List of urban rail systems by length
This is a list of the longest underground/surface/elevated subways, metros and rapid transit modules of the world. Not included are Commuter Railways such as the S Lines of Milan, the FM of Rome, the RER of Paris, the Belgian Pre-Metro, the Urban Railways of Australia, the Tramways of England, the funiculars of Genoa and Naples and all other Commuter Lines (including those underground). In addition, regional (suburban) railways such as Berlin's S-Bahn and the RENFE of Spain aren't included here.
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- London 415.0 km (171 km underground) - Lines: 12 (the most part with long branches)
- New York City 368.0 km (219 km underground) - Lines: 26 (more if shuttles differentiated, less according to routes)
- Tokyo 292.3 km (Tokyo Metro 183.2 km, TOEI Subway 109 km) - Lines: 13
- Seoul 287 km - Lines: 8
- Moscow 285.6 km - Lines: 12
- Madrid 226.5 km - Lines: 13 (211 km underground)
- Paris 212.5 km - Lines: 16 (780 km in including the RER, which is mostly suburban)
- Mexico City 201.7 km - Lines: 11
- Chicago 173.0 km (the most part is elevated or at grade) - Lines: 7
- Washington 169.5 km - Lines: 5
- San Francisco 167 km (the most part is at grade) - Lines: 6
- Berlin 146 km - Lines: 9
- Los Angeles 118 km - Lines: 4
- Osaka 113.5 km - Lines: 7
- Sankt Peterburg 112.0 km - Lines: 4
- Singapore 109.4 km - Lines: 3
- Stockholm 108.0 km - Lines: 7
- Boston 101.0 km - Lines: 4
- Hamburg 101.0 km (40 km underground; the rest is elevated or at grade) - Lines: 3
- Shanghai 95.2 km (an half part is elevated) - Lines: 4
- Busan 90.0 km - Lines: 3
- Nagoya 87.0 km - Lines: 5
- Munich 85.6 km - Lines: 3 (the main lines are 3: 5 branches. on the map it was presented as 6 different lines)
- Milano 84.5 km (62.9 km are underground the rest elevated or at grade) - Lines: 4 (3 have long branches)
- Barcelona 83.7 km - Lines: 5
- Hong Kong 80.5 - Lines: 5
- Atlanta 79.2 km (14 km underground; the most part is at grade) - Lines: 2
- Taipei 79.9 km (the most part is at grade) - Lines: 5 (2 lines shared the most part of trails)
- Toronto 70.0 km - Lines: 4
- Santiago 67.0 km - Lines: 4
- Cairo 65.5 km (the most part is at grade) - Lines: 2
- Montreal 64.0 km - Lines: 4
- Bucarest 62.4 km - Lines: 4
- Philadelphia 62.0 km (28.6 km are underground) - Lines: 4
- Wien 61.0 km - Lines: 5
- Saint Louis 60.5 km (for the most part at grade) - Lines: 1
- Kiev 59.2 km
- Kuala Lumpur 56.0 km (completely elevated or at grade)
- Delhi 55.5 km (less than a half part is underground)
- Dortmund 55.0 km (17.5 km underground, 37.5 km above ground)
- Daegu 54.6 km
- Beijing 54.0 km
- Prague 53.8 km
- Athens 52.0 km
- Amsterdam 51.4 km (only 3.5 km are underground, the rest at grade)
- Valencia 49.4 km (the most part is underground)
- Vancouver 49.1 km (all elevated or at grade)
- Sao Paulo 49.0 km (an half part is elevated or at grade)
- Sapporo 48.0 km
- Rotterdam 48.0 km
