European Route E40 - Route

Route

The route passes through:

  • France: 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
  • Russia: Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - Volgograd - Astrakhan' (Russian route M21 and Russian 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 makes a big detour in Central Asia. The shortest road between Calais and Ridder is about 2000 km shorter, mostly using the E30 via Berlin-Moscow-Omsk.

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