1.   Tokyo Subway
   Tokyo Subway
   The is an integral part of the world's most extensive rapid transit system in a single metropolitan area, Greater Tokyo. While the subway system itself is largely within the city center, the lines extend far out via extensive through services onto suburban railway lines.- Networks :As of June...
   
    (Tokyo Metro
   Tokyo Metro
   is one of two rapid transit systems making up the Tokyo subway system, the other being Toei. It is the most used subway system in the world in terms of annual passenger rides.-Organization:...
   
    and Toei Subway only) 3.161 billion (2010)
2.   Moscow Metro
   Moscow Metro
   The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 182 stations and its route length is . The system is...
   
    2.348 billion (2010)
3.   Seoul Subway
   Seoul Metropolitan Subway
   The Seoul Metropolitan Subway or Metropolitan Subway in Seoul, in Seoul, South Korea, is one of the most heavily used rapid transit systems in the world, with well over 8 million trips daily on the system's thirteen lines...
   
    (Seoul Metro
   Seoul Metro
   Seoul Metro is a public corporation which runs the Seoul Subway Lines 1 to 4.From 1970 to 2006, it was called Seoul Metropolitan Subway Corporation.-Lines:- See also :* Korail* Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation...
   
    and SMRT
   Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation
   Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation was established in 1994 to operate the Seoul Subway lines 5, 6, 7, 8 in Seoul, South Korea.The corporation operates a total of 201 subway trains at 148 stations on lines 5-8. The operation intervals are from 2.5–6 minutes during rush hours and 5–10...
   
   ) 2.048 billion (2009)
4.   Shanghai Metro
   Shanghai Metro
   The Shanghai Metro is the urban rapid transit system of China's largest city, Shanghai. The system incorporates both subway and light rail lines. It opened in 1995, making Shanghai the third city in Mainland China, after Beijing and Tianjin, to have a rapid transit system...
   
    1.884 billion (2010)
5.   Beijing Subway
   Beijing Subway
   The Beijing Subway is a rapid transit rail network that serves the urban and suburban districts of Beijing municipality. It is owned by the city of Beijing and has two operators, the wholly state owned Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp., which operates 12 lines, and the Beijing MTR...
   
    1.84 billion (2010)
6.   New York City Subway
   New York City Subway
   The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and also known as MTA New York City Transit...
   
    1.604 billion (2010)
7.   Paris Métro
   Paris Métro
   The Paris Métro or Métropolitain is the rapid transit metro system in Paris, France. It has become a symbol of the city, noted for its density within the city limits and its uniform architecture influenced by Art Nouveau. The network's sixteen lines are mostly underground and run to 214 km ...
   
    1.506 billion (2010)
8.   Mexico City Metro
   Mexico City Metro
   The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...
   
    1.410 billion (2010)
9.   Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway
   MTR
   Mass Transit Railway is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. Originally opened in 1979, the system now includes 211.6 km of rail with 155 stations, including 86 railway stations and 69 light rail stops...
   
    1.41 billion (2010)
10.   Guangzhou Metro
    Guangzhou Metro
    Guangzhou Metro is the metro system of the city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province of China. It is operated by the state-owned Guangzhou Metro Corporation and was the fourth metro system to be built in mainland China, after those of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.The earliest effort of preparation...
    
     (including FMetro
    FMetro
    FMetro also known as Foshan Metro is the metro system of the city of Foshan in Guangdong Province of China. It is operated by the state-owned Foshan Railway Investment Construction Group and partly by Guangzhou Metro Corporation and is the tenth metro system to be built in mainland China....
    
    ) 1.18 billion (2010)
11. London Underground
    London Underground
    The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...
    
     1.107 billion (2010)
12.   Osaka Municipal Subway
    Osaka Municipal Subway
    is the metro network in the city of Osaka, Japan, forming an integral part of the extensive mass transit system of Greater Osaka , having 125 out of the 1,108 rail stations in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto region. In 2010 the greater Osaka region had 13 million rail passengers daily of which the Osaka...
    
     837 million (FY 2010)
13.   Saint Petersburg Metro
    Saint Petersburg Metro
    The Saint Petersburg Metro is the underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It has been open since November 15, 1955.Formerly known as the V.I...
    
     829.8 million (2007)
14.   Cairo Metro
    Cairo Metro
    The Cairo Metro in Egypt is the first of only two full-fledged metro system in Africa, and the Arab World. The system consists of two operational lines, with construction having begun on a third line in 2006....
    
