Every city featured in the GTA games

The Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series requires no introduction, being one of the most popular franchises over the world. The premise of the games is to place the player into an almost living, breathing world and telling a story through the eyes of a protagonist who has their own, fleshed-out backstory.

Though the games' stories are remembered quite fondly, often, we can see the in-game maps being the stars of the show. From barren deserts to tall mountains, from concrete jungles to vast oceans, the series' maps have been intricately and meticulously crafted to make the player almost feel like they're in an actual location. Here is a list of every location the many GTA games are based in.

From Vice City to San Andreas, here is every city featured in the GTA games

Across the series' lengthy timeline, five cities have been the host of the GTA games. Each city is a fictionalized representation of a real-life counterpart, except GTA 2's Anywhere City.

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Name of city/state	Games featured in
Anywhere City	GTA 2
London	GTA: London 1969/1961
San Andreas	GTA, GTA San Andreas, GTA V
Vice City	GTA, GTA Vice City, GTA Vice City Stories, GTA VI
Liberty City	GTA, GTA III, GTA Advance, GTA Liberty City Stories, GTA IV and its Episodes, GTA Chinatown Wars

Anywhere City

The only truly fictionalized map in the entire series, GTA 2's Anywhere City is the only location to be featured once across the entire GTA franchise. This setting is a futuristic metropolis and is completely unlike other cities featured across the franchise.

The Anywhere City was the last in the 2D franchise, and the last to have a "top-down" perspective. The city is divided into three districts, namely the Downtown, Residential and Industrial district. With Rockstar not having returned to the location since, it remains exclusive to GTA 2.

London

The English capital city was featured in two titles: GTA London 1969 and GTA London 1961. Both games were built on the same engine as the original GTA and they were, simply put, mission packs for the original game to increase the amount of available content for players.

This may seem odd in today's world of DLCs, but in the late 1990s, mission packs were a very common sight. London only featured twice across the GTA franchise, but is often remembered as being the only time the GTA games have ever been set in a European country.

San Andreas

It may surprise newer fans given how popular this location has become in recent past, but the state of San Andreas has only been the focus of three GTA games to date. The original GTA first featured the city of San Andreas, which was then followed up with GTA: San Andreas expanding upon the map and adding two new islands. GTA V popularized it by creating a whole island based on the state.

The first GTA's rendition of San Andreas purely focuses on the city of San Andreas, which was then modeled after San Francisco. 2004's GTA: San Andreas then divided the map into three parts: the concrete jungle of Los Santos, modeled after Los Angeles, the lush greenery of San Fierro, modeled after San Francisco, and lastly the arid Las Venturas, modeled in parts after Las Vegas.

The state of San Andreas is very popular (Image via Rockstar Games)

The most popular version, however has to be GTA V's state of San Andreas, with the city of Los Santos being the most popular attraction on the map, followed up with the countryside of Blaine County, Paleto Bay, Grapeseed, Mount Chiliad and many more. San Andreas is one of, if not the most popular locations in the franchise.

Vice City

Miami, Florida has been immortalized in videogame fiction as being the inspiration for Vice City. Laden with palm trees, beaches, coastlines, and neon hotel signs, Vice City is an unmistakable location across the GTA franchise. It has played host to four games: the original GTA, 2002's GTA: Vice City, and 2006's GTA: Vice City Stories, and is set to feature prominently in the upcoming GTA 6.

Landmarks of the city have included the ever-popular Vice Beach, Escobar International Airport, the golf course at Leaf Links, the towering skyscrapers of Downtown, and many more. With the release of GTA 6, the area of the map will be increased to feature the countryside of the state of Leonida, based on the real-life locations in Florida.

VIce City and the state of Leonida will feature in GTA 6 (Image via Rockstar Games)

GTA 6's release will mark the series' first visit to the fictional region in almost 20 years, and is likely the most-anticipated videogame, if not the most-anticipated piece of media, the world has ever seen.

Liberty City

The most-visited place across the GTA games has to be the fictionalized representation of New York and its neighboring boroughs, termed as "Liberty City" across the franchise. Six games have been set here, seven if the GTA IV DLCs are included as separate entries.

The original version of Liberty City, featured in every game except GTA IV and its DLCs, focuses on the map areas termed as the industrial district of Portland, the business district of Staunton Island, and upmarket area of Shoreside Vale. Liberty City also has the prestige of being the location of the first 3D game in the franchise, GTA III.

Liberty City has been the most-featured location across all the GTA games (Image via Rockstar Games)

GTA IV's rendition of Liberty City features the same types of districts; however, the industrial district is now divided into Broker and Dukes, and the business district is called Algonquin. A new location of Bohan was added in as a rendition of The Bronx, and Alderney was added in as a recreation of New Jersey.