World Metro Database

#	City  >	< Country  >	< System  >	<  Opening  >	< Length  >	< Stations  >	< Daily rider.
1	Mumbai	India	Suburban Railway		106.3 mi	73
2	London	United Kingdom	Underground	10 Jan 1863	253.6 mi	268	2.99 million
3	Chicago	USA	"L"	6 Jun 1892	103.2 mi	151	542,000
4	Budapest	Hungary	Metro	2 May 1896	20.5 mi	42	814,000
5	Glasgow	United Kingdom	Subway	14 Dec 1896	6.5 mi	15	41,100
6	Boston	USA	The T	1 Sep 1897	37.6 mi	66	400,000
7	Paris	France	Métro	19 Jul 1900	132.4 mi	380	4.05 million
8	Wuppertal	Germany	Schwebebahn	1 Mar 1901	8.3 mi	20
9	Berlin	Germany	U-Bahn	18 Feb 1902	91.6 mi	195	1.39 million
10	New York	USA	Subway	27 Oct 1904	228.7 mi	468	4.33 million
11	Philadelphia	USA	Subway	4 Mar 1907	38.5 mi	66	192,000
12	Hamburg	Germany	U-Bahn	1 Mar 1912	62.6 mi	97	518,000
13	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Subte	1 Dec 1913	29.9 mi	77	789,000
14	Madrid	Spain	Metro	17 Oct 1919	176.5 mi	281	1.78 million
15	Barcelona	Spain	Metro	30 Dec 1924	74.2 mi	162	1.11 million
16	Sydney	Australia	Cityrail	1926	13.7 mi	14
17	Tokyo	Japan	Metro	30 Dec 1927	189.2 mi	290	8.7 million
18	Osaka	Japan	Subway	20 May 1933	85.6 mi	133	2.36 million
19	Moscow	Russia	Metro	15 May 1935	187.7 mi	182	6.55 million
20	Newark	USA	Subway	26 May 1935	1.4 mi	4
21	Stockholm	Sweden	Tunnelbana	1 Oct 1950	65.7 mi	104	841,000
22	Athens	Greece	Metro	1954	32.3 mi	53	937,000
23	Toronto	Canada	Subway	30 Apr 1954	44.3 mi	74	762,000
24	Rome	Italy	Metropolitana	10 Feb 1955	24.2 mi	49	907,000
25	Cleveland	USA	Rapid Transit	15 Mar 1955	19.3 mi	18	13,700
26	Saint Petersburg	Russia	Metro	15 Nov 1955	68.5 mi	63	2.25 million
27	Nagoya	Japan	Subway	15 Nov 1957	55.3 mi	93	1.17 million
28	Haifa	Israel	Carmelit	1959	1.1 mi	6
29	Lisbon	Portugal	Metro	29 Dec 1959	25.5 mi	52	488,000
30	Kiev	Ukraine	Metro	22 Oct 1960	37.2 mi	46	1.76 million
31	Milan	Italy	Metropolitana	1 Nov 1964	46.4 mi	88	899,000
32	Tbilisi	Georgia	Metro	11 Jan 1966	16.3 mi	22	252,000
33	Oslo	Norway	T-Bane	22 May 1966	38.5 mi	73	214,000
34	Stuttgart	Germany	Stadtbahn	10 Jun 1966	14.9 mi	19
35	Montreal	Canada	Metro	14 Oct 1966	43.0 mi	73	600,000
36	Essen	Germany	Stadtbahn	5 Oct 1967	12.6 mi	27
37	Baku	Azerbaijan	Metro	6 Nov 1967	20.4 mi	22	482,000
38	Rotterdam	Netherlands	Metro	10 Feb 1968	29.2 mi	38	238,000
39	Frankfurt	Germany	U-Bahn	4 Oct 1968	12.7 mi	31
40	Cologne	Germany	Stadtbahn	11 Oct 1968	28.0 mi	51
41	Ludwigshafen	Germany	Stadtbahn	29 May 1969	2.5 mi	11
42	Mexico City	Mexico	Metro	5 Sep 1969	125.4 mi	175	3.88 million
43	Beijing	China	Subway	1 Oct 1969	141.4 mi	147	3.99 million
