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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). Only one logo per city is displayed.



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1 MumbaiIndia106.3 mi73
2 London10 Jan 1863United Kingdom253.6 mi2681197 mio.
3 Chicago6 Jun 1892USA103.2 mi151198 mio.
4 Budapest2 May 1896Hungary20.5 mi42297 mio.
5 Glasgow14 Dec 1896United Kingdom6.5 mi1515 mio.
6 Boston1 Sep 1897USA37.6 mi66145 mio.
7 Paris19 Jul 1900France132.4 mi3801473 mio.
8 Wuppertal1 Mar 1901Germany8.3 mi20
9 Berlin18 Feb 1902Germany91.6 mi195447 mio.
10 New York27 Oct 1904USA228.7 mi4681624 mio.
11 Philadelphia4 Mar 1907USA38.5 mi6667 mio.
12 Hamburg1 Mar 1912Germany62.6 mi97184 mio.
13 Buenos Aires1 Dec 1913Argentina29.5 mi76280 mio.
14 Madrid17 Oct 1919Spain176.5 mi281686 mio.
15 Barcelona30 Dec 1924Spain68.7 mi152378 mio.
16 Sydney1926Australia13.7 mi14
17 Tokyo30 Dec 1927Japan189.2 mi2903174 mio.
18 Osaka20 May 1933Japan85.6 mi133860 mio.
19 Moscow15 May 1935Russia185.7 mi1802573 mio.
20 Newark26 May 1935USA1.4 mi4
21 Stockholm1 Oct 1950Sweden65.7 mi104303 mio.
22 Athens1954Greece32.3 mi52325 mio.
23 Toronto30 Apr 1954Canada44.3 mi74278 mio.
24 Rome10 Feb 1955Italy24.2 mi49331 mio.
25 Cleveland15 Mar 1955USA19.3 mi186 mio.
26 Saint Petersburg15 Nov 1955Russia68.5 mi63832 mio.
27 Nagoya15 Nov 1957Japan55.3 mi93427 mio.
28 Haifa1959Israel1.1 mi6
29 Lisbon29 Dec 1959Portugal25.5 mi52180 mio.
30 Kiev22 Oct 1960Ukraine37.2 mi46642 mio.
31 Milan1 Nov 1964Italy46.4 mi88328 mio.
32 Tbilisi11 Jan 1966Georgia16.3 mi2292 mio.
33 Oslo22 May 1966Norway38.5 mi7264 mio.
34 Stuttgart10 Jun 1966Germany14.9 mi19
35 Montreal14 Oct 1966Canada43.0 mi73219 mio.
36 Essen5 Oct 1967Germany12.6 mi27
37 Baku6 Nov 1967Azerbaijan20.4 mi22176 mio.
38 Rotterdam10 Feb 1968Netherlands29.2 mi3885 mio.
39 Frankfurt4 Oct 1968Germany12.7 mi31
40 Cologne11 Oct 1968Germany28.0 mi51
41 Ludwigshafen29 May 1969Germany2.5 mi11
42 Mexico City5 Sep 1969Mexico125.4 mi1751460 mio.
43 Beijing1 Oct 1969China141.4 mi1471200 mio.
44 Kamakura3 Mar 1970Japan4.1 mi8
45 Bielefeld21 Sep 1971Germany3.2 mi7
46 Munich19 Oct 1971Germany57.5 mi100349 mio.
47 Sapporo16 Dec 1971Japan29.8 mi49209 mio.
48 Nuremberg1 Mar 1972Germany21.5 mi4692 mio.
49 San Francisco11 Sep 1972USA103.7 mi43100 mio.
50 Yokohama16 Dec 1972Japan35.8 mi48198 mio.
51 Pyongyang6 Sep 1973North Korea14.0 mi1635 mio.
52 Prague9 May 1974Czech Republic36.7 mi57597 mio.
53 Seoul15 Aug 1974South Korea178.3 mi3482048 mio.
54 Sao Paulo14 Sep 1974Brazil38.1 mi58684 mio.
55 Bonn22 Mar 1975Germany5.6 mi12
56 Antwerp25 Mar 1975Belgium4.7 mi11
57 Kharkov23 Aug 1975Ukraine21.9 mi28278 mio.