     805 million (2009/2010)
15.   São Paulo Metro
    São Paulo Metro
    The São Paulo Metro is the principal rapid-transit system in the city of São Paulo and the largest in Brazil. It is also the second largest system in South America and the third largest in Latin America, behind Mexico City and Santiago....
    
     754 million (2010)
16.   Singapore Mass Rapid Transit
    Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
    The Mass Rapid Transit or MRT is a rapid transit system that forms the backbone of the railway system in Singapore, spanning the entire city-state. The initial section of the MRT, between Yio Chu Kang Station and Toa Payoh Station, opened in 1987 establishing itself as the second-oldest metro...
    
     744.8 million (2010)
17.   Madrid Metro
    Madrid Metro
    The Madrid Metro is a metro system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the sixth longest metro in the world though Madrid is approximately the fiftieth most populous metropolitan area in the world...
    
     642 million (2009)
18.   Santiago Metro
    Santiago Metro
    Metro de Santiago is South America's most extensive metro system with 5 lines, 108 stations and 103 kilometres of track making it the second longest in Latin America after that of Mexico City. The metro system serves the city of Santiago, Chile. Three of the lines are rubber-tyred...
    
     621 million (2010)
19.   Prague Metro
    Prague Metro
    The Prague Metro is a subway, underground public transportation network in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the fastest means of transportation around the city and serves about one and a half million passengers a day, which makes it the seventh busiest metro system in Europe and the most-used in the...
    
     578.5 million (2010)
20.   Vienna U-Bahn
    Vienna U-Bahn
    The Vienna U-Bahn is a rapid transit system consisting of five lines. It is the backbone of one of the best performing public transport systems worldwide according to UITP in June 2009. More than 1.3 million passengers use the Vienna U-Bahn every day...
    
     534.4 million (2010)
21.   Berlin U-Bahn
    Berlin U-Bahn
    The Berlin is a rapid transit railway in Berlin, the capital city of Germany, and is a major part of the public transport system of that city. Opened in 1902, the serves 173 stations spread across ten lines, with a total track length of , about 80% of which is underground...
    
     508.9 million (2009)
22.   Taipei Metro 505.4 million (2010)
23.   Kiev Metro
    Kiev Metro
    The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...
    
     504.3 million (2010)
24.   Caracas Metro
    Caracas Metro
    The Caracas Metro is a mass rapid transit system serving Caracas, Venezuela. It is constructed and operated by Compañía Anónima Metro de Caracas, a government-owned company that was founded in 1977 by José González-Lander who headed the project for more than thirty years since the early planning...
    
     484.6 million (2009)
25.   Tehran Metro
    Tehran Metro
    The Tehran Metro is a rapid transit system serving Tehran, the capital of Iran. The system consists of 4 operational lines, with construction having begun on a further two lines in 2007....
    
     459.1 million (2008)
26.   Nagoya Municipal Subway
    Nagoya Municipal Subway
    is the subway system that serves the Nagoya, Aichi, Japan area. Like other large Japanese cities, Greater Nagoya's subways are heavily complemented by suburban rail, forming an extensive network of 47 lines rivaling cities such as New York and London...
    
     427.5 million (2008)
27.   Buenos Aires Subway 409.8 million (2008)
28.   Athens Metro
    Athens Metro
    The Athens Metro is an underground rapid transit system serving Athens, the capital city of Greece. It was constructed and owned by Attiko Metro S.A. and operated until 2011 by Attiko Metro Etaireia Leitourgias S.A....
    
     388 million (2009)
29.   Barcelona Metro
    Barcelona Metro
    The Barcelona Metro , part of the public transportation system of Barcelona, Catalonia, is an extensive network of electrified railways that run underground in central Barcelona and above ground into the city's suburbs. Since July 31, 2010, Barcelona Metro system consists of 11 lines with 165...
    
     381.2 million (2010)
30.   Munich U-Bahn
    Munich U-Bahn
    The Munich U-Bahn system is an electric rail rapid transit network in Munich, Germany. "U-Bahn" is the German contraction for Untergrundbahn or "subway." It is operated by the municipally owned Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft...
    
     360 million (2010)
31.   Rome Metro
    Rome Metro
    The Rome Metro is an underground public transportation system that operates in Rome, Italy and opened in 1955. There are currently two metro lines, the A line and the B line . A third line, the green C line, and a new branch of the B line, are currently under construction. Plans have also been...
    