- Manila 45.6 km (full elevated)
- Lille 45.5 km
- Caracas 45.0 km
- Köln 44.5 km
- Yokohama 44.5 km
- Bangkok 44.0 km (an half part is elevated or at grade)
- Valparaìso 43.0 km (only 5 km are underground. the rest at grade)
- Buenos Aires 42.7 km - Lines: 5
- Kobe 41.5 km
- Tehran 41.0 km
- Tashkent 39.1 km
- Lisbon 38.0 km
- Guangzhou 36.8 km
- Rio de Janeiro 36.5 km (partly elevated)
- Bilbao 36.3 km (an half part is elevated or at grade)
- Miami 36.0 km (completely elevated)
- Rome 35.9 km (27.5 km are underground; the rest at grade)
- Kharkiv 35.3 km
- Porto Alegre 34.5 km (completely at grade)
- Budapest 33.0 km
- Bruxelles 32.2 km
- Brasilia 31.0 km (the most part is at grade)
- Cleveland 31.0 km (only 1 km is underground; the rest is at grade)
- Baku 30.5 km
- Belo Horizonte 30.0 km (completely elevate and at grade)
- Fukuoka 29.8 km
- Medellín 29.9 km (completely elevate and at grade)
- Nürnberg 29.0 km
- Recife 29.0 km (completely at grade)
- Istanbul 27.9 km
- Minsk 27.6 km
- Kyoto 26.4 km
- Tbilisi 26.3 km
- Baltimore 24.5 km (an half part is elevated or at grade)
- Guadalajara 24.0 km (partly at grade)
- Ankara 23.1 km (an half part is elevated or at grade)
- Monterrey 23.0 km (partly elevated)
- Incheon 23.0 km
- Pyongyang 22.5 km
- Essen 22.4 km
- Shenzhen 21.5 km
- Helsinki 21.1 km (7.1 km are underground)
- Copenhagen 21.0 km (an half part is elevated)
- Marseille 19.3 km
- Valencia 19.0 km
- Kryvy Rih 17.7 km
- Nizhniy Novgorod 17.5 km
- Bursa 17.5 km
- Warsaw 17.3 km
- Puerto Rico 17.2 km (the most part is elevated or at grade)
- Hannover 17.0 km
- Nanjing 17.0 km (10.6 km are underground the rest at grade)
- Calcutta 16.5 km
- Chennai/Madras 16.0 km (completely elevated)
- Sendai 15.0 km
- Novosibirsk 14.3 km
- Bochum 14.2 km
- Volgograd 13.5 km (only 3.3 km are underground)
- Napoli 13.5 km (4 km are elevated or at grade)
- Yerevan 13.4 km
- Wuppertal 13.3 km (suspension urban rail line)
- Toulouse 12.5 km
- Edmonton 12.3 km (7.6 km on the surface)
- Gwangju 11.9 km
- Izmir 11.5 km
- Buffalo 10.6 km
- Glasgow 10.5 km
- Lima 10.0 km (mostly elevated, partly at grade)
- Sofia 9.9 km
- Rennes 9.0 km
- Torino 8.4 km (all underground - will be opened at December 2005)
- Yekaterinburg 8.0 km
- Lausanne 7.8 km
- Dnipropetrovsk 7.8 km
- Kazan 7.7 km
- Newark, New Jersey 6.9 km (PATH not included)
- Porto 5.7 km
- Genoa 5.6 km
- Samara 4.5 km
- Catania 3.8 km
Monorail & People Mover
(Not included: monorails in public parks such as Disney World and similar)
- Osaka 23.8 km
- Kuala Lumpur 19.2 km
- Tokyo 16.9 km
- Tama 16.0 km
- Chiba 15.5 km
- Chongqing 13.5 km
- Naha 12.8 km
- Miami 10.3 km
- Kitakyushu 8.8 km
- Jacksonville 7.0 km
- Shonan 6.6 km
- Las Vegas 6.2 km
- Detroit 4.8 km
- Newark, New Jersey 4.8 km
- Moscow 4.7 km
- Shenzhen 4.4 km
- Sydney 3.6 km
- Dusseldorf 2.5 km
- Dortmund 3.0 km
- Montreal 2.1 km
- Seattle 1.5 km
- Gold Coast - Broadbeach 1.3 km
- Inuyama 1.1 km
- Tampa Bay 1.1 km
- Milan 0.7 km
- Honolulu 0.5 km