58 Santiago15 Sep 1975Chile51.6 mi93642 mio.
59 Hanover28 Sep 1975Germany11.6 mi21
60 Washington27 Mar 1976USA106.4 mi90215 mio.
61 Dortmund17 May 1976Germany18.3 mi37
62 Charleroi21 Jun 1976Belgium10.9 mi20
63 Brussels20 Sep 1976Belgium20.0 mi61136 mio.
64 Kobe13 Mar 1977Japan19.0 mi26121 mio.
65 Amsterdam16 Oct 1977Netherlands20.3 mi3391 mio.
66 Tashkent6 Nov 1977Uzbekistan22.5 mi2971 mio.
67 Marseille26 Nov 1977France12.0 mi2658 mio.
68 Vienna25 Feb 1978Austria43.4 mi96498 mio.
69 Edmonton22 Apr 1978Canada8.1 mi11
70 Lyon28 Apr 1978France19.1 mi43182 mio.
71 Rio de Janeiro5 Mar 1979Brazil26.1 mi34135 mio.
72 Bochum26 May 1979Germany13.4 mi29
73 Atlanta30 Jun 1979USA49.2 mi3934 mio.
74 Hong Kong1 Oct 1979China116.9 mi951309 mio.
75 Mulheim3 Nov 1979Germany5.6 mi13
76 Bucharest16 Nov 1979Romania42.1 mi50111 mio.
77 Newcastle7 Aug 1980United Kingdom47.5 mi6138 mio.
78 Yerevan7 Mar 1981Armenia7.5 mi1017 mio.
79 Kyoto1 Apr 1981Japan19.5 mi32126 mio.
80 Fukuoka26 Jul 1981Japan18.5 mi35124 mio.
81 Duesseldorf4 Oct 1981Germany6.0 mi14
82 Helsinki3 Aug 1982Finland13.1 mi1758 mio.
83 Caracas27 Mar 1983Venezuela37.6 mi50510 mio.
84 Lille25 Apr 1983France28.3 mi6274 mio.
85 Baltimore21 Nov 1983USA15.2 mi1414 mio.
86 Miami21 May 1984USA22.4 mi2219 mio.
87 Minsk26 Jun 1984Belarus18.8 mi25262 mio.
88 Gelsenkirchen1 Sep 1984Germany3.4 mi9
89 Kolkata24 Oct 1984India14.0 mi21100 mio.
90 Volgograd5 Nov 1984Russia2.1 mi2
91 Manila1 Dec 1984Philippines28.4 mi42346 mio.
92 Kitakyushu9 Jan 1985Japan5.5 mi13
93 Porto Alegre2 Mar 1985Brazil21.0 mi17
94 Recife11 Mar 1985Brazil24.7 mi30
95 Buffalo18 May 1985USA5.2 mi8
96 Pittsburgh3 Jul 1985USA0.9 mi3
97 Busan19 Jul 1985South Korea59.0 mi92257 mio.
98 Nizhny Novgorod20 Nov 1985Russia9.6 mi1433 mio.
99 Vancouver3 Jan 1986Canada43.2 mi4974 mio.
100 Novosibirsk7 Jan 1986Russia8.9 mi1370 mio.
101 Belo Horizonte1 Aug 1986Brazil17.5 mi19
102 Kryvyi Rih26 Dec 1986Ukraine11.2 mi12
103 DetroitJul 1987USA3.0 mi13
104 Sendai15 Jul 1987Japan9.2 mi1758 mio.
105 Cairo27 Sep 1987Egypt40.7 mi55700 mio.
106 Singapore7 Nov 1987Singapore73.9 mi76571 mio.
107 Samara26 Dec 1987Russia6.3 mi912 mio.
108 Chiba28 Mar 1988Japan9.6 mi18
109 Valencia3 Oct 1988Spain19.8 mi38
110 Jacksonville30 May 1989USA4.3 mi6
111 Guadalajara1 Sep 1989Mexico14.9 mi29
112 Genoa13 Jun 1990Italy3.2 mi7
113 Monterrey25 Apr 1991Mexico19.6 mi32
114 Yekaterinburg26 Apr 1991Russia5.3 mi746 mio.
115 Lausanne24 May 1991Switzerland8.5 mi29
116 Duisburg11 Jul 1992Germany8.9 mi13
117 Los Angeles30 Jan 1993USA36.9 mi3045 mio.
118 Naples28 Mar 1993Italy19.8 mi3029 mio.
119 Toulouse26 Jun 1993France17.1 mi3842 mio.
