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Riga ends up in 3rd place in online vote for new version of "Monopoly" board game

BC, Riga, 20.03.2015.Print version
Riga has ended up in third place in a global vote for cities to be featured in the next edition of the "Monopoly" board game, Riga Tourism Development Bureau's public relations officer Anna Blaua told LETA.

In total, 4 million votes were submitted from 182 countries in three weeks.

 

The most expensive cities in the next version of "Monopoly" are Lima and Hong Kong, followed by Riga, Lisbon and Istanbul.

 

The top five cities are followed by Warsaw, Mexico City, Santiago, Belfast, Athens, Belgrade, London, Moscow, Tokyo, New York, Amsterdam, Sydney, Queenstown (New Zealand), Cape Town, Taipei, Giethoorn (Netherlands) and Madrid.



 

Estonian capital city of Tallinn is in 25th place, missing a spot on the new "Monopoly" board, and Vilnius is in 42nd place.

 

Besides the 22 cities featured on the "Monopoly" board, another 28 will also be represented in various ways, therefore the total number of cities included in the game is fifty.

 

The Latvian edition of the latest version of "Monopoly" will be released at the end of the summer.

 

During the popular vote for the previous edition of "Monopoly" in 2008, Riga ended up in second place with Montreal taking the top spot. The game was marketed in over fifty countries in 37 different languages.






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