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World Metro Database

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A list like this and the rail systems that appear in it may always be somewhat controversial. One reason is that definitions of what a metro is vary according to who you ask (a popular definition is here). Differences between commuter rail, metros and trams are increasingly fading as new hybrid trains make it easier for metros to include sections on streets or heavy-rail tracks. 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.

Numerical data (except ridership) by Jordi Serradell 09/2010. Ridership data by John Kennes 07/2010. Ticket prices by UBS: Prices and Earnings (PDF, p. 20) 2009. Non-numerical data by Mike Rohde 10/2010.

'Stations*' (with an asterisk) counts each interchange station as one. Daily ridership is annual ridership divided by 365 (for convenience; please note that weekday and weekend ridership may differ significantly and refer to the Annual Ridership column if desired). 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). Only one logo per city is shown.



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1 ChicagoUSA"L"6 Jun 1892103.2 mi542,000
2 San FranciscoUSABART11 Sep 1972103.7 mi274,000
3 BursaTurkeyBursaray19 Aug 200214.0 mi
4 HaifaIsraelCarmelit19591.1 mi
5 SydneyAustraliaCityrail192613.7 mi
6 PoznanPolandFast Tram1 Mar 19973.8 mi
7 SeattleUSALight Rail18 Jul 200913.8 mi
8 EdmontonCanadaLight Rail22 Apr 197812.7 mi
9 ChangchunChinaLRTOct 200210.6 mi
10 Kuala LumpurMalaysiaLRT, Monorail16 Dec 199639.8 mi299,000
11 AtlantaUSAMARTA30 Jun 197949.2 mi93,200
12 BakuAzerbaijanMetro6 Nov 196720.4 mi482,000
13 KievUkraineMetro22 Oct 196037.2 mi1.76 million
14 Saint PetersburgRussiaMetro15 Nov 195568.5 mi2.25 million
15 MoscowRussiaMetro15 May 1935187.7 mi6.55 million
16 MeccaSaudi ArabiaMetro13 Nov 201011.2 mi
17 AmsterdamNetherlandsMetro16 Oct 197720.3 mi233,000
18 ValparaisoChileMetro23 Nov 200526.7 mi
19 TbilisiGeorgiaMetro11 Jan 196616.3 mi252,000
20 ShenyangChinaMetro27 Sep 201017.3 mi
21 NovosibirskRussiaMetro7 Jan 19868.9 mi192,000
22 DelhiIndiaMetro24 Dec 200286.2 mi838,000
23 MinskBelarusMetro26 Jun 198418.8 mi718,000
24 RotterdamNetherlandsMetro10 Feb 196829.2 mi238,000
25 PyongyangNorth KoreaMetro6 Sep 197314.0 mi95,900
26 BucharestRomaniaMetro16 Nov 197942.1 mi304,000
27 Santo DomingoDominican RepublicMetro30 Jan 20099.0 mi200,000
28 DnepropetrovskUkraineMetro29 Dec 19954.4 mi38,400
29 YerevanArmeniaMetro7 Mar 19817.5 mi46,600
30 CopenhagenDenmarkMetro19 Oct 200213.1 mi126,000
31 WarsawPolandMetro7 Apr 199514.0 mi345,000
32 SantiagoChileMetro15 Sep 197557.4 mi1.67 million
33 KharkovUkraineMetro23 Aug 197521.9 mi762,000
34 MontrealCanadaMetro14 Oct 196643.0 mi600,000
35 IzmirTurkeyMetro22 May 20007.1 mi82,200
36 ValenciaVenezuelaMetro18 Oct 20063.9 mi49,300
37 CaracasVenezuelaMetro27 Mar 198337.6 mi1.25 million
38 TokyoJapanMetro30 Dec 1927189.2 mi8.7 million
39 Mexico CityMexicoMetro5 Sep 1969125.4 mi3.88 million
40 HelsinkiFinlandMetro3 Aug 198213.1 mi156,000
41 TashkentUzbekistanMetro6 Nov 197722.5 mi195,000
42 Porto AlegreBrazilMetro2 Mar 198521.0 mi
43 MadridSpainMetro17 Oct 1919176.5 mi1.78 million