44	Kamakura	Japan	Monorail	3 Mar 1970	4.1 mi	8
45	Bielefeld	Germany	Stadtbahn	21 Sep 1971	3.2 mi	7
46	Munich	Germany	U-Bahn	19 Oct 1971	58.5 mi	102	962,000
47	Sapporo	Japan	Subway	16 Dec 1971	29.8 mi	49	573,000
48	Nuremberg	Germany	U-Bahn	1 Mar 1972	21.5 mi	46	315,000
49	San Francisco	USA	BART	11 Sep 1972	103.7 mi	43	274,000
50	Yokohama	Japan	Subway	16 Dec 1972	35.8 mi	48	542,000
51	Pyongyang	North Korea	Metro	6 Sep 1973	14.0 mi	16	95,900
52	Prague	Czech Republic	Metro	9 May 1974	36.7 mi	57	1.6 million
53	Seoul	South Korea	Subway	15 Aug 1974	178.3 mi	348	5.61 million
54	Sao Paulo	Brazil	Metrô	14 Sep 1974	43.3 mi	63	1.93 million
55	Bonn	Germany	Stadtbahn	22 Mar 1975	5.6 mi	12
56	Antwerp	Belgium	Premetro	25 Mar 1975	4.7 mi	11
57	Kharkov	Ukraine	Metro	23 Aug 1975	21.9 mi	28	762,000
58	Santiago	Chile	Metro	15 Sep 1975	57.4 mi	101	1.67 million
59	Hanover	Germany	Stadtbahn	28 Sep 1975	11.6 mi	21
60	Washington	USA	Metrorail	27 Mar 1976	106.4 mi	90	611,000
61	Dortmund	Germany	Stadtbahn	17 May 1976	18.3 mi	37
62	Charleroi	Belgium	Métro Léger	21 Jun 1976	10.9 mi	20
63	Brussels	Belgium	Métro	20 Sep 1976	20.0 mi	61	364,000
64	Kobe	Japan	Subway	13 Mar 1977	19.0 mi	26	332,000
65	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Metro	16 Oct 1977	20.3 mi	33	233,000
66	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Metro	6 Nov 1977	22.5 mi	29	195,000
67	Marseille	France	Métro	26 Nov 1977	13.5 mi	30	159,000
68	Vienna	Austria	U-Bahn	25 Feb 1978	46.4 mi	102	1.4 million
69	Edmonton	Canada	Light Rail	22 Apr 1978	12.7 mi	15
70	Lyon	France	Métro	28 Apr 1978	19.1 mi	43	499,000
71	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Metrô	5 Mar 1979	26.1 mi	34	370,000
72	Bochum	Germany	Stadtbahn	26 May 1979	13.4 mi	29
73	Atlanta	USA	MARTA	30 Jun 1979	49.2 mi	39	93,200
74	Hong Kong	China	MTR	1 Oct 1979	116.9 mi	95	3.62 million
75	Mulheim	Germany	Stadtbahn	3 Nov 1979	5.6 mi	13
76	Bucharest	Romania	Metro	16 Nov 1979	42.1 mi	50	304,000
77	Newcastle	United Kingdom	Metro	7 Aug 1980	47.5 mi	61	104,000
78	Yerevan	Armenia	Metro	7 Mar 1981	7.5 mi	10	46,600
79	Kyoto	Japan	Subway	1 Apr 1981	19.5 mi	32	345,000
80	Fukuoka	Japan	Subway	26 Jul 1981	18.5 mi	35	340,000
81	Duesseldorf	Germany	Stadtbahn	4 Oct 1981	6.0 mi	14
82	Helsinki	Finland	Metro	3 Aug 1982	13.1 mi	17	156,000
83	Caracas	Venezuela	Metro	27 Mar 1983	37.6 mi	50	1.25 million
84	Lille	France	Métro	25 Apr 1983	28.3 mi	62	203,000
85	Baltimore	USA	Metro Subway	21 Nov 1983	15.2 mi	14	35,600
86	Miami	USA	Metrorail	21 May 1984	22.4 mi	22	49,300
87	Minsk	Belarus	Metro	26 Jun 1984	18.8 mi	25	718,000