     331 million (2008)
32.   Milan Metro
    Milan Metro
    The Milan Metro is the rapid transit system serving Milan, Italy, operated by Azienda Trasporti Milanesi. Milan metro is the longest metro system in Italy, and is the core of the Milan Transportation System...
    
     328 million (2007)
33.   Stockholm Metro
    Stockholm Metro
    The Stockholm Metro is a metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The first line opened in 1950, and today the system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are seven lines numbered from 10 to 19, in three groups identified by a color: the Green, Red and Blue lines...
    
     310 million (2010)
34.   Toronto subway and RT
    Toronto subway and RT
    The Toronto subway and RT is a rapid transit system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, consisting of both underground and elevated railway lines, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission . It was Canada's first completed subway system, with the first line being built under Yonge Street, which opened in...
    
     304 million (2009)
35.   Budapest Metro
    Budapest Metro
    The Budapest Metro is the rapid transit system in the Hungarian capital Budapest. It is the second-oldest underground metro system in the world after the London Underground. Its iconic Line 1, dating from 1896, was declared a World Heritage Site in 2002.-Lines:The Metro consists of three lines,...
    
     297 million (2008)
36.   Montreal Metro
    Montreal Metro
    The Montreal Metro is a rubber-tired metro system, and the main form of public transportation underground in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada....
    
     296.3 million (2010)
37.   Kharkiv Metro
    Kharkiv Metro
    The Kharkiv Metro is the metro system that serves the city of Kharkiv , the second largest city in Ukraine. The metro was the second in Ukraine and the sixth in the USSR when it opened in 1975.-Lines and Stations:...
    
     278 million (2007)
38.   Delhi Metro
    Delhi Metro
    Delhi Metro is a rapid transit system serving Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad in the National Capital Region of India. It is one of the largest metro networks in the world. The network consists of six lines with a total length of with 142 stations of which 35 are underground...
    
     278 million (269 days in 2009-2010)
39.   Busan Subway
    Busan Subway
    The Busan Subway , operated by the Busan Transportation Corporation is the subway system of Busan, South Korea. The subway network first opened in 1985 with seventeen stations...
    
     274.8 million (2010)
40.   Minsk Metro
    Minsk Metro
    The Minsk Metro is a rapid-transit system that serves Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Opened in 1984, it presently consists of 2 lines and 25 stations totaling 30.3 kilometres...
    
     273.6 million (2010)
41.   Lyon Metro
    Lyon Metro
    The Lyon metro, in Lyon, France, first opened in 1978 and now consists of four lines. It is part of the Transports en Commun Lyonnais system of public transport, and is supported by a network of tramways....
    
     250 million (2008)
42.   Bucharest Metro
    Bucharest Metro
    The Bucharest Metro is an underground urban railway network that serves the capital of Romania, Bucharest. The network is run by Metrorex. It is one of the most accessed systems of the Bucharest public transport network with a ridership of 177.23 million passengers in 2010...
    
     219 million (2007)
43.   Washington Metro
    Washington Metro
    The Washington Metro, commonly called Metro, and unofficially Metrorail, is the rapid transit system in Washington, D.C., United States, and its surrounding suburbs. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority , which also operates Metrobus service under the Metro name...
    
     217.2 million (2010)
44.   Nanjing Metro
    Nanjing Metro
    The Nanjing Metro is a metro system serving the city of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It first opened in 2005, and as of 2011, there are two lines in operation, with of track in operation.-Current system:-Line 1:...
    
     214 million (2010)
45.   Sapporo Municipal Subway
    Sapporo Municipal Subway
    The is an underground rapid transit system in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is operated by the Sapporo City Transportation Bureau.-Lines:The system has 3 lines; the first, the Namboku Line, was opened in 1971 prior to the 1972 Winter Olympics.-Technology:...
    
     210 million (2006)
46.   Baku Metro
    Baku Metro
    Baku Metro is a rapid transit system serving Baku the capital of Azerbaijan. First opened on November 6, 1967, during the time of the Soviet Union, it has the features found in most other ex-Soviet systems, including very deep central stations, and exquisite decorations that blend traditional...
    
     206.1 million (2009)
47.   Chicago 'L'
    Chicago 'L'
    The L is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs. It is operated by the Chicago Transit Authority...
    
