How big is Leonida? The mapping project’s best guess

This is a Rumour Mill piece: nothing below is confirmed unless explicitly marked as such.

The claim

That Leonida is roughly twice the size of GTA 5’s map, comfortably the biggest world Rockstar has ever built. The figure gets repeated so often it is close to being treated as fact.

Where it comes from

The community mapping project: an impressively disciplined effort that triangulates every trailer frame and screenshot against known landmarks, road signage and coastline shapes to sketch the state’s outline. The method is genuinely clever, and its Vice City work has held up well against each new official release.

What is actually confirmed

The setting: the state of Leonida, centred on a modern Vice City, with official material showing keys, swampland and countryside well beyond the city. Rockstar has published no dimensions, no comparison, and no map.

Our heat rating: 2/5

The rating reflects the specific claim, not the project. “Bigger than GTA 5” is very probable. “Roughly twice the size” carries error bars that marketing footage cannot honestly close. We will map the real thing with the community from day one. That is rather the point of this site.