European route E40

E40
E40 interchange near Bruges, Belgium
Route information
Length	8,641 km (5,369 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Calais, France
	Ghent, Belgium Brussels, Belgium Liège, Belgium Cologne, Germany Bolesławiec, Poland Kirchheim, Germany Dresden, Germany Legnica, Poland Mysłowice, Poland Dubno, Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine Kharkiv, Ukraine Debaltseve, Ukraine Astrakhan, Russia Tashkent, Uzbekistan Almaty, Kazakhstan
East end	Ridder, Kazakhstan
Location
Countries	France  Belgium  Germany  Poland  Ukraine  Russia  Kazakhstan  Uzbekistan  Turkmenistan  Kyrgyzstan
Highway system
International E-road network

E 40 roadsign in Skołoszów, Poland

European route E 40 is the longest European route,^[1] more than 8,000 kilometres (4,971 miles) long, connecting Calais in France via Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, with Ridder in Kazakhstan near the border with Russia and China.

Route

•  France
  • Calais ( ) - Dunkirk - Ghyvelde
•  Belgium
  • Adinkerke - Veurne - Jabbeke ()
  • Jabbeke () - Brugge () - Gent () - Brussels ()
  • Brussels (. Towards )
  • Brussels - Leuven () - Liège (, Towards ) - Verviers () - Lichtenbusch ()
•  Germany
  • Aachen ()
  • Aachen () - Köln (, Towards ) - Olpe ()
  • Olpe (Start of Concurrency with ) - Gießen (, End of Concurrency with )
  • Gießen ()
  • Gießen
  • Gießen ()
  • Gießen () - Bad Hersfeld ()
  • Bad Hersfeld ()
  • Bad Hersfeld () - Eisenach - Erfurt - Gera () - Chemnitz () - Dresden () - Görlitz
•  Poland
  • Zgorzelec - Bolesławiec () - Legnica () - Wrocław ( ) - Opole - Gliwice - Katowice - Mysłowice (, Start of Concurrency with ) - Kraków (, End of Concurrency with ) - Rzeszów () - Korczowa
•  Ukraine
  • Krakivets - Lviv ()
  • Lviv - Dubno () - Rivne - Zhytomyr () - Kiev ()
• Kiev () - Lubny - Poltava () - Kharkiv () - Sloviansk - Debaltseve ()
• Debaltseve () - Luhansk - Izvaryne

Note: in italic are cities in a war zone and/or controlled by separatists

•  Russia
  • (Formerly ) Donetsk - Kamensk-Shakhtinsky () - Volgograd ()
  • (Formerly ) Volgograd (Start of Concurrency with ) - Astrakhan (End of Concurrency )
  • Astrakhan - Volodarsky
•  Kazakhstan
  • Kotyaevka -Atyrau (Start of Concurrency with ) - Dossor
  • Dossor - Beyneu (End of Concurrency with )
  • Beyneu () - Akjigit
•  Uzbekistan
  • Karakalpakstan - Qo'ng'irot - Nukus
•  Turkmenistan
  • Konye-Urgench - Daşoguz ()
•  Uzbekistan
  • Yablykangly - Urgench - Bukhara ()
  • M37 Bukhara () - Navoiy - Samarqand ()
  • M39 Samarqand () - Jizzakh - Sirdaryo (Start of Concurrency with ) - Tashkent ()
•  Kazakhstan
  • Zhibek Zholy - Shymkent (End of Concurrency with ) - Taraz - Merki

Note: The A-2 highway hasn't been fully built.

• • M39 Merki - Chaldovar
•  Kyrgyzstan
  • M39 Chaldavar - Kara-Balta () - Bishkek (Start of Concurrency with ) - Konstantinovka
•  Kazakhstan
  • Korday - Almaty (, End of Concurrency with )
  • Almaty () - Sary-Ozek () - Taldykorgan - Usharal () - Ayagoz - Qalbatau ( - Öskemen
  • Öskemen - Sekisovka
  • Sekisovka - Ridder

The road makes a big detour in Central Asia. The shortest road between Calais and Ridder is about 2,000 kilometres (1,243 miles) shorter, mostly using the E30 via Berlin-Moscow-Omsk.

Gallery

• 
  At Jabbeke in Belgium
• 
  Crossing a railway at Chemnitz in eastern Germany
• 
  at Zabrze in Upper Silesian Industrial Region in Poland
• 
  E 40 road on Ukrainian highway Kyiv-Zytomyr
• 
  On Kazakh-Kyrgyz border at Korday
• 
  Road between Beyneu (Kazakhstan) and Kungrad (Uzbekistan)

References

External links

• The E40 as a Path of Remembrance in Europe

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