The Minsk metro is the country's only metro. It is the most convenient and fastest way of travel in the Belarusian capital. Every year about 800,000 passengers travel by metro.
The Shanghai Metro is the world's longest metro network at 803 kilometres (499 mi) and has the highest annual ridership at 2.83 billion trips. The New York City Subway has the greatest number of stations with 472.
The depth is attributed to the geography of Kyiv, whose high bank of the Dnieper River rises above the rest of the city. Also unusual is the station's design, which lacks a central concourse and thus is similar in layout to stations of the London Underground.
In 1998, TriMet built the Washington Park MAX Station, which is the deepest transit station in North America at 260 feet below ground, as part of our Red Line. “Washington Park also is the only underground station in the entire MAX system.”
1. Stockholm, Sweden: T-Centralen Station. The Stockholm underground is actually considered the world's largest art gallery and nearly all of the stations resemble and art gallery or museum. In fact these are so awe-inspiring, many miss their trains as they admire the art work.
THE world's deepest metro system is the Pyongyang Metro in North Korea which is 110 meters deep. The tunnel was built as part of an underground military facility. THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.
The Arsenalna station, reached via an escalator ride that takes five minutes, was constructed at depths of up to 346 feet (105 meters) — the deepest subway platform in the world.