida.
Video breakdowns of the latest map reconstructions have described the 2026 version of the fan made layout as the biggest update yet, with one creator walking through all the changes to the Grand Theft Auto 6 map and highlighting how the coastline now suggests multiple island clusters. One such video, released in Jan, framed the new layout as a major step toward understanding how the final Grand Theft Auto world might be structured. Another clip, also from Jan, reiterated that we just got our biggest update to the Grand Theft Auto 6 map yet and used that as a springboard to discuss how offshore areas could be used for missions and exploration. None of these projects are official, but they show how strongly the community expects the Leonida Keys to act as a bridge between the mainland and more distant islands.
Old leaks meet new systems and a 2026 launch
All of this speculation sits against the backdrop of a game that Rockstar Games has already positioned as a generational leap. One overview of upcoming features notes that GTA VI’s map is shaping up to be the biggest and most varied that GTA has ever seen from Rockstar, with six distinct zones and a terrain system that can handle everything from dense city streets to swamps. Another video focused on new map locations describes an upcoming terrain system in GTA 6 brought to you by Rockstar Games, suggesting that the technology underpinning the world is built to handle large, varied landmasses and potentially far flung islands without loading screens.
On the business side, Rockstar Games has officially confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 6 is scheduled to launch in 2026, and other coverage specifies a GTA 6 Release Date of November 19, 2026. One guide notes that Currently, the official release window for GTA 6 is set for November 19, 2026, While the same piece explains that the game will launch first on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, with a PC version expected later. Another section of that guide, labeled Jan and focused on Technical Specs and Gameplay Shifts, highlights Platform Exclusivity for consoles at launch and underlines how much of Rockstar’s effort is going into next generation systems. That level of investment makes it more plausible that the studio would support a sprawling map with multiple islands, since the hardware and engine are finally aligned to make such a world practical.
