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
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