European route E 40 passes through the following cities: Europes road system incorporates a series of European routes, which are numbered E1 and up. ...

Calais - Dunkerque - Veurne - Oostende - Brugge - Gent - Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Aachen - Köln - Gummersbach - Olpe - Siegen - Wetzlar - Gießen - Bad Hersfeld - Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena - Gera - Chemnitz - Dresden - Bautzen - Görlitz - Bolesławiec - Legnica - Wrocław - Opole - Metropolian Katowice - Kraków - Tarnów - Rzeszów - Przemysl - L'viv - Dubno - Rivne - Zhytomyr - Kyiv - Lubny - Poltava - Kharkiv - Slovyans'k - Debal'tseve - Luhans'k - Kamensk-Sakhtinskiy - Volgograd - Astrakhan' - Atyrau - Nukus - Buchara - Samarkand - Tashkent - Almaty - ? -Ridder Location within France The Burghers of Calais, by Rodin, with Calais Hotel de Ville behind J.M.W. Turner: Calais Pier Calais (Dutch: Kales) is a town in northern France, located at 50°57N 1°52E. It is in the département of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is... Location within France Dunkirk ( French: Dunkerque; Dutch: Duinkerke) is a harbour city and a commune in the northernmost part of France, in the département of Nord, 10 km from the Belgian border. ... Veurne is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. ... Ostend (Dutch: Oostende, French: Ostende) is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West Flanders. ... Sometimes referred to as the Venice of the North, Bruges has many waterways that run through the city. ... gent is a morpheme, see contingent, agent, short for gentleman Native spelling for the Belgian city of Ghent This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, pronounced in French although often mistakenly pronounced by citizens of France; Dutch: Brussel; German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French Community of Belgium, the... // Location Leuven (help· info) is the capital of the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. ... Liège (Dutch: Luik, German: Lüttich; before 1946, the citys name was written Liége, with the acute accent) is a major city located in the Belgian province of Liège, of which it is the capital. ... Aachen (French Aix-la-Chapelle, Dutch Aken, Latin Aquisgranum, Ripuarian Oche) is a spa city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands, 65 km to the west of Cologne, and the westernmost city in Germany. ... Cologne skyline at night. ... ---Sidenote START--- Gummersbach is a city in the district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the county seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. ... Olpe may refer to Olpe, Kansas Olpe, Germany District Olpe, Germany This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Siegen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Half-timbered houses in Wetzlar Wetzlar is a city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse in Germany, capital of the Lahn-Dill district. ... theatre in Gießen Gießen or Giessen ( (help· info)) is a city in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hessen, capital of both the Gießen district and the Gießen region. ... Blick über die Altstadt von Bad Hersfeld Bad Hersfeld is a spa town in the north-eastern region of Hessen in Germany. ... Eisenach is a city in Thuringia, Germany. ... Map of Germany showing Gotha Gotha is a town in the Land of Bundesland of Thuringia, in Germany. ... Map of Germany showing Erfurt Mariendom and the Severikirche Erfurt [ˈɛrfÊŠrt] is a city in central Germany. ... For the locality in Texas called Weimar see Weimar, Texas, there is also Weimar bei Kassel and Weimar in Marburg-Biedenkopf. ... Jena is a town in central Germany on the River Saale. ... Gera is a city in the east of Thuringia, Germany. ... Chemnitz (Sorbian/Lusatian Kamjenica, formerly called Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a city in Saxony, Germany. ... From left to right: Brühls Terrace; the Hofkirche and the castle; the Semper Opera House. ... Bautzen (pronounced , listen, until 1868: Budissin; Upper Sorbian: BudyÅ¡in; Lower Sorbian: BudyÅ¡yn; , listen; Polish: Budziszyn; Czech: Budyšín) is a city in eastern Saxony, Germany, and capital of the eponymous district. ... Görlitz ( pronunciation, Lusatian: Zhorjelc, Czech ZhoÅ™elec) is a town in Germany on the river Neiße, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony, opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, with which it was united until 1945. ... BolesÅ‚awiec (-Polish, German: Bunzlau) is a town in southwestern Poland (Lower Silesia) with 41,300 inhabitants (2000). ... Legnica (pronounce: , formerly Lignica, German Liegnitz) is a town in south-western Poland. ... WrocÅ‚aw, ( [:vrɔʦwaf], German Breslau, Czech Vratislav, Latin Wratislavia or Vratislavia; many Polish documents in English use the spelling Wroclaw) is the capital of Lower Silesia in southwestern Poland, situated on the Oder River (Odra). ... Motto: none Voivodship Opole Municipal government Rada Miasta Opola Mayor Ryszard ZembaczyÅ„ski Area 96,2 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 128 800 250 000 1338/km² Founded City rights - 1217 Latitude Longitude 50°40 N 17°56 E Area code +48 77 Car plates OP Twin towns Alytus, Agii... Country Poland Historical region Silesia Voivodship Silesian Municipal government ZarzÄ…d GZM Mayor election. ... Kraków (pronounced: [krakuf]; variant English spelling Cracow; in full Royal Capital City of Kraków, Polish: Królewskie StoÅ‚eczne Miasto Kraków, see also Names of European cities in different languages) is one of the oldest and largest cities of Poland, with a 2004 population of 780,000... Motto: none Voivodship Lesser Poland Municipal government Rada Miejska Tarnów Mayor MieczysÅ‚aw BieÅ„ Area 72,4 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 121 300 - 1675/km² Founded City rights - 1330 Latitude Longitude 50°02 N 21°00 E Area code +48 14 Car plates KT Twin towns - Municipal Website... Rzeszów (pronounce: [ʒεʃuv]) is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of 164 000 (2005), granted a town charter in 1354, the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously of Rzeszow Voivodship (1945-1998). ... For alternative meanings of Przemysl see: Przemysl (disambiguation page). ... Lviv coat of arms Motto: Semper fidelis Municipal government City council (Львівська міська рада) Mayor City chairman Lyubomyr Bunyak Area 171,01 km² Population    total 2000    density 808,900 4786/km² Founded city rights 13th century 1353 Area code + 0322 Latitude Longitude 49°51′ N 24°01′ E Twin towns... Dubno (Ukrainian: Дубно) is a town in Ukraine, in Rivne Oblast, on the Ikva River. ... Motto: Oblast Rivne Oblast Mayor Viktor Chaika Area 58. ... Zhytomyr (Ukrainian, Russian Житомир, Polish: Å»ytomierz) is the capital of the Zhytomyrska oblast in Ukraine. ... Kiev (Київ, Kyiv, in Ukrainian; Киев, Kiev, in Russian) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river. ... Lubny (Ukrainian: ) is a city and the local capital of Lubny Raion (district) in Poltava Oblast, south-east of Poltava in Ukraine. ... Poltava (Ukrainian: Полта́ва) is a city and oblast center in Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine with some 313,400 inhabitants (2004). ... Kharkiv Gosprom Building Kharkiv (ukr. ... Luhansk ( Ukrainian: Луганськ, Luhansk; Russian: Луга́нск, Lugansk) is a city in southeastern Ukraine. ... (help· info) (Russian: ) (population: 1,012,000), formerly called (help· info) (, Tsaritsyn) (1598–1925) and (help· info) () (1925–1961) is a city in and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. ... Astrakhan coat of arms features the Khans crown and a sabre Astrakhan (Russian: ; Tatar: Ästerxan), a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. ... Atyrau is a city in Kazakhstan. ... Nukus (Karakalpak: Nökis/Нөкис) is a city in Uzbekistan, and the capital of the autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic. ... For other uses, see Bukhara (disambiguation). ... Colour photograph of Ulugh Beg Madrasa taken in Samarkand ca. ... Tashkent Tashkent (Toshkent or Тошкент in Uzbek, Ташкент in Russian; its name translates from the Turkoman language to Stone City in English) is the current capital of Uzbekistan and also of Tashkent Province. ... Map showing Almatys location in Kazakhstan Almaty Opera building. ... Ridder (Kazakh and Russian: Риддер/Ridder) is a town in the East Kazakhstan Province in north-eastern Kazakhstan, As of 2006 it has a population of 51,975. ...

