European route E40

E40
Route information
Length:	8,500 km (5,300 mi)
Major junctions
From:	E15 Calais (France)
	E17 Ghent (Belgium); E25 Liège (Belgium); E35 Cologne (Germany); E36 Bolesławiec (Poland); E45 Kirchheim (Germany); E55 Dresden (Germany); E65 Legnica (Poland); E75 Myslowice/Gliwice (Poland); E85 Dubno (Ukraine); E95 Kiev (Ukraine); E105 Kharkiv (Ukraine); E50 Debaltseve (Ukraine); E119 Astrakhan (Russia); E123 Tashkent (Uzbekistan); E125 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 in Eastern Europe and Asia

European route E 40 is the longest European route,^[1] more than 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi) 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[edit]

The route passes through:

France: Calais - Dunkerque
Belgium: Adinkerke - Veurne - Bruges - Ghent - Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Eupen
Germany: Aachen - Cologne - Gummersbach - Olpe - Siegen - Wetzlar - Giessen - Bad Hersfeld - Herleshausen - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena - Gera - Chemnitz - Dresden - Bautzen - Görlitz
Poland: Zgorzelec - Legnica - Wrocław - Opole - Gliwice - Katowice - Jaworzno - Kraków - Tarnów - Rzeszów - Korczowa
Ukraine: L'viv - Dubno - Rivne - Zhytomyr - Kiev - Lubny - Poltava - Kharkiv - Slovyansk - Debaltseve - Luhans'k
Russia: Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - Volgograd^[1] - Astrakhan' (Russian route M21 and Russian route M6)
Kazakhstan: Atyrau - Beyneu
Uzbekistan: Kungrad - Nukus
Turkmenistan: Daşoguz
Uzbekistan: Buchara - Samarkand - Jizzakh - Tashkent
Kazakhstan: Shymkent - Taraz
Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek
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 2000 km shorter, mostly using the E30 via Berlin-Moscow-Omsk.

Local numbering[edit]

The E40 coincides with the following national roads:

France:
- Calais - Dunkirk (border)
Belgium:
- Dunkirk (border) - Jabbeke
- 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) - Tarnów
- Tarnów - Radymno
- Radymno - Przemyśl
- Przemyśl - Medyka (border)
Ukraine:
- (planning)M10 Krakovets (border) - Lviv
- M11 (border) - Lviv
- M06 Lviv - Kiev
- M03 Kiev - Debaltseve
- M04 Debaltseve - Krasnodon (border)
Russia:
- M21 Donetsk (border) - 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