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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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1TurkeyAsia Adana18 Mar 20098.0 km
2NetherlandsEurope Amsterdam16 Oct 197732.7 km91 mio.
3TurkeyAsia Ankara30 Aug 199623.1 km113 mio.
4BelgiumEurope Antwerp25 Mar 19757.6 km
5GreeceEurope Athens195452.0 km325 mio.
6USAAmerica Atlanta30 Jun 197979.2 km34 mio.
7AzerbaijanAsia Baku6 Nov 196732.9 km176 mio.
8USAAmerica Baltimore21 Nov 198324.5 km14 mio.
9ThailandAsia Bangkok5 Dec 199946.3 km206 mio.
10SpainEurope Barcelona30 Dec 1924110.5 km378 mio.
11ChinaAsia Beijing1 Oct 1969227.6 km1200 mio.
12BrazilAmerica Belo Horizonte1 Aug 198628.1 km
13GermanyEurope Berlin18 Feb 1902147.4 km447 mio.
14GermanyEurope Bielefeld21 Sep 19715.2 km
15SpainEurope Bilbao11 Nov 199540.6 km86 mio.
16GermanyEurope Bochum26 May 197921.5 km
17GermanyEurope Bonn22 Mar 19759.0 km
18USAAmerica Boston1 Sep 189760.5 km145 mio.
19BrazilAmerica Brasilia31 Mar 200142.0 km16 mio.
20BelgiumEurope Brussels20 Sep 197632.2 km136 mio.
21RomaniaEurope Bucharest16 Nov 197967.7 km111 mio.
22HungaryEurope Budapest2 May 189633.0 km297 mio.
23ArgentinaAmerica Buenos Aires1 Dec 191347.5 km280 mio.
24USAAmerica Buffalo18 May 19858.4 km
25TurkeyAsia Bursa19 Aug 200222.5 km
26South KoreaAsia Busan19 Jul 198595.0 km257 mio.
27EgyptAfrica Cairo27 Sep 198765.5 km700 mio.
28VenezuelaAmerica Caracas27 Mar 198360.5 km510 mio.
29ItalyEurope Catania27 Jun 19993.8 km
30ChinaAsia ChangchunOct 200217.0 km
31BelgiumEurope Charleroi21 Jun 197617.5 km
32IndiaAsia Chennai19 Oct 199727.0 km
33JapanAsia Chiba28 Mar 198815.5 km
34USAAmerica Chicago6 Jun 1892166.0 km198 mio.
35ChinaAsia Chongqing18 Jun 200519.5 km
36USAAmerica Cleveland15 Mar 195531.0 km6 mio.
37GermanyEurope Cologne11 Oct 196845.0 km
38DenmarkEurope Copenhagen19 Oct 200221.0 km37 mio.
39South KoreaAsia Daegu26 Nov 199753.9 km110 mio.
40South KoreaAsia Daejeon16 Mar 200622.6 km29 mio.
41ChinaAsia Dalian1 May 200349.0 km
42IndiaAsia Delhi24 Dec 200296.2 km310 mio.
43USAAmerica DetroitJul 19874.8 km
44UkraineEurope Dnepropetrovsk29 Dec 19957.1 km11 mio.
45GermanyEurope Dortmund17 May 197629.5 km
46United Arab EmiratesAsia Dubai9 Sep 200939.7 km
47GermanyEurope Duesseldorf4 Oct 19819.6 km
48GermanyEurope Duisburg11 Jul 199214.3 km
49CanadaAmerica Edmonton22 Apr 197813.1 km
50GermanyEurope Essen5 Oct 196720.2 km
51GermanyEurope Frankfurt4 Oct 196820.5 km
52JapanAsia Fukuoka26 Jul 198129.8 km124 mio.
53GermanyEurope Gelsenkirchen1 Sep 19845.5 km
54ItalyEurope Genoa13 Jun 19905.2 km
55United KingdomEurope Glasgow14 Dec 189610.4 km15 mio.
56MexicoAmerica Guadalajara1 Sep 198924.0 km
57ChinaAsia Guangzhou28 Jun 1999148.5 km601 mio.
58South KoreaAsia Gwangju28 Apr 200420.1 km17 mio.
59IsraelAsia Haifa19591.8 km
60GermanyEurope Hamburg1 Mar 1912100.7 km184 mio.
