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A list like this one and the metro systems that appear in it may always remain somewhat controversial. One reason is that definitions of what a metro is may vary according to whom you ask (a popular definition is here). Differences between commuter rail, metros and trams are increasingly fading as new hybrid trains allow metros to include sections in streets or shared with heavy rail. In other cases, metros have gradually evolved from former tram or rail lines, so it is sometimes difficult to tell the actual length or date of inauguration of the metro system.

Stations* with an asterisk counts each interchange station as one. Passenger numbers are annual. Ticket prices are for 10 km or 10 stops Price of a single ticket for the public transport network (bus, streetcar or metro) for a journey of approx. 10 km/6 miles or at least 10 stops (2009).



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1AdanaTurkey18 Mar 20095.0 mi8
2AlgiersAlgeria20095.6 mi10
3AmsterdamNetherlands16 Oct 197720.3 mi3391 mio.
4AnkaraTurkey30 Aug 199614.4 mi23113 mio.
5AntwerpBelgium25 Mar 19754.7 mi11
6AthensGreece195432.3 mi52325 mio.
7AtlantaUSA30 Jun 197949.2 mi3934 mio.
8BakuAzerbaijan6 Nov 196719.7 mi21176 mio.
9BaltimoreUSA21 Nov 198315.2 mi1414 mio.
10BangkokThailand5 Dec 199928.8 mi44206 mio.
11BarcelonaSpain30 Dec 192468.7 mi152378 mio.
12BeijingChina1 Oct 1969141.4 mi1471200 mio.
13Belo HorizonteBrazil1 Aug 198617.5 mi19
14BerlinGermany18 Feb 190291.6 mi195447 mio.
15BielefeldGermany21 Sep 19713.2 mi7
16BilbaoSpain11 Nov 199525.2 mi3886 mio.
17BochumGermany26 May 197913.4 mi29
18BonnGermany22 Mar 19755.6 mi12
19BostonUSA1 Sep 189737.6 mi66145 mio.
20BrasiliaBrazil31 Mar 200126.1 mi2316 mio.
21BrusselsBelgium20 Sep 197620.0 mi61136 mio.
22BucharestRomania16 Nov 197942.1 mi50111 mio.
23BudapestHungary2 May 189620.5 mi42297 mio.
24Buenos AiresArgentina1 Dec 191329.5 mi76280 mio.
25BuffaloUSA18 May 19855.2 mi8
26BursaTurkey19 Aug 200214.0 mi23
27BusanSouth Korea19 Jul 198559.0 mi92257 mio.
28CairoEgypt27 Sep 198740.7 mi55700 mio.
29CaracasVenezuela27 Mar 198337.6 mi47510 mio.
30CataniaItaly27 Jun 19992.4 mi6
31ChangchunChinaOct 200210.6 mi16
32CharleroiBelgium21 Jun 197610.9 mi20
33ChennaiIndia19 Oct 199716.8 mi17
34ChibaJapan28 Mar 19889.6 mi18
35ChicagoUSA6 Jun 1892103.2 mi151198 mio.
36ChongqingChina18 Jun 200512.1 mi18
37ClevelandUSA15 Mar 195519.3 mi186 mio.
38CologneGermany11 Oct 196828.0 mi51
39CopenhagenDenmark19 Oct 200213.1 mi2237 mio.
40DaeguSouth Korea26 Nov 199733.5 mi56110 mio.
41DaejeonSouth Korea16 Mar 200614.0 mi2229 mio.
42DalianChina1 May 200330.5 mi12
43DelhiIndia24 Dec 200255.8 mi78310 mio.
44DetroitUSAJul 19873.0 mi13
45DnepropetrovskUkraine29 Dec 19954.4 mi611 mio.
46DortmundGermany17 May 197618.3 mi37
47DubaiUnited Arab Emirates9 Sep 200924.7 mi10
48DuesseldorfGermany4 Oct 19816.0 mi14
49DuisburgGermany11 Jul 19928.9 mi13
50EdmontonCanada22 Apr 19788.1 mi11
51EssenGermany5 Oct 196712.6 mi27
52FrankfurtGermany4 Oct 196812.7 mi31
53FukuokaJapan26 Jul 198118.5 mi35124 mio.
