Below is a table with the 10 largest subways in the world (by number of stations), which includes the following information: names; year of opening; the city and country in whose territory they are located; the number of lines and the total length of the network (in kilometers); annual passenger traffic (in millions of people); features that distinguish them from other subways.
| The Metropolitan | Features | |||||
| New York | 1904 | 472 | 36 | 394 | 1698 | The largest metro in the world in terms of the number of stations. |
| Shanghai | 1993 | 459 | 19 | 772 | 3401 | The largest subway system in the world. |
| Beijing | 1969 | 407 | 22 | 704 | 3848,5 | Second place in the world in terms of line length and annual passenger traffic. |
| Parisian | 1900 | 387 | 16 | 214 | 1506 | The shortest network length among the listed subways. |
| Chengdu | 2010 | 373 | 13 | 558 | 4483 | The freshest subway, the third longest in the world and the first in terms of passenger traffic. |
| Seoul | 1974 | 317 | 9 | 340,6 | 2836,5 | The smallest number of lines in the presented list. |
| Madrid | 1919 | 302 | 13 | 293 | 657 | The first subway in the world to have two circle lines, with one not nested within the other. |
| Tokyo | 1927 | 291 | 13 | 304,1 | 3713 | It is part of the Tokyo city rail network. |
| Московский | 1935 | 276 | 15 | 408,1 | 2560,4 | Partially serves the Moscow region (Krasnogorsk, Kotelniki, Lyubertsy and Reutov) |
| Guangzhou | 1997 | 271 | 14 | 514,8 | 3026 | Closes the top ten largest metro in the world. |
Note: metro (metro) – city railway (off-street), intended for the carriage of passengers. It has an infrastructure separate from other modes of transport (sometimes combined), it can be underground, ground or above ground.
The table did not include the oldest subway – Londonwhich was opened in 1863. The number of stations is 270, the total length of the lines is 402 km (there are 11 in total), and the passenger traffic is 1384 million people.