Baronville

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Coordinates: 48°56′05″N 6°36′33″E / 48.9347222222, 6.60916666667

Commune of Baronville
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Moselle
Arrondissement	Forbach
Canton	Grostenquin
Statistics
Elevation	251 m–322 m (avg. 290 m)
Land area¹	6.18 km²
Population² (1999)	346
- Density	55/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	57051/ 57340
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Baronville is a French town in the Lorraine region in the Department of Moselle. It had 346 inhabitants in 1999.

In 2007 a group of three University of York students attempted to get the fictitious town of 'BaronVille' onto the new UK version of the board game Monopoly. The news media thought that this was a French plot and reported, without sources, that the people of Baronville itself were behind it. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

[edit] References

1. ^ A new monopoly bid by the French
2. ^ Why St Albans is the new Mayfair...it's Britain's new Monopoly board
3. ^ England has Monopoly monopoly