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This page presents a list of the longest continuous subway tunnel sections of the world, excluding branches from the longest tunnel.
World's longest subway tunnel sections in use
| Name
|
System
|
Stations
|
Length in km (mi)
|
Year Completed
|
| Line 3
|
Guangzhou Metro
|
Airport South - Panyu Square
|
60.4 (37.5)
(longest branch)
|
2005-2010
|
| Line 10
|
Beijing Subway
|
Xiju - Shoujingmao
|
57.1 (35.5)
|
2008-2012
|
| Seoul Subway Line 5
|
Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation
|
Banghwa - Macheon
|
47.6 (29.6)
(longest branch)
|
1995-1996
|
| Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line
|
Moscow Metro
|
Altufyevo - Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
|
41.5 (25.7)
|
1983–2002
|
| Metro Madrid L-12: (Metro Sur)
|
Madrid Metro, Spain
|
circle route
|
40.96 (25.5)
|
2003
|
| Toei Oedo Line [citation needed]
|
TMBT Subway, Japan
|
Hikarigaoka - Shiodome - Tocho-mae
|
40.7 (25.3)
|
1991–2000
|
| Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
|
Moscow Metro
|
Medvedkovo - Novoyasenevskaya
|
37.8 (23.5)
|
1958–1990
|
| Circle MRT Line
|
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
|
Dhoby Ghaut - HarbourFront
|
35.7 km (22.2 mi)
|
2009–2011
|
| Busan Subway Line 2
|
Busan Transportation Corporation
|
Jangsan - Dongwon
|
35.5 km (22.1 mi)
|
1991-1999
|
| Seoul Subway Line 6
|
Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation
|
Eungam Loop - Bonghwasan
|
35.1 km (21.8 mi)
|
1995-2001
|
| Seoul Subway Line 7
|
Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation
|
Cheongdam - Bupyeong-gu Office
|
35.1 (21.7)
(longest branch)
|
2000-2012
|
| Line 7
|
Shanghai Metro
|
Meilan Lake - Huamu Road
|
34.4 km (21.4 mi)
|
2010
|
| Metro Madrid L-7
|
Madrid Metro, Spain
|
Hospital del Henares - Pitis
|
32.9 (20.5)
|
1974–2007
|
| Line 3 (Southern leg)
|
Guangzhou Metro
|
Tianhe Coach Terminal-Panyu Square
|
32.767 (20.45)
|
2005–2006
|
| Line 3 (Northern leg)
|
Guangzhou Metro
|
Airport South-Tiyu Xilu
|
32.05 (20.0)
|
2005–2010
|
| U7
|
Berlin U-Bahn
|
Rathaus Spandau-Rudow
|
31.8 (19.7)[1]
|
1924–1984
|
| Seoul Subway Line 9
|
Seoul Metro Line 9 Corporation
|
Gimpo Airport-Sports Complex
|
31.7 km (19.7 mi)
|
2009-2015
|
| Line 6
|
Beijing Subway
|
Haidian Wuluju - Caofang
|
31.0 km (19.3 mi)
|
2012
|
| IND Eighth Avenue Line and IND Fulton Street Line[2]
|
New York City Subway
|
Inwood – 207th Street to Grant Avenue
|
30.8 km (19.1 mi)
|
1932-1956
|
| Line 2 Orange
|
Montreal Metro
|
Côte-Vertu - Montmorency
|
30.8 km (19.1 mi)
|
1966–2007
|
| Line 2
|
Shanghai Metro
|
East Xujing - Longyang Road
|
30.2 km (18.8 mi)
|
2000
|
| Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line
|
Saint Petersburg Metro
|
Parnas - Kupchino
|
29.7 (18.54)
|
1961–2006
|
| Line 8, Shanghai Metro
|
Shanghai Metro
|
Shiguang Road - Luheng Road
|
29.7 km (18.5 mi)
|
2007-2009
|
| Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
|
Saint Petersburg Metro
|
Devyatkino - Prospekt Veteranov
|
29.4 (18.35)
