European route E40

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E 40 roadsign in Skołoszów, Poland

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E 40 in Eastern Europe and Asia

European route E 40 is the longest European route,<ref name=stalingrad>Template:Cite book</ref> more than Template:Convert 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

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  • x15px Calais (Template:BAB-E Template:BAB-E) - Ghyvelde
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  • x16px Adinkerke - Veurne - Jabbeke (Template:BAB-E)
  • x16px Jabbeke (Template:BAB-E) - Brugge (Template:BAB-E) - Gent (Template:BAB-E) - Brussels (Template:BAB-E)
  • x16px Brussels (Template:BAB-E. Towards Template:BAB-E)
  • x16px Brussels - Leuven (Template:BAB-E) - Liège (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E, Towards Template:BAB-E) - Verviers (Template:BAB-E) - Lichtenbusch (Template:BAB-E)
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  • Template:BAB-A Aachen (Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:BAB-A Aachen (Template:BAB-E) - Köln (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E, Towards Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E) - Olpe (Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:BAB-A Olpe (Start of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E) - Gießen (Template:BAB-E, End of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:BAB-B Gießen (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E)
  • Template:BAB-B Gießen
  • Template:BAB-A Gießen (Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:BAB-A Gießen (Template:BAB-E) - Bad Hersfeld (Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:BAB-A Bad Hersfeld (Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:BAB-A Bad Hersfeld (Template:BAB-E) - Eisenach - Erfurt - Gera (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E) - Chemnitz (Template:BAB-E) - Dresden (Template:BAB-E) - Görlitz
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  • x15px Zgorzelec - Bolesławiec (Template:BAB-E) - Legnica (Template:BAB-E) - Wrocław (Template:BAB-E ) - Opole - Gliwice - Katowice - Mysłowice (Template:BAB-E, Start of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E) - Kraków (Template:BAB-E, End of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E) - Rzeszów (Template:BAB-E) - Korczowa
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  • Template:Highway M (Ukraine) Krakivets - Lviv (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E)
  • Template:Highway M (Ukraine) Lviv - Dubno (Template:BAB-E) - Rivne - Zhytomyr (Template:BAB-E) - Kiev (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E)
• Template:Highway M (Ukraine) Kiev (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E) - Lubny - Poltava (Template:BAB-E) - Kharkiv (Template:BAB-E) - Sloviansk - Debaltseve (Template:BAB-E)
• Template:Highway M (Ukraine) Debaltseve (Template:BAB-E) - Luhansk - Izvaryne

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

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  • Template:Road marker-RU (Formerly Template:Road marker-RU) Donetsk - Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (Template:BAB-E) - Volgograd (Template:BAB-E)
  • 30px (Formerly 30px) Volgograd (Start of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E) - Astrakhan (End of Concurrency Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:Road marker-RU Astrakhan - Volodarsky
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  • Template:Road marker-KZ Kotyaevka -Atyrau (Start of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E) - Dossor
  • Template:Road marker-KZ Dossor - Beyneu (End of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:Road marker-KZ Beyneu (Template:BAB-E) - Akjigit
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  • Karakalpakstan - Qo‘ng‘irot - Nukus
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  • Konye-Urgench - Daşoguz (Template:BAB-E)
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  • Yablykangly - Urgench - Buxoro (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E)
  • M37 Buxoro (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E) - Navoiy - Samarqand (Template:BAB-E)
  • M39 Samarqand (Template:BAB-E) - Jizzakh - Sirdaryo (Start of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E) - Tashkent (Template:BAB-E)
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  • Template:Road marker-KZ Zhibek Zholy - Shymkent (End of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E) - Taraz - Merki
  • Merki - Chaldovar
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  • M39 Chaldavar - Kara-Balta (Template:BAB-E) - Bishkek (Start of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E) - Konstantinovka
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  • Template:Road marker-KZ Korday - Almaty (Template:BAB-E, End of Concurrency with Template:BAB-E)
  • Template:Road marker-KZ Almaty (Template:BAB-ETemplate:BAB-E) - Sary-Ozek (Template:BAB-E) - Taldykorgan - Usharal (Template:BAB-E) - Ayagoz - Kalbatau (Template:BAB-E - Öskemen
  • Template:Road marker-KZ Öskemen - Ridder

The road makes a big detour in Central Asia. The shortest road between Calais and Ridder is about Template:Convert shorter, mostly using the E30 via Berlin-Moscow-Omsk.

External links

• The E40 as a Path of Remembrance in Europe

Gallery

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  At Jabbeke in Belgium

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  Crossing a railway at Chemnitz in eastern Germany

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  at Zabrze in Upper Silesian Industrial Region in Poland

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  E 40 road on Ukrainian highway Kyiv-Zytomyr

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  On Kazakh-Kyrgyz border at Korday

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  Road between Beyneu (Kazakhstan) and Kungrad (Uzbekistan)