Where Is North Yankton Supposed To Be?

[@CYBERBOIUK]

North Yankton is the friends we made along the way.

[@notacat7127]

Okay so now I agree with other people this comment is definitely being overused

[@rivermagnanelliott3245]

It’s the gta 6 guy

[@pretcil8]

Get outta here!!!!!!

[@notacat7127]

@@Smallestbird-lf7zo what is a friend???

[@IsHazardous-reloaded]

@@notacat7127 its the guy who loves other people's moms

[@asais1024]

The naming scheme may not be because of Yankton, South Dakota, but because Dakota and Yankton both are native american tribes The North Yankton police uniforms and the police car designs are based off the North Dakota ones The real reason why Rockstar does not want us to explore it is because they don't want us to see anything unplanned - they scrapped the Liberty City DLC for 5, took down mods that added it into 5 anyway, they scrapped the Prologue DLC, took down exploits that allow exploring North Yankton anyway

[@asais1024]

Also the car plates simply say "Yankton" instead of South or North Yankton. Is Yankton one state or do they simply share plates? South Yankton is simply implied to exist given the real life situation but it'a not confirmed...

[@Dave_Albright]

There were no plans for Yankton DLC

[@morrison1292]

@@Dave_Albrightnoone said that, the prologue dlc wasn’t meant to be in north yankton.

[@delamain611]

It’s in the Midwest. There’s a beaver statue that shows that.

[@asais1024]

@@morrison1292 Michael's flashbacks in Bury The Hatchet say that the prologue depot is somewhere out of town, we don't know if it's in a different state

[@SkiesFFS]

North Yankton is a state, not a town. The town the prologue takes place in is Ludendorff, North Yankton.

[@Enzo187]

wow thanks captain obvious

[@SkiesFFS]

@@Enzo187 You're welcome.

[@peterg.8941]

​@@SkiesFFSyou must be fun at parties.

[@Ghosty09]

Yeah who coulda guessed that? It’s not like it says Ludendorff, North Yankton as the first bit of text in the fucking game.

[@kiomopo]

woah i watched the first ten seconds of this video too

[@omnikennylol]

6:13 to be fair, they downscale most Irl locations to the game. that's why we don't have a 1 to 1 recreation of Los Angeles.

[@just-tim4469]

That is mostly because the came came out on the xbox 360 and ps3. The game was already at its max for those consoles

[@pibaeater3454]

I mean, I get what your saying, but the population sign makes it pretty obvious

[@Bacony_Cakes]

It could also just not be the GTA universe equivalent of Fargo or Bismarck.

[@zacharyreynolds4303]

@@just-tim4469there’s that but then it’s also just a LOT of work to make a full scale replica city of a town like that. I don’t think GTA 6 will be a whole lot different, just because you want to make the map at least capable of being fully enjoyed and explored, and dense enough to have some cool things

[@bigmidget117]

That would be absolutely insane

[@yourlocalintercontinentalb9097]

The North Yankton police cars directly match up with the older 2000s North Dakota Highway Patrol vehicles.

[@yourlocalintercontinentalb9097]

The brown and yellow stripes, along with the seal on the door are very identical to the ones used IRL

[@EdgarLeon-e3t]

Sort of, the police cars are 1980s, the North Yankton State Police vehicle is based of the 1983 Chevrolet Malibu. But the livery Is spot on to North Dakota State Police in the 2000s.

[@OfficerJakeAwesome]

If you look at the North Yankton State Patrol cars and uniforms it is very apparent that they were closely modeled after the North Dakota State Patrol.

[@unknownninja4430]

licence plates made me think idaho

[@DeadPixel1105]

I always assumed it's supposed to be North Dakota.

