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E40
E40
	E40 interchange near Bruges, Belgium
Route information
Length	8,500 km (5,300 mi)
Major junctions
From	Template:Highway E (Europe) Calais (France)
	Template:Highway E (Europe) Ghent (Belgium) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Brussels (Belgium) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Liège (Belgium) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Cologne (Germany) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Bolesławiec (Poland) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Kirchheim (Germany) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Dresden (Germany) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Legnica (Poland) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Mysłowice/Gliwice (Poland) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Dubno (Ukraine) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Kiev (Ukraine) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Kharkiv (Ukraine) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Debaltseve (Ukraine) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Astrakhan (Russia) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) ; Template:Highway E (Europe) Almaty (Kazakhstan)
To	Ridder (Kazakhstan)
Location
Countries	France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan
Highway system
	International E-road network; A Class; B Class;

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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 description

The route passes through:

France

France: Calais - Dunkerque

E40 follows the A16.

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

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

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

Ukraine

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

M 10 (western border checkpoint) Krakivets - Lviv
M 06 Lviv - Dubno - Rivne - Zhytomyr - Kiev
M 03 Kiev - Lubny - Poltava - Kharkiv - Slovyansk - Debaltseve
M 04 Debaltseve - Luhansk - Izvaryne (eastern border checkpoint)

Note: in cursive are cities in a war zone and controlled by unmarked Russian troops

Russia

Russia: Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - Volgograd^[1] - Astrakhan' (Russian route M21 and Russian route M6)

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Atyrau - Beyneu

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan: Kungrad - Nukus

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan: Daşoguz

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan: Buchara - Samarkand - Jizzakh - Tashkent

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Shymkent - Taraz

Kyrgystan

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) M 10 Krakovets (border) - Lviv
- M 11 (border) - Lviv
- M 06 Lviv - Kiev
- M 03 Kiev - Debaltseve
- M 04 Debaltseve - Krasnodon (border)
Russia:
- M 19 Donetsk (border) - Shakhty
- M 4 Shakhty - Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
- M 21 Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - Volgograd
- M 6 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

At Jabbeke in Belgium
Crossing a railway at Chemnitz in eastern Germany
at Zabrze in Upper Silesian Industrial Region in Poland
E 40 road on Ukrainian highway Kyiv-Zytomyr
On Kazakh-Kyrgyz border at Korday
Road between Beyneu (Kazakhstan) and Kungrad (Uzbekistan)

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b Antill, Peter; Dennis, Peter (2007). Stalingrad 1942. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84603-028-5.

[stalingrad-1] Antill, Peter; Dennis, Peter (2007). Stalingrad 1942. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84603-028-5.

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 *Belgium:
 **[[File:BE-A18.svg|30px|A18]] Dunkirk (border) - [[Jabbeke]]
+**[[File:BE-E17.svg|30px|A18]] Ghent
 **[[File:BE-A10.svg|30px|A10|link=A10 motorway (Belgium)]] Jabbeke - Brussels
 **[[File:BE-A3.svg|30px|A3]] Brussels - [[Eynatten]] (border)