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World Metro Database

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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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1Asia AdanaTurkey18 Mar 20098
2Europe AmsterdamNetherlands16 Oct 19773391 mio.
3Asia AnkaraTurkey30 Aug 199623113 mio.
4Europe AntwerpBelgium25 Mar 197511
5Europe AthensGreece195452325 mio.
6America AtlantaUSA30 Jun 19793934 mio.
7Asia BakuAzerbaijan6 Nov 196722176 mio.
8America BaltimoreUSA21 Nov 19831414 mio.
9Asia BangkokThailand5 Dec 199944206 mio.
10Europe BarcelonaSpain30 Dec 1924152378 mio.
11Asia BeijingChina1 Oct 19691471200 mio.
12America Belo HorizonteBrazil1 Aug 198619
13Europe BerlinGermany18 Feb 1902195447 mio.
14Europe BielefeldGermany21 Sep 19717
15Europe BilbaoSpain11 Nov 19953886 mio.
16Europe BochumGermany26 May 197929
17Europe BonnGermany22 Mar 197512
18America BostonUSA1 Sep 189766145 mio.
19America BrasiliaBrazil31 Mar 20012316 mio.
20Europe BrusselsBelgium20 Sep 197661136 mio.
21Europe BucharestRomania16 Nov 197950111 mio.
22Europe BudapestHungary2 May 189642297 mio.
23America Buenos AiresArgentina1 Dec 191376280 mio.
24America BuffaloUSA18 May 19858
25Asia BursaTurkey19 Aug 200223
26Asia BusanSouth Korea19 Jul 198592257 mio.
27Africa CairoEgypt27 Sep 198755700 mio.
28America CaracasVenezuela27 Mar 198350510 mio.
29Europe CataniaItaly27 Jun 19996
30Asia ChangchunChinaOct 200216
31Europe CharleroiBelgium21 Jun 197620
32Asia ChennaiIndia19 Oct 199717
33Asia ChibaJapan28 Mar 198818
34America ChicagoUSA6 Jun 1892151198 mio.
35Asia ChongqingChina18 Jun 200518
36America ClevelandUSA15 Mar 1955186 mio.
37Europe CologneGermany11 Oct 196851
38Europe CopenhagenDenmark19 Oct 20022237 mio.
39Asia DaeguSouth Korea26 Nov 199756110 mio.
40Asia DaejeonSouth Korea16 Mar 20062229 mio.
41Asia DalianChina1 May 200312
42Asia DelhiIndia24 Dec 200283310 mio.
43America DetroitUSAJul 198713
44Europe DnepropetrovskUkraine29 Dec 1995611 mio.
45Europe DortmundGermany17 May 197637
46Asia DubaiUnited Arab Emirates9 Sep 200911
47Europe DuesseldorfGermany4 Oct 198114
48Europe DuisburgGermany11 Jul 199213
49America EdmontonCanada22 Apr 197811
50Europe EssenGermany5 Oct 196727
51Europe FrankfurtGermany4 Oct 196831
52Asia FukuokaJapan26 Jul 198135124 mio.
53Europe GelsenkirchenGermany1 Sep 19849
54Europe GenoaItaly13 Jun 19907
55Europe GlasgowUnited Kingdom14 Dec 18961515 mio.
56America GuadalajaraMexico1 Sep 198929
57Asia GuangzhouChina28 Jun 199988601 mio.
58Asia GwangjuSouth Korea28 Apr 20042017 mio.
59Asia HaifaIsrael19596
60Europe HamburgGermany1 Mar 191297184 mio.
61Europe HanoverGermany28 Sep 197521
62Europe HelsinkiFinland3 Aug 19821758 mio.
63Asia HiroshimaJapan20 Aug 19942118 mio.
64Asia Hong KongChina1 Oct 1979951309 mio.
65Asia IncheonSouth Korea6 Oct 19992973 mio.
66Europe IstanbulTurkey16 Sep 20001068 mio.
67Asia IzmirTurkey22 May 20001030 mio.
68America JacksonvilleUSA30 May 19896
69Asia KamakuraJapan3 Mar 19708
70Asia KaohsiungTaiwan9 Mar 20083730 mio.
71Europe KazanRussia27 Aug 200567 mio.
72Europe KharkovUkraine23 Aug 197528278 mio.
73Europe KievUkraine22 Oct 196046642 mio.
74Asia KitakyushuJapan9 Jan 198513
75Asia KobeJapan13 Mar 197726121 mio.
76Asia KolkataIndia24 Oct 198421100 mio.
77Europe Kryvyi RihUkraine26 Dec 198612
78Asia Kuala LumpurMalaysia16 Dec 199660109 mio.
79Asia KyotoJapan1 Apr 198132126 mio.
80America Las VegasUSA15 Jul 20047
81Europe LausanneSwitzerland24 May 199129
82Europe LilleFrance25 Apr 19836274 mio.
83America LimaPeru13 Jan 20036
84Europe LisbonPortugal29 Dec 195952180 mio.
85Europe LondonUnited Kingdom10 Jan 18632681197 mio.
86America Los AngelesUSA30 Jan 19933045 mio.
87Europe LudwigshafenGermany29 May 196911
88Europe LyonFrance28 Apr 197843182 mio.