120 Saint Louis31 Jul 1993USA45.6 mi37
121 Hiroshima20 Aug 1994Japan11.4 mi2118 mio.
122 Rouen17 Dec 1994France1.4 mi5
123 Warsaw7 Apr 1995Poland14.0 mi21114 mio.
124 Shanghai10 Apr 1995China207.6 mi2301122 mio.
125 Bilbao11 Nov 1995Spain25.2 mi3886 mio.
126 Medellin30 Nov 1995Colombia17.9 mi26155 mio.
127 Dnepropetrovsk29 Dec 1995Ukraine4.4 mi611 mio.
128 Taipei28 Mar 1996Taiwan56.3 mi85450 mio.
129 Ankara30 Aug 1996Turkey14.4 mi23113 mio.
130 Kuala Lumpur16 Dec 1996Malaysia39.8 mi60109 mio.
131 Poznan1 Mar 1997Poland3.8 mi6
132 Chennai19 Oct 1997India16.8 mi17
133 Daegu26 Nov 1997South Korea33.5 mi56110 mio.
134 Sofia28 Jan 1998Bulgaria11.2 mi1451 mio.
135 Tama27 Nov 1998Japan9.9 mi19
136 Catania27 Jun 1999Italy2.4 mi6
137 Guangzhou28 Jun 1999China92.3 mi88601 mio.
138 Incheon6 Oct 1999South Korea18.3 mi2973 mio.
139 Bangkok5 Dec 1999Thailand28.8 mi44206 mio.
140 Tehran21 Feb 2000Iran31.4 mi47353 mio.
141 Izmir22 May 2000Turkey7.1 mi1030 mio.
142 Istanbul16 Sep 2000Turkey9.3 mi1068 mio.
143 Brasilia31 Mar 2001Brazil26.1 mi2316 mio.
144 Rennes16 Mar 2002France5.6 mi1523 mio.
145 Bursa19 Aug 2002Turkey14.0 mi23
146 ChangchunOct 2002China10.6 mi16
147 Copenhagen19 Oct 2002Denmark13.1 mi2237 mio.
148 Oporto7 Dec 2002Portugal13.5 mi15
149 Delhi24 Dec 2002India59.8 mi83310 mio.
150 Lima13 Jan 2003Peru6.2 mi6
151 Dalian1 May 2003China30.5 mi12
152 Naha10 Aug 2003Japan8.0 mi15
153 Tianjin28 Mar 2004China44.7 mi3715 mio.
154 Gwangju28 Apr 2004South Korea12.5 mi2017 mio.
155 Las Vegas15 Jul 2004USA3.9 mi7
156 Wuhan28 Sep 2004China6.3 mi10
157 The Hague16 Oct 2004Netherlands17.3 mi30
158 Shenzhen28 Dec 2004China15.7 mi2373 mio.
159 San Juan6 Jun 2005Puerto Rico10.7 mi169 mio.
160 Chongqing18 Jun 2005China12.1 mi18
161 Kazan27 Aug 2005Russia5.2 mi67 mio.
162 Nanjing27 Aug 2005China13.5 mi16102 mio.
163 Valparaiso23 Nov 2005Chile26.7 mi20
164 Turin4 Feb 2006Italy6.0 mi14
165 Daejeon16 Mar 2006South Korea14.0 mi2229 mio.
166 Valencia18 Oct 2006Venezuela3.9 mi718 mio.
167 Palma de Mallorca25 Apr 2007Spain5.2 mi9
168 Perugia29 Jan 2008Italy1.9 mi7
169 Kaohsiung9 Mar 2008Taiwan26.5 mi3730 mio.
170 Santo Domingo30 Jan 2009Dominican Republic9.0 mi16
171 Adana18 Mar 2009Turkey5.0 mi8
172 Seville2 Apr 2009Spain11.2 mi21
173 Maracaibo8 Jun 2009Venezuela4.0 mi6
174 Seattle18 Jul 2009USA13.8 mi12
175 Dubai9 Sep 2009United Arab Emirates24.7 mi11
176 Shenyang23 Sep 2009China13.8 mi18


Numerical data (except ridership) by Jordi Serradell 1/2010. Ridership data by John Kennes 10/2009. Ticket prices by UBS: Prices and Earnings (PDF, p. 20) 2009. Non-numerical data by Mike Rohde 1/2010.




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