Is Los Santos based on Miami?

Los Santos as in the 3D Universe, is based on Los Angeles, California.
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What city is Los Santos based off of?

Los Santos is a fictional city in the GTA universe, loosely based on Los Angeles and other California Coast cities.
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Which GTA was based on Miami?

Setting. The game is set in 1986 in fictional Vice City, which is based heavily on the city of Miami.
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Is GTA 6 based on Miami?

Rumors from July 2021, backed up by a few different sources, point to GTA 6 returning to Vice City. These claims say that GTA 6 will take place in a modern day version of the series analog for Miami.
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What is Los Santos Beach based on?

Vespucci Beach is a neighborhood in Los Santos that is modeled after a combination of Venice Beach and Santa Monica.
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Is Los Santos exactly like Los Angeles?

GTA V's Los Santos, which previously appeared in San Andreas, is based on the real city of Los Angeles, California. Countless landmarks have been replicated in-game to give the city a more authentic look, including one that won't be around in the real world for long.
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Is GTA 5 based on Santa Monica?

The Santa Monica Pier is another Californian location contained in the game. The majority of the places in Grand Theft Auto V that are based on real-world locations are from the state of California. The resemblance between the Santa Monica Pier and the Del Perro Pier is peculiar.
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Is San Andreas Miami?

The original game's map encompassed three cities—Liberty City (based on New York City), San Andreas (based on San Francisco), and Vice City (based on Miami)—but later titles tend to focus on a single setting; usually one of the original three locales, albeit remodelled and significantly expanded.
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What city will GTA 6 be in?

Aside from this piece of story information, he also claimed that GTA 6 will introduce Carcer City as a new location alongside Cuba and the long-awaited return to Vice City. Carcer City has been featured in Rockstar titles before.
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Does Miami exist in GTA?

Miami is a city mentioned in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Real-world Miami is used as a basis for Vice City in all three universes.
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Why Miami is called vice?

The initial idea was for a movie about a pair of vice cops in Miami. Yerkovich then wrote a script for a two-hour pilot, titled Gold Coast, but later renamed it to Miami Vice.
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What is Florida called in GTA?

The City of Vice, commonly known as Vice City or simply Vice, is a city located in the state of Florida, United States. The city is the setting for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
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What city is Sandy Shores based on?

Judging by its name and layout, Sandy Shores is based on the town of Desert Shores and Bombay Beach, both in California. Sandy Shores also shares some inspiration from Niland and Joshua Tree, two other towns in California (which are referenced on the city's street names).
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What is Paleto Bay based on?

Paleto Bay

Its design and layout are based on Fillmore, a town in Ventura County, California. To the west of the town you'll find the coniferous Paleto Forest, a hotspot for deer hunters, and Paleto Cove, a picturesque string of small, rocky islands.
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What city is Vice City based on?

Vice City is based on Miami. Originally called Grand Theft Auto Miami and a direct sequel (instead of a prequel) to Grand Theft Auto III (2001).
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What city is GTA 3 based on?

As a result, they redesigned Liberty City, which had been previously featured in the first Grand Theft Auto (1997), basing it loosely on New York City.
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What city is GTA 4 based on?

Setting. Grand Theft Auto IV takes place in 2008, within a redesigned version of Liberty City. The design of the city focuses on a recreation of four of the boroughs of New York City: Broker (based on Brooklyn), Dukes (Queens), Bohan (The Bronx), and Algonquin (Manhattan).
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Where is Carcer City based?

Being an extreme caricature of a Rust Belt city, Carcer City appears to have taken inspiration from Detroit and Flint, Michigan; Camden, New Jersey; East St. Louis with Chicago, Illinois; and Gary, Indiana.
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What is each GTA city based on?

GTA games are replete with fictional cities, many of which are based on real-life locations: Liberty City is based on New York City in the 2D Universe and HD Universe, and a mix of various cities (New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, Chicago and Baltimore) in the 3D Universe.
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Are the GTA stories connected?

However, the games within the same universe are connected.

Their narratives don't follow on from each other, nor do they share the same cast of main characters, but they're all a part of the same canon.
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Where is GTA 2 based?

GTA 2 takes place in a large metropolis only vaguely referred to as Anywhere City. The city is heavily stylized in a retrofuturistic design, displaying a contrast between a vivid color palette and advanced science fiction weapons and postwar architecture and transportation.
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Where is Compton in GTA 5?

Influence. The name is a play on real life city Compton, California, located within Los Angeles County.
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What is Blaine County based on?

Description. Blaine County has been described as "Barren, rundown desert region" that is based off of the destitute area around the Salton Sea (the Alamo Sea is the Rockstar Games rendition of the Salton Sea).
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