E40 | |
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E40 interchange near Bruges, Belgium | |
Route information | |
Length | 8,641 km (5,369 mi) |
Major junctions | |
West end | E15 in Calais, France |
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East end | Ridder, Kazakhstan |
Location | |
Countries | France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan |
Highway system | |
International E-road network
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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 with Russia and China.
Route
- France
- Belgium
- Germany
- A44: Aachen (E 314)
- A4: Aachen (E 314) - Köln (E 31 / E 35, Towards E 29 / E 37) - Olpe (E 41)
- A45: Olpe (start of concurrency with E 41) - Siegen - Gießen (E 44, end of concurrency with E 41)
- B49: Gießen (E 41 / E 44)
- B429: Gießen
- A480: Gießen (E 451)
- A5: Gießen (E 451) - Bad Hersfeld (E 45)
- A7: Bad Hersfeld (E 45)
- A4: Bad Hersfeld (E 45) - Eisenach - Erfurt - Zwickau (E 49 / E 51 / E 40) - Chemnitz (E 441) - Dresden (E 55) - Görlitz
- Poland
- Ukraine[a]
- Russia
- Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan
- Konye-Urgench - Daşoguz ( E003)
- Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- M39: Chaldavar - Kara-Balta ( E010) - Bishkek (Start of Concurrency with E125) - Konstantinovka
- Kazakhstan
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.
Gallery
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