88	Gelsenkirchen	Germany	Stadtbahn	1 Sep 1984	3.4 mi	9
89	Kolkata	India	Metro Railway	24 Oct 1984	14.0 mi	23	474,000
90	Volgograd	Russia	Metro	5 Nov 1984	2.1 mi	2
91	Manila	Philippines	MRT	1 Dec 1984	32.0 mi	43	948,000
92	Kitakyushu	Japan	Monorail	9 Jan 1985	5.5 mi	13
93	Porto Alegre	Brazil	Metro	2 Mar 1985	21.0 mi	17
94	Recife	Brazil	Metrô	11 Mar 1985	24.7 mi	30
95	Buffalo	USA	Metro Rail	18 May 1985	5.2 mi	8
96	Pittsburgh	USA	The T	3 Jul 1985	0.9 mi	3
97	Busan	South Korea	Subway	19 Jul 1985	59.0 mi	92	704,000
98	Nizhny Novgorod	Russia	Metro	20 Nov 1985	9.6 mi	14	90,400
99	Vancouver	Canada	SkyTrain	3 Jan 1986	43.2 mi	49	203,000
100	Novosibirsk	Russia	Metro	7 Jan 1986	8.9 mi	13	192,000
101	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	Metrô	1 Aug 1986	17.5 mi	19
102	Kryvyi Rih	Ukraine	Metrotram	26 Dec 1986	11.2 mi	12
103	Detroit	USA	People Mover	Jul 1987	3.0 mi	13
104	Sendai	Japan	Subway	15 Jul 1987	9.2 mi	17	159,000
105	Cairo	Egypt	Metro	27 Sep 1987	40.7 mi	55	1.92 million
106	Singapore	Singapore	MRT	7 Nov 1987	80.6 mi	87	1.81 million
107	Samara	Russia	Metro	26 Dec 1987	6.3 mi	9	32,900
108	Chiba	Japan	Monorail	28 Mar 1988	9.6 mi	18
109	Valencia	Spain	Metro	3 Oct 1988	19.8 mi	38
110	Jacksonville	USA	Skyway	30 May 1989	4.3 mi	6
111	Guadalajara	Mexico	Metro	1 Sep 1989	14.9 mi	29
112	Genoa	Italy	Metropolitana	13 Jun 1990	3.2 mi	7
113	Monterrey	Mexico	Metro	25 Apr 1991	19.6 mi	32
114	Yekaterinburg	Russia	Metro	26 Apr 1991	5.3 mi	7	126,000
115	Lausanne	Switzerland	Metro	24 May 1991	8.5 mi	29
116	Duisburg	Germany	Stadtbahn	11 Jul 1992	8.9 mi	13
117	Los Angeles	USA	Metro Rail	30 Jan 1993	36.9 mi	30	129,000
118	Naples	Italy	Metropolitana	28 Mar 1993	19.8 mi	30	79,500
119	Toulouse	France	Métro	26 Jun 1993	17.1 mi	38	115,000
120	Saint Louis	USA	Metrolink	31 Jul 1993	45.6 mi	37
121	Hiroshima	Japan	Monorail	20 Aug 1994	11.4 mi	21	49,300
122	Rouen	France	Métro	17 Dec 1994	1.4 mi	5
123	Warsaw	Poland	Metro	7 Apr 1995	14.0 mi	21	345,000
124	Shanghai	China	Metro	10 Apr 1995	261.0 mi	278	3.56 million
125	Bilbao	Spain	Metro	11 Nov 1995	25.2 mi	38	238,000
126	Medellin	Colombia	Metro	30 Nov 1995	17.9 mi	26	425,000
127	Dnepropetrovsk	Ukraine	Metro	29 Dec 1995	4.4 mi	6	38,400
128	Taipei	Taiwan	MRT	28 Mar 1996	58.5 mi	85	1.27 million
129	Ankara	Turkey	Metro	30 Aug 1996	14.4 mi	23	310,000
130	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	LRT, Monorail	16 Dec 1996	39.8 mi	60	299,000
131	Poznan	Poland	Fast Tram	1 Mar 1997	3.8 mi	6
132	Chennai	India	MRTS	19 Oct 1997	16.8 mi	17
133	Daegu	South Korea	Subway	26 Nov 1997	33.5 mi	56	301,000
