Which city is San Andreas?

The City of San Andreas is based on the city of San Francisco in California, and it is named after the San Andreas Fault, a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1,200 kilometers through the state of California.

Is San Andreas based on real city?

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).

What city does San Andreas take place in?

Los Santos is the largest city, both by population and area in San Andreas. It is based on Los Angeles, California.

Is San Andreas and Los Santos the same city?

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. Los Santos translates to 'The Saints', a play on Los Angeles, meaning 'The Angels'.

Where is the San Andreas area?

The San Andreas runs deep near and under some of California's most populated areas. The cities of Desert Hot Springs, San Bernardino, Wrightwood, Palmdale, Gorman, Frazier Park, Daly City, Point Reyes Station and Bodega Bay rest on the San Andreas fault line.

GTA San Andreas in Real Life

Is San Andreas in San Francisco?

San Andreas on the San Francisco Peninsula

The San Andreas fault is easily visible on the west side of I-280 from about Farm Hill Blvd. by Canada College north to where highway 35 (Skyline Blvd) takes off. It's marked by a long line of straight valleys and a distinct change in landforms and vegetation.

Why is it called San Andreas?

The fault was first identified in Northern California by UC Berkeley geology professor Andrew Lawson in 1895 and named by him after the Laguna de San Andreas, a small lake which lies in a linear valley formed by the fault just south of San Francisco.

Is Los Santos a real city in California?

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.

What city is Liberty City based on?

Liberty City, based on New York City, is one of the three original cities introduced in Grand Theft Auto. It is the first setting available to the player.

Is Los Santos basically 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.

Where is Vice City in real life?

The game is set in 1986 in fictional Vice City, which is based heavily on the city of Miami.

Is GTA V in the same city as San Andreas?

GTA V takes place in the city of Los Santos and its surrounding areas. Unlike GTA: San Andreas, the city will is the main area in the game, but will still be surrounded by countryside.

What city is Vice City based on?

Vice City is based on Miami.

What is San Andreas called in real-life?

The three cities of Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas, and the state, San Andreas, were all take-offs from the three real-life west coast major cities in California and Nevada: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas.

Will San Andreas happen in real-life?

No. Seismologist Lucy Jones says that the level of destruction is over-the-top (The Hollywood Reporter). New buildings are designed to be able to withstand large scale quakes, at least to enough of a degree that people would be able to escape.

What is San Andreas stand for?

San Andreas is an archaic variation of the Spanish language San Andrés (Saint Andrew, the apostle).

What city is Grand Theft Auto 3 based on?

Set within the fictional Liberty City (loosely based on New York City), the story follows Claude, a silent protagonist who, after being betrayed and left for dead by his girlfriend during a robbery, embarks on a quest for revenge that leads him to become entangled in a world of crime, drugs, gang warfare, and ...

Which GTA was based off New York?

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).

What real cities are in GTA 5?

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 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).

Is California going to break off?

No, California is not going to fall into the ocean. California is firmly planted on the top of the earth's crust in a location where it spans two tectonic plates.

What is the biggest fault line in the world?

The San Andreas fault line in California is the longest in the world. It sits between the Pacific and North American plates and measures 1300kms. The depths of these collision zones can range from 0-700km.

What cities will be affected by the Big One?

The 'Big One' is a hypothetical earthquake of magnitude ~8 or greater that is expected to happen along the SAF. Such a quake will produce devastation to human civilization within about 50-100 miles of the SAF quake zone, especially in urban areas like Palm Springs, Los Angeles and San Francisco.