European route E40
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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, .svg.png){kind=small} 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
- Belgium
- Germany
- Poland
- Ukraine
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
- Uzbekistan
- Karakalpakstan - Qo‘ng‘irot - Nukus
- Turkmenistan
- Konye-Urgench - Daşoguz (
)
- Konye-Urgench - Daşoguz (
- Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- M39 Chaldavar - Kara-Balta (
) - Bishkek (Start of Concurrency with ) - Konstantinovka
- M39 Chaldavar - Kara-Balta (
- Kazakhstan
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
Gallery
Crossing a railway at Chemnitz in eastern Germany.jpg)
at Zabrze in Upper Silesian Industrial Region in Poland
E 40 road on Ukrainian highway Kyiv-Zytomyr
On Kazakh-Kyrgyz border at Korday
References
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