     203 million (2009)
48.   Manila Light Rail Transit System
    Manila Light Rail Transit System
    The Manila Light Rail Transit System, popularly known as the LRT, is a metropolitan rail system serving the Metro Manila area in the Philippines. Although referred to as a light rail system because it originally used light rail vehicles, it has many characteristics of a rapid transit system, such...
    
     196.6 million (2008)
49.   Hamburg U-Bahn
    Hamburg U-Bahn
    The Hamburg U-Bahn is a rapid transit system serving the cities of Hamburg, Norderstedt and Ahrensburg in Germany. Although technically an underground, most of the system's track length is above ground. The network is interconnected with the city's S-Bahn system, which also has underground...
    
     194.9 million (2009)
50.   Lisbon Metro
    Lisbon Metro
    The Lisbon Metro is the metro system of Lisbon, Portugal. Opened in December 1959, it was the first subway system in Portugal.As of 2011, the four Lisbon subway lines total about in length and comprise 52 stations.- History :- Idea :...
    
     177 million (2009)
51.   Kolkata Metro
    Kolkata Metro
    The Kolkata Metro or Calcutta Metro is a mass rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata and the districts of South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas in Indian state of West Bengal. The network consists of one operational line and five lines currently under construction...
    
     173 million (2009)
52.   Yokohama Municipal Subway
    Yokohama Municipal Subway
    is the metro network in the city of Yokohama, Japan, south of Tokyo In Kanagawa pref. It is operated by Yokohama City Transportation Bureau, and is operated as two lines, though 3 continuous lines exist.-Lines:Line 1 and 3 are operated as a single line...
    
     164 million (2007)
53.   Metro de Medellín
    Metro de Medellín
    The Medellín Metro is an urban train that crosses the Metropolitan Area of Medellín from North to South and from Centre to West. As one of the first experiences of modern mass transportation in Colombia and the only metro system in the country, the Medellín Metro is a product of the urban planning...
    
     155 million (2008)
54.   Rio de Janeiro Metro
    Rio de Janeiro Metro
    The Rio de Janeiro Metro is a mass-transit underground railway network that serves the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1979 with five stations operating on one line, it now covers 47 km divided into two lines and 35 stations...
    
     154.0 million (2009)
55.   Boston Subway 145 million (2007)
56.   Warsaw Metro
    Warsaw Metro
    The Warsaw Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. It consists of a single north-south line that links central Warsaw with its densely populated northern and southern suburbs. The first section was opened in 1995, then gradually extended until it...
    
     140.2 million (2010)
57.   Chongqing Rail Transit (CRT) 140 million (2009)
58.   Shenzhen Metro
    Shenzhen Metro
    The Shenzhen Metro is the subway or underground system for the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province, China. The system opened on 28 December 2004, making Shenzhen the seventh city in mainland China to have a subway after Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian, and Wuhan. The Shenzhen...
    
     138 million (2009)
59.   Brussels Metro
    Brussels Metro
    The Brussels Metro is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It consists of a network with four metro line services with some shared sections. The metro has 49.9 km of network and 59 stations...
    
     136 million (2006)
60.   Bangkok Skytrain
    Bangkok Skytrain
    The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS Skytrain , is an elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration...
    
     136 million (FY 2009)
61.   Kyoto Municipal Subway
    Kyoto Municipal Subway
    is the metro network in the city of Kyoto, Japan. It is operated by Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau. It has two lines.-Lines:- External links :**...
    
     125.5 million (2008)
62.   Nuremberg U-Bahn
    Nuremberg U-Bahn
    The Nuremberg U-Bahn is a metro run by VAG Nürnberg , which itself is a member of the VGN . The Nuremberg U-Bahn is Germany's newest metro...
    
     122.5 million (2009)
63.   Kobe Municipal Subway
    Kobe Municipal Subway
    is the subway of Kobe. It has two lines.-Lines:- External links :****...
    
     121 million (2008)
64.   SkyTrain (Vancouver)
    SkyTrain (Vancouver)
    SkyTrain is a light rapid transit system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. SkyTrain has of track and uses fully automated trains on grade-separated tracks, running mostly on elevated guideways, which helps SkyTrain to hold consistently high on-time reliability...
    