[@ziggazaggar]

it is, in the story you hear dave indirectly mention north yankton when talking about how trevor found out how michael isnt dead saying “south of the canadian border”

[@gucciflipflopbleep]

for me i assumed it's an autonomous city

[@videogamebot1211]

@@ziggazaggar if you watch the video, you would know that south is a pretty broad term and you could also use it to describe south dekohta

[@ziggazaggar]

@@videogamebot1211 no, not south dakota because this is south of the canadian border we are talking about, not just south theres only a handful of states that could be used to refer to south of the canadian border and pretty much all of them are out of the picture, except for the ones that are in the midwest since its always mentioned that trevor and michael used to take scores in the midwest together

[@TheAurelianProject]

That’s because it is

[@ZacCoxTV]

I just learned two days ago that the inspiration for the Beaver statue is three hours from me in nowhere, Oklahoma.

[@JetroYT]

Wow yeah, I just seen that after a google search. Great find brother!

[@Zayne1013]

"nowhere Oklahoma." 😂

[@grantandersen]

It’s actually a WAY scaled down mix of Fargo, ND and Bismarck, ND.

[@thelocalFPSman]

Another thing to disprove that this was apparently rumored to be in Canada: The Police Vehicles have the markings of the North Yankton State Patrol, and Canada has Provinces, not States. So if this was in Canada, the North Yankton State Patrol would be referred to as the North Yankton Provincal Police. If the North Yankton Provincal Police didn't exist, then Law Enforcement would be on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to handle, and they would have responded to the Bank Robbery. I'm surprised no one realized this minor detail whenever rumors of this being set in Canada started to pop up, it would have been very perfect to bring up. (I'm a Law Enforcement Nerd, so I brought it up here.)

[@Florida_Cracker]

So it's basically a mixture of all three

[@Femboy2012]

Honestly they should’ve given us a North Yankton DLC like a complete overhaul of the place and make it a playable map

[@braixy642]

Well we almost got something like that, a North Yankton expansion was one of 8 singleplayer DLCs cut from the game, amongst a LC map expansion, Agent Trevor, Michael in a zombie apocalypse and so on. The reason everything got scrapped was because GTA Online was a big success, causing Rockstar to shift gears and concentrate on the online mode. I'm pretty sure the small town like layout on the map above Ludendorff was a location to be added with this scrapped singleplayer DLC

[@Umbralogy]

​@@braixy642don't forget Leslie benzies quitting and taking the dlc team with him

[@GJGamingBro]

@@braixy642 yeah, so much lost, North Yankton could've been such a interesting place to explore.

[@BigSmoke-ew5td]

Yeah they really fumbled hard

[@Pc118Gamer]

6:33 Bismarck wasn't "Some German Chancellor during WW1" Otto Von Bismarck was the Great Statesman who unified the German Empire from the ashes of the German Confederation! He served as the first Chancellor of Germany

[@Adusakful]

I died inside when I've heard that and immediately went to comments to see if anyone else noticed this travesty

[@Longshanks1690]

Also he died years before and his being removed from office was one of the more long term factors that contributed to WW1. Not even counting his almost prophetic warning about “some damn foolish thing in the Balkans.”

[@watchf]

What’s the difference between

[@piercebunge4297]

yeah Im with the other guy. This disrespect to history makes me die inside

[@backtothefutureman1]

And he died nearly 2 decades before the war happened in 1898.

[@Gta_xbox_tryhard]

Rockstar always patching harmless gltiches it’s like rockstar is hiding something there they don’t want us to know about

[@ghostymotion0000]

Yes its called “fun” and rockstar doesn’t like it thats why we cant explore north yankton or cayo perico or have an easy way to put on multiple clothing items at once in real life its incredibly simple to put on a hat glasses and mask but in gta its not

[@princerawat4297]

​​@@ghostymotion0000if they didnt liked "FUN", they wouldnt be making games for us in the 1st place and especially not the high standards above the gaming industry ones, they would be like ubisoft making same games not putting effort and just trying to grab money, while r* does do tht with Gta online, but its the least of wt some other companies does, and they still never forget their priority of making Exceptional single player experiences, and dont forget all tht money ensures us tht their next game is also High quality and they dont need to worry abt releasing a half assed game every single year with no effort like ubisoft

