The statistic illustrates the world's busiest metro networks in 2017, based on the number of passenger journeys. New York City's metro system was ranked sixth with just over 1.8 billion journeys in that year.
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World's busiest metro networks in 2017, ranked by number of trips (in millions)
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The statistic illustrates the world's busiest metro networks in 2017, based on the number of passenger journeys. New York City's metro system was ranked sixth with just over 1.8 billion journeys in that year.
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The statistic illustrates the world's busiest metro networks in 2017, based on the number of passenger journeys. New York City's metro system was ranked sixth with just over 1.8 billion journeys in that year.
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- * Tokyo and Seoul have multiple operator networks.
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- 2017
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- * Tokyo and Seoul have multiple operator networks.
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