Localized versions of the Monopoly game

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Throughout this article, the unqualified use of currency denominations such as "$" or "£" generally refers to play money in the context of the game.

Localized versions of the Monopoly game are marketed worldwide.

[edit] Localized versions by country

Officially licensed editions of the board game Monopoly has been produced by Hasbro or its licensees, including Winning Moves Games and USAopoly, for specific markets with the place names and currency being localized for countries, cities and areas. These include:

Several Bilbao council members play during presentation of local edition, in 2005
Several Bilbao council members play during presentation of local edition, in 2005

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  • Belgium: There have been several editions of Belgian boards, in Flemish and in French. Some of the editions also use bilingual game boards.[1] Street names taken from cities across the country equally divided between the Dutch and French speaking halves of the kingdom. To date, there have been no city editions.
  • Brazil: "Banco Imobiliário" ("Real Estate Bank") Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, mix version

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  • Denmark: Copenhagen. Two nearly identical versions, "Matador" and "Monopoly". The "Matador" version was introduced in the 1930s, and the "Monopoly" version in 1996.[2] Both localized with a board with prominent Copenhagen streets. Denominated in Danish kroner. Most expensive is the "City Hall square" (Danish: Rådhuspladsen). Additionally Monopoly Junior exists.
    • Odense A localized version was published in the 1980s, known as Kong Gulerod i Odense [3]

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  • Egypt: Cairo
  • Estonia: Tallinn
  • Europe Special Edition: Instead of streets, it uses the names of capital cities of countries which are already members of the European Union, in order of their admission to the EU (or its predecessor organizations), and some which are expected to be. Currency in Euros.

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  • Iceland - Called Matador, using Reykjavik street names and Icelandic kronur for currency.
  • India - Called "Business" (English version) and "Vyapar" (Hindi version), using Major Indian Cities, Airports and Railway Stations and Indian Rupee for currency.
  • Iran: Tehran In various versions, with the major difference being the use of pre- or post-Iranian Revolution street names.
  • Italy: Milan. It is known as 'Monopoli'.
  • Israel: It is known as 'מונופול'. (Please note that this may not be the correct spelling).
  • Ireland: Dublin In three versions, Irish pound (now discontinued) and euro, and a 'Here and Now' edition, with updated landmarks, and all monetary values multiplied by a factor of 10,000.

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  • Japan: Both Japanese and American English boards are sold in Japan. The Japanese board includes districts from several major Japanese cities: the most expensive property is Tokyo's Ginza, followed by Osaka's Umeda.

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  • Latvia: A Latvian game board has been released with streets and train stations in Riga. The game is called Monopols.
  • Luxembourg: Editioun Lëtzebuerg. The street names are taken from various luxemburgish cities.

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  • Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe): Tycoon, produced in limited numbers by Darten in the late 1960s, depicted colonial-era streets in Salisbury (now Harare) and was denominated in Rhodesian dollars. The most expensive properties were First Street and Stanley Avenue (now Jason Moyo Avenue); the cheapest Rotten Row and Victoria Street (now Mbuya Nehanda Street).
  • Romania: Bucharest. Produced by Hasbro in 2006. The most expensive property is Calea Victoriei (Victory Avenue) and the cheapest is Rahova.
  • Russia. Known as: МОНОПОЛИЯ. Special limited edition - Moscow.

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  • Turkey: Istanbul Streets and properties are named after the streets and properties from the city of Istanbul. Cities featured such as Bostanci, Erenkoy, Caddebostan, Nisantasi, tesvikiye, Macka, Levent, Etiler, Bebek, Tarabya and Yenikoy.

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  • Venezuela: "Monopolio". Streets and properties named after streets and properties from the city of Caracas. Currency in bolívares.

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In Malaysia, there is also an independent version marketed, known as Saidina. Saidina is a Malaysian rendition of the game featuring local places and currency, and written in Bahasa Melayu. Saidina

  • Kalliopoly, a Finnish version of the game, playing in the streets in the Helsinki district Kallio.

In Chinese-speaking regions (including Hong Kong), the game is also called 'rich person' (大富翁), with most of them being unauthorized clones of the original. Hasbro eventually gave a new official Chinese title (地產大亨), for sale in Chinese-speaking regions. Many Monopoly game sets are relabled as a result.[12]

However, many Monopoly clones still use the old Chinese name. When Chinese developers start making computerized versions of Monopoly clones, the clone games diverge from the original in board layout and game rules, but the key elements of dice rolls and land acqusitions remain.

In mid 1990s, Monopoly was sold in Mainland China under a different name (强手棋), which does not have localized place names.

[edit] Property names

The names of the properties in some of the more common versions are listed in the following tables. The values and rents of all the properties are proportionally scaled in all versions; thus, only the Go money is listed here.

