European route E40


European route E40 is a European route connecting Calais in France with Ridder in Kazakhstan near the border with Russia and China. long, is the longest route in the International E-road network. A different route, connecting Calais and Ridder, is about shorter, mostly using the E30 via Berlin, Moscow, and Omsk. The E40 differs from that route in order to provide additional direct east–west access to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, with a combined population base approaching 50 million people as of 2021.
From Dresden to Kyiv forms part of Pan-European Corridor III.
Since 2014, parts of the road in eastern Ukraine have been under the control of the separatist Donetsk [People's Republic] and Luhansk People's Republic. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia took Russian [annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts|direct control] of the areas in Donbas.

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France