List of metro systems
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Here is an alphabetical listing of cities which have a metro (also called underground or subway) system.

This page uses the definition found on the metro article, under which a metro system:

1. is urban,
2. has a short headway (interval between trains),
3. is electric,
4. operates entirely on its own right-of-way.

This page will include all systems that obey these characteristics, without regard to specific profile or technology (i.e. underground, at grade, above ground, monorail, linear-induction...)

On the other hand, systems that are called "metro" but are really light rail (mainly those not segregated from other traffic, such as tramways and streetcars) are not included here but in List of light-rail transit systems.

Europe excl. Caucasus

City	Country	Main article	List of stations	Date opened	Official link	Other link	Note
Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amsterdam metro	List	1977	GVB	[1]
Athens	Greece	Attiko Metro	List	1904	Αττικό Μετρό	[1]
Barcelona	Spain	Barcelona Metro	List	1924	TMB, FGC	[1]
Berlin	Germany	Berlin U-Bahn	List	1902	BVG	[1]	note 1
		Berlin S-Bahn		1930	S-Bahn		note 2
Bilbao	Spain	Bilbao Metro	List	1995	metrobilbao	[1]
Bologna	Italy	''Bologna Metro	List	under const.	ATC	[1]
Brescia	Italy	''Brescia Metrobus	List	under const.	Brescia Mobilità	[1]
Brussels	Belgium	Brussels Metro	List	1976	STIB	[1]
Bucharest	Romania	Bucharest Metro	List	1979	Metroul	[1]
Budapest	Hungary	Budapest Metro	List	1896	BKV	[1]
Catania	Italy	Catania Metro	List	1999	Ferrovia Circumetnea	[1]
Copenhagen	Denmark	Copenhagen Metro	List	2002	Københavns Metro	[1]
Dnipopetrovsk	Ukraine	Dnipopetrovsk Metro	List	1995		[1]
Donetsk	Ukraine	''Donetsk Metro	List	under const.	Donetsk Metro	[1]
Genoa	Italy	Genoa Metro	List	1990	GenovaMetro	[1]
Glasgow	UK	Glasgow Underground (Clockwork Orange)	List	1896	SPT	[1]
Hamburg	Germany	Hamburg U-Bahn	List	1912	Hochbahn	[1]	note 1
		Hamburg S-Bahn		1924	S-Bahn		note 2
Helsinki	Finland	Helsinki Metro	List	1982	HKL	[1]	note 3
Istanbul	Turkey	Istanbul Metro	List	1989	Istanbul Ulasim	[1]
Kazan	Russia	''Kazan Metro	List	under const.	Qazan Metropoliteny	[1]
Kharkov	Ukraine	Kharkov Metro	List	1975	Khar'kovskiy Metropoliten	[1]
Kiev	Ukraine	Kiev Metro	List	1960	Kyiv Metro	[1]
Krivoy Rog	Ukraine	Krivoy Rog Metro	List	1986		[1]
Lille	France	Lille Metro	List	1983	Transpole	[1]	Note 4
Lisbon	Portugal	Lisbon Metro	List	1959	Metropolitano de Lisboa	[1]
London	UK	London Underground (Tube)	List	1863	Transport for London	[1]
		Docklands Light Railway	List	1987
Lyon	France	Lyon Metro	List	1968	TCL	[1]
Madrid	Spain	Madrid Metro	List	1919	Metro de Madrid	[1]
Marseille	France	Marseille Metro	List	1977	RTM	[1]
Milan	Italy	Milan Metro	List	1964	ATM	[1]
Minsk	Belarus	Minsk Metro	List	1984		[1]
Moscow	Russia	Moscow Metro	List	1935		[1]
Munich	Germany	Munich U-Bahn	List	1971	MVV	[1]	note 1
Naples	Italy	Naples Metro	List	1993	MetroNapoli	[1]
Newcastle upon Tyne	UK	Tyne & Wear Metro	List	1980	NEXUS	[1]
Nizhny Novgorod	Russia	Nizhny Novgorod Metro	List	1985		[1]
Nuremberg	Germany	Nuremberg U-Bahn	List	1972	VGN	[1]	note 1
Oslo	Norway	Oslo T-Bane	List	1966	Trafikanten	[1]
Paris	France	Paris Metro	List	1900	RATP	[1]	note 5
Prague	Czech R	Prague Metro	List	1974	DP Praha	[1]
Rennes	France	Rennes Metro	List	2002	STAR	[1]	Note 4
Rome	Italy	Rome Metro	List	1955	Metropolitano di Roma	[1]
Rotterdam	Netherlands	Rotterdam Metro	List	1968	RET	[1]
Samara	Russia	Samara Metro	List	1987		[1]
Saint Petersburg	Russia	Saint Petersburg Metro	List	1955	Peterburgskiy Metropoliten	[1]
Sofia	Bulgaria	Sofia Metro	List	1998	Metropolitan Sofia	[1]
Stockholm	Sweden	Stockholm Metro (Tunnelbana)	List	1950	Storstockholms Lokaltrafik	[1]
Toulouse	France	Toulouse Metro	List	1993	SEMVAT	[1]	note 4
Valencia	Spain	Valencia Metro	List	1988	FGV	[1]
Vienna	Austria	Vienna U-Bahn	List	1976	Wiener Linien	[1]	note 1
Warsaw	Poland	Warsaw Metro	List	1995	Metro Warszawskie	[1]
Wuppertal	Germany	Wuppertal Schwebebahn	List	1976	WSW	[1]

