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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 Adana18 Mar 20098.0 km88
2 Amsterdam16 Oct 197732.7 km3333233,000
3 Ankara30 Aug 199623.1 km2322310,000
4 Antwerp25 Mar 19757.6 km1111
5 Athens195452.0 km5349937,000
6 Atlanta30 Jun 197979.2 km393893,200
7 Baku6 Nov 196732.9 km2221482,000
8 Baltimore21 Nov 198324.5 km141435,600
9 Bangkok5 Dec 199974.9 km5246564,000
10 Barcelona30 Dec 1924119.4 km1621351.11 million
11 Beijing1 Oct 1969227.6 km1471253.99 million
12 Belo Horizonte1 Aug 198628.1 km1919
13 Berlin18 Feb 1902147.4 km1951731.39 million
14 Bielefeld21 Sep 19715.2 km77
15 Bilbao11 Nov 199540.6 km3838238,000
16 Bochum26 May 197921.5 km2927
17 Bonn22 Mar 19759.0 km1212
18 Boston1 Sep 189760.5 km6660400,000
19 Brasilia31 Mar 200142.0 km242443,800
20 Brussels20 Sep 197632.2 km6159364,000
21 Bucharest16 Nov 197967.7 km5043304,000
22 Budapest2 May 189633.0 km4240814,000
23 Buenos Aires1 Dec 191348.1 km7768789,000
24 Buffalo18 May 19858.4 km88
25 Bursa19 Aug 200222.5 km2323
26 Busan19 Jul 198595.0 km9288704,000
27 Cairo27 Sep 198765.5 km55531.92 million
28 Caracas27 Mar 198360.5 km50461.25 million
29 Catania27 Jun 19993.8 km66
30 ChangchunOct 200217.0 km1616
31 Charleroi21 Jun 197617.5 km2020
32 Chengdu27 Sep 201018.5 km1616
33 Chennai19 Oct 199727.0 km1717
34 Chiba28 Mar 198815.5 km1818
35 Chicago6 Jun 1892166.0 km151144542,000
36 Chongqing18 Jun 200519.5 km1818
37 Cleveland15 Mar 195531.0 km181813,700
38 Cologne11 Oct 196845.0 km5151
39 Copenhagen19 Oct 200221.0 km2222126,000
40 Daegu26 Nov 199753.9 km5655301,000
41 Daejeon16 Mar 200622.6 km222279,500
42 Dalian1 May 200349.0 km1212
43 Delhi24 Dec 2002138.8 km116113838,000
44 DetroitJul 19874.8 km1313
45 Dnepropetrovsk29 Dec 19957.1 km6638,400
46 Dortmund17 May 197629.5 km3737
47 Dubai9 Sep 200952.1 km2626
48 Duesseldorf4 Oct 19819.6 km1414
49 Duisburg11 Jul 199214.3 km1313
50 Edmonton22 Apr 197820.4 km1515
51 Essen5 Oct 196720.2 km2727
52 Frankfurt4 Oct 196820.5 km3127
53 Fukuoka26 Jul 198129.8 km3534340,000
54 Gelsenkirchen1 Sep 19845.5 km99
55 Genoa13 Jun 19905.2 km77
56 Glasgow14 Dec 189610.4 km151541,100
57 Guadalajara1 Sep 198924.0 km2928
58 Guangzhou28 Jun 1999176.3 km1111011.85 million
59 Gwangju28 Apr 200420.1 km202046,600
60 Haifa19591.8 km66
61 Hamburg1 Mar 1912100.7 km9789518,000
62 Hanover28 Sep 197518.6 km2117
63 Helsinki3 Aug 198221.0 km1717156,000
64 Hiroshima20 Aug 199418.4 km212149,300
65 Hong Kong1 Oct 1979188.1 km95823.62 million
66 Incheon6 Oct 199929.5 km2929200,000
67 Istanbul16 Sep 200015.0 km1010186,000
68 Izmir22 May 200011.5 km101082,200
69 Jacksonville30 May 19896.9 km66
70 Kamakura3 Mar 19706.6 km88
71 Kaohsiung9 Mar 200842.7 km373682,200
72 Kazan27 Aug 20058.3 km6619,200
73 Kharkov23 Aug 197535.3 km2825762,000
74 Kiev22 Oct 196059.8 km46431.76 million
75 Kitakyushu9 Jan 19858.8 km1313
76 Kobe13 Mar 197730.6 km2624332,000
77 Kolkata24 Oct 198422.6 km2323474,000
78 Kryvyi Rih26 Dec 198618.0 km1212
79 Kuala Lumpur16 Dec 199664.0 km6056299,000
80 Kyoto1 Apr 198131.3 km3231345,000
81 Las Vegas15 Jul 20046.2 km77
82 Lausanne24 May 199113.7 km2928
83 Lille25 Apr 198345.5 km6260203,000
84 Lima13 Jan 200310.0 km66
85 Lisbon29 Dec 195941.0 km5246488,000
86 London10 Jan 1863408.0 km2682682.99 million
87 Los Angeles30 Jan 199359.3 km3030129,000
88 Ludwigshafen29 May 19694.0 km1111
89 Lyon28 Apr 197830.7 km4339499,000
90 Madrid17 Oct 1919284.0 km2812311.78 million
91 Manila1 Dec 198451.5 km4340948,000