     117.4 million (2010)
65.   Ankara Metro 113.2 million (2007)
66.   Frankfurt U-Bahn
    Frankfurt U-Bahn
    The Frankfurt U-Bahn, together with the Frankfurt S-Bahn and the Frankfurt Straßenbahn, is the backbone of the public transport system of Frankfurt, Germany. Its name derives from the German term for underground, Untergrundbahn. The U-Bahn opened in 1968 and now consists of 87 stations on nine...
    
     112.1 million (2008)
67.   Daegu Metro 110 million (2008)
68.   RapidKL Light Rail Transit, Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur
    Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
    
     109.2 million (2008)
69.   Fukuoka City Subway
    Fukuoka City Subway
    The serves Fukuoka, Japan. It consists of three subway lines, the Kūkō, or Airport Line, the Hakozaki Line and the Nanakuma Line).The lines are operated by the . Unlike most other public operators in Japan, the company only operates subways without any bus lines....
    
     108 million (2004)
70.   Bay Area Rapid Transit
    Bay Area Rapid Transit
    Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. BART operates five lines on of track with 44 stations in four counties...
    
    , San Francisco 101.7 million (2007)
71.   Lille Metro
    Lille Metro
    The Lille metro is a driverless metro in and around Lille, France. The system was inaugurated on 25 April 1983 and was the first to use VAL system....
    
     95.8 million (2009)
72.   SEPTA, Philadelphia 92.4 million (2009)
73.   Tbilisi Metro
    Tbilisi Metro
    The Tbilisi Metro is a rapid transit Metro system in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Opened in 1966 it became the fourth Metro system in the former Soviet Union. Like most ex-Soviet Metros, most of the stations are very deep and vividly decorated....
    
     91.8 million (2007)
74.   Amsterdam Metro
    Amsterdam Metro
    The Amsterdam Metro is a mixed rapid transit and light rail system in Amsterdam, and its surrounding municipalities Amstelveen, Diemen, and Ouder-Amstel in the Netherlands. The network is owned by the city of Amsterdam and operated by the Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf, the company that also operates...
    
     91 million (2002)
75.   Copenhagen S-train
    S-Train
    The S-train network is a combined urban rapid transit and suburban rail network of Metropolitan Copenhagen, Denmark. It connects the city center with the inner suburbs of Copenhagen, and has close to half of the stations within the urban city. The first line was opened in 1934...
    
     91 million (2008)
76.   Monterrey Metro
    Monterrey Metro
    The Monterrey Metro is a fully grade-separated light rail, or metro, system in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is the newest of Mexico's metro systems, with operation beginning in 1991. As of October 2008, the system operated 40 high-floor electric trains along 31 km of routes...
    
     88.3 million (2008)
77.   Rotterdam Metro
    Rotterdam Metro
    The Rotterdam Metro is a rapid transit system operated in Rotterdam and surrounding municipalities by RET. The first line, called Noord - Zuidlijn opened in 1968 and ran from Centraal Station to Zuidplein, crossing the river Nieuwe Maas in a tunnel. It was the first metro system to open in the...
    
     87.1 million (2008)
78.   Bilbao Metro 87.0 million (2009)
79.   Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
    Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
    The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority or MARTA is the principal rapid-transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area and the ninth-largest in the United States. Formed in 1971 as strictly a bus system, MARTA operates a network of bus routes linked to a rapid transit system consisting...
    
     79.1 million (2009)
80.   Santo Domingo Metro
    Santo Domingo Metro
    The Santo Domingo Metro is a rapid transit system in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. The Santo Domingo Metro is part of a major "National Master Plan" to improve transportation in Santo Domingo as well as the rest of the nation. The first line was planned to relieve traffic...
    
     73 million (2009)
81.   Incheon Subway
    Incheon Subway
    The Incheon Subway is a single subway line serving the South Korean city of Incheon. It connects to the Seoul Metropolitan Subway system at Bupyeong station....
    
     73 million (2008)
82.   Oslo Metro 73.0 million (2008)
83.   Port Authority Trans-Hudson
    Port Authority Trans-Hudson
    PATH, derived from Port Authority Trans-Hudson, is a rapid transit railroad linking Manhattan, New York City with Newark, Harrison, Hoboken and Jersey City in metropolitan northern New Jersey...
    
    , Newark
    Newark, New Jersey
    Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...
    