54GelsenkirchenGermany1 Sep 19843.4 mi9
55GenoaItaly13 Jun 19903.2 mi7
56GlasgowUnited Kingdom14 Dec 18966.5 mi1515 mio.
57GuadalajaraMexico1 Sep 198914.9 mi29
58GuangzhouChina28 Jun 1999109.4 mi88601 mio.
59GwangjuSouth Korea28 Apr 200412.5 mi2017 mio.
60HaifaIsrael19591.1 mi6
61HamburgGermany1 Mar 191262.6 mi97184 mio.
62HanoverGermany28 Sep 197511.6 mi21
63HelsinkiFinland3 Aug 198213.1 mi1758 mio.
64HiroshimaJapan20 Aug 199411.4 mi2118 mio.
65Hong KongChina1 Oct 1979116.9 mi951309 mio.
66IncheonSouth Korea6 Oct 199918.3 mi2973 mio.
67IstanbulTurkey16 Sep 20009.3 mi1068 mio.
68IzmirTurkey22 May 20007.1 mi1030 mio.
69JacksonvilleUSA30 May 19894.3 mi6
70KamakuraJapan3 Mar 19704.1 mi8
71KaohsiungTaiwan9 Mar 200826.5 mi3730 mio.
72KazanRussia27 Aug 20055.2 mi67 mio.
73KharkovUkraine23 Aug 197521.9 mi28278 mio.
74KievUkraine22 Oct 196037.2 mi46642 mio.
75KitakyushuJapan9 Jan 19855.5 mi13
76KobeJapan13 Mar 197719.0 mi26121 mio.
77KolkataIndia24 Oct 198414.0 mi21100 mio.
78Kryvyi RihUkraine26 Dec 198611.2 mi12
79Kuala LumpurMalaysia16 Dec 199639.8 mi60109 mio.
80KyotoJapan1 Apr 198119.5 mi32126 mio.
81Las VegasUSA15 Jul 20043.9 mi7
82LausanneSwitzerland24 May 19918.5 mi29
83LilleFrance25 Apr 198328.3 mi6274 mio.
84LimaPeru13 Jan 20036.2 mi6
85LisbonPortugal29 Dec 195925.5 mi52180 mio.
86LondonUnited Kingdom10 Jan 1863253.6 mi2681197 mio.
87Los AngelesUSA30 Jan 199336.9 mi3045 mio.
88LudwigshafenGermany29 May 19692.5 mi11
89LyonFrance28 Apr 197819.1 mi43182 mio.
90MadridSpain17 Oct 1919176.5 mi281686 mio.
91ManilaPhilippines1 Dec 198428.4 mi42346 mio.
92MaracaiboVenezuela8 Jun 20094.0 mi6
93MarseilleFrance26 Nov 197712.0 mi2658 mio.
94MedellinColombia30 Nov 199517.9 mi26155 mio.
95Mexico CityMexico5 Sep 1969125.4 mi1751460 mio.
96MiamiUSA21 May 198422.4 mi2219 mio.
97MilanItaly1 Nov 196446.4 mi88328 mio.
98MinskBelarus26 Jun 198418.8 mi25262 mio.
99MonterreyMexico25 Apr 199119.6 mi32
100MontrealCanada14 Oct 196643.0 mi73219 mio.
101MoscowRussia15 May 1935185.7 mi1802573 mio.
102MulheimGermany3 Nov 19795.6 mi13
103MumbaiIndia106.3 mi73
104MunichGermany19 Oct 197157.5 mi100349 mio.
105NagoyaJapan15 Nov 195755.3 mi93427 mio.
106NahaJapan10 Aug 20038.0 mi15
107NanjingChina27 Aug 200513.5 mi16102 mio.
108NaplesItaly28 Mar 199319.8 mi3029 mio.
109New YorkUSA27 Oct 1904228.7 mi4681624 mio.
110NewarkUSA26 May 19351.4 mi4
111NewcastleUnited Kingdom7 Aug 198047.5 mi6138 mio.
112Nizhny NovgorodRussia20 Nov 19859.6 mi1433 mio.
113NovosibirskRussia7 Jan 19868.9 mi1370 mio.
114NurembergGermany1 Mar 197221.5 mi4692 mio.
115OportoPortugal7 Dec 200213.5 mi15
116OsakaJapan20 May 193385.6 mi133860 mio.
117OsloNorway22 May 196638.5 mi7264 mio.