[@novi-t3c6]

Its weird how they patch harmless glitches like those instead of doing something against modders on pc

[@i-ate-bread]

​@princerawat4297 stop glazing a corporation

[@ghostymotion0000]

@@princerawat4297 completely missed the point that i was talking about issues in game not making a game but ok get worked up about it 🤷‍♂️

[@familygash7500]

Otto Von Bismarck was The German Chancellor until 1890, and he died in 1898; he was not a World War I Chancellor. And also, Ludendorff can't be based off of Bismark, since the former is only a small town like Paleto Bay, whilst the latter is a pretty big city (in fact it's the state capital of North Dakota, as well as the state's most populous city (only behind Fargo)). But, on another note: perhaps the state of South Yankton has a city named Dakota in it. And, one more thing: excluding mountains, I don't think that there's anywhere in America, or even The World for that matter (besides The North and South Poles), where it's snowy all year-round like it seems to be in North Yankton.

[@piercebunge4297]

When is it indicated that it is snowy all year round?

[@TheRealMaruki]

Bro forgot about Alaska

[@JoFoh]

You did not just call Bismarck „some“ german chancellor 😂

[@winolaautomotive1131]

Nice video! Very thorough and yet to the point. North Yankton represents the state of North Dakota. Ludendorf most likely represents a small town in the northern part of the state close to the border with Canada, which is how Trevor comes into the picture. I would also venture to guess the fictrional town of Ludendorf is modeled after the real town of Dunseith based on the Germanic names of the towns respectively along with the physical locations. Also, Ludendorf has the beaver whereas Denseith has a giant turtle. Some elements such as the Fargo theater were added in for some extra flair since after all it is a video game.

[@easkateman]

The way Rockstar games brains work with small towns - is usually geographical similarities. So they would use the Dakota Territories Capitol - Yankton, as the basis for the name North Yankton. South Yankton, would indicate it was in South Dakota. North, in the North. Yankton, is the bridge between the two - just like how they combine car brands into one, it really helps for "alternate reality" reasons. A big plot point, is the story Trevor tells Lamar while Franklin sleeps, on the way to Paleto Bay with the cars. This is in the mission "Pack Man" - Trevor vividly describes his first job where he met Michael, and the Boss they were working for. Airports in the middle of no where, are common up here in North and South Dakota. Especially Airports that seem to move "freight" and only freight. During this encounter, Trevor talks about how he shoots their old boss in the eye with a Flare Gun. They had to "Drop him in a lake, on the way" (to Canada) "the plane never smelt the same since" - Now when we imagine North and South Dakota, South Dakota does not have lakes (that border any borders) Northern North Dakota (where I am from) has the Turtle Mountains, an Indian Reservation, that has *VAST* lakes, bushland, hills, and trees. We have a lot of unsolved murders up here, and we also have many many stories of crimes like this happening, while low flying aircraft fly over the Canadian Border and the Snow Mobiles run through the mountains at night also smuggling illicit cargo, during the Winter months. It's due to these similarities, that I believe North Yankton takes place in North Dakota, due to the vast wilderness and terrain we do not share with South Dakota. We also have to remember Trevor is a Canadian citizen, that grew up directly south of the Canadian Border. Thus, canonically connecting the dots that they smuggle freight in and out of Canada utilizing the vast Northern Wilderness. Also, when you are in Bismarck - you will look off towards the south and see the VAST hills of the Badlands - which are visible in Ludenorff as well We also have a big meth problem up here. Just like Bully, they won't be clear where exactly it takes place. That way, any small town individual from the northern midwest feels they have a "place in their hearts" with this story. Last example - ND 2004 State Patrol vehicle had a Native American headdress while the one in GTA V North Yankton, has a Buffalo head while sporting the same exact pattern and colors.

[@jthmn]

Respectfully, for those who live in the Midwestern United States and have made your way out to rural areas, you knew the answer to this video from the very start. I’ve been to so many small towns in the midwest while just passing through that I could easily name like 20 towns that have nearly identical layouts to North Yankton. They almost all look the same just with minor differences here and there.