44 GuangzhouChinaMetro28 Jun 1999109.6 mi1.85 million
45 DubaiUnited Arab EmiratesMetro9 Sep 200932.4 mi
46 Palma de MallorcaSpainMetro25 Apr 20075.2 mi
47 LisbonPortugalMetro29 Dec 195925.5 mi488,000
48 ShanghaiChinaMetro10 Apr 1995261.0 mi3.56 million
49 Nizhny NovgorodRussiaMetro20 Nov 19859.6 mi90,400
50 DalianChinaMetro1 May 200330.5 mi
51 WuhanChinaMetro28 Sep 200417.4 mi35,600
52 NanjingChinaMetro27 Aug 200552.6 mi400,000
53 SamaraRussiaMetro26 Dec 19876.3 mi32,900
54 AnkaraTurkeyMetro30 Aug 199614.4 mi310,000
55 TehranIranMetro21 Feb 200041.0 mi1.26 million
56 PragueCzech RepublicMetro9 May 197436.7 mi1.6 million
57 MaracaiboVenezuelaMetro8 Jun 20094.0 mi
58 BilbaoSpainMetro11 Nov 199525.2 mi238,000
59 ChengduChinaMetro27 Sep 201011.5 mi
60 ShenzhenChinaMetro28 Dec 200415.7 mi362,000
61 LausanneSwitzerlandMetro24 May 19918.5 mi
62 BarcelonaSpainMetro30 Dec 192474.2 mi1.11 million
63 YekaterinburgRussiaMetro26 Apr 19915.3 mi126,000
64 AthensGreeceMetro195432.3 mi937,000
65 VolgogradRussiaMetro5 Nov 19842.1 mi
66 KazanRussiaMetro27 Aug 20055.2 mi19,200
67 MonterreyMexicoMetro25 Apr 199119.6 mi
68 IstanbulTurkeyMetro16 Sep 20009.3 mi186,000
69 ValenciaSpainMetro3 Oct 198819.8 mi
70 CairoEgyptMetro27 Sep 198740.7 mi1.92 million
71 TianjinChinaMetro28 Mar 200444.7 mi41,100
72 MedellinColombiaMetro30 Nov 199517.9 mi425,000
73 OportoPortugalMetro7 Dec 200213.5 mi
74 GuadalajaraMexicoMetro1 Sep 198914.9 mi
75 BudapestHungaryMetro2 May 189620.5 mi814,000
76 AdanaTurkeyMetro18 Mar 20095.0 mi
77 SofiaBulgariaMetro28 Jan 199811.2 mi79,500
78 SevilleSpainMetro2 Apr 200911.2 mi
79 NewcastleUnited KingdomMetro7 Aug 198047.5 mi104,000
80 BuffaloUSAMetro Rail18 May 19855.2 mi
81 Los AngelesUSAMetro Rail30 Jan 199336.9 mi129,000
82 KolkataIndiaMetro Railway24 Oct 198414.0 mi474,000
83 BaltimoreUSAMetro Subway21 Nov 198315.2 mi35,600
84 Saint LouisUSAMetrolink31 Jul 199345.6 mi
85 CataniaItalyMetropolitana27 Jun 19992.4 mi
86 NaplesItalyMetropolitana28 Mar 199319.8 mi79,500
87 TurinItalyMetropolitana4 Feb 20066.0 mi
88 RomeItalyMetropolitana10 Feb 195524.2 mi907,000
89 MilanItalyMetropolitana1 Nov 196446.4 mi899,000
90 GenoaItalyMetropolitana13 Jun 19903.2 mi
91 WashingtonUSAMetrorail27 Mar 1976106.4 mi611,000
92 MiamiUSAMetrorail21 May 198422.4 mi49,300
93 Kryvyi RihUkraineMetrotram26 Dec 198611.2 mi
94 Sao PauloBrazilMetrô14 Sep 197443.3 mi1.93 million
95 Rio de JaneiroBrazilMetrô5 Mar 197926.1 mi370,000
96 BrasiliaBrazilMetrô31 Mar 200126.1 mi43,800
97 RecifeBrazilMetrô11 Mar 198524.7 mi
98 Belo HorizonteBrazilMetrô1 Aug 198617.5 mi
99 ParisFranceMétro19 Jul 1900132.4 mi4.05 million
100 MarseilleFranceMétro26 Nov 197713.5 mi159,000
101 LilleFranceMétro25 Apr 198328.3 mi203,000
102 RennesFranceMétro16 Mar 20025.6 mi63,000
103 ToulouseFranceMétro26 Jun 199317.1 mi115,000
104 BrusselsBelgiumMétro20 Sep 197620.0 mi364,000
105 RouenFranceMétro17 Dec 19941.4 mi
106 LyonFranceMétro28 Apr 197819.1 mi499,000
107 CharleroiBelgiumMétro Léger21 Jun 197610.9 mi
108 PerugiaItalyMinimetro29 Jan 20081.9 mi
109 NahaJapanMonorail10 Aug 20038.0 mi
110 HiroshimaJapanMonorail20 Aug 199411.4 mi49,300
111 Las VegasUSAMonorail15 Jul 20043.9 mi
112 ChibaJapanMonorail28 Mar 19889.6 mi
113 KitakyushuJapanMonorail9 Jan 19855.5 mi