    -New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
    
     72.4 million (2008)
84.   Tashkent Metro
    Tashkent Metro
    The Tashkent Metro is the rapid transit system serving the city of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It is the only currently operating subway system in Central Asia. It was the seventh metro to be built in the former USSR, opening in 1977...
    
     71 million (2007)
85.   Novosibirsk Metro
    Novosibirsk Metro
    -History:Novosibirsk is the third largest city of Russia, with a population of 1.4 million people. It was founded as a junction city between the main transfer arteries in Siberia, the Trans-Siberian railway and the Ob River. Thus, it was not a surprise that the city grew very quickly...
    
     70 million (2007)
86.   Marseille Metro
    Marseille Metro
    The Marseille metro serves the City of Marseille. It is a rubber-tyred metro derived from the technology developed by the RATP for Paris Metro and opened at the end of 1977...
    
     69 million (2007)
87.   Valencia Metro 68 million (2009)
88.   Sofia Metro
    Sofia Metro
    The Sofia Metropolitan is the underground urban railway network servicing the Bulgarian capital Sofia. It is the first and only network of this kind in Bulgaria...
    
     65 million (2009)
89. Docklands Light Railway
    Docklands Light Railway
    The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro or light rail system opened on 31 August 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London...
    
     64 million (2008)
90.   Bangkok Metro
    Bangkok Metro
    The MRT , sometimes referred to as the Bangkok Metro, is Bangkok's underground metro system in Thailand. It was constructed under a concession concept...
    
     63.7 million (2009)
91.   Recife Metro
    Recife Metro
    The Recife Metro is operated by CBTU/Metrorec, is currently 28 stations and 39.5 km long.-System Characteristics:...
    
     59.9 million (2009)
92.   Sendai Subway
    Sendai Subway
    The consists of a single line, the Nanboku Line, which opened in 1987. Construction of a second line, the Tōzai Line, began in 2004 with a planned opening date of 2015...
    
     58 million (2008)
93.   Helsinki Metro
    Helsinki Metro
    The Helsinki Metro , is the metro system in Helsinki, Finland. It is the World's most northern metro system, and currently the only one in Finland. The system was opened to the general public on 2 August 1982 after 27 years of planning...
    
     58 million (2008)
94.   Istanbul Metro
    Istanbul Metro
    The Istanbul Metro, or the M2, is a mass-transit underground railway network that serves the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Founded in 2000, it now includes 13 stations. The system currently consists of a single north-south line...
    
     55.6 million (2006)
95.   Brasília Metro
    Brasília Metro
    Brasília Metro is the metro system in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. It is operated by Metro-DF or Companhia do Metropolitano do Distrito Federal, and was opened in 2001...
    
     54.8 million (2009)
96.   Copenhagen Metro
    Copenhagen Metro
    Copenhagen Metro is a rapid transit system serving Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Tårnby in Denmark. The system opened between 2002 and 2007, and has two lines, M1 and M2. The driverless light metro supplements the larger S-train rapid transit system, and is integrated with DSB local trains and...
    
     50 million (2009)
97. Tyne and Wear Metro
    Tyne and Wear Metro
    The Tyne and Wear Metro, also known as the Metro, is a light rail system in North East England, serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and Sunderland. It opened in 1980 and in 2007–2008 provided 40 million public journeys on its network of nearly...
    
     47 million (2008)
98.   Kaohsiung MRT
    Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit
    The Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit System is a rapid transit system covering metropolitan Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Construction of the KMRT started in October 2001. The Red Line and the Orange Line opened on March 9 and September 14, 2008, respectively...
    
     46.0 million (2010)
99.   Yekaterinburg Metro
    Yekaterinburg Metro
    The Yekaterinburg Metro is a rapid transit system that serves the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia.-History:Yekaterinburg, formerly called Sverdlovsk, was always known as the informal capital of the Urals, a natural divide between Europe and Asia, between Siberia and the European Russia. The city...
    
     46 million (2007)
100.   Porto Alegre Metro
     Porto Alegre Metro
     The Metro de Porto Alegre is operated jointly by the federal government, the state government of Rio Grande do Sul and the city of Porto Alegre through the company Trensurb and has 20 stations, totaling 33.4 km of extension and carries about 170,000 users a day.-...
     
      45.3 million (2007)
101.   Los Angeles County Metro Rail
     Los Angeles County Metro Rail
     Metro Rail is the rapid transit rail system consisting of five separate lines serving 70 stations in the Los Angeles County, California area. The new Expo line is due to enter service in early 2012. It connects with the Metro liner bus rapid transit system and also with the Metrolink commuter...
     