[@zacharyreynolds4303]

thank you, i grew up in Pennsylvania and even I knew as a teen when playing this game, it’s not any particular town, it’s just a town meant to looks like it was along the Canadian border and fit the vibe of anywhere in that part of the midwest. Minnesota, ND, iowa etc. all look like this in winter in small ass towns.

[@awvee]

5:02 NO ITS NOT. Parts of Ontario are literally south of the US. Detroit, Michigan directly north of Windsor, Canada, across a river.

[@XIVSaints]

South Dakota native here, been to Yankton, very pretty place. Would be very cool to hear it’s based on Yankton for sure

[@the1waffle4all72]

Keep in mind that canonically, GTA 5's story mainly takes place in only one of the southern islands of the State of San Andreas. The scope is insane.

[@victorrt]

1:24 "The only reason is because of two reasons" hahaah

[@WTFJOYA]

I always assumed because the town was covered in white snow, that it was cleverly meant to be pronounced “Yanked On”.

[@RYYDERx]

i live in south dakota, and ive been to yankton and ill say the vibe is very similar. Very cool to think that rockstar picked the little spot near where i live to start one of the most iconic games. wild

[@george-nb8yn]

The funniest part is that they patched the fresh meat replay glitch but its still possible i just forget how i did it, it makes you able to play the whole prolouge but you cant fail the mission

[@savagepanda8458]

6:35 Bismarck died long before World War I.

[@GamingRoadkill]

7:38 it’s just the correct answer

[@natahndolar2142]

2:48 I’ve finally realized what Dave meant after 11 years of this game being out. “Feeding worms” is referred to his corpse decomposing underground.

[@madhunter6420]

Saving you 8 minutes : North Dakota

[@Felipe_G_edits]

Spoiler

[@DropsOfMars]

Sometimes it's about the journey and not the destination, Hunter.

[@niratsirackod1]

I am here for the explanation not the answer.

[@Mrmonkeee]

This is why I don’t like to look at comments, full of spoilers.

[@ldiothunter6349]

Legend

[@TooMuchSascha]

This is fucking insane because literally this morning I saw a video of that scene in North Yankton, then asked myself "I wonder what state that's supposed to be?" Then I didn't google it, went about my day, and here I am at this video that just dropped. Shit's weird.

[@marius2361]

0:50 while they did patch the playlist method, it is still possible to visit North Yankton and best part about it? In actual freemode not in a job. But it is not a feasible method as that one requires you joining someone who has an account in Bad Sport. Attempting to join that person will kick you back in the session but will keep half of the North Yankton’s map loaded in (like it was the case with the playlist method)

[@Ghosty09]

There’s a glitch you can use it’s on some channel I forget the name you have to play bury the hatchet as Trevor and have the interaction menu open and when the screen goes black to teleport you to north Yankton you have to like close the interaction menu so Trevor dies and then you can go into director mode and north Yankton will be loaded in

[@JackMarston.1895]

Just use anawack goofy 😂

[@Shadow_Dragon232]

Rockstar secretly wants Mega Dakota to exist that's why is combined North and South Dakota my theory

[@ryACE]

I live in Minot North Dakota and Bismarck is just about a 2 hour drive. So cool knowing that lol

[@octatharva09]

Hey Jetro ! Its amazing to see new gen GTA-related KZbinrs like you coming out !! Excited to see future vids,Good Luck & Love from India ! Subbed !!

[@seahawk124]

"The breaver is the national animal of Canada." "...It's a noble creature..." - HIMYM

[@johntexas6989]

0:35 kinda looks like blackwater from rdr

[@MyAccount217]

8:31 voice crack

[@Chipstick9000]

Lmaoo 😭😭

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaqqqqqqwwaa]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pillagergaming]

the prologue probably takes place in late december 2003 and the main story takes place in september 2013

[@DoomsDave.]

in the state of tranquility

[@byever1]

North Yankton is in the land of where the groundhogs roam.