89Europe MadridSpain17 Oct 1919281686 mio.
90Asia ManilaPhilippines1 Dec 198442346 mio.
91America MaracaiboVenezuela8 Jun 20096
92Europe MarseilleFrance26 Nov 19772658 mio.
93America MedellinColombia30 Nov 199526155 mio.
94America Mexico CityMexico5 Sep 19691751460 mio.
95America MiamiUSA21 May 19842219 mio.
96Europe MilanItaly1 Nov 196488328 mio.
97Europe MinskBelarus26 Jun 198425262 mio.
98America MonterreyMexico25 Apr 199132
99America MontrealCanada14 Oct 196673219 mio.
100Europe MoscowRussia15 May 19351802573 mio.
101Europe MulheimGermany3 Nov 197913
102Asia MumbaiIndia73
103Europe MunichGermany19 Oct 1971100349 mio.
104Asia NagoyaJapan15 Nov 195793427 mio.
105Asia NahaJapan10 Aug 200315
106Asia NanjingChina27 Aug 200516102 mio.
107Europe NaplesItaly28 Mar 19933029 mio.
108America New YorkUSA27 Oct 19044681624 mio.
109America NewarkUSA26 May 19354
110Europe NewcastleUnited Kingdom7 Aug 19806138 mio.
111Europe Nizhny NovgorodRussia20 Nov 19851433 mio.
112Asia NovosibirskRussia7 Jan 19861370 mio.
113Europe NurembergGermany1 Mar 19724692 mio.
114Europe OportoPortugal7 Dec 200215
115Asia OsakaJapan20 May 1933133860 mio.
116Europe OsloNorway22 May 19667264 mio.
117Europe Palma de MallorcaSpain25 Apr 20079
118Europe ParisFrance19 Jul 19003801473 mio.
119Europe PerugiaItaly29 Jan 20087
120America PhiladelphiaUSA4 Mar 19076667 mio.
121America PittsburghUSA3 Jul 19853
122America Porto AlegreBrazil2 Mar 198517
123Europe PoznanPoland1 Mar 19976
124Europe PragueCzech Republic9 May 197457597 mio.
125Asia PyongyangNorth Korea6 Sep 19731635 mio.
126America RecifeBrazil11 Mar 198530
127Europe RennesFrance16 Mar 20021523 mio.
128America Rio de JaneiroBrazil5 Mar 197934135 mio.
129Europe RomeItaly10 Feb 195549331 mio.
130Europe RotterdamNetherlands10 Feb 19683885 mio.
131Europe RouenFrance17 Dec 19945
132America Saint LouisUSA31 Jul 199337
133Europe Saint PetersburgRussia15 Nov 195563832 mio.
134Europe SamaraRussia26 Dec 1987912 mio.
135America San FranciscoUSA11 Sep 197243100 mio.
136America San JuanPuerto Rico6 Jun 2005169 mio.
137America SantiagoChile15 Sep 197593642 mio.
138America Santo DomingoDominican Republic30 Jan 200916
139America Sao PauloBrazil14 Sep 197458684 mio.
140Asia SapporoJapan16 Dec 197149209 mio.
141America SeattleUSA18 Jul 200912
142Asia SendaiJapan15 Jul 19871758 mio.
143Asia SeoulSouth Korea15 Aug 19743482048 mio.
144Europe SevilleSpain2 Apr 200921
145Asia ShanghaiChina10 Apr 19952301122 mio.
146Asia ShenyangChina23 Sep 200918
147Asia ShenzhenChina28 Dec 20042373 mio.
148Asia SingaporeSingapore7 Nov 198776571 mio.
149Europe SofiaBulgaria28 Jan 19981451 mio.
150Europe StockholmSweden1 Oct 1950104303 mio.
151Europe StuttgartGermany10 Jun 196619
152Oceania SydneyAustralia192614
153Asia TaipeiTaiwan28 Mar 199685450 mio.
154Asia TamaJapan27 Nov 199819
155Asia TashkentUzbekistan6 Nov 19772971 mio.
156Asia TbilisiGeorgia11 Jan 19662292 mio.
157Asia TehranIran21 Feb 200047353 mio.
158Europe The HagueNetherlands16 Oct 200430
159Asia TianjinChina28 Mar 20043715 mio.
160Asia TokyoJapan30 Dec 19272903174 mio.
161America TorontoCanada30 Apr 195474278 mio.
162Europe ToulouseFrance26 Jun 19933842 mio.
163Europe TurinItaly4 Feb 200614
164America ValenciaVenezuela18 Oct 2006718 mio.
165Europe ValenciaSpain3 Oct 198838
166America ValparaisoChile23 Nov 200520
167America VancouverCanada3 Jan 19864974 mio.
168Europe ViennaAustria25 Feb 197896498 mio.
169Europe VolgogradRussia5 Nov 19842
170Europe WarsawPoland7 Apr 199521114 mio.
171America WashingtonUSA27 Mar 197690215 mio.
172Asia WuhanChina28 Sep 200410
173Europe WuppertalGermany1 Mar 190120
174Asia YekaterinburgRussia26 Apr 1991746 mio.
175Asia YerevanArmenia7 Mar 19811017 mio.
176Asia YokohamaJapan16 Dec 197248198 mio.


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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