European route E40

E40
Route information
Lenth	8,500 km (5,300 mi)
Major junctions
Frae	E15 Calais (Fraunce)
	E17 Ghent (Belgium) E25 Liège (Belgium) E35 Cologne (Germany) E36 Bolesławiec (Poland) E45 Kirchheim (Germany) E55 Dresden (Germany) E65 Legnica (Poland) E75 Myslowice/Gliwice (Poland) E85 Dubno (Ukraine) E95 Kiev (Ukraine) E105 Kharkiv (Ukraine) E50 Debaltseve (Ukraine) E119 Astrakhan (Russia) E123 Tashkent (Uzbekistan) E125 Almaty (Kazakhstan)
Tae	Ridder (Kazakhstan)
Location
Countries	Fraunce, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Roushie, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan
Heichwey seestem
Internaitional E-road network

European route E 40 is the langest European route,^[1] mair nor 8,000 kilometre (5,000 mi) lang, connectin Calais in Fraunce via Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Roushie, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, an Kyrgyzstan, wi Ridder in Kazakhstan near the border tae Cheenae.

Route

The route passes through:

• Fraunce: Calais - Dunkerque
• Belgium: Adinkerke - Veurne - Bruges - Ghent - Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Eupen
• Germany: Aachen - Cologne - Gummersbach - Olpe - Siegen - Wetzlar - Giessen - Bad Hersfeld - Herleshausen - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena - Gera - Chemnitz - Dresden - Bautzen - Görlitz
• Poland: Zgorzelec - Legnica - Wrocław - Opole - Gliwice - Katowice - Jaworzno - Kraków - Tarnów - Rzeszów - Korczowa
• Ukraine: L'viv - Dubno - Rivne - Zhytomyr - Kiev - Lubny - Poltava - Kharkiv - Slovyansk - Debaltseve - Luhans'k
• Roushie: Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - Volgograd^[1] - Astrakhan' (Roushie route M21 an Roushie route M6)
• Kazakhstan: Atyrau - Beyneu
• Uzbekistan: Kungrad - Nukus
• Turkmenistan: Daşoguz
• Uzbekistan: Buchara - Samarkand - Jizzakh - Tashkent
• Kazakhstan: Shymkent - Taraz
• Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek
• Kazakhstan: Korday - Almaty - Sary-Ozek - Taldykorgan - Usharal - Taskesken - Ayagoz - Georgiyevka - Öskemen - Ridder

The road maks a big detour in Central Asie. The shortest road atween Calais an Ridder is aboot 2000 km shorter, maistly uisin the E30 via Berlin-Moscow-Omsk.

Local nummerin

The E40 coincides wi the follaein naitional roads:

• France:
  • Calais - Dunkirk (border)
• Belgium:
  • Dunkirk (border) - Jabbeke
  • 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) - Tarnów
  • Tarnów - Radymno
  • Radymno - Przemyśl
  • Przemyśl - Medyka (border)
• Ukraine:
  • (planning)M10 Krakovets (border) - Lviv
  • M11 (border) - Lviv
  • M06 Lviv - Kiev
  • M03 Kiev - Debaltseve
  • M04 Debaltseve - Krasnodon (border)
• Russia:
  • M21 Donetsk (border) - Volgograd
  • M6 Volgograd - Astrakhan
• Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, an Kazakhstan:
  • A340 Astrakhan - Nukus
  • A380 Nukus - Bukhara
  • M37 Bukhara - Samarkand
  • M39 Samarkand - Korday (border)
  • M33/M39 Korday (border) - Almaty
  • А350 Almaty - Ridder

Gallery

• 
  At Jabbeke in Belgium
• 
  Crossin a railway at Chemnitz in eastren 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 atween Beyneu (Kazakhstan) an Kungrad (Uzbekistan)

References

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