Where is Grand Theft Auto IV set?

2008 open world action-adventure video game

Grand Theft Auto IV (2008): 1 real place Wikidata records as its setting in the United States. Where the game takes place, not where it was made: a game is filmed nowhere, so this is the only kind of location it has.

Part of the Grand Theft Auto game series

See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data

Where it is set

Fictional places

Liberty City

United States

fictional city in Rockstar Games' video games series Grand Theft Auto (HD)

“Set in the fictional Liberty City, based on New York City, the single-player story follows Eastern European war veteran Niko Bellic and his attempts to escape his past while under pressure from high-profile criminals.” Wikipedia

Also per Danish Wikipedia's Locations section

Danish Wikipedia’s Locations section names 4 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Drawn from these real places

Nothing was filmed at these and the story does not happen in them. They are the real places this game’s setting was modelled on, named in its Japanese Wikipedia article. That is the weakest claim this atlas makes about a place, so it is listed apart from everything above and never counted as a filming location.

Streets & squares

Lincoln Tunnel

United States

tunnel from New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey

Places whose own article says it is set there

3 places whose own Wikipedia article names this game, where Wikidata records nothing and this game’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

Astoria United States

“The video game Grand Theft Auto IV—which takes place in a mock New York City named Liberty City—has a neighborhood named Steinway in the borough of Dukes, the counterpart of Queens in the game.” Wikipedia
Trump Tower United States

“A fictionalized version of it, called the Cleethorpes Tower, is depicted in the 2008 sequel Grand Theft Auto IV and its episodes The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony.” Wikipedia
Forest Hills United States

“The 2008 Rockstar Games open-world action-adventure/crime game Grand Theft Auto IV, which is set in a parody of New York City called Liberty City, features a parody of Forest Hills called Meadow Hills, located in the borough of Dukes, the GTA equivalent of Queens.” Wikipedia

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Frequently asked questions

How many places is Grand Theft Auto IV set in?

1 place recorded on Wikidata, and 4 places from a Wikipedia setting category, labelled per Wikipedia, all in the United States.

Which other productions are set in the same places?

Grand Theft Auto III (2001), Grand Theft Auto Advance (2004), Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (2009), Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony (2009) and 7 more, each listed on this page.

Was Grand Theft Auto IV filmed anywhere?

No. A game is filmed nowhere, so the places on this page are where its story is set, from Wikidata's narrative location and from Wikipedia's setting categories.

Where does this information come from?

Narrative location statements on Wikidata, and the setting categories Wikipedia editors file the work under, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is guessed from the plot.