      45.1 million (2009)
102.   Belo Horizonte Metro
     Belo Horizonte Metro
     The Belo Horizonte Metro is a metro system serving the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The system has one line which is 28.2 km long, has 19 stations and carries 145,000 passengers per day. The system is operated by Compania Brasiliera de Trens Urbanos...
     
      43.8 million (2009)
103.   Rennes Metro
     Rennes Metro
     Opened on 15 March 2002, the metro in Rennes is based on the Siemens Transportation Systems VAL technology. There is one line, the 9.4-km A Line, which runs north-west to south-east from J.F...
     
      43.8 million (2007)
104.   Toulouse Metro
     Toulouse Metro
     The Toulouse metro serves the city of Toulouse, France, and some of the surrounding area. The city's public transport system was initially managed by Société d'économie mixte des voyageurs de l'agglomération toulousaine , which was a company that was 80% owned by local government bodies and 20%...
     
      42 million (2004)
105.   Dubai Metro
     Dubai Metro
     The Dubai Metro is a driverless, fully automated metro network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. The Red Line and Green Line are operational, with three further lines are planned. These first two lines run underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere...
     
      39 million (2010)
106.   Kazan Metro
     Kazan Metro
     Kazan Metro is a rapid-transit system that serves the city of Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Opened on August 27, 2005, it is the newest system in Russia, and the first one to open after the breakup of the Soviet Union.-Planning:...
     
      38.5 million (2011)
107.   Pyongyang Metro
     Pyongyang Metro
     The Pyongyang Metro is the metro system in the North Korean capital Pyongyang. It consists of two lines: the Chŏllima line runs from Kwangbok station in the southwest to Ragwŏn station in the northeast, and the Hyŏksin line runs north, from Puhŭng station on the banks of the Taedong to...
     
      35 million (2008)
108.   Nizhny Novgorod Metro
     Nizhny Novgorod Metro
     The Nizhny Novgorod Metro , formerly known as Gorky Metro is a rapid-transit system that serves the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Opened in 1985, it consists of 13 stations and is 15.3 kilometres long.-History:...
     
      33 million (2007)
109.   Izmir Metro
     Izmir Metro
     İzmir Metro is a subway network in İzmir, Turkey that is constantly being extended with new stations being put in service. The network, consisting of one line, starts from Üçyol station in Hatay in the southern portion of the metropolitan area and runs towards northeast to end in Bornova...
     
      30 million (2005)
110.   Daejeon Metropolitan Subway 29 million (2008)
111.   Naples Metro 29 million (2006)
112.   Lausanne Metro
     Lausanne Metro
     The Lausanne Metro system includes two lines in Lausanne, Switzerland, owned by two distinct companies and operated by a third. The Line M1 is a light metro, while the Line M2 is a fully automated metro which opened on 27 October 2008. A third line M3 is in planning...
     
      25 million (2009)
113.   Turin Metro
     Turin Metro
     The Metropolitana di Torino is a VAL metro system connecting Turin city centre, Italy, with the neighbouring city of Collegno. It is operated by Gruppo Torinese Trasporti , a public company controlled by the municipality of Turin...
     
      21.9 million (2009)
114.   Mass Rapid Transit System
     Mass Rapid Transit System (Chennai)
     The Chennai MRTS is an elevated line of the urban mass rapid transit system in Chennai , India. The line currently runs within the city from Chennai Beach to Velachery, covering a distance of 25 km with 21 stations...
     
      20.7 million (2009)
115.   Astram Line
     Astram Line
     The is a new transit system operated by Hiroshima Rapid Transit in Hiroshima, Japan.-History:*August 8, 1994 - Opened for the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima...
     
     , Hiroshima
     Hiroshima
     is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...
     
      18 million (2005)
116.   Metrorail
     Metrorail (Miami)
     The Miami Metrorail, officially Metrorail and commonly called the Metro, is the heavy rail rapid transit system of Miami, Florida, United States, serving the Miami metropolitan area. The Metro is operated by Miami-Dade Transit, a departmental agency of Miami-Dade County...
     
     , Miami 17.8 million (2009)
117.   Yerevan Metro
     Yerevan Metro
     The Yerevan Metro is a rapid transit system that serves the capital of Armenia, Yerevan. The system was launched in 1981 and like most former Soviet Metros, its stations are very deep and intricately decorated with national motifs. The metro runs on a 13.4km line and currently services 10 active...
     
