European route E40

E40
E40 interchange near Bruges, Belgium
Route information
Length:	8,500 km (5,300 mi)
Major junctions
From:	Calais (France)
	Ghent (Belgium) Brussels (Belgium) Liège (Belgium) Cologne (Germany) Bolesławiec (Poland) Kirchheim (Germany) Dresden (Germany) Legnica (Poland) Mysłowice/Gliwice (Poland) Dubno (Ukraine) Kiev (Ukraine) Kharkiv (Ukraine) Debaltseve (Ukraine) Astrakhan (Russia) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Almaty (Kazakhstan)
To:	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

E 40 in Eastern Europe and Asia

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 to China.

Route

•  France
  • Calais ( ) - 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 ()
  • Rzeszów ()
  • Rzeszów () - Jarosław
  • Jarosław - 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 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 - Buxoro ()
  • M37 Buxoro () - Navoiy - Samarqand ()
  • M39 Samarqand () - Jizzakh - Sirdaryo (Start of Concurrency with ) - Tashkent ()
•  Kazakhstan
  • Zhibek Zholy - Shymkent (End of Concurrency with ) - Taraz - Merki
  • 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 - Kalbatau ( - Öskemen
  • Öskemen - 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.

External links

• The E40 as a Path of Remembrance in Europe

Gallery

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  At Jabbeke in Belgium

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  Crossing a railway at Chemnitz in eastern Germany

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  at Zabrze in Upper Silesian Industrial Region in Poland

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  E 40 road on Ukrainian highway Kyiv-Zytomyr

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  On Kazakh-Kyrgyz border at Korday

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  Road between Beyneu (Kazakhstan) and Kungrad (Uzbekistan)

References

Citations

1. Antill, Peter; Dennis, Peter (2007). Stalingrad 1942. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84603-028-5.