[@Milty2001]

Everytime I think about north Yankton I just hear the bury the hatchet soundtrack play in my head.

[@skvader4187]

Calling the person who unified all of the German states into a single nation "some German chancellor" is ridiculous. One of the most important people in history in my opinion.

[@koolaid33]

It wouldn't be the first time Rockstar made a GTA game include two states kind of mashed into one. GTA 4's Alderney IS supposed to be a separate state, representing New Jersey and it's proximity to New York, however if you were casually playing GTA 4 you wouldn't even likely notice because their basically one connected city, like when Berlin was split down the middle into two countries till the 80s. They look and operate almost the exact same, LC buses don't change in Alderney along with most services from Liberty City carrying over. They basically mashed New Jersey and New York into a single state.

[@Crzypengu]

Finally the GTA Video I've been waiting for my whole life

[@CartDaBoss44]

I can confirm we here in “midwestern canada” do not refer to it as “midwestern canada” lol

[@OfficialOpinion]

Who would have guessed a location in GTA is made up of general concepts and ideas from a very wide area with some landmarks thrown in!?

[@FutureNostaliga]

I'm definitely not the first to think of this but what I came up after watching this video is that North Yankton may not be an actual state, but rather a region of a state named Yankton due to the in game license plate simply saying "Yankton". It could be a popular term to describe that portion of the state, kinda like how people say "Upstate New York" to refer to northern New York. Also if it is just one state, then it would perfectly fit into the Yankton nickname referring to when it was the capital of the Dakota territory before it was split into 2 states. So the place being a blend of North Dakota and South Dakota would make alot of sense.

[@Combine_elite3651]

People always say “ where is north Yankton” but never “How’s north Yankton”😔

[@scarletkinkajou1]

The very fact there are videos like this surrounding the story of the game is a sure sign of a certified hit. Only a handful of games elicit this sort of attention. 😊

[@Ghosty09]

There’s tons of games that have videos like this. Jetro just focuses on gta

[@RomeinG.1918]

Just judging by the nomenclature of locations in GTA games since the turn of the century, Ludendorff, North Yankton is probably meant to be the GTA version of Bismark, North Dakota.

[@jakobh6257]

Another great video, thank you

[@JetroYT]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@masterchief272]

It makes sense since at the time, Rockstar would mishmash stuff together. Just look at any base game vehicle that came out in GTAV during launch.

[@Madsaint55]

they probably just fused north dakota and south dakota together into one state

[@niratsirackod1]

Just like San Andreas state being a mixture of California and Nevada.

[@cortez1203]

I want a GTA game in North Yankton maybe in GTA 7 We learn Brad had three sons and they learn who their father was and what he did and they carry on his legacy in North Yankton.

[@ZAYMANGAMESTUDIO]

When I watched this vid, I knew I would come across with your answer. The mix up of both.

[@IBCSRacingNetwork]

Love the video I didnt know this until now. I was born in Fargo ND so that's awesome I'd love to see R* do a parody HD city based on Minneapolis MN

[@Nasrul260]

I watched the whole video thinking "it has to be a mix of all three" and to my surprise I was correct! Glad that the mystery has finally been solved, although it still doesn't explain why Rockstar would constantly prevent us from going there in both freeroam and online xD

[@NightPetal]

7:25 Forgot the cars, Google “North Dakota State Patrol Ford Crown Victoria” (a popular police car 1992-2011) and tell me you don’t see the similarities

[@KyushaNeverKnowsBest]

It makes sense because rockstar also makes lore friendly cars by mixing elements of many different ones

[@blazecharger1460]

Red deads maps are kind of a overall amalgamation or Vibes of a certain area or areas so would be surprising if they just mix and match from real life

[@ajw20]

From a history standpoint, it would make sense to me that in the GTA universe, the Dakota territory was instead named the Yankton Territory, (since it is actually a plausible name.) So the state itself is probably the geographic equivalent to North Dakota in-universe, but borrowing some elements from real life South Dakota as well

[@Zayne1013]

It took him 7 minutes and 23 seconds to say something that I had already figured out at around 2 minutes into the video. I guess you've got to make money on KZbin somehow. At least this wasn't entirely clickbait, it's just a random topic, so this guy is already better than most GTA V KZbinrs.

