European route E40
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E40 | |
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Route information | |
Length | 8,641 km (5,369 mi) |
Major junctions | |
West end | E15 in Calais, France |
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East end | Ridder, Kazakhstan |
Location | |
Countries | France Belgium Germany Poland Ukraine Russia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan |
Highway system | |
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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 ()
- A10: Jabbeke () - Bruges () - Gent () - Brussels (E19)
- R0 (Brussels Ring): Brussels (E19 Towards )
- A3: Brussels - Leuven (E314) - Liège (E25 / E42 / , Towards ) - Verviers (E42) - ()
- Germany
- A44: Aachen (E 314)
- A4: Aachen (E 314) - Cologne (E 31 / E 35, Towards / E 37) - Olpe ()
- A45: Olpe (start of concurrency with ) - Siegen - Gießen (E 44, end of concurrency with )
- : Gießen ( / E 44)
- : Gießen
- A480: Gießen (E 451)
- A5: Gießen (E 451) - Bad Hersfeld ()
- A7: Bad Hersfeld ()
- A4: Bad Hersfeld () - Eisenach - Erfurt - Zwickau ( / / E 40) - Chemnitz () - Dresden () - Görlitz
- Poland
- Ukraine[a]
- Russia
- Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan
- - Qo'ng'irot - Nukus
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan
Gallery[]
At Jabbeke in Belgium
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
Road between Beyneu (Kazakhstan) and Kungrad (Uzbekistan)
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ Antill, Peter; Dennis, Peter (2007). Stalingrad 1942. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84603-028-5.
External links[]
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- European route E40
- European routes in Kazakhstan
- European routes in Ukraine
- European routes in Russia
- Roads in France
- Roads in Belgium
- Roads in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Roads in Hesse
- Roads in Thuringia
- Roads in Saxony
- Roads in Poland
- Roads in Uzbekistan
- Roads in Turkmenistan
- Roads in Kyrgyzstan
- International E-road network