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, 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 description

The route passes through:

France

Main article: European route E40 in France

• France: Calais - Dunkerque

E40 follows the A16.

Belgium

Main article: European route E40 in Belgium

• Belgium: Adinkerke - Veurne - Bruges - Ghent - Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Eupen

E40 follows the A18 Adinkerke-Bruges, R0 past Brussels, A10 Bruges-Brussels and A3 Brussels-Eupen.

Germany

Main article: European route E40 in Germany

• Germany: Aachen - Cologne - Gummersbach - Olpe - Siegen - Wetzlar - Giessen - Bad Hersfeld - Herleshausen - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena - Gera - Chemnitz - Dresden - Bautzen - Görlitz

E40 follows the A44 past Aachen, A4 Aachen-Olpe, A45 Olpe-Wetzlar, B49/B429/A480 past Giessen, A5 Giessen-Bad Hersfeld and A4 Bad Hersfeld-Görlitz.

Poland

Main article: European route E40 in Poland

• Poland: Zgorzelec - Legnica - Wrocław - Opole - Gliwice - Katowice - Jaworzno - Kraków - Tarnów - Rzeszów - Korczowa

Ukraine

Main article: European route E40 in Ukraine

See also: Roads in Ukraine

It traverses Ukraine from west to east and crosses the following important cities along the way:

• (western border checkpoint) Krakivets - Lviv
• Lviv - Dubno - Rivne - Zhytomyr - Kiev
• Kiev - Lubny - Poltava - Kharkiv - Sloviansk - Debaltseve
• Debaltseve - Luhansk - Izvaryne (eastern border checkpoint)

Note: in cursive are cities in a war zone and controlled by separatists

Russia

Main article: European route E40 in Russia

• Russia: Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - Volgograd - Astrakhan (Russian route M21 and Russian route M6)

Kazakhstan

Main article: European route E40 in Kazakhstan

• Kazakhstan: Atyrau - Beyneu

Uzbekistan

Main article: European route E40 in Uzbekistan

• Uzbekistan: Kungrad - Nukus

Turkmenistan

Main article: European route E40 in Turkmenistan

• Turkmenistan: Daşoguz

Uzbekistan

• Uzbekistan: Buchara - Samarkand - Jizzakh - Tashkent

Kazakhstan

• Kazakhstan: Shymkent - Taraz

Kyrgyzstan

Main article: European route E40 in Kyrgyzstan

• Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek

Kazakhstan

• Kazakhstan: Korday - Almaty - Sary-Ozek - Taldykorgan - Usharal - Taskesken - Ayagoz - Georgiyevka - 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.

Major junctions

The E40 coincides with the following national roads:

• France:
  • Calais - Dunkirk (border)
• Belgium:
  • Dunkirk (border) - Jabbeke
  • Ghent
  • Jabbeke - Brussels
  • Brussels - Eynatten (border)
• Germany:
  • Eynatten (border) - Aachen
  • Aachen - Olpe
  • Olpe - Wetzlar
  • Wetzlar - Giessen
  • Giessen
  • Giessen - Reiskirchen
  • Reiskirchen - Hattenbach
  • Hattenbach - Kirchheim
  • Kirchheim - Görlitz (border)
• Poland:
  • Zgorzelec (border) - Rzeszów
  • Rzeszów - Jarosław
  • Jarosław - Medyka (border)
• Ukraine:
  • (planning) Krakovets (border) - Lviv
  • (border) - Lviv
  • Lviv - Kiev
  • Kiev - Debaltseve
  • Debaltseve - Krasnodon (border)
• Russia:
  • M19 Donetsk (border) - Shakhty
  • M4 Shakhty - Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
  • M21 Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - Volgograd
  • M6 Volgograd - Astrakhan
• Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan:
  • A340 Astrakhan - Nukus
  • A380 Nukus - Bukhara
  • M37 Bukhara - Samarkand
  • M39 Samarkand - Korday (border)
  • M33/M39 Korday (border) - Almaty
  • А350 Almaty - Ridder

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)