[@Zayne1013]

Ok, so figuring it out 2 minutes into the video is an exaggeration. But still, as soon as he started pointing out that similarities to both places are present, that's when I figured it out.

[@Kaisersaurus]

North Dakotan from Bismarck Here. I can confirm we have patches that prevent exploring here

[@StrumpaN_]

3:48 Did you just say Wrongstar? :D Haha

[@dyoung1998]

It's kind of wild when you think about it. Rockstar made a whole new map/town for only ONE mission, but never released a story-mode DLC.

[@vinchin8486]

*two missions ☝🤓

[@dyoung1998]

@vinchin8486 what is the second mission in story mode?

[@vinchin8486]

@ idk the name of it, but when Trevor snaps and finds out who’s in Michael’s gave, then a shootout at the cemetery as Micheal

[@Mike_Nowlan]

I’m glad I was able to do the glitch before it was patched. There wasn’t much to see since the whole map of North Yankton wasn’t loaded in but it was still cool.

[@ItzzzBeamo]

The one thing that confused me with the Yankton plates are that for San Andreas, the game modeled both civilian plates and state/municipal plates. However for North Yankton both civilian and police vehicles use the same plate. I don’t know how easy it is to look up what Municipal plates looked like for either of the Dakotas in the mid 2000’s, or if that would even serve as any more beneficial context. I’d assume they only did one plate in the game for the sake of brevity and simplicity.

[@scamwicks6774]

I immediately also looked up what the North Dakota and South Dakota plates looked like, because Rockstar USUALLY portrays these things quite well. It's technically a South Dakota State Trooper Plate. It looks FAIRLY similar to a North Yankton Plate if you ask me! I also believe its a mix of ND & SD because that's also something Rockstar is known to do. Shrink irl locations, etc.

[@dro3m]

One thing that made me knew that North Yankton wasn't based in Canada is how would the witness protecting Michel have worked if he did his crime in another country, and how would he have ties with the FIB.

[@MrMirofl]

Great video!

[@JetroYT]

Thanks!

[@Rusty.Shackleford1098]

Sounds like Yankton, Bismarck and Fargo are the only places someone that would work for rockstar would fly into.

[@bluedan4306]

Your channel us new but its so good wow keep it up!

[@JetroYT]

Thank you dude, glad your enjoying it!

[@nkjellman]

Pretty interesting video. I'd honestly argue that the state Ludendorph is in is Yankton and when they say "North Yankton", it's like saying "South Florida". Effectively, it's like North Dakota and South Dakota are one state. Though it's also weird with GTA IV's Liberty City. Alderney is in another state, yet the cops there have LC cars, and Gerry is sent to prison in Alderney rather than Liberty State. It's also like how in GTA SA, Las Venturas is technically still in San Andreas, even though Las Vegas is in a separate state from Las Angeles and San Francisco.

[@FrancyStyles]

I think that as R* likes to put various types of car models in one in the new releases on gtao they did the same with north yankton

[@retr0sfunkadelix]

It’s Fargo North Dakota, based on the major theatre in the game, but the name (Ludendorff) is a reference to Bismarck

[@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R]

I don't think they limit access because it's not accurate, but because it's a tiny space with low-poly models at the edges and missing collisions

[@yerunski]

Was hoping for some clues how to get there in the game. It looks really nice and good to explore a new place 🙂

[@mxsked_SD]

North yankton is south and north dakota mixed while also being on the south of the canadian border INgame while also having some hints of fargo

[@ThomasDonnelly1888]

Dave also probably wouldn't have been rewarded for taking down the famous Michael Townley if the job was in Canada, I doubt its the FIB's jurisdiction.