|
1955–1978
|
| Bannan Line (Taipei Metro Line 5)
|
Taipei Metro
|
Dingpu - Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center
|
28.2 (17.6)
|
1999-2015
|
| Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line
|
Moscow Metro
|
Zyablikovo - Maryina Roshcha
|
28.2 (17.6)
|
1995–2011
|
| Line 2, Wuhan Metro
|
Wuhan Metro
|
Jinyintan - Optics Valley Square
|
27.985 (17.49)
|
2012
|
| Incheon Subway Line 1
|
Incheon Subway
|
Bakchon - International Business District
|
27.9 (17.42)
|
1999-2009
|
| Northern line
|
London Underground
|
Morden - East Finchley
|
27.8 (17.2)
|
1890–1940
|
| Tanimachi Line
|
Osaka Municipal Subway
|
Dainichi-Nagahara
|
27.1 (16.7)
|
1967–1983
|
| Meijo Line [citation needed]
|
Nagoya Municipal Subway
|
Kanayama-Nagoya Dome-mae Yada-Kanayama
|
26.4 (16.4)
|
1965–2004
|
| Line 9
|
Shanghai Metro
|
Jiuting - Middle Yanggao Road
|
23.3 km (14.5 mi)
|
2007-2010
|
| Line 1
|
Suzhou Metro
|
Mudu - Zhongnan Jie
|
25.7 (16.0)
|
2012
|
| Zhonghe-Xinlu Line (Taipei Metro Line 4)
|
Taipei Metro
|
Luzhou - Nanshijiao
|
25.1 (15.6)
(longest branch)
|
1998-2012
|
| Yurakucho Line
|
Tokyo Metro
|
Chikatetsu Narimasu-Tatsumi
|
24.6 (15.3)
|
1974–1988
|
| Munich U-Bahn U2
|
Munich U-Bahn
|
Feldmoching-Messestadt Ost
|
24.4 (15.2)
|
1980–2001
|
| Yellow Line
|
Delhi Metro, India
|
GTB Nagar - Qutub Minar
|
24 (14.9)[3][4]
|
2010
|
| L-1
|
Madrid Metro, Spain
|
Valdecarros - Pinar de Chamartín
|
23.88 km (14.8 mi)
|
1919–2007
|
| L-6
|
Madrid Metro, Spain
|
circle route
|
23.47 km (14.6 mi)
|
1979–2007
|
| Line 1 Green
|
Montreal Metro
|
Angrignon - Honoré-Beaugrand
|
23.26 km (14.5 mi)
|
1966–1978
|
| Warsaw Metro L-1
|
Warsaw Metro
|
Kabaty-Młociny
|
23.1 km (14.4 mi)
|
1995–2008
|
| Line 2
|
Beijing Subway
|
circle route
|
23.1 km (14.4 mi)
|
1971
|
| Line 3
|
Saint Petersburg Metro
|
Primorskaya - Rybatskoye
|
22.3 km (13.9 mi)
|
1967–1984
|
| Line 4
|
Shanghai Metro
|
Hailun Road - Yishan Road
|
21.1 km (13.1 mi)
|
2005-2007
|
| Toei Mita Line
|
Toei Subway
|
Meguro - Shimura-Sakaue
|
21.1 km (13.1 mi)
|
1968–2000
|
| Victoria line
|
London Underground
|
Walthamstow Central - Brixton
|
21 km (13.0 mi)
|
1968–1971
|
| Line 6, Shanghai Metro
|
Shanghai Metro
|
Boxing Road - Oriental Sports Center
|
20.34 km (12.6 mi)
|
2007-2011
|
| Tozai Line [citation needed]
|
Sapporo Municipal Subway [citation needed]
|
Miyanosawa - Shin-Sapporo [citation needed]
|
20.1 (12.4)
|
1976–1999
|
| Metro Madrid L-5
|
Madrid Metro, Spain
|
Alameda de Osuna - Empalme
|
20.005 (12.5)
|
1968–2006
|
| North East MRT Line
|
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
|
HarbourFront - Punggol
|
20 km (12.4 mi)
|
2003
|
| Bucharest Metro Line M3
|
Bucharest Metro
|
Preciziei - Anghel Saligny
|
20 km (12.4 mi)
|
2008
|
| Paris Métro Line 9
|
Paris Métro
|
Pont de Sèvres - Mairie de Montreuil
|
19.6 km (12.2 mi)
|
1922–1937
|
| several lines
|
Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Francisco
|
Balboa Park - West Oakland
|
19.5 km (12.1 mi)
|
1973
|
| Kol'tsevaya Line
|
Moscow Metro
