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In this section you will find an extensive list of the current world metro systems sorted by its opening dates. Although not all the systems included within this list would fit in the same definition of what a metro system is, one could say (at least) that they all include a metro-like service section within its rail transit network.
1890-1899
London 333| Liverpool 333| Chicago 3333| Budapest
1900-1903
Paris 33333| Wuppertal (3)3| Boston | Berlin | Alexandria
1904-1907
Athens 33333| New York | Philadelphia
1908-1919
Jersey City | Hamburg |
Buenos Aires 333| Newark | Madrid 333333
1920-1930
Barcelona 333333| Mumbai 3| Vienna | Tokyo
1931-1935
Rochester | Osaka | Moscow |
Glasgow 33
1936-1958
Gothenburg | Stockholm | Toronto |
Lausanne 3333| Cleveland 33| Saint Petersburg | Nagoya
1959-1966
Haifa 3| Lisbon 33333333| Kiev | Seattle 333| Forth Worth | Milan | Tbilisi 33| Oslo | Montreal
1967-1970
Baku 33| Rotterdam | Frankfurt am Main 333333| Cologne | Ludwigshafen am Rhein 333| Mexico City 3333| Beijing 3| Kamakura 33
1971-1972
Munich
| Sapporo 33| Nuremberg | San Francisco 333333| Yokohama
1973-1974
Pyongyang | Prague 3333| Seoul | Sao Paulo
1975-1976
Bonn | Antwerp 33| Kharkiv | Santiago 333| Hanover | Morgantown 3| Washington DC 33| Charleroi 33| Brussels
1977-1978
Kobe 333| Essen 3333| Amsterdam | Tashkent | Marseille 33| Edmonton 33| Lyon 3333
1979-1980
Rio de Janeiro 3333| Atlanta 33| Hong Kong | Bucharest | Rome 33333| Tianjin 33| Newcastle upon Tyne 33
1981-1982
Yerevan 3| Calgary 3| Kyoto 333333| Fukuoka 333| San Diego | Duesseldorf 3333| Helsinki | Sakura 3
1983-1984
Caracas 333| Lille 33| Baltimore (3)33| Utrecht 3| Saitama (3)3| Miami 333| Dortmund 333333| Minsk | Gelsenkirchen (3)3| Kolkata | Volgograd | Manila 3
1985
Kitakyushu 3| Porto Alegre 3| Recife 33| Muelheim an der Ruhr (3)333| Buffalo 3| Pittsburgh 333| Busan | Stuttgart 333333| Tunis 33|
Nizhny Novgorod |
Serfaus 3
1986-1987
Vancouver | Novosibirsk | Zurich |
Belo Horizonte 3| Portland 33| Kryvyi Rih | Sacramento | Sendai 33| Detroit 3| Cairo | Singapore | San Jose | Samara
1988-1991
Chiba 3| Sydney | Valencia (Spain) 3333| Laon 3| Istanbul 333333| Jacksonville 3| Irving 3| Guadalajara 33| Bochum (3)33| Poços de Caldas 3| Genoa 3333| Campinas | Komaki 3| Monterrey | Yekaterinburg | Bielefeld 33
1992-1994
Manchester |
Duisburg (3)3| Konya 3| Los Angeles 333| Toulouse 33| Naples | Saint Louis 3| Sheffield | Hiroshima 333| Denver 333| Strasbourg 33| Rouen 3
1995-1996
Warsaw | Shanghai |
Las Vegas 3| Chennai 333| Bilbao 333333| Medellin 3| Dnipropetrovsk | Taipei 3| Dallas 333| Ankara 33|
Kuala Lumpur 333
1997-2000
Poznan |
Daegu 3| Guangzhou | Sofia | Tachikawa 3| Birmingham | Catania 3| Incheon | Salt Lake City 3| Bangkok 3| Tehran 33| Montpellier 3| Izmir 33
2001-2002
Brasilia 3| Rennes 3| Bursa 3| Copenhagen 333| Porto 33333| Delhi | Changchun 33
2003-2004
Lima 3| Rostock 33| Dalian | Naha 3| Alicante 333| Houston 3| Nottingham | Gwangju 3| Oeiras 3| Minneapolis 33| Dublin 33| Linz | Wuhan 3| The Hague | Shenzhen 33
2005-2008
San Juan 3| Chongqing 33| Nanjing | Kazan | Valparaiso 33| Turin | Daejeon 3| Valencia (Venezuela) 3| Maracaibo 3| Palma 333| Charlotte | Perugia 3| Kaohsiung

KEY (according to Maps)


LIGHT RAIL (mostly metro-like service sections)     NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY (usually, entirely segregated)
LIGHT RAIL (private right of way with metro-like service sections)     COMMUTER RAIL (freight or intercity services may coexist)
LIGHT RAIL (mainly private right of way with level crossings)     SUBURBAN RAIL (freight or intercity services may coexist)
LIGHT RAIL (private right of way, tramway sections may coexist)     REGIONAL METRO (usually, dedicated tracks - metro-like service)
LIGHT RAIL (sharing tracks with road traffic and pedestrians)     METRO (with level crossings)
TRAMWAY (sharing tracks with road traffic and pedestrians)     FULL METRO (entirely segregated)
RACK RAILWAY (usually, entirely segregated)     MONORAIL (entirely segregated)
FUNICULAR (usually, entirely segregated)     PEOPLE MOVER (entirely segregated)

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