What cities are GTA 5 based on?

The game's setting is the fictional US state of San Andreas and city of Los Santos, based on Southern California and Los Angeles respectively. San Andreas was first used as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' setting, which featured three cities separated by open countryside.
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What cities are GTA based off?

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 is the GTA 5 map based on?

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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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Does California exist in GTA?

It is one of the three settings in Grand Theft Auto. The state from the 3D Universe is inspired by the real-life states of California and Nevada, comprised of fictional cities based on real cities in those states, these are: Los Santos (Los Angeles), San Fierro (San Francisco) and Las Venturas (Las Vegas).
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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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Where is gta6 located?

The game will supposedly take players on a short trip to another country, also at some point in the campaign, players will head to somewhere in Central America. The locations that the game is rumoured to be set in are: Liberty City (Limited Area)
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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 in real life?

Paleto is a Spanish slang word for redneck. According to Trevor Philips, it takes about four hours to drive from Los Santos to Paleto Bay. This is an accurate assumption, as it takes less than 8 minutes in real time to drive that distance.
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What city is grapeseed based on?

Grapeseed is a scaled down version of Bakersfield, California. However, it does take some influences from other areas such as Lamont and Grapevine.
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What is Mount Chiliad based off of?

Mount Chiliad is likely based on Mount San Jacinto, however it could also be based on Mount San Antonio and/or San Gorgonio Mountain.
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What is the real life Mount Chiliad?

Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness

Its real-life equivalent is the San Gorgonio Wilderness in the San Bernardino Mountains. It's a rugged and inaccessible landscape, with dirt tracks and gravel roads being the closest thing it has to roads.
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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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What is the Alamo Sea based on?

The Alamo Sea is located in Blaine County, which is in the desert region of the map in the game, and is located at the base of Mount Chiliad. The sea is based on the Salton Sea in Southern California.
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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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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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Is Miami a Vice City?

The game is set in 1986 in fictional Vice City, which is based heavily on the city of Miami.
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What is Del Perro Pier based on?

Del Perro Pier is a fictional place in the world of Grand Theft Auto V, but the location was inspired by the Santa Monica Pier. The Santa Monica Pier is another Californian location contained in the game.
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Where is Pacific bluffs in real life?

It is based on Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.
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Where is Red county in GTA 5?

The shore area near Rockshore West.
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Where is sandy shores airfield?

Sandy Shores Airfield is a private airfield located on Panorama Drive, southwest of the namesake town of Sandy Shores, Blaine County in the middle of the Grand Senora Desert. The airfield appears in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online. For most of Grand Theft Auto V, it is owned by Trevor Philips.
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What is Vinewood Hills in real life?

Satellite view of Vinewood (official manual).

It is bordered by Vinewood Hills to the north, Rockford Hills to the west, Downtown to the south, and the Tataviam Mountains to the east. It is based on the real-life Hollywood in Los Angeles, California.
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