92 Maracaibo8 Jun 20096.5 km66
93 Marseille26 Nov 197721.8 km3028159,000
94 Mecca13 Nov 201018.1 km99
95 Medellin30 Nov 199528.8 km2625425,000
96 Mexico City5 Sep 1969201.7 km1751473.88 million
97 Miami21 May 198436.0 km222249,300
98 Milan1 Nov 196474.6 km8884899,000
99 Minsk26 Jun 198430.3 km2524718,000
100 Monterrey25 Apr 199131.5 km3231
101 Montreal14 Oct 196669.2 km7368600,000
102 Moscow15 May 1935302.0 km1821466.55 million
103 Mulheim3 Nov 19799.0 km1312
104 Mumbai171.0 km7373
105 Munich19 Oct 197194.2 km10296962,000
106 Nagoya15 Nov 195789.0 km93821.17 million
107 Naha10 Aug 200312.8 km1515
108 Nanjing27 Aug 200584.7 km5755400,000
109 Naples28 Mar 199331.8 km302879,500
110 New York27 Oct 1904368.0 km4684224.33 million
111 Newark26 May 19352.2 km44
112 Newcastle7 Aug 198076.5 km6150104,000
113 Nizhny Novgorod20 Nov 198515.5 km141390,400
114 Novosibirsk7 Jan 198614.3 km1312192,000
115 Nuremberg1 Mar 197234.6 km4644315,000
116 Oporto7 Dec 200221.7 km1514
117 Osaka20 May 1933137.8 km1331042.36 million
118 Oslo22 May 196662.0 km7373214,000
119 Palma de Mallorca25 Apr 20078.3 km99
120 Paris19 Jul 1900213.0 km3803004.05 million
121 Perugia29 Jan 20083.0 km77
122 Philadelphia4 Mar 190762.0 km6662192,000
123 Pittsburgh3 Jul 19851.5 km33
124 Porto Alegre2 Mar 198533.8 km1717
125 Poznan1 Mar 19976.1 km66
126 Prague9 May 197459.1 km57541.6 million
127 Pyongyang6 Sep 197322.5 km161595,900
128 Recife11 Mar 198539.7 km3028
129 Rennes16 Mar 20029.0 km151563,000
130 Rio de Janeiro5 Mar 197942.0 km3434370,000
131 Rome10 Feb 195539.0 km4948907,000
132 Rotterdam10 Feb 196847.0 km3837238,000
133 Rouen17 Dec 19942.2 km55
134 Saint Louis31 Jul 199373.4 km3737
135 Saint Petersburg15 Nov 1955110.2 km63552.25 million
136 Samara26 Dec 198710.2 km9932,900
137 San Francisco11 Sep 1972166.9 km4343274,000
138 San Juan6 Jun 200517.2 km161624,700
139 Santiago15 Sep 197592.4 km101931.67 million
140 Santo Domingo30 Jan 200914.5 km1616200,000
141 Sao Paulo14 Sep 197469.7 km63591.93 million
142 Sapporo16 Dec 197148.0 km4946573,000
143 Seattle18 Jul 200922.2 km1212
144 Sendai15 Jul 198714.8 km1717159,000
145 Seoul15 Aug 1974286.9 km3482985.61 million
146 Seville2 Apr 200918.0 km2121
147 Shanghai10 Apr 1995420.0 km2782353.56 million
148 Shenyang27 Sep 201027.8 km2222
149 Shenzhen28 Dec 200425.3 km2322362,000
150 Singapore7 Nov 1987129.7 km87781.81 million
151 Sofia28 Jan 199818.0 km141479,500
152 Stockholm1 Oct 1950105.7 km104100841,000
153 Stuttgart10 Jun 196624.0 km1917
154 Sydney192622.1 km1414
155 Taipei28 Mar 199694.2 km85801.27 million
156 Tama27 Nov 199816.0 km1919
157 Tashkent6 Nov 197736.2 km2926195,000
158 Tbilisi11 Jan 196626.3 km2221252,000
159 Tehran21 Feb 200066.0 km55521.26 million
160 The Hague16 Oct 200427.9 km3030
161 Tianjin28 Mar 200472.0 km373741,100
162 Tokyo30 Dec 1927304.5 km2902058.7 million
163 Toronto30 Apr 195471.3 km7469762,000
164 Toulouse26 Jun 199327.5 km3837115,000
165 Turin4 Feb 20069.6 km1414
166 Valencia18 Oct 20066.2 km7749,300
167 Valencia3 Oct 198831.8 km3837
168 Valparaiso23 Nov 200543.0 km2020
169 Vancouver3 Jan 198669.5 km4947203,000
170 Vienna25 Feb 197874.6 km102901.4 million
171 Volgograd5 Nov 19843.3 km22
172 Warsaw7 Apr 199522.6 km2121345,000
173 Washington27 Mar 1976171.2 km9086611,000
174 Wuhan28 Sep 200428.0 km272735,600
175 Wuppertal1 Mar 190113.3 km2020
176 Yekaterinburg26 Apr 19918.5 km77126,000
177 Yerevan7 Mar 198112.1 km101046,600
178 Yokohama16 Dec 197257.6 km4845542,000





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