What city is Los Santos inspired by?

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

What part of LA is Los Santos based on?

There are several areas in Los Santos, the major ones are Blaine County, Downtown, Little Seoul, South Los Santos, Vespucci Beach and Rockford Hills. Practically all are based on real-life neighborhoods surrounding L.A. like downtown Los Angeles, Koreatown, South Central, Venice Beach and Beverly Hills.

What is South Los Santos based on?

It is probably based on the real world South Los Angeles. The area also includes the well known Grove Street, which featured heavily in the previous incarnation of Los Santos but has changed significantly since.

Is Los Santos an exact replica of Los Angeles?

Does Los Angeles really look like Los Santos in GTA5? As many iconic locations and buildings are actually from/inspired by actual locations and buildings in LA, it actually does – but the scale is completely off. Think of it as a version of a super condensed version of LA.

What are the cities in Grand Theft Auto based on?

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.

Grand Theft Auto vs. Real Life

Which GTA is based off Miami?

The game is set in 1986 in fictional Vice City, which is based heavily on the city of Miami. Vice City previously appeared in the original Grand Theft Auto (1997); the development team decided to reuse the location and incorporate ideas from within the studio and the fanbase.

Is San Andreas based on California?

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas takes place in 1992 within the fictional US state of San Andreas – based upon sections of California and Nevada as seen in the early 1990s – which consists of three main cities: Los Santos (based on Los Angeles), San Fierro (based on San Francisco), and Las Venturas (based on Las Vegas).

Is Los Santos based on a real city?

Los Santos is a fictional city in the GTA universe, loosely based on Los Angeles and other California Coast cities. It is the setting for games like GTA SA and GTA V, and has many different sections, based on real life places.

Where is Paleto Bay in real life?

Paleto Bay

This rural town sits along the northern coast of Blaine County. With its stars and stripes bunting and independent businesses, it's the embodiment of small-town America. Its design and layout are based on Fillmore, a town in Ventura County, California.

What is Vinewood Hills in real life?

14 Vinewood Sign (Based On The Hollywood sign)

This one may not come as a surprise for players who have driven around the Vinewood Hills or the locations that look upon it. The Vinewood sign, as many may have guessed, is based on the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

What city is Sandy Shores based on?

Sandy Shores is based on the towns around the Salton Sea in California, such as Desert Shores and Bombay Beach. 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).

Which city is Vice City based on?

Vice City is based on Miami. This Grand Theft Auto game does not use a number after the title, as it is considered a "spin-off" from Grand Theft Auto III (2001), that is, a derivative game that is not part of the main saga, but is still official.

Is Los Santos based on Miami?

The City of Los Santos, commonly known as Los Santos, is a city located in the State of San Andreas, and it is the first city encountered in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It is based on Los Angeles, California.

Is Los Santos based on Compton?

However, it is still in the Los Santos metropolitan area, similar to the real-life city of Compton, California, on which the city is based.

How accurate is the GTA map to LA?

As many iconic locations and buildings are actually from/inspired by actual locations and buildings in LA, it actually does – but the scale is completely off. Think of it as a version of a super condensed version of LA. LA is vast, in GTA the city is tiny.

Where is Fort Zancudo in real life?

Fort Zancudo closely resembles the real-life Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, California. Lago Zancudo's marshy environment suggests that Fort Zancudo is also based on that of real-life Naval Base Ventura County, Mugu Lagoon.

Where is the richest place in GTA 5?

1 Rockford Hills ($1,900,500)

The most expensive place to live in all of Los Santos by real-world costs is Rockford Hills. Divided into two sections the northern half is where the rich live and the southern end is where they go to spend their money in shops and be seen by tourists.

Where is Trevor's old house?

Description. Located on a barren lot at Zancudo Avenue at the north-east of Sandy Shores, this trailer serves as Trevor Philips' primary residence.

Where is Grove Street in real-life?

Grove Street is most likely based on Spruce Street in Compton because of the cul-de-sac, the tree related name, the proximity to the city's river (in a separate location of the street), and that the Ballas occupy the area. In real-life, the Tree Top Piru set of the Bloods occupy the street.

Does California exist in GTA?

Multiple real-life U.S. states are featured in GTA V, on the wall of Sandy's Gas Station near Trevor's Trailer, in the form of license plates. The states included are Washington, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, and California (included twice, with different designs).

How big is Los Santos compared to a real city?

For reference, GTA V's Los Santos is about three times bigger than GTA IV's Liberty City, and is the same size of the vast majority of San Francisco, Manhattan, and the Greater Toronto Area.

What real life city is San Andreas?

San Andreas (Spanish for "St. Andrew") is an unincorporated census-designated place and the county seat of Calaveras County, California. The population was 2,783 at the 2010 census, up from 2,615 at the 2000 census. Like most towns in the region, it was founded during the California Gold Rush.

Does California look like GTA?

Unfortunately, as cool as that would be, no. Several Los Angeles locals who also happen to be fans of GTA V shared their thoughts on this in a Reddit thread asking the same question. The game is much more scaled down than the real place, so all of the roads are definitely not there, and neither are many many places.

Which city is GTA 6 based on?

According to the aforementioned Bloomberg report, GTA 6 is currently set in and around a fictional version of Miami (much like the previous game Vice City).