[@matej4496]

Compare the North Yaknton State Police cars from the first mission of story mode with the North Dakota State Police cars from the 1980s.

[@GJGamingBro]

it's exploration is a cut content, originally there are voice lines for protagonists to ask taxi driver to drive to North Yankton.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

6:31 as a history fan, it hurt to hear that. Bismarck was the first German chancellor. The king of Prussia put him in charge of foreign policy and over the course of a few decades he managed to unite Germany. I’m oversimplifying though. Also the town is called that due to the large number of German emigrants that settled there in the 19th century

[@alkhoaja]

North Dakota, there, saved you 8 minutes and 44 seconds, sorry for any offense I know if y’all wanna watch the video.

[@RAMMAN983]

And it’s always snowing 🥶

[@slendytheman]

I have a feeling this would've been an awesome DLC that was canceled...

[@BennyHyena]

It's Bismarck. I know it's Bismarck, because if you look at Bismarck on a road map and put it side-by-side to the map of Ludendorff in the pause menu, it looks uncannily similar in its layout. In fact, the road Michael drives on in Bury the Hatchet mirrors a highway going east and west right by the town.

[@TheAurelianProject]

Also the fact that both Bismarck and Ludendorff are names for famous German leaders

[@arthurfleck629]

Everybody always asks “where” North Yankton is, nobody ever asks “how” North Yankton is 😔

[@hsuuta8036]

I live in North Dakota and the amount on snow that’s in Yankton is accurate to ND weather

[@clockwork3494]

It's likely that Ludendorff is implied to be either ND or SD, maybe even bordering the two, but that's as close as we can really get to a definitive answer. It's fun to theorize about this stuff but I don't think there's any reason to go crazy in detail over it when the simple answer is R* found and took inspiration from multiple places (like the Fargo Theatre), put them all together and made a quick map for the prologue. Because of this there simply isn't a definitive answer as to where the town is and due to R*'s nature of parodying yet not making 1:1 copies, it's simply just a place with sprinkles of real inspiration mixed in with completely fictional elements like the beaver.

[@wesm6121]

If you look at the Fargo sign, the top of it is the exact same structure. It looks like a crane holding it up.

[@CoasterMan13Official]

It'd be funny if GTA VI had a town based off of a small town in GA (Covington, maybe Statesboro or maybe even Valdosta,) that was explorable and everything similar to Blaine County in GTA 5.

[@thatboiv1812]

He forgot to mention the North Yankton State Troopers uniforms match the ND State Troopers uniforms, specifically the patches.

[@therwfer]

Ah yes, the famous WW1 chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who died 16 years before WW1. (Just nitpicking, liked the video)

[@pumpapaj8977]

Before watching the video - I always thought of Ludendorff, North Yankton to be analogous to Bismarck, North Dakota. City names follow the same theme - German Empire statesmen. And it’s more likely to be North Dakota than North Carolina with that climate.

[@noco7243]

It's clearly an amalgamation of different states and areas within the mid-west and maybe Canada.

[@DevonChampion]

Aaaaaaanother banger 💥

[@Zahbriinah]

North Yankton is located in your heart, just like sniper island.

[@e99g]

It‘s like a fiction state like USA, State of San Andreas. Where the citys of Los Santos, San Fierro, Las Venturas and other tiny towns exists: Whetstone and mount Chilliad in Flint County (or like mount Diabolo and other smaller towns south of San Francisco in real life.

[@OladGames]

Trevor is not technically Candadian,he was born in the North of America,OR..his parents were American but he was born in Canada.He also says several times he was doing stuff by the border he was also in the Canadian Air Force.I think he had American parents but was not and raised partially in Canada but also in the US near north Yankton

[@wildcate]

Trevor's mother is English (if we accept the Houser’s mother voice accent as canon), his father is very likely Canadian. Trevor himself has a Canadian accent, which he hardly got without living in Canada for a long time, especially in his youth.