Notes:

1. see also U-Bahn
2. see also S-Bahn
3. Most northerly metro in the world
4. See also VAL
5. RER commuter trains offer metro-like service within the city; see also Orlyval

Asia incl. Caucasus

City	Country	Main article	List of stations	Date opened	Official link	Other link	Note
Ankara	Turkey	Ankara Metro	List	1996	EGO	[1]
Bangkok	Thailand	Bangkok mass transit	List	1999	BTS	[1]	Note 1
Beijing	China	Beijing Subway	List	1969		[1]
Bursa	Turkey	Bursaray	List	2002	Bursaray	[1]
Busan	S. Korea	Busan Subway	List	1985	BUTA	[1]
Calcutta/ Kolkata	India	Calcutta Metro Railway	List	1984	Metro Railway Calcutta	[1]
Chennai/ Madras	India	Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System	List	1997	MTC	[1]
Daegu	S. Korea	Daegu Subway	List	1997	DMSC	[1]
Delhi	India	Delhi Metro	List	2002	DMRC	[1]
Fukuoka	Japan	Fukuoka Subway	List	1981	FCTB	[1]
Guangzhou	China	Guangzhou Metro	List	1999	Guangzhou Metro	[1]
Haifa	Israel	Carmelit	List	1959		[1]
Hiroshima	Japan	Hiroshima Monorail	List	1994		[1]
Hong Kong	China	MTR	List	1979	MTRC	[1]
Incheon	S. Korea	Incheon Subway	List	1999	IRTC	[1]
Izmir	Turkey	Izmir Metro	List	2000	Izmir Metro	[1]
Kitakyushu	Japan	Kitakyushu Monorail	List	1985	KUM	[1]
Kobe	Japan	Kobe Subway	List	1977	Kobe Subway	[1]
Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	Star LRT	List	1996		[1]
		Putra LRT		1998	Putra
		KL Monorail		2003	KL Monorail
Kyoto	Japan	Kyoto Subway	List	1981	KMTB	[1]
Manila	Philippines	Manila MRT	List	1984	LRTA	[1]
Mumbai/ Bombay	India	Mumbai Metro	List			[1]
Nagoya	Japan	Nagoya Subway	List	1957	CNTB	[1]
Naha	Japan	Naha Yui Rail	List	2003	Yui-Rail	[1]
Novosibirsk	Russia	Novosibirsk Metro	List	1986		[1]
Osaka	Japan	Osaka Municipal Subway	List	1933	OMTB	[1]
Pyongyang	N. Korea	Pyongyang Metro	List	1973		[1]
Sapporo	Japan	Sapporo Subway	List	1971	SCTB	[1]
Sendai	Japan	Sendai Subway	List	1987	SCTB	[1]
Seoul	S.Korea	Seoul Metro	List	1971	Seoul Metropolitan Subway Corporation	[1]
				1990	Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation
				1963	KORAIL
Shanghai	China	Shanghai Subway	List	1995		[1]
Shenzhen	China	Shenzhen Subway	List	Under const.		[1]
Singapore		Singapore MRT	List	1990	SMRT	[1]
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Tashkent Metro	List	1977	Toshkent Metropoliten	[1]
Tbilisi	Georgia	Tbilisi Metro	List	1966		[1]
Tehran	Iran	Tehran Metro	List	1999	Tehran Metro	[1]
Tianjin	China	Tianjin Subway	List	1980 (closed until 2005)	TJDT	[1]
Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Subway	List	1927	Teito	[1]
				1960	Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
Yekaterinburg	Russia	Yekaterinburg Metro	List	1991		[1]
Yerevan	Armenia	Yerevan Metro	List	1981		[1]
Yokohama	Japan	Yokohama Subway	List	1972	YTB	[1]

