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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
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The route passes through:
France
E40 follows the A16.
Belgium
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
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
- Turkmenistan: Daşoguz
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
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:
- Belgium:
- Germany:
Eynatten (border) - Aachen
Aachen - Olpe
Olpe - Wetzlar
Wetzlar - Giessen
Giessen
Giessen - Reiskirchen
Reiskirchen - Hattenbach
Hattenbach - Kirchheim
Kirchheim - Görlitz (border)
- Poland:
- Ukraine:
- Russia:
- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan:
External links
Gallery
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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
References
Notes
- ^ a b Antill, Peter; Dennis, Peter (2007). Stalingrad 1942. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84603-028-5.
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- International E-road network
- 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 Lviv Oblast
- Roads in Rivne Oblast
- Roads in Zhytomyr Oblast
- Roads in Kiev Oblast
- Roads in Kiev
- Roads in Poltava Oblast
- Roads in Kharkiv Oblast
- Roads in Donetsk Oblast
- Roads in Luhansk Oblast
- Roads in Russia
- Roads in Kazakhstan
- Roads in Uzbekistan
- Roads in Turkmenistan
- Roads in Kyrgyzstan