• Within Belgium the E40 follows the A18, the A10 and the A3
• Within Germany the E40 follows the Bundesautobahn 4 for (nearly) its complete length.
• Within Poland the E40 follows the A4 highway and the DK 4 National Road.
• Within Ukraine the E40 follows the M11, M06, M03, M04 roads

M06 or E40 in Ukraine is in very poor condition. It is falling apart as we speak. Map of the A 4 in Germany Bundesautobahn 4 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 4, short form Autobahn 4, abbreviated as BAB 4 or A 4) is an Autobahn that crosses Germany in a west-east direction. ... The A4 highway in Poland is a motorway which, when completed, will run from west to east through southern Poland, from the Polish-German border in Zgorzelec (connecting to the German A4 autobahn), through Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków and Rzeszów to the Polish-Ukrainian border in Korczowa. ...

At the start of M03 in Kiev it is like a freeway.Unfortunatly this only lasts 16 km.

E40 within Ukraine mostly has 2 lanes. From L'viv to Rivine with some parts of the road with a barrier. On the Rivne roundabout it has 2 lanes. From Rivne to Zhytomyr it has a barrier all the way through. On the Zhytomyr roundabout it has 2 lanes. From Zhytomyr to Kiev it has a barrier in the middle and at some parts is like an expressway. E40 is the longest European route, about 8000 km long, ending in Kazakhstan near the border to China.