US (Atlantic City) England (London) Germany Spain (Madrid) Australia
Special spaces
Go - $200 Go - £200 Los - DM 4,000 (on classic boards, €200 on boards after 2000) Salida - 20,000 pesetas Go - $200
Community Chest Community Chest Gemeinschaftsfeld Caja de comunidad Community Chest
Income Tax Income Tax Einkommenssteuer Impuesto sobre el capital Income Tax
Chance Chance Ereignisfeld Suerte Chance
Free Parking Free Parking Frei Parken Parque gratuito Free Parking
Go To Jail Go To Jail Gehen Sie in das Gefängnis Vaya a la cárcel Go To Jail
Luxury Tax Super Tax Zusatzsteuer Impuesto de lujo Sales Tax
Railroads
Reading Railroad Kings Cross station Südbahnhof (Southern Station) Estación de Goya Perth Station
Pennsylvania Railroad Marylebone station Westbahnhof (Western Station) Estación de las Delicias Adelaide Station
B&O Railroad Fenchurch Street station Nordbahnhof (Northern Station) Estación del Mediodía Flinders Street Station
Short Line Railroad Liverpool Street station Hauptbahnof (Central Station) Estación del Norte Sydney Station
Utilities
Electric Company Electric Company Elektrizitätswerk Compañía de electricidad Australia Post
Water Works Water Works Wasserwerk Compañía de aguas Telecom Australia
Dark Purple (United States, Germany) Brown (Rest of the World)
Mediterranean Avenue Old Kent Road Badstraße Ronda de Valencia Todd Street
Baltic Avenue Whitechapel Road Turmstraße Plaza de Lavapiés Smith Street
Light Blue properties
Oriental Avenue The Angel Islington Chausseestraße Glorieta de Cuatro Caminos Salamanca Place
Vermont Avenue Euston Road Elisenstraße Avenida de la Reina Victoria Davey Street
Connecticut Avenue Pentonville Road Poststraße Calle de Bravo Murillo Macquarie Street
Light Purple properties
St. Charles Place Pall Mall Seestraße Glorieta de Bilbao William Street
States Avenue Whitehall Hafenstraße Calle Alberto Aguilera Barrack Street
Virginia Avenue Northumberland Avenue Neue Straße Calle Fuencarral Hay Street
Orange properties
St. James Place Bow Street Münchner Straße Avenida de Felipe II North Terrace
Tennessee Avenue Marlborough Street Wiener Straße Calle de Velázquez Victoria Square
New York Avenue Vine Street Berliner Straße Calle Serrano Rundle Mall
Red properties
Kentucky Avenue The Strand Theaterstraße Avenida de América Stanley Street
Indiana Avenue Fleet Street Museumstraße Calle María De Molina Petries Bight
Illinois Avenue Trafalgar Square Opernplatz Calle de Cea Bermúdez Wickham Terrace
Yellow properties
Atlantic Avenue Leicester Square Lessingstraße Avenida de los Reyes Católicos Collins Street
Ventnor Avenue Coventry Street Schillerstraße Calle Bailén Elizabeth Street
Marvin Gardens Piccadilly Goethestraße Plaza de España Bourke Street
Green properties
Pacific Avenue Regent Street Rathausplatz Puerta del Sol Castlereagh Street
North Carolina Avenue Oxford Street Hauptstraße Calle de Alcalá George Street
Pennsylvania Avenue Bond Street Bahnhofstraße Gran Vía Pitt Street
Dark Blue properties
Park Place Park Lane Parkstraße Paseo de la Castellana Flinders Way
Boardwalk Mayfair Schlossallee Paseo del Prado Kings Avenue

