On November 19, Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto VI, one of the most anticipated video games of the decade. The game takes place in Leonida, a fictional version of Florida, with Vice City standing in for Miami. But some of the most familiar scenery for readers around Lake Okeechobee may be far from the beaches.

Rockstar calls one of the game's regions Ambrosia, which it describes as the state's industrial heartland. Its official description is short and to the point: the Allied Crystal sugar refinery provides the jobs, and a local biker gang provides pretty much everything else. The in-game company's slogan is "Keeping Leonida sweet."

Players did not need long to make the connection. Sugarcane fields, a refinery, straight highways and a big lake next door: Ambrosia looks a lot like Clewiston. Rockstar has never confirmed it, but fans have been comparing the game's trailers and official screenshots with real streets, frame by frame.

Volunteer mappers at GTADB, a community project, have matched dozens of buildings to real addresses across Florida. Leonidakit, the free fan site I run, puts those matches on an interactive map. For Clewiston alone, it lists 17 real addresses.

Some of them leave little room for doubt because they appear clearly in official images. The US Sugar mill on Georgia Avenue shows up as the game's Sugar Mill, along with its warehouses and office building. The silo and tanks on Sonora Avenue are there too. Along East Sugarland Highway, fans have spotted the gas station at number 517, several buildings around numbers 543 to 602, and the building at 100 E Sugarland Highway, which becomes "W. Blanco's Cuban Foods" in the game. According to fan site GTA Wiki, the game's two main characters, Jason and Lucia, steal a car from its parking lot in one of the trailers.

The Clewiston lock on Lake Okeechobee and Pump Station S-3 on US-27 also appear in official media, although their in-game names are not known yet.

Other matches are more tentative. Hendry County Motorsports Park may be the game's "Ambrosia Raceway Park," a football stadium may be based on Cane Field, and an airfield may be inspired by Airglades Airport. For these, the position in the game has not been confirmed, and players will only know for sure once they can drive around Ambrosia themselves.

Why Clewiston? Rockstar has always built its games from real places, then bent them into satire. Grand Theft Auto V turned Los Angeles into Los Santos. This time the studio seems to have looked beyond the big cities, toward the farm towns and industrial corners that give Florida its character. For a town that calls itself America's Sweetest Town, ending up as the home of a fictional sugar refinery is quite a compliment, even if the biker gang is pure fiction.

Players will be able to see how close the resemblance really is on November 19, when the game comes out on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Until then, the full list of Clewiston matches can be explored on the map at leonidakit.com.

Téva is a business student at EDHEC in France and the creator of Leonidakit, a free, unofficial Grand Theft Auto VI fan site. Leonidakit is not affiliated with Rockstar Games.