118Palma de MallorcaSpain25 Apr 20075.2 mi9
119ParisFrance19 Jul 1900132.4 mi3801473 mio.
120PerugiaItaly29 Jan 20081.9 mi7
121PhiladelphiaUSA4 Mar 190738.5 mi6667 mio.
122PittsburghUSA3 Jul 19850.9 mi3
123Porto AlegreBrazil2 Mar 198521.0 mi17
124PoznanPoland1 Mar 19973.8 mi6
125PragueCzech Republic9 May 197436.7 mi57597 mio.
126PyongyangNorth Korea6 Sep 197314.0 mi1635 mio.
127RecifeBrazil11 Mar 198524.7 mi30
128RennesFrance16 Mar 20025.6 mi1523 mio.
129Rio de JaneiroBrazil5 Mar 197926.1 mi34135 mio.
130RomeItaly10 Feb 195524.2 mi49331 mio.
131RotterdamNetherlands10 Feb 196829.2 mi3885 mio.
132RouenFrance17 Dec 19941.4 mi5
133Saint LouisUSA31 Jul 199345.6 mi37
134Saint PetersburgRussia15 Nov 195568.5 mi63832 mio.
135SamaraRussia26 Dec 19876.3 mi912 mio.
136San FranciscoUSA11 Sep 1972103.7 mi43100 mio.
137San JuanPuerto Rico6 Jun 200510.7 mi169 mio.
138SantiagoChile15 Sep 197551.6 mi93642 mio.
139Santo DomingoDominican Republic30 Jan 20099.0 mi16
140Sao PauloBrazil14 Sep 197438.1 mi58684 mio.
141SapporoJapan16 Dec 197129.8 mi49209 mio.
142SeattleUSA18 Jul 200913.8 mi12
143SendaiJapan15 Jul 19879.2 mi1758 mio.
144SeoulSouth Korea15 Aug 1974178.3 mi3482048 mio.
145SevilleSpain2 Apr 200911.2 mi21
146ShanghaiChina10 Apr 1995207.6 mi2301122 mio.
147ShenzhenChina28 Dec 200415.7 mi2373 mio.
148SingaporeSingapore7 Nov 198773.9 mi76571 mio.
149SofiaBulgaria28 Jan 199811.2 mi1451 mio.
150StockholmSweden1 Oct 195065.7 mi104303 mio.
151StuttgartGermany10 Jun 196614.9 mi19
152SydneyAustralia192613.7 mi14
153TaipeiTaiwan28 Mar 199656.3 mi85450 mio.
154TamaJapan27 Nov 19989.9 mi19
155TashkentUzbekistan6 Nov 197722.5 mi2971 mio.
156TbilisiGeorgia11 Jan 196616.3 mi2292 mio.
157TehranIran21 Feb 200031.4 mi47353 mio.
158The HagueNetherlands16 Oct 200417.3 mi30
159TianjinChina28 Mar 200444.7 mi3715 mio.
160TokyoJapan30 Dec 1927189.2 mi2903174 mio.
161TorontoCanada30 Apr 195444.3 mi74278 mio.
162ToulouseFrance26 Jun 199317.1 mi3842 mio.
163TurinItaly4 Feb 20066.0 mi14
164ValenciaSpain3 Oct 198819.8 mi38
165ValenciaVenezuela18 Oct 20063.9 mi718 mio.
166ValparaisoChile23 Nov 200526.7 mi20
167VancouverCanada3 Jan 198643.2 mi4974 mio.
168ViennaAustria25 Feb 197843.4 mi96498 mio.
169VolgogradRussia5 Nov 19842.1 mi2
170WarsawPoland7 Apr 199514.0 mi21114 mio.
171WashingtonUSA27 Mar 1976106.4 mi90215 mio.
172WuhanChina28 Sep 20046.3 mi10
173WuppertalGermany1 Mar 19018.3 mi20
174YekaterinburgRussia26 Apr 19915.3 mi746 mio.
175YerevanArmenia7 Mar 19817.5 mi1017 mio.
176YokohamaJapan16 Dec 197235.8 mi48198 mio.


Numerical data (except ridership) by Jordi Serradell 8/2009. Ridership data by John Kennes 7/2008. Ticket prices by UBS: Prices and Earnings (PDF, p. 20) 2009. Non-numerical data by Mike Rohde 8/2009.






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