61GermanyEurope Hanover28 Sep 197518.6 km
62FinlandEurope Helsinki3 Aug 198221.0 km58 mio.
63JapanAsia Hiroshima20 Aug 199418.4 km18 mio.
64ChinaAsia Hong Kong1 Oct 1979188.1 km1309 mio.
65South KoreaAsia Incheon6 Oct 199929.5 km73 mio.
66TurkeyEurope Istanbul16 Sep 200015.0 km68 mio.
67TurkeyAsia Izmir22 May 200011.5 km30 mio.
68USAAmerica Jacksonville30 May 19896.9 km
69JapanAsia Kamakura3 Mar 19706.6 km
70TaiwanAsia Kaohsiung9 Mar 200842.7 km30 mio.
71RussiaEurope Kazan27 Aug 20058.3 km7 mio.
72UkraineEurope Kharkov23 Aug 197535.3 km278 mio.
73UkraineEurope Kiev22 Oct 196059.8 km642 mio.
74JapanAsia Kitakyushu9 Jan 19858.8 km
75JapanAsia Kobe13 Mar 197730.6 km121 mio.
76IndiaAsia Kolkata24 Oct 198422.6 km100 mio.
77UkraineEurope Kryvyi Rih26 Dec 198618.0 km
78MalaysiaAsia Kuala Lumpur16 Dec 199664.0 km109 mio.
79JapanAsia Kyoto1 Apr 198131.3 km126 mio.
80USAAmerica Las Vegas15 Jul 20046.2 km
81SwitzerlandEurope Lausanne24 May 199113.7 km
82FranceEurope Lille25 Apr 198345.5 km74 mio.
83PeruAmerica Lima13 Jan 200310.0 km
84PortugalEurope Lisbon29 Dec 195941.0 km180 mio.
85United KingdomEurope London10 Jan 1863408.0 km1197 mio.
86USAAmerica Los Angeles30 Jan 199359.3 km45 mio.
87GermanyEurope Ludwigshafen29 May 19694.0 km
88FranceEurope Lyon28 Apr 197830.7 km182 mio.
89SpainEurope Madrid17 Oct 1919284.0 km686 mio.
90PhilippinesAsia Manila1 Dec 198445.7 km346 mio.
91VenezuelaAmerica Maracaibo8 Jun 20096.5 km
92FranceEurope Marseille26 Nov 197719.3 km58 mio.
93ColombiaAmerica Medellin30 Nov 199528.8 km155 mio.
94MexicoAmerica Mexico City5 Sep 1969201.7 km1460 mio.
95USAAmerica Miami21 May 198436.0 km19 mio.
96ItalyEurope Milan1 Nov 196474.6 km328 mio.
97BelarusEurope Minsk26 Jun 198430.3 km262 mio.
98MexicoAmerica Monterrey25 Apr 199131.5 km
99CanadaAmerica Montreal14 Oct 196669.2 km219 mio.
100RussiaEurope Moscow15 May 1935298.8 km2573 mio.
101GermanyEurope Mulheim3 Nov 19799.0 km
102IndiaAsia Mumbai171.0 km
103GermanyEurope Munich19 Oct 197192.5 km349 mio.
104JapanAsia Nagoya15 Nov 195789.0 km427 mio.
105JapanAsia Naha10 Aug 200312.8 km
106ChinaAsia Nanjing27 Aug 200521.7 km102 mio.
107ItalyEurope Naples28 Mar 199331.8 km29 mio.
108USAAmerica New York27 Oct 1904368.0 km1624 mio.
109USAAmerica Newark26 May 19352.2 km
110United KingdomEurope Newcastle7 Aug 198076.5 km38 mio.
111RussiaEurope Nizhny Novgorod20 Nov 198515.5 km33 mio.
112RussiaAsia Novosibirsk7 Jan 198614.3 km70 mio.
113GermanyEurope Nuremberg1 Mar 197234.6 km92 mio.
114PortugalEurope Oporto7 Dec 200221.7 km
115JapanAsia Osaka20 May 1933137.8 km860 mio.
116NorwayEurope Oslo22 May 196662.0 km64 mio.
117SpainEurope Palma de Mallorca25 Apr 20078.3 km
118FranceEurope Paris19 Jul 1900213.0 km1473 mio.
