# European route E40

European route E40 is the longest European route, 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.
A different route, connecting Calais and Ridder, is about 2,000 kilometres (1,243 miles) shorter, mostly using the E30 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 eastern Ukraine have been under the control of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia took direct control of the areas in Donbas.

## Route
### France

* A 16: Calais (E15 / E402) - Dunkirk - Ghyvelde

### Belgium

* A18: Adinkerke - Veurne - Jabbeke (E404)
* A10: Jabbeke (E404) - Bruges (E403) - Gent (E17) - Brussels (E19)
* R0 (Brussels Ring): Brussels (E19 Towards E411)
* A3: Brussels - Leuven (E314) - Liège (E25 / E42 / E313, Towards E46) - Verviers (E42) - Lichtenbusch (E421)

### Germany

* A 44: Aachen (E 314)
* A 4: Aachen (E 314) - Cologne (E 31 / E 35, Towards E 29 / E 37) - Olpe (E 41)
* A 45: Olpe (start of concurrency with E 41) - Siegen - Gießen (E 44, end of concurrency with E 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

### Poland

* A 4: Zgorzelec - Bolesławiec (E36) - Legnica (E65) - Wrocław (E67) - Opole - Gliwice - Katowice - Mysłowice (E75, start of concurrency with E462) - Kraków (E77, end of concurrency with E462) - Rzeszów (E371) - Korczowa

### Ukraine

* 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

### Russia

* R260: Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (E40) - Volgograd (E119)
* R 22: Volgograd (start of concurrency with E119) - Astrakhan (end of concurrency E119)
* 12A-235: Astrakhan - Krasny Yar

### Kazakhstan (west)

* A 27: Kotyaevka - Atyrau (start of concurrency with E121) - Dossor
* A 33: Dossor - Beyneu (end of concurrency with E121)
* P 1: Beyneu (E121) - Akjigit - Border with Uzbekistan

### Uzbekistan (west)

* A380 A380 Road: Border with Kazakhstan - Karakalpakstan - Qo'ng'irot - Xojeli - Nukus
* A381 A381 Road: Xojeli - Border with Turkmenistan

### Turkmenistan

* Border with Uzbekistan - Konye-Urgench - Daşoguz ( E003)

### Uzbekistan (east)

* 4P159 4P159 Road: Border with Turkmenistan - Shovot - Urgench
* 4P156 4P156 Road: Urgench - Hazorasp - A380
* A380 A380 Road: 4P156 - Bukhara ( E60 E004)
* M37 M37 Road: Bukhara ( E60 E004) - Navoiy - Samarqand ( E005)
* M39 M39 Road: Samarkand - Jizzax - Sardoba
* A373 A373 Road: Sardoba - Oqoltin
* M34 M34 Road: Oqoltin - Sirdaryo
* M39 M39 Road: Sirdaryo (start of concurrency with E123) - Chinoz - Tashkent ( E007) -G‘ishtko‘prik - Border of Kazakhstan

### Kazakhstan (middle)

* A 2: Zhibek Zholy - Shymkent (end of concurrency with E123) - Taraz - Merki
* M 39: Merki - Chaldovar

### Kyrgyzstan

* ЭМ-03 ЭМ-03 Road: Border of Kazakhstan - Chaldovar - Kara-Balta ( E010)
* ЭМ-04 ЭМ-04 Road: Kara-Balta ( E010) - Bishkek (Start of Concurrency with E125)
* ЭМ-02 ЭМ-02 Road: Bishkek Bypass
* ЭМ-01 ЭМ-01 Road: Bishkek - Border of Kazakhstan

### Kazakhstan (east)

* A 2: Korday - Almaty (E012, end of concurrency with E125)
* A 3: Almaty (E125 / E012) - Sary-Ozek (E013) - Taldykorgan - Usharal (E014) - Ayagoz - Qalbatau (E127) - Öskemen
* A 10: Öskemen - Sekisovka
* A 9: Sekisovka - Ridder

## Gallery

* At Jabbeke in Belgium
* Crossing a railway at Chemnitz in eastern Germany
* at Zabrze in Upper Silesian Industrial Region in Poland
* E40 road on Ukrainian highway Kyiv-Zhytomyr
* On Kazakh-Kyrgyz border at Korday
* Road between Beyneu (Kazakhstan) and Kungrad (Uzbekistan)
* E40 in Kazakhstan. Between Tashkent and Shymkent in the direction to Almaty
* Between Almaty and Taldyqorghan near city Konaev (Kazakhstan)