Regions of Leonida

The dense urban centre and the part of Leonida everyone pictures first: a beachfront strip of Art Deco hotels, a downtown of glass towers, a working port and the causeways stitching them together. Rockstar's own description calls it the darkest side of the sunniest place in America.

A string of low islands trailing off the southern tip of the state, linked by long bridges over shallow flats. This is where Jason is living when the story opens, working for the drug runners who have used these waters for decades.

The wetland belt inland from the coast — a flat expanse of sawgrass, channels and hammocks where the road network thins out and boats start to make more sense than cars.

A coastal town well outside the Vice City orbit, with the worn-out feel of somewhere that had its boom decades ago: motels, boardwalk frontage and industrial waterfront rather than nightclubs.

Inland agricultural country — fields, packing sheds and the small towns that serve them. The part of the state that has nothing to do with the beach at all.

The state's national-park country: pine forest, elevation and hiking terrain, and the only part of Leonida that reads as wilderness rather than coast or swamp.