134	Sofia	Bulgaria	Metro	28 Jan 1998	11.2 mi	14	79,500
135	Tama	Japan	Monorail	27 Nov 1998	9.9 mi	19
136	Catania	Italy	Metropolitana	27 Jun 1999	2.4 mi	6
137	Guangzhou	China	Metro	28 Jun 1999	109.6 mi	111	1.85 million
138	Incheon	South Korea	Subway	6 Oct 1999	18.3 mi	29	200,000
139	Bangkok	Thailand	Skytrain, MRT	5 Dec 1999	46.6 mi	52	564,000
140	Tehran	Iran	Metro	21 Feb 2000	41.0 mi	55	1.26 million
141	Izmir	Turkey	Metro	22 May 2000	7.1 mi	10	82,200
142	Istanbul	Turkey	Metro	16 Sep 2000	9.3 mi	10	186,000
143	Brasilia	Brazil	Metrô	31 Mar 2001	26.1 mi	24	43,800
144	Rennes	France	Métro	16 Mar 2002	5.6 mi	15	63,000
145	Bursa	Turkey	Bursaray	19 Aug 2002	14.0 mi	23
146	Changchun	China	LRT	Oct 2002	10.6 mi	16
147	Copenhagen	Denmark	Metro	19 Oct 2002	13.1 mi	22	126,000
148	Oporto	Portugal	Metro	7 Dec 2002	13.5 mi	15
149	Delhi	India	Metro	24 Dec 2002	86.2 mi	116	838,000
150	Lima	Peru	Tren Urbano	13 Jan 2003	6.2 mi	6
151	Dalian	China	Metro	1 May 2003	30.5 mi	12
152	Naha	Japan	Monorail	10 Aug 2003	8.0 mi	15
153	Tianjin	China	Metro	28 Mar 2004	44.7 mi	37	41,100
154	Gwangju	South Korea	Subway	28 Apr 2004	12.5 mi	20	46,600
155	Las Vegas	USA	Monorail	15 Jul 2004	3.9 mi	7
156	Wuhan	China	Metro	28 Sep 2004	17.4 mi	27	35,600
157	The Hague	Netherlands	RandstadRail	16 Oct 2004	17.3 mi	30
158	Shenzhen	China	Metro	28 Dec 2004	15.7 mi	23	362,000
159	San Juan	Puerto Rico	Tren Urbano	6 Jun 2005	10.7 mi	16	24,700
160	Chongqing	China	Monorail	18 Jun 2005	12.1 mi	18
161	Nanjing	China	Metro	27 Aug 2005	52.6 mi	57	400,000
162	Kazan	Russia	Metro	27 Aug 2005	5.2 mi	6	19,200
163	Valparaiso	Chile	Metro	23 Nov 2005	26.7 mi	20
164	Turin	Italy	Metropolitana	4 Feb 2006	6.0 mi	14
165	Daejeon	South Korea	Subway	16 Mar 2006	14.0 mi	22	79,500
166	Valencia	Venezuela	Metro	18 Oct 2006	3.9 mi	7	49,300
167	Palma de Mallorca	Spain	Metro	25 Apr 2007	5.2 mi	9
168	Perugia	Italy	Minimetro	29 Jan 2008	1.9 mi	7
169	Kaohsiung	Taiwan	MRT	9 Mar 2008	26.5 mi	37	82,200
170	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	Metro	30 Jan 2009	9.0 mi	16	200,000
171	Adana	Turkey	Metro	18 Mar 2009	5.0 mi	8
172	Seville	Spain	Metro	2 Apr 2009	11.2 mi	21
173	Maracaibo	Venezuela	Metro	8 Jun 2009	4.0 mi	6
174	Seattle	USA	Light Rail	18 Jul 2009	13.8 mi	12
175	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Metro	9 Sep 2009	32.4 mi	26
176	Shenyang	China	Metro	27 Sep 2010	17.3 mi	22
177	Chengdu	China	Metro	27 Sep 2010	11.5 mi	16
178	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	Metro	13 Nov 2010	11.2 mi	9

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