Marvelous Monopoly Street Names And Origins From Around The World

The fast-dealing property trading game Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.Monopoly has been one of the most popular board games of all time since it originated in the United States in 1903. It has become a popular world culture since the ’30s, right from when it was sold commercially for the first time.Monopoly is licensed in more than 103 countries and printed in over 37 languages. It was basically a game earlier known as The Landlord’s Game, created by an American antimonopolist, Lizzie Magie. Lizzie Magie took out a patent for her game, The Landlord’s Game, in 1904, and it was self-published by her in 1906. The game had two sets of rules: a  monopolist set which involved the goals of crushing opponents and creating monopolies, and an anti-monopolist set which involved rewarding all players when wealth was created.Looking for popular Monopoly board game street names present across different board games? Then there is a list. Some of the most popular street names in the Monopoly game are New York Avenue, Baltic Avenue, North Carolina Avenue, Illinois Avenue, Park Place, Atlantic Avenue, and several others.Monopoly Street Names With OriginThe classic version of Monopoly from the United States has streets based in and near Atlantic City, New Jersey. The streets are not the only properties available in monopoly. Other properties are called the railroads, the Electric Company, and the Water Company. The goal is to win as many properties as possible to form a monopoly of properties and force the opponents to run out of money and property and declare bankruptcy. Here are some of the Monopoly streets and their origins you can find in the American version of this marvelously interesting game.Mediterranean Avenue is the first property on a classic US monopoly board. Mediterranean Avenue is said to have the lowest Mediterranean development costs and rent.Baltic Avenue is the second property on a classic monopoly board. The rent for Baltic Avenue is usually double that of Mediterranean Avenue. The British counterpart for Baltic Avenue is Whitechapel Road.Oriental Avenue is the first light blue property following the Reading Railroad, behind Vermont Avenue. It is generally a good deal. Its British counterpart is The Angel, Islington.Vermont Avenue is another light blue property. It has the second-highest ROI (return on investment) in the game with a hotel tied with Oriental Avenue. Its British counterpart is Euston Road.Connecticut Avenue is the last in the light blue properties; therefore, the rents and prices here are slightly higher than those on Oriental Avenue and Vermont Avenue. The British counterpart for Connecticut Avenue is Pentonville Road.St. Charles Place is the first pink property and the first property on the second side of the board. Its British counterpart is Pall Mall in the Monopoly game. St. Charles Place is the first property with a two-digit rent; therefore, it shares rental rates with States Avenue.States Avenue is the second pink property that shares prices and rents with St. Charles Place. Its British counterpart is Whitehall.Virginia Avenue is the last pink property; therefore, the rents and prices are slightly higher than St. Charles Place and States Avenue. In Atlantic City, Virginia Avenue is the favorite of the famous and nearly famous. The British counterpart for Virginia Avenue is Northumberland Avenue.St. James Place is the first of the orange properties with fairly high rents. James Place is considered one of the best properties in the game. Its British counterpart is Bow Street.Tennessee Avenue, like the other orange properties, is one of the best properties in the game. It shares values with St. James Place as it is the second orange property.  Its British counterpart is Marlborough Street.New York Avenue is the third of the orange properties and one of the game’s most-landed-on properties. The British counterpart of New York Avenue is Vine Street.Monopoly Board Street NamesThe game of Monopoly has many versions, another one of which is the one based in the United Kingdom. The UK version of this game has streets and roads that are actual places in London, England.Old Kent Road, the first property you can see on the UK version, is a brown-colored property. It is also the least expensive property on the classic Monopoly board.Whitechapel Road is the British counterpart for the Baltic Avenue of the US version. This is also a brown property with its name based on a major arterial road that lies in the East End of London.The Angel, Islington is named after a series of buildings and a historic landmark in Islington, London. This is a light blue property.Euston Road is the British counterpart for Connecticut Avenue in the US version. Euston Road is also a light blue property.Pentonville Road of the UK version is another light blue property with its name derived from a segment of London’s Inner Ring Road.Pall Mall is a property in the UK version named after a major thoroughfare in Westminster. This is a pink property.Whitehall has its name based on another thoroughfare in London. This is also a pink property.Northumberland Avenue is another pink property named after a major street of the same name in Central London.Bow Street is a property named after another thoroughfare in Westminster, London. It is an orange property.Marlborough Street is a property name based on the Great Marlborough Street that lies in the western part of Soho, London. This is an orange property as well.Vine Street, after Bow Street and Marlborough Street, is the third orange property with a legal theme.Strand is the first red property that was known as ‘The Strand’ in the older version.Fleet Street of the UK version is the second red property after Strand.Trafalgar Square is the most expensive red property in the UK version of the Monopoly board game. This property’s name is based on the tourist attraction of the same name in Westminster.Leicester Square is the name of a yellow property based on the pedestrian square of the same name in London, England.Coventry Street, named after a street in London, England, is another yellow property.Piccadilly of the UK version