|
Circle route
|
19.4 (12.2)
|
1950–1954
|
| Munich U-Bahn U3
|
Munich U-Bahn
|
|
19.4 (12.1)
|
1972–2009
|
| Midosuji Line
|
Osaka Municipal Subway
|
Nakatsu - Nakamozu
|
19.1 (12.0)
|
1933–1987
|
| Mexico City Metro Line 3
|
Mexico City Metro
|
La Raza - Universidad
|
18.7 km (11.6 mi)
|
1970-1983
|
| Paris Métro Line 7
|
Paris Métro
|
La Courneuve – 8 Mai 1945 - Villejuif – Louis Aragon
|
18.6 (11.6)
|
1910–1987
|
| Line 1
|
Shanghai Metro
|
Shanghai South Railway - Shanghai Circus World
|
18.1 km (11.2 mi)
|
1993-2004
|
| Avtozavodskaya Line
|
Minsk Metro
|
Kamennaya Gorka - Mogilevskaya
|
18.1 km (11.2 mi)
|
1990–2005
|
| Line B
|
Prague Metro
|
Rajská zahrada - Hůrka
|
18.0 (11.2)
|
1985–1998
|
| Line 2 (Athens Metro)[5]
|
Athens Metro
|
Anthoupoli - Elliniko
|
17,900 m (11.1 mi)
|
1991–2013
|
| Line 3 (Athens Metro)[5]
|
Athens Metro
|
Agia Marina - Doukissis Plakentias
|
17,800 m (11.1 mi)
|
1991–2013
|
| Washington, DC Metro Red Line
|
Washington Metro
|
Union Station - Medical Center
|
17.8 (11.05)
|
1976–1984
|
| Moskovskaya Line
|
Minsk Metro
|
Piatrovshchyna - Uruchcha
|
17.4 km (10.8 mi)
|
1984–2012
|
| Tōzai Line
|
Tokyo Metro
|
Nakano-Minami-Sunamachi
|
17.0 km (10.6 mi)
|
1964–1969
|
| Line 4
|
Barcelona Metro
|
Trinitat Nova - La Pau
|
16.7 (10.4)
|
1926–1999
|
| Mexico City Metro Line 1
|
Mexico City Metro
|
Observatorio - Metro Pantitlán
|
16.7 km (10.4 mi)
|
1969-1984
|
| Line 3
|
Barcelona Metro
|
Zona Universitària - Canyelles
|
16.6 (10.3)
|
1924–2001
|
| Metro Madrid L-3
|
Madrid Metro, Spain
|
Villaverde Alto - Moncloa
|
16.424 (10.2 mi)
|
1936–2007
|
| Line 1
|
Chongqing Rail Transit
|
Chaotianmen - Shapingba
|
16.4 (10.2)
|
2011
|
| Metro Madrid L-4
|
Madrid Metro, Spain
|
Argüelles - Pinar de Chamartín
|
16.0 (9.9 mi)
|
1944–2007
|
| Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line
|
Kiev Metro
|
Akademmistechko - Dnipro
|
16.0 (9.9)
|
1960–2003
|
| Seoul Subway Line 7
|
Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation
|
Suraksan - Konkuk University
|
16.0 (9.9) (shorter section)
|
1996
|
| Syretsko-Pecherska Line
|
Kiev Metro
|
Syrets - Pivdennyi Bridge
|
15.2 (9.4)
|
1989–2004
|
| Line 5 (Saint Petersburg Metro)
|
Saint Petersburg Metro
|
Komendantsky Prospekt - Mezhdunarodnaya
|
15.1 km (9.4 mi)
|
1997–2012
|
| Line 1, red
|
Tehran Metro
|
Tajrish-Shush
|
14.9 (9.3)
|
2001–2012
|
| Blue Line, line 10
|
Stockholm Metro
|
Kungsträdgården-Hjulsta
|
14.3 (8.8)
|
1975–1977
|
| Tokyo Metro Ginza Line
|
Tokyo Subway
|
Asakusa-Shibuya
|
14.1 (8.8)
|
1929–1997
|
| Metro Madrid L-2
|
Madrid Metro, Spain
|
Las Rosas - Cuatro Caminos
|
14.031 (8.9 mi)
|
1924–2011
|
| MTR - Island Line
|
MTR, Hong Kong
|
Kennedy Town - Heng Fa Chuen
|
14 (8.9 mi)
|
1985/1986/2014
|
| Paris Métro Line 12
|
Paris Métro
|
Porte de la Chapelle - Mairie d'Issy
|
13.9 (8.6)
|
1910–1934
|
| Line 2
|
Barcelona Metro
|
Paral•lel - Pep Ventura
|
13.1 (8.1)
|
1985–1997
|
World's longest subway tunnel sections under construction
See also
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