1. Elevated Skytrain; subway under construction.

North America

• Atlanta, Georgia (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority or "MARTA")
• Baltimore, Maryland
• Boston, Massachusetts ("MBTA subway" or Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority or just "the T")
• Chicago, Illinois (Chicago El)
• Cleveland, Ohio (Rapid Transit (RTA))
• Dallas, Texas (Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
• Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Houston, Texas (METRORail, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas) - Planned commuter rail, pending feasibility of commuter rail system in conjunction with existing light rail
• Los Angeles, California (The Metro Red, Gold, Green, and Blue Lines)
• Miami, Florida (Miami-Dade Transit)
• Mexico City (El Metro) station list offical site
• Monterrey, Mexico (el metro, Metrorrey)
• Montreal, Canada (the metro or métro) – List of Montreal metro stations
• Newark, New Jersey, USA (Newark city subway; in addition, a branch of the PATH system links Newark to New York City)
• New York City 1904
  • the New York City Subway, which is operated by MTA New York City Transit, a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and which serves four of the five boroughs of New York City
  • the Staten Island Railway, another subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which serves the fifth borough of New York City, Staten Island
  • AirTrain JFK, a rail service linking the New York City Subway and New York's JFK Airport. Operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the AirTrain is considered by some to be more a light-rail than a heavy-rail system
  • in addition, New York City is served by the PATH underground trains, which connect the city to nearby suburbs in New Jersey and are operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority)
  • in addition, Philadelphia is served by the PATCO Speedline rapid-transit trains, which connect the city to nearby suburbs in New Jersey and are operated by the Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
• Portland, Oregon (3 mi segment of MAX Blue line)
• San Francisco, California BART (1972). The BART includes both the subway and some bus services in the San Francisco Bay Area, both of which are fully accessible.
• Toronto, Canada - (operated by the TTC - Toronto Transit Commission) – List of Toronto subway stations
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, SkyTrain - (for most of its length SkyTrain runs above ground; some consider this to be more a light-rail than a heavy-rail system).
• Washington DC (The Metro (1976), operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Official Site), and the Congressional Subway) – List of Washington metro stations

South America

City	Country	Main article	List of stations	Date opened	Official link	Other link	Note
Belo Horizonte	Brazil	Belo Horizonte metro	List		Metrô BH	[1]
Brasília	Brazil	Brasília metro	List	2001	Metrô DF	[1]
Buenos Aires	Argentina	Buenos Aires metro	List	1913	Subte	[1]
Caracas	Venezuela	Caracas metro	List	1983	Metro	[1]
Medellín	Colombia	Medellín metro	List	1996	Metro	[1]
Porto Alegre	Brazil	Porto Alegre metro	List	1985	Trensurb	[1]
Recife	Brazil	Recife metro	List	1985		[1]
Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro metro	List	1979	Metrô Rio	[1]
Santiago	Chile	Santiago metro	List	1975	Metro	[1]
São Paulo	Brazil	São Paulo metro	List	1974	Metrô SP	[1]
''Viña del Mar	''Chile	''Viña del Mar metro	''List	''under constr.

Africa

City	Country	Main article	List of stations	Date opened	Official link	Other link	Note
Cairo	Egypt	Cairo metro	List	1987		[1]

Oceania

City	Country	Main article	List of stations	Date opened	Official link	Other link
Melbourne	Australia	Melbourne railways	List	1919	VicTrip	[1]
Sydney	Australia	Sydney subways	List		CityRail
Brisbane	Australia	Brisbane railways	List		Citytrain
Perth	Australia	Perth railways	List		Transperth

Top 10 in terms of annual passenger rides

1. Moscow 3.2 billion
2. Tokyo 2.7 billion
3. Seoul 1.6 billion
4. Mexico City 1.3 billion
5. New York City 1.3 billion
6. Paris 1.2 billion
7. Osaka 957 million
8. London 886 million (4.6 billion miles)
9. Hong Kong 798 million
10. St. Petersburg 784 million

Top 8 in terms of number of stations

1. New York 468.
2. Paris 368.
3. London 270.
4. Tokyo 217.
5. Melbourne 200.
6. Madrid 189.
7. Chicago 142.
8. Moscow 140.

Earliest lines

• 1863 London Underground
• 1892 Chicago
• 1896 Budapest, Glasgow
• 1897 Boston
• 1900 Paris Metro

External link

• [1]

The original article can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems.
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