# The international versions of Monopoly comparison thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996 "2002-06-08T19:16:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/1 "2002-06-08T19:16:27Z")
Thanks to different websites, I was able to pin down the locations of the various streets on the original American Monopoly board. Here’s the list of the streets in the American version with their correspondent counterparts in the German one: GO Mediterranean Ave: Badstraße Baltic Ave: Turmstraße Reading Railroad: Suedbahnhof Oriental Ave: Chausseestraße Vermont Ave: Elisenstraße Connecticut Ave: Poststraße JAIL St Charles Place: Seestraße States Ave: Hafenstrasse Virginia Ave: Neue Strasse Pennsylvania Railroad: Westbahnhof St James Place: Muenchner Strasse Tennessee Ave: Wiener Strasse New York Ave: Berliner Strasse FREE PARKING Kentucky Ave: Theaterstrasse Illinois Ave: Museumstrasse Indiana Ave: Opernplatz B&O Railroad: Nordbahnhof Atlantic Ave: Lessingstrasse Ventnor Ave: Schillerstrasse Marvin Gardens: Goethestrasse GO TO JAIL Pacific Ave: Rathausplatz North Carolina Ave: Hauptstrasse Pennsylvania Ave: Bahnhofstrasse Short Line Railroad: Hauptbahnhof Park Place: Parkstrasse Boardwalk: Schlossallee GO Nothing interesting there; most streets are named after landmarks (opera, musem, city hall, …), some after real cities (Vienna, Berlin) but nothing of real interest (I’ve heard the first German Monopoly, released in 1936 and banned by the Nazis short time later, used original Berlin street names. For the re-release after WWII, street names were “neutralized”. ) Prices were much higher than in the US version - $1 equalled DM 20 in the traditional German game, so the Schlossallee would cost DM 8000 while its American brother, boardwalk, is $400. After introduction of the euro, prices were adapted to US numbers. So international dopers, if you have too much spare time and don’t know what to do, simply enrich this thread with information about yor national Monopoly board! ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/2 "2002-06-08T20:44:08Z")
Here are the streets in the Swedish version: GÅ Västerlånggatan Hornsgatan Södra Station Folkkungagatan Götgatan Ringvägen FÄNGELSE Sankt Eriksgatan Elverket Odengatan Valhallavägen Östra station Sturegatan Karlavägen Narvavägen Free parking Strandvägen Kungsträdgårdsgatan Hamngatan Centralstation Vasagatan Kungsgatan Vattenledningsverket Stureplan GÅ I FÄNGELSE Gustav Adolfs torg Drottninggatan Diplomatstaden Norra station Centrum Norrmalmstorg All the streets are named after streets in Stockholm. The cheapest street costs 1000 kronor and the most expensive (Norrmalmstorg) costs 8000 kronor. I´ve lived on three of the streets in the game. 🙂 Play the swedish version online here [http://www.d.kth.se/~d97-phu/java.html](http://www.d.kth.se/~d97-phu/java.html) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/3 "2002-06-08T21:19:26Z")
Heh! Cool. OK, starting at -well- START! I’ll do it all in Dutch. Might as well make it educational. Ons Dorp (“Our Village”): DORPSSTRAAT) and BRINK Station Zuid Arnhem: STEENSTRAAT, KETELSTRAAT and VELPERPLEIN Gevangenis Haarlem: BARTELJORISSTRAAT, ZIJLWEG and HOUTSTRAAT Station West Utrecht: NEUDE, BILTSTRAAT and VREEBURG Vrij Parkeren Groningen: A-KERKHOF, GROOTE MARKT and HEERESTRAAT Station Noord Den Haag: SPUI, PLEIN and LANGE POTEN Ga naar de gevangenis! Rotterdam: HOFPLEIN, BLAAK and COOLSINGEL Station Oost Amsterdam: LEIDSCHESTRAAT and KALVERSTRAAT I haven’t lived on any of the streets, but I do live in the most expensive city. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/4 "2002-06-08T21:59:10Z")
The french version use actual street names in paris. I only remember that the cheapest street is “rue de Belleville” and the more costly “rue de la Paix” ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/5 "2002-06-08T22:01:01Z")
I meant the **most** costly is “rue de la Paix”. ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/6 "2002-06-09T07:57:43Z")
In the Finnish version, like in many others, the streets are real streets, in Helsinki. The most expensive street is Erottaja, but I can’t remember the least expensive. “Mene suoraan vankilaan kulkematta lähtöruudun kautta”=go straight to jail without passing go. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/7 "2002-06-09T16:54:13Z")
**UK** (well, London; I’m sure I’ve seen an Edinburgh version): Go Old Kent Road Community Chest Whitechapel Road Income Tax Kings Cross Station The Angel, Islington Chance Euston Road Pentonville Road Jail - Just visiting Pall Mall Electric Company Whitehall Northumberland Avenue Marylebone Station Bow Street Marlborough Street Vine Street Free Parking Strand Fleet Street Trafalgar Square Fenchurch Street Station Leicester Square Coventry Street Water Works Piccadilly Go to Jail Regent Street Oxford Street Bond Street Liverpool Street Station Park Lane Supertax Mayfair ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/8 "2002-06-09T18:16:27Z")
As students, my friends and I (known at the time as The Circle Of Beer) made a version with Cambridge colleges. Mayfair and Park Lane were Trinity and St John’s, I remember that much. I think the stations were popular town centre pubs. The houses were instead ‘pints’, and the hotels were ‘rounds’. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/9 "2002-06-09T18:38:25Z")
I know that in the Irish version, the equivalents of Park Place and the Boardwalk are Shrewsbury Road and Ailesbury Road (not necessarily in that order) in the posh Dublin neighbourhood of Ballsbridge. But that’s all I know about it. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-international-versions-of-monopoly-comparison-thread/112996/10 "2002-06-09T20:22:18Z")
**Crusoe** Check out the UK travelling version of the game, I lost a couple of games badly due to the differances. It has 2 sides of 11 spaces and 2 sides of 9 spaces and makes the Orange properties slightly less probability of being landed upon, though still the most often hit, and it makes the Reds and Yellows slightly better.