Metro Systems With the Most Stations in the World
About This Dataset
Metro Systems With the Most Stations in the World
Station count is a simple measure of how much of a city a metro network reaches. This chart ranks individual metro systems by their number of stations, using the current figures listed for each system.
Analysis
New York City Subway has the most stations of any metro system with 424, 9 more than Shanghai Metro on 415. 10 of the 15 systems shown are in China. The 15 systems have 4,815 stations between them, and the smallest on this chart, Moscow Metro, has 251.
Key Findings
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New York City Subway leads in Number of stations with 424 in 2026.
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Average Number of stations in 2026: 321 · median: 317.
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Gap in 2026: New York City Subway is 1.7× larger than Moscow Metro.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of metro systems
- Coverage
- 15 entities · 2026 · 15 observations
- Measure
- Number of stations
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2026.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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