      17 million (2009)
118.   Gwangju Subway 17 million (2008)
119.   Kryvyi Rih Metrotram
     Kryvyi Rih Metrotram
     The Kryvyi Rih Metrotram is a partially underground rapid tram system that serves the city of Kryvyi Rih, the eighth largest city in Ukraine...
     
      16.5 million (2009)
120.   Tianjin Subway
     Tianjin Subway
     Rapid transit in Tianjin is composed of two systems, the Tianjin Metro , which serves downtown Tianjin, and Binhai Mass Transit a rapid transit system that serves the Binhai New Area and TEDA.-Networks:...
     
      (Tianjin Metro
     Tianjin Metro
     Tianjin Metro is a rapid transit system in the city of Tianjin, China, which was the second city in China to operate a subway system. Founded in 1984, it now includes 22 stations. The system currently consists of a single northwest-east line...
     
      and Binhai Mass Transit
     Binhai Mass Transit
     The Binhai Mass Transit is one of two rapid transit systems in Tianjin, the other being the Tianjin Metro. Binhai Mass Transit is a rapid transit line that serves the Binhai New Area and TEDA...
     
     ) 15 million (1993)
121.   Valparaíso Metro
     Valparaíso Metro
     Metro Valparaíso is the metro system serving the urban conglomeration of Gran Valparaíso, Chile , connecting the cities of Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Quilpué, Villa Alemana and Limache, this last one, outside of the conurbation...
     
      13.7 million (2009)
122.   Dnipropetrovsk Metro
     Dnipropetrovsk Metro
     The Dnipropetrovsk Metro is a single-line metro system that serves the city of Dnipropetrovsk, the third largest city in Ukraine by population. The metro was the third system constructed in Ukraine, after the Kiev and Kharkiv metro systems, respectfully, when it opened on December 29, 1995...
     
      13.6 million (2008)
123.   Seville Metro
     Seville metro
     The Seville metro is a light metro network serving the city of Seville, Spain and its metropolitan area. The system is totally independent of any other rail or street traffic. All stations were built with platform screen doors....
     
      13.46 million (2009)
124. Glasgow Subway
     Glasgow Subway
     The Glasgow Subway is an underground metro line in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened on 14 December 1896, it is the third-oldest underground metro system in the world after the London Underground and the Budapest Metro. Formerly a cable railway, the Subway was later electrified, but its twin circular lines...
     
      13.4 million (2008)
125.   Metro Subway, Baltimore
     Baltimore
     Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
     
      13.2 million (2009)
126.   Wuhan Metro
     Wuhan Metro
     The Wuhan Metro is an elevated and underground metro system in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China. The system opened on 28 July 2004, making Wuhan the fifth city in mainland China to have a metro system after Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou...
     
      13.15 million (2009)
127.   Samara Metro
     Samara Metro
     Samara Metro , formerly known as the Kuybyshev Metro , is a rapid transit system which serves the city of Samara, Russia. Opened in 1987, it consists of one line with 9 stations and 11.4 km of bi-directional long track.-History:...
     
      12 million (2007)
128.   Genoa Metro 10 million (2009)
129.   Tren Urbano
     Tren Urbano
     The Tren Urbano — or Urban Train in English — is a fully automated rapid transit that serves the metropolitan area of San Juan, which includes the municipalities of San Juan, Bayamón and Guaynabo. It is electrified by third rail at 750 V DC...
     
     , San Juan
     San Juan, Puerto Rico
     San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
     
      9.1 million (2009)
130.   RTA Rapid Transit
     RTA Rapid Transit
     RTA Rapid Transit is a rapid transit and light rail system in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County owned by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority...
     
     , Cleveland 5.2 million (2009)
131.   Teresina Metro
     Teresina Metro
     The Teresina Metro in Teresina, the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Piauí, is operated by CMTP...
     
      1.8 million (2009)
132.   Palma de Mallorca Metro
     Palma de Mallorca Metro
     The Palma Metro is a metro line in Palma, Spain. It consists of nine stations and was constructed between 2005 and 2007 at cost of 312 million euros.Trains run daily from 06:15 to 23:00....
     
      1.2 million (2009)

See also

• List of metro systems
• List of North American rapid transit systems by ridership