European route E40

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;

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

France
- Calais ( E15 E402) - Ghyvelde
Belgium
- Adinkerke - Veurne - Jabbeke (File:BE-E404.svg E404)
- Jabbeke (File:BE-E404.svg E404) - Brugge ( E403) - Gent ( E17) - Brussels ( E19)
- Brussels ( E19. Towards E411)
- Brussels - Leuven ( E314) - Liège ( E25 E42 E313, Towards File:BE-E46.svg E46) - Verviers ( E42) - Lichtenbusch ( E421)
Germany
- A 44 Aachen ( E314)
- A 4 Aachen ( E314) - Köln ( E31 E35, Towards E29 E37) - Olpe ( E41)
- A 45 Olpe (Start of Concurrency with E41) - Gießen ( E44, End of Concurrency with E41)
- B 49 Gießen ( E41 E44)
- B 429 Gießen
- A 480 Gießen ( E451)
- A 5 Gießen ( E451) - Bad Hersfeld ( E45)
- A 7 Bad Hersfeld ( E45)
- A 4 Bad Hersfeld ( E45) - Eisenach - Erfurt - Gera ( E49 E51) - Chemnitz ( E441) - Dresden ( E55) - Görlitz
Poland
- Zgorzelec - Bolesławiec ( E36) - Legnica ( E65) - Wrocław ( E67 ) - Opole - Gliwice - Katowice - Mysłowice ( E75, Start of Concurrency with E462) - Kraków ( E77, End of Concurrency with E462) - Rzeszów ( E371) - Korczowa
Ukraine
- M 10 Krakivets - Lviv ( E372 E471)
- M 06 Lviv - Dubno ( E85) - Rivne - Zhytomyr ( E583) - Kiev ( E95 E101)
M 03 Kiev ( E95 E101) - Lubny - Poltava ( E584) - Kharkiv ( E105) - Sloviansk - Debaltseve ( E50)
M 04 Debaltseve ( E50) - Luhansk - Izvaryne

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

Russia
- A 260 (Formerly M 21) Donetsk - Kamensk-Shakhtinsky ( E40) - Volgograd ( E119)
- (Formerly ) Volgograd (Start of Concurrency with E119) - Astrakhan (End of Concurrency E119)
- A 340 Astrakhan - Volodarsky
Kazakhstan
- A 27 Kotyaevka -Atyrau (Start of Concurrency with E121) - Dossor
- A 33 Dossor - Beyneu (End of Concurrency with E121)
- P 1 Beyneu ( E121) - Akjigit
Uzbekistan
- Karakalpakstan - Qo‘ng‘irot - Nukus
Turkmenistan
- Konye-Urgench - Daşoguz ( E003)
Uzbekistan
- Yablykangly - Urgench - Buxoro ( E60 E004)
- M37 Buxoro ( E60 E004) - Navoiy - Samarqand ( E005)
- M39 Samarqand ( E005) - Jizzakh - Sirdaryo (Start of Concurrency with E123) - Tashkent ( E007)
Kazakhstan
- A 2 Zhibek Zholy - Shymkent (End of Concurrency with E123) - Taraz - Merki
- Merki - Chaldovar
Kyrgyzstan
- M39 Chaldavar - Kara-Balta ( E010) - Bishkek (Start of Concurrency with E125) - Konstantinovka
Kazakhstan
- A 2 Korday - Almaty ( E012, End of Concurrency with E125)
- A 3 Almaty ( E125 E012) - Sary-Ozek ( E013) - Taldykorgan - Usharal ( E014) - Ayagoz - Kalbatau ( E127 - Öskemen
- A 9 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.