114 KamakuraJapanMonorail3 Mar 19704.1 mi
115 ChongqingChinaMonorail18 Jun 200512.1 mi
116 TamaJapanMonorail27 Nov 19989.9 mi
117 ManilaPhilippinesMRT1 Dec 198432.0 mi948,000
118 KaohsiungTaiwanMRT9 Mar 200826.5 mi82,200
119 TaipeiTaiwanMRT28 Mar 199658.5 mi1.27 million
120 SingaporeSingaporeMRT7 Nov 198780.6 mi1.81 million
121 ChennaiIndiaMRTS19 Oct 199716.8 mi
122 Hong KongChinaMTR1 Oct 1979116.9 mi3.62 million
123 DetroitUSAPeople MoverJul 19873.0 mi
124 AntwerpBelgiumPremetro25 Mar 19754.7 mi
125 The HagueNetherlandsRandstadRail16 Oct 200417.3 mi
126 ClevelandUSARapid Transit15 Mar 195519.3 mi13,700
127 WuppertalGermanySchwebebahn1 Mar 19018.3 mi
128 VancouverCanadaSkyTrain3 Jan 198643.2 mi203,000
129 BangkokThailandSkytrain, MRT5 Dec 199946.6 mi564,000
130 JacksonvilleUSASkyway30 May 19894.3 mi
131 GelsenkirchenGermanyStadtbahn1 Sep 19843.4 mi
132 StuttgartGermanyStadtbahn10 Jun 196614.9 mi
133 DuisburgGermanyStadtbahn11 Jul 19928.9 mi
134 BielefeldGermanyStadtbahn21 Sep 19713.2 mi
135 LudwigshafenGermanyStadtbahn29 May 19692.5 mi
136 BochumGermanyStadtbahn26 May 197913.4 mi
137 EssenGermanyStadtbahn5 Oct 196712.6 mi
138 DuesseldorfGermanyStadtbahn4 Oct 19816.0 mi
139 MulheimGermanyStadtbahn3 Nov 19795.6 mi
140 CologneGermanyStadtbahn11 Oct 196828.0 mi
141 HanoverGermanyStadtbahn28 Sep 197511.6 mi
142 BonnGermanyStadtbahn22 Mar 19755.6 mi
143 DortmundGermanyStadtbahn17 May 197618.3 mi
144 Buenos AiresArgentinaSubte1 Dec 191329.9 mi789,000
145 MumbaiIndiaSuburban Railway106.3 mi
146 DaeguSouth KoreaSubway26 Nov 199733.5 mi301,000
147 TorontoCanadaSubway30 Apr 195444.3 mi762,000
148 GwangjuSouth KoreaSubway28 Apr 200412.5 mi46,600
149 KobeJapanSubway13 Mar 197719.0 mi332,000
150 IncheonSouth KoreaSubway6 Oct 199918.3 mi200,000
151 BusanSouth KoreaSubway19 Jul 198559.0 mi704,000
152 GlasgowUnited KingdomSubway14 Dec 18966.5 mi41,100
153 OsakaJapanSubway20 May 193385.6 mi2.36 million
154 NewarkUSASubway26 May 19351.4 mi
155 BeijingChinaSubway1 Oct 1969141.4 mi3.99 million
156 SeoulSouth KoreaSubway15 Aug 1974178.3 mi5.61 million
157 NagoyaJapanSubway15 Nov 195755.3 mi1.17 million
158 FukuokaJapanSubway26 Jul 198118.5 mi340,000
159 KyotoJapanSubway1 Apr 198119.5 mi345,000
160 DaejeonSouth KoreaSubway16 Mar 200614.0 mi79,500
161 SapporoJapanSubway16 Dec 197129.8 mi573,000
162 PhiladelphiaUSASubway4 Mar 190738.5 mi192,000
163 New YorkUSASubway27 Oct 1904228.7 mi4.33 million
164 SendaiJapanSubway15 Jul 19879.2 mi159,000
165 YokohamaJapanSubway16 Dec 197235.8 mi542,000
166 OsloNorwayT-Bane22 May 196638.5 mi214,000
167 PittsburghUSAThe T3 Jul 19850.9 mi
168 BostonUSAThe T1 Sep 189737.6 mi400,000
169 San JuanPuerto RicoTren Urbano6 Jun 200510.7 mi24,700
170 LimaPeruTren Urbano13 Jan 20036.2 mi
171 StockholmSwedenTunnelbana1 Oct 195065.7 mi841,000
172 ViennaAustriaU-Bahn25 Feb 197846.4 mi1.4 million
173 HamburgGermanyU-Bahn1 Mar 191262.6 mi518,000
174 BerlinGermanyU-Bahn18 Feb 190291.6 mi1.39 million
175 NurembergGermanyU-Bahn1 Mar 197221.5 mi315,000
176 MunichGermanyU-Bahn19 Oct 197158.5 mi962,000
177 FrankfurtGermanyU-Bahn4 Oct 196812.7 mi
178 LondonUnited KingdomUnderground10 Jan 1863253.6 mi2.99 million





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