From hippies and Hari Krishna to gangsters and policemen, everyone wants a piece of the action on their own terms in this thriving, 23 hour a day city.' - Official GTA 1 website > Cities > San Andreas Seven major earth quakes have rearranged the city, and it sometimes feels as if the people know they are not here to stay. This harbor was formed by the geological fault line which will one day tear San Andreas apart.

The city of San Andreas grew up around the natural harbor to the south of the modern city. The area has subsequently become known as Soviet Hill. The dispute with the authorities ended when the Governor sent in a crack team of SWAT operatives, who rapidly ended the confusion. In 1968, hippie students occupied an area to the west of Sunrise, and founded a commune. Conflicts between Mexican and Chinese communities are common in the area, which also has long been associated with the peace movement. It has long been rumored that the Chinese control much of the organized crime on the west coast from a laundry in San Andreas's Chinatown, but no one has ever been able to substantiate these claims, although some have disappeared while trying. As well as Korean and Japanese populations, the city boasts the ninth largest Chinese population in a major city with a two word name anywhere in the world. Today, this is reflected in it's thriving oriental communities.

San Andreas, which expanded rapidly following the famous 'Fool's Gold Rush' of 1869, has long had ties with the orient.

Description: 'Old world Latin charm and new order Pacific rim technology live happily side by side in San Andreas, the city of the future.

Nonetheless, inexperienced visitors are advised to avoid The Park at night, when drug-addled squirrels run wild, keep out of Kings at day or night, and to avoid The Brix at any given time.'― Official GTA 1 website > Cities > Liberty City Yet, as the mayor's office spokesman says, 'Liberty City used to be a very violent place, but since we took office, it now has the 47th lowest murder rate of any cite on the eastern sea board'. Liberty City has acquired a terrible reputation for violent, organized crime over the years. From plague to city-wide bankruptcy in the 1970s, from new dawns to broken promises, these people have lived through it all, secure in the knowledge that as long as they have coffee in the morning and an easy buck to make, things can't be that bad. What really makes Liberty City, though, is the people who choose to live there. From the tragedy of Law Island, where a plague out break once killed a million immigrants awaiting transfers to the mainland, to the ethnic charm of Island Heights, to the galleries and sky scrapers of downtown Island City, there is so much to see and do. Whether you have lived in Liberty all your life, or are visiting for the first time, there is always something new to see. Founded on land bought from Native Americans for just $37, a barrel of mead and a sack of feathers by Belgian settlers in 1603, the ancient 5 boroughs of Liberty Island (incorporating Nixon Island and Law Island), The Brix, Estoria, Kings and Brocklyn have effectively been joined in the metropolitan area by urban areas from the neighboring state of New Guernsey. From the glamor of Island City to the down at heel bums of The Brix, this is truly the city that sleeps with one eye open. Glamorous and cynical, hard-edged and soft-livered, beautiful and damned, it is a city living on the edge.

Description: 'The so-called 'gateway to freedom', where millions of Europeans first entered the USA, is everything you imagined it could be and more.

Liberty City (right) and New Guernsey (left) in GTA

2D maps, which depict cities navigated through aerial view with simple graphics, feature rectangular ('squared-off') blocks and streets.

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