119ItalyEurope Perugia29 Jan 20083.0 km
120USAAmerica Philadelphia4 Mar 190762.0 km67 mio.
121USAAmerica Pittsburgh3 Jul 19851.5 km
122BrazilAmerica Porto Alegre2 Mar 198533.8 km
123PolandEurope Poznan1 Mar 19976.1 km
124Czech RepublicEurope Prague9 May 197459.1 km597 mio.
125North KoreaAsia Pyongyang6 Sep 197322.5 km35 mio.
126BrazilAmerica Recife11 Mar 198539.7 km
127FranceEurope Rennes16 Mar 20029.0 km23 mio.
128BrazilAmerica Rio de Janeiro5 Mar 197942.0 km135 mio.
129ItalyEurope Rome10 Feb 195539.0 km331 mio.
130NetherlandsEurope Rotterdam10 Feb 196847.0 km85 mio.
131FranceEurope Rouen17 Dec 19942.2 km
132USAAmerica Saint Louis31 Jul 199373.4 km
133RussiaEurope Saint Petersburg15 Nov 1955110.2 km832 mio.
134RussiaEurope Samara26 Dec 198710.2 km12 mio.
135USAAmerica San Francisco11 Sep 1972166.9 km100 mio.
136Puerto RicoAmerica San Juan6 Jun 200517.2 km9 mio.
137ChileAmerica Santiago15 Sep 197583.0 km642 mio.
138Dominican RepublicAmerica Santo Domingo30 Jan 200914.5 km
139BrazilAmerica Sao Paulo14 Sep 197461.3 km684 mio.
140JapanAsia Sapporo16 Dec 197148.0 km209 mio.
141USAAmerica Seattle18 Jul 200922.2 km
142JapanAsia Sendai15 Jul 198714.8 km58 mio.
143South KoreaAsia Seoul15 Aug 1974286.9 km2048 mio.
144SpainEurope Seville2 Apr 200918.0 km
145ChinaAsia Shanghai10 Apr 1995334.0 km1122 mio.
146ChinaAsia Shenyang23 Sep 200922.2 km
147ChinaAsia Shenzhen28 Dec 200425.3 km73 mio.
148SingaporeAsia Singapore7 Nov 1987118.9 km571 mio.
149BulgariaEurope Sofia28 Jan 199818.0 km51 mio.
150SwedenEurope Stockholm1 Oct 1950105.7 km303 mio.
151GermanyEurope Stuttgart10 Jun 196624.0 km
152AustraliaOceania Sydney192622.1 km
153TaiwanAsia Taipei28 Mar 199690.6 km450 mio.
154JapanAsia Tama27 Nov 199816.0 km
155UzbekistanAsia Tashkent6 Nov 197736.2 km71 mio.
156GeorgiaAsia Tbilisi11 Jan 196626.3 km92 mio.
157IranAsia Tehran21 Feb 200050.5 km353 mio.
158NetherlandsEurope The Hague16 Oct 200427.9 km
159ChinaAsia Tianjin28 Mar 200472.0 km15 mio.
160JapanAsia Tokyo30 Dec 1927304.5 km3174 mio.
161CanadaAmerica Toronto30 Apr 195471.3 km278 mio.
162FranceEurope Toulouse26 Jun 199327.5 km42 mio.
163ItalyEurope Turin4 Feb 20069.6 km
164VenezuelaAmerica Valencia18 Oct 20066.2 km18 mio.
165SpainEurope Valencia3 Oct 198831.8 km
166ChileAmerica Valparaiso23 Nov 200543.0 km
167CanadaAmerica Vancouver3 Jan 198669.5 km74 mio.
168AustriaEurope Vienna25 Feb 197869.8 km498 mio.
169RussiaEurope Volgograd5 Nov 19843.3 km
170PolandEurope Warsaw7 Apr 199522.6 km114 mio.
171USAAmerica Washington27 Mar 1976171.2 km215 mio.
172ChinaAsia Wuhan28 Sep 200410.2 km
173GermanyEurope Wuppertal1 Mar 190113.3 km
174RussiaAsia Yekaterinburg26 Apr 19918.5 km46 mio.
175ArmeniaAsia Yerevan7 Mar 198112.1 km17 mio.
176JapanAsia Yokohama16 Dec 197257.6 km198 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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