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.
Read more about this topic: European Route E40
Famous quotes containing the word route:
“In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“no arranged terror: no forcing of image, plan,
or thought:
no propaganda, no humbling of reality to precept:
terror pervades but is not arranged, all possibilities
of escape open: no route shut,”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)