is a yellow property with its name based on a major road in Westminster.Regent Street is the first green property after a major shopping street in the West End of London.Oxford Street, named after a major road in London, is the second green property in the board game.Bond Street in the UK version is the third green property.Park Lane is the British counterpart for the similarly-named American property Park Place. Park Lane is a dark blue property.Mayfair is the most expensive property in the UK version and also has the highest rent revenue. It is another dark blue property.Monopoly Street Names Atlantic CityAtlantic City is one of the main influences for the names given to the properties that are a part of the US version of the classic Monopoly board game.Kentucky Avenue in the US version is the first red property. It is risky but has the potential for higher returns than the orange properties and is important for winning the game. Its British counterpart is the Strand.Indiana Avenue is the second of the American red properties and shares values with Kentucky Avenue. The British counterpart for Indiana Avenue is Fleet Street.Illinois Avenue is the last of the red properties and the most frequently landed on property in the game. The value of Illinois Avenue is slightly higher than Kentucky Avenue and Indiana Avenue. Its British counterpart is Trafalgar Square.Atlantic Avenue is the first of the yellow properties. The British counterpart for Atlantic Avenue is Leicester Square.Ventnor Avenue is the second yellow property. It lies three spaces from Go to Jail. Ventnor Avenue is the least landed on yellow property in the game. The British counterpart for Ventnor Avenue is Coventry Street.Marvin Gardens is the farthest yellow property. Marvin Gardens is a misspelling of the actual name Marven Gardens. The British counterpart for Marvin Gardens is Piccadilly.Pacific Avenue is the first of the green properties. Pacific Avenue is somewhat expensive, with fairly high rentals. They are used as trading material in tournament plays. The British counterpart for Pacific Avenue is Regent Street.North Carolina Avenue is a green property, originally named South Carolina Avenue. The British counterpart of North Carolina Avenue is Oxford Street.Pennsylvania Avenue is the American counterpart for the Bond Street of the UK version. Pennsylvania Avenue is the last of the green properties in the game. Pennsylvania Avenue commands a higher rent.Park Place is the first of the two properties in the dark blue color set along with Boardwalk. It is the second most expensive property to buy and develop but is the least-landed property in the game. Its British counterpart is Park Lane.Boardwalk, the second dark blue property, is the most expensive property on a classic Monopoly board with the highest rent revenue. Its British counterpart is Mayfair.French Monopoly Street NamesThe classic Monopoly board game also has a French version. Here are the French properties of the game.Boul. de Belleville is a purple property. It is the French counterpart for Old Kent Road in the UK and Mediterranean Avenue in the US.Rue Lecourbe is the second purple property. Its British counterpart is the Whitechapel road. Its American counterpart is Baltic Avenue.Rue de Vaugirard, the French counterpart of The Angel Islington in the UK version and Oriental Avenue in the US version, is a light blue property.Rue de Courcelles is the French counterpart of Euston Road in the UK version and Vermont Avenue in the US version. It is the second light blue property.Avenue de la République is the last light blue property and the French counterpart for the Pentonville Road of the UK and Connecticut Avenue of the US.Boul. de la Villette is the first pink property in the French version.Avenue de Neuilly is the second pink property. Its British counterpart is Whitehall, and American counterpart is States Avenue.Rue de Paradis is the third and last pink property.Avenue Mozart, the counterpart for Bow Street and St. James Place, is the first orange property.Boulevard Saint-Michel is the second orange property.Place Pigalle of the French version is the third and last orange property.Avenue Matignon is the first red property, counterpart to The Strand in the UK and Kentucky Avenue in the US.Boulevard Malesherbes is another red property in the French version.Avenue Henri-Martin is the third and last red property in the French version of the classic Monopoly board.Faubourg Saint-Honore is the first yellow property.Place de la Bourse is another yellow property in the French version.Rue Lafayette is the last yellow property. Its British counterpart is Piccadilly, and its American counterpart is Marvin Gardens.Avenue de Breteuil is a green property.Avenue Foch is the second green property. Its British counterpart is Oxford Street and its American counterpart is North Carolina Avenue.Boulevard des Capucines, the French counterpart to Bond Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, is the third and last green property.Avenue des Champs-elysées is a blue property counterpart to Park Place in the US version.Rue de la Paix is the second and last blue property, counterpart to the dark blue property Mayfair and Boardwalk.South African Monopoly Street NamesThe original South African monopoly board game was first available commercially in 1963. However, in 2002, many of the SA property names were replaced by more exclusive real estates, including Plettenberg Bay, Hyde Park, Sandton, Franschhoek, Boksburg, Soweto, and Mitchells Plain.Durban features properties including Musgrave, Gillespie, Durban Station, Marinem, and Parade streets.Bloemfontein is the second least expensive region with properties like Monument, Aliwal, Maitland, Bloemfontein Station, President Street, Brand Street, Hofmeyer Street, and Voortrekker Street.Cape Town is the second most expensive region with properties like Groote Schuur, Roeland, Cape Town Station, Plein, Parliament, and Long Street.Johannesburg is the most expensive region and features Main Street, Joubert Street, De Villiers Street, Johannesburg Station, and Jan Smuts Street.

The fast-dealing property trading game Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game.