European route E40 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.
A different route connecting Calais and Ridder is about 2,000 kilometres (1,243 miles) shorter, mostly using the E30 via Berlin-Moscow-Omsk. The E40 differs from that route in order to provide additional direct east-west access to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, which have a combined population base approaching 50 million people as of 2021.
Route
France
Belgium
A18: Adinkerke - Veurne - Jabbeke (E404)
A10: Jabbeke (E404) - Bruges (E403) - Gent (E17) - Brussels (E19)
R0 (Brussels Ring): Brussels (E19 Towards E411)
A3: Brussels - Leuven (E314) - Liège (E25 / E42 / E313, Towards E46) - Verviers (E42) - Lichtenbusch (E421)
Germany
A 44: Aachen (E 314)
A 4: Aachen (E 314) - Cologne (E 31 / E 35, Towards E 29 / E 37) - Olpe (E 41)
A 45: Olpe (start of concurrency with E 41) - Siegen - Gießen (E 44, end of concurrency with E 41)
B 49: Gießen (E 41 / E 44)
B 429: Gießen
A 480: Gießen (E 451)
A 5: Gießen (E 451) - Bad Hersfeld (E 45)
A 7: Bad Hersfeld (E 45)- A 4: Bad Hersfeld (E 45) - Eisenach - Erfurt - Zwickau (E 49 / E 51 / E 40) - Chemnitz (E 441) - Dresden (E 55) - Görlitz
Poland
A 4: Zgorzelec - Bolesławiec (E36) - Legnica (E65) - Wrocław (E67) - Opole - Gliwice - Katowice - Mysłowice (E75, start of concurrency with E462) - Kraków (E77, end of concurrency with E462) - Rzeszów (E371) - Korczowa
Ukraine
M 10: Krakivets - Lviv (
E372
E471)
M 06: Lviv - Dubno (E85) - Rivne - Zhytomyr (E583) - Kyiv (E95 / E101)
M 03: Kyiv (E95 / E101) - Lubny - Poltava (E584) - Kharkiv (E105) - Sloviansk - Debaltseve (E50)
M 30: Debaltseve (E50) - Luhansk - Izvaryne
Russia
A 260 (formerly M21): Donetsk - Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (E40) - Volgograd (E119)
R 22 (formerly M6): Volgograd (start of concurrency with E119) - Astrakhan (end of concurrency E119)- 12A-235: Astrakhan - Krasny Yar
Kazakhstan (west)
A 27: Kotyaevka - Atyrau (start of concurrency with E121) - Dossor
A 33: Dossor - Beyneu (end of concurrency with E121)
P 1: Beyneu (E121) - Akjigit - Border with Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (west)
- A380 A380 Road: Border with Kazakhstan - Karakalpakstan - Qo'ng'irot - Xojeli - Nukus
- A381 A381 Road: Xojeli - Border with Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
- Border with Uzbekistan - Konye-Urgench - Daşoguz (
E003)
Uzbekistan (east)
- 4P159 4P159 Road: Border with Turkmenistan - Shovot - Urgench
- 4P156 4P156 Road: Urgench - Hazorasp - A380
- A380 A380 Road: 4P156 - Bukhara (
E60
E004) - M37 M37 Road: Bukhara ( E60 E004) - Navoiy - Samarqand (
E005) - M39 M39 Road: Samarkand - Jizzax - Sardoba
- A373 A373 Road: Sardoba - Oqoltin
- M34 M34 Road: Oqoltin - Sirdaryo
- M39 M39 Road: Sirdaryo (start of concurrency with E123) - Chinoz - Tashkent (
E007) -G‘ishtko‘prik - Border of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (middle)
A 2: Zhibek Zholy - Shymkent (end of concurrency with E123) - Taraz - Merki[a]
M 39: Merki - Chaldovar
Kyrgyzstan
- ЭМ-03 ЭМ-03 Road: Border of Kazakhstan - Chaldovar - Kara-Balta (
E010) - ЭМ-04 ЭМ-04 Road: Kara-Balta ( E010) - Bishkek (Start of Concurrency with
E125) - ЭМ-02 ЭМ-02 Road: Bishkek Bypass
- ЭМ-01 ЭМ-01 Road: Bishkek - Border of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (east)
- A 2: Korday - Almaty (E012, end of concurrency with E125)
A 3: Almaty (E125 / E012) - Sary-Ozek (E013) - Taldykorgan - Usharal (E014) - Ayagoz - Qalbatau (E127) - Öskemen
A 10: Öskemen - Sekisovka
A 9: Sekisovka - Ridder
Gallery
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Crossing a railway at Chemnitz in eastern Germany -
at Zabrze in Upper Silesian Industrial Region in Poland -
E40 road on Ukrainian highway Kyiv-Zhytomyr -
On Kazakh-Kyrgyz border at Korday -
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Between Almaty and Taldyqorghan near city Konaev (Kazakhstan)
Notes
References
External links
- UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
- The E40 as a Path of Remembrance in Europe