[edit] More international editions

Argentina France (Paris) Italy (Milan) New Zealand Russia (Moscow)
Special spaces
Salida Départ VIA! (20,000 Lire pre-2000) Go VPERYOD - 200,000 Rubles
Caisse de communuté Probabilità Community Chest Obschestvennaya kazna
Impôt sur le revenu Tassa patrimoniale (20,000 Lire) Income Tax Podohodnij nalog
Chance Imprevisti Chance Shans
Libre Estacionamiento Parking Gratuit Posteggio gratuito Free Parking Besplatnaya stoyanka
Vaya a la cárcel Allez en prison In prigione! Go To Jail Otpravlyajtes' v Tyurmu
Taxe de luxe Tassa di lusso (10,000 Lire) Super Tax Sverhnalog
Railroads
Ferrocarril Roca Gare Montparnasse Stazione Sud Balclutha Station Rizhskaya Zheleznaya Doroga
Ferrocarril Mitre Gare de Lyon Stazione Ovest Taumaranui Station Kurskaya Zheleznaya Doroga
Ferrocarril Belgrano Gare du Nord Stazione Nord Kaikoura Station Kazanskaya Zheleznaya Doroga
Ferrocarril San Martín Gare Saint-Lazare Stazione Est Frankton Junction Leningradskaya Zheleznaya Doroga
Utilities
Energía Eléctrica Compagnie d'électricité Società Elettrica Electric Company Elektrostantsiya
Aguas Corrientes Compagnie des eaux Società Acqua Potabile Water Works Vodoprovod
Brown properties
Ushuaia Boul. de Belleville Vicolo Corto (Short Street) Palmerston Street Mitnaya Ulitsa
Glaciar Perito Moreno Rue Lecourbe Vicolo Stretto (Narrow Street) Mackay Street Nagatinskaya Ulitsa
Light Blue properties
Península de Valdes Rue de Vaugirard Bastioni Gran Sasso East Street Varshavskoe Shosse
Esquel Rue de Courcelles Viale Monterosa Stafford Street Ulitsa Ogareva
Lago Nahuel Huapi Avenue de la République Viale Vesuvio Thames Street Pervaya Parkovaya Ulitsa
Light Purple properties
Cerro Tronador Boul. de la Villette Via Accademia Gladstone Road Ulitsa Polyanka
San Martín de los Andes Avenue de Neuilly Corso Ateneo Marine Parade Sretenka
Valle de las Leñas Rue de Paradis Piazza Università Bank Street Rostovskaya Naberezhnaya
Orange properties
Puente del Inca Avenue Mozart Via Verdi Devon Street Ryazanskij Prospekt
Aconcagua Boulevard Saint-Michel Corso Raffaello Rangitikei Street Ulitsa Vavilova
Cosquín Place Pigalle Piazza Dante Victoria Avenue Rublevskoe Shosse
Red properties
Villa Carlos Paz Avenue Matignon Via Marco Polo High Street Ulitsa Gor'kogo
Termas de Río Hondo Boulevard Malesherbes Corso Magellano Market Street Pushkinskaya Ulitsa
Valle de la Luna Avenue Henri-Martin Largo Colombo Trafalgar Street Ploschad' Mayakovskogo
Yellow properties
Tren de las Nubes Faubourg Saint-Honoré Viale Costantino Cameron Road Ulitsa Gruzinskij val
Quebrada de Humahuaca Place de la Bourse Viale Traiano Fenton Street Ulitsa Chajkovskogo
Cataratas del Iguazú Rue Lafayette Piazza Giulio Cesare Garden Place Smolenskaya Ploschad'
Green properties
Gualeguaychú Avenue de Breteuil Via Roma Dee Street Ulitsa Schuseva
Rosario Avenue Foch Corso Impero Princes Street Gogolevskij Bul'var
Mar del Plata Boulevard des Capucines Largo Augusto Cathedral Square Kutuzovskij Prospekt
Dark Blue properties
La Boca Avenue des Champs-Élysées Viale dei Giardini Lambton Quay Malaya Bronnaya
Obelisco Rue de la Paix Parco della Vittoria Queen Street Arbat

[edit] Even more international editions

Finland (Helsinki) Scotland (Edinburgh) England (Here And Now, 2005) Brazil (mix of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro)
Special spaces
Lähtö - € 200 Go - £200 Go - £2,000,000 Ponto de Partida - 200
Yhteismaa Community Chest Community Chest Lucros ou Dividendos
Tulovero Income Tax Income Tax Imposto de Renda
Sattuma Chance Chance Sorte-Revés
Vapaa pysäköinti Free Parking Free Parking Parada Livre
Mene vankilaan Go to Jail Go to Jail Vá para a Prisão
Lisävero Super Tax Super Tax <?>
Railroads / Airports
Pasilan asema Forth Road Bridge London City Airport Companhia Ferroviária
Sörnäisten asema Haymarket Station Stansted Airport Companhia de Viação
Rautatieasema Edinburgh Airport Gatwick Airport Companhia de Taxi
Tavara-asema Waverley Station GNER Heathrow Airport Companhia de Navegação
Utilities
Sähkölaitos Electric Company (British Energy) Telecoms Companhia de Aviação
Vesijohtolaitos Communications (Cable & Wireless) The Sun (newspaper) Companhia de Taxi Aéreo
Brown properties
Korkeavuorenkatu Shore Place Portobello Road Market Leblon
Kasarmikatu Barnton Grove Camden Market Av. Presidente Vargas
Av. Nossa S. de Copacabana
Light Blue properties
Rantatie Lady Stairs Close Hammersmith Apollo Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima
Kauppatori Lauriston Castle Wembley Arena Av. Rebouças
Esplanadi Princes St Gardens GMTV Studios Av. 9 de Julho
Light purple properties
Hämeentie Easter Road The Oval Av. Europa
Siltasaari Tynecastle Stadium Wimbledon Rua Augusta
Kaisaniemenkatu Murrayfield / Scottish Rugby Union Wembley Stadium Av. Pacaembu
Orange properties
Liisankatu Corstorphine Road Science Museum Interlagos
Snellmaninkatu Royal Mile Natural History Museum Morumbi
Unioninkatu George Street Tate Modern
Red properties
Lönnrotinkatu Newhaven Harbour London Eye Flamengo
Annankatu Morningside Road Hyde Park Botafogo
Simonkatu Penicuik Trafalgar Square
Yellow properties
Mikonkatu Castle Street Tottenham Court Road Av. Brasil
Aleksanterinkatu Grindlay Street Covent Garden Av. Paulista
Keskuskatu Rose Street / North Lane Regent Street Jardim Europa
Green properties
Tehtaankatu Leith Walk Notting Hill Copacabana
Eira Rutland Court Soho Av. Vieira Souto
Bulevardi St Andrews Square Kings Road Av. Atlântica
Ipanema
Dark Blue properties
Mannerheimintie Princes Street Canary Wharf Jardim Paulista
Erottaja Edinburgh Castle The City Brooklin

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