GTA 6 Vice City: every neighborhood, hotel and business Rockstar has shown so far

Vice City is back. Grand Theft Auto VI's big city is the glamour capital of the state of Leonida, and Rockstar sums it up in a line: a long way from the '80s, Vice City "is still the sun and fun capital of America."

Rockstar has named five parts of the city, its screenshots show four more names, and a handful of businesses and characters are tied to its streets. Here is everything confirmed before GTA 6 comes out on Nov. 19, with links to each place in our library.

Vice City at a glance

The city Rockstar describes

Rockstar's page for the city, headed "Everything in Excess," calls it the glamour, hustle and greed of America in a single city. It then walks through four places, and each has a page in our library:

• Ocean Beach: pastel art deco hotels and bright white sands. The Shore Court garage, part of the pre-order bonus, is near it.
• Little Cuba: busy panaderias. Rockstar hasn't described the area beyond that.
• The Tisha-Wocka flea market: known for bootleg brands.
• VC Port: which Rockstar calls the cruise ship capital of the world.

The Ultimate Edition adds a fifth: Southside Vice City, where you can raid the PTT Youngin$ gang compound for special items.

Names in Rockstar's screenshots

Rockstar's screenshots of Vice City show four more names, fully legible on the full-size originals. Rockstar hasn't described any of them in text, so what each stands for is unconfirmed.

• Ocean View Hotel: an art deco hotel whose pink neon signs light up a street at night.
• Hotel Dixon: its tall blue neon sign stands beside the Ocean View Hotel in the same street scene.
• Hotel Valetta: a white hotel with its name on its tower, on the waterfront.
• Sahara Arena: an arena with its name at its base, lit up at night.

Businesses in Vice City

• Shore Court: the personal garage in the Vintage Vice City Pack, which comes with every pre-order and purchase before Nov. 20. Rockstar says it has a weapon locker and space to stash stolen goods.
• PTT Youngin$ Illegal Goods Store: the Southside compound you can raid in the Ultimate Edition.
• Megamundo: a Spanish-language media company. In An Extended Look, Rockstar's 26-minute video from Aug. 27, Jason and Lucia work security at the launch of its first American headquarters in Vice City, according to Game Informer.
• Effluvia: a rooftop bar where Jason and Lucia go for cocktails in the same video, according to NME.

Who runs these streets

Boobie Ike made his name on the streets of Vice City, Rockstar's profile says, and turned it into a business empire of real estate, a strip club and a recording studio. In An Extended Look, the wealthy mogul Andrés is in the city for Megamundo's launch, according to Game Informer. The leads, Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, are tied to the rest of Leonida too: Jason lives in the Leonida Keys.

Vice City and Miami

Rockstar doesn't name a real city in its own descriptions of Vice City. Bloomberg Businessweek reported on Oct. 14 that the team's first research trip for the game, in 2015, was to Miami, and that the early plan for the map was later cut down to Miami and its surroundings.

Rockstar has also brought Vice City to Miami to promote the game. A "Welcome to Vice City" sign went up on the roof of the Kaseya Center in September, and the Miami HEAT will play as "Vice City" on Nov. 18, the night before launch. Our stories on Miami-Dade's debate over the promotions and the HEAT's Vice City night have the details.

The rest of Leonida

Vice City is one of six regions in Leonida, with the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park. Our map guide covers them all, and the map page lists every place Rockstar has named, region by region.

What isn't known yet

• How big Vice City is, and how much of Leonida it takes up.
• Whether all of it is open from the start. Rockstar hasn't said.
• What else is there. Rockstar has named only a few places, so most of the city will be new to everyone on Nov. 19.