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 E40 interchange nearBruges, Belgium | |
| Route information | |
| Length | 8,641 km (5,369 mi) |
| Major junctions | |
| West end |  E15 inCalais, France |
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| East end | Ridder, Kazakhstan |
| Location | |
| Countries |  France Belgium Germany Poland Ukraine Russia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan |
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European route E40 is the longestEuropean route,[1] more than 8,000 kilometres (4,971 miles) long, connectingCalais inFrance viaBelgium,Germany,Poland,Ukraine,Russia,Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan,Turkmenistan, andKyrgyzstan, withRidder inKazakhstan near the border with Russia andChina.
A different route, connecting Calais and Ridder, is about 2,000 kilometres (1,243 miles) shorter, mostly using theE30 via Berlin-Moscow-Omsk. The E40 differs from that route in order to provide additional direct east–west access to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, with a combined population base approaching 50 million people as of 2021.
Since 2014, parts of the road in easternUkraine have been under the control of the separatistDonetsk People's Republic andLugansk People's Republic. During the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,Russia tookdirect control of the areas inDonbas.
A18:Adinkerke -Veurne -Jabbeke (E404)
A10:Jabbeke (E404) -Bruges (E403) -Gent (E17) -Brussels (E19)
R0 (Brussels Ring):Brussels (E19 TowardsE411)
A3:Brussels -Leuven (E314) -Liège (E25 /E42 /E313, TowardsE46) -Verviers (E42) -Lichtenbusch (E421)
A 44:Aachen (E 314)
A 4:Aachen (E 314) -Cologne (E 31 /E 35, TowardsE 29 /E 37) -Olpe (E 41)
A 45:Olpe (start of concurrency withE 41) -Siegen -Gießen (E 44, end of concurrency withE 41)
B 49:Gießen (E 41 /E 44)
B 429:Gießen
A 480:Gießen (E 451)
A 5:Gießen (E 451) -Bad Hersfeld (E 45)
A 7:Bad Hersfeld (E 45)A 4:Bad Hersfeld (E 45) -Eisenach -Erfurt -Zwickau (E 49 /E 51 /E 40) -Chemnitz (E 441) -Dresden (E 55) -Görlitz
A 4:Zgorzelec -Bolesławiec (E36) -Legnica (E65) -Wrocław (E67) -Opole -Gliwice -Katowice -Mysłowice (E75, start of concurrency withE462) -Kraków (E77, end of concurrency withE462) -Rzeszów (E371) -Korczowa
M 10:Krakovets -Lviv (
E372
E471)
M 06:Lviv -Dubno (E85) -Rivne -Zhytomyr (E583) -Kyiv (E95 /E101)
M 03:Kyiv (E95 /E101) -Lubny -Poltava (E584) -Kharkiv (E105) -Sloviansk -Debaltseve (E50)
M 30:Debaltseve (E50) -Luhansk -Izvaryne
R 22:Volgograd (start of concurrency withE119) -Astrakhan (end of concurrencyE119)
A 27:Kotyaevka -Atyrau (start of concurrency withE121) -Dossor
A 33:Dossor -Beyneu (end of concurrency withE121)
P 1:Beyneu (E121) -Akjigit - Border withUzbekistan
E003)
E60
E004)E60E004) -Navoiy -Samarqand (
E005)
E007) -G‘ishtko‘prik - Border ofKazakhstan
E010)E010) -Bishkek (Start of Concurrency with
E125)
A 2:Korday -Almaty (E012, end of concurrency withE125)
A 3:Almaty (E125 /E012) -Sary-Ozek (E013) -Taldykorgan -Usharal (E014) -Ayagoz -Qalbatau (E127) -Öskemen
A 10:Öskemen -Sekisovka
A 9:Sekisovka -Ridder
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