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Almost 300 cities around the world have a trolleybus system currently operating. More than one third of those cities are in Russia and Ukraine, and more than half of the revenue lines[clarification needed] are in those countries. The trolleybus technology is still widely used in former Soviet Union countries and, to a lesser extent, in Eastern Europe, while in the Western world this technology has mainly been replaced by buses and did not experience a resurgence, unlike tram technology, in the last years of the 20th century. (For comparison, since 2000 fewer than 20 brand-new trolleybus systems have opened, compared to more than 150 new tram systems.) Some exceptions in the western world are Italy and Switzerland.
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| Country | Location | Started operation | No. of routes | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yerevan | 15 August 1949 | 5 | |||
| Linz | 15 May 1944 | 4 | |||
| Salzburg | 1 October 1940 | 12 | |||
| Córdoba | 7 May 1989 | 3 | |||
| Rosario | 24 May 1959 | 1 | |||
| Babruysk | 30 August 1978 | 4 | |||
| Brest | 18 April 1981 | 12 | |||
| Gomel | 20 May 1962 | 34 | |||
| Grodno | 5 November 1974 | 23 | |||
| Minsk | 19 September 1952 | 65 | |||
| Mogilev | 19 January 1970 | 10 | |||
| Vitebsk | 1 September 1978 | 17 | |||
| Sarajevo | 23 November 1984 | 5 | |||
| São Paulo | 22 April 1949 | 17 | Two independent trolleybus systems, one owned by SPTrans (7 urban lines), the other by EMTU (10 BRT lines) | ||
| Burgas | 25 September 1989 | 1 | |||
| Haskovo | 1990 | 2 | |||
| Pazardzhik | 1 June 1993 | 6 | |||
| Pleven | 7 October 1985 | 17 | |||
| Ruse | 9 September 1988 | 9 | |||
| Sliven | 24 May 1986 | 2 | |||
| Sofia | 1 May 1948 | 10 | |||
| Stara Zagora | November 1987 | 3 | |||
| Varna | 1 January 1986 | 3 | |||
| Vratsa | 1988 | 2 | |||
| Vancouver | 16 August 1948 | 13 | |||
| Valparaíso | 31 December 1952 | 2 | |||
| Baoding | 29 December 2018 | 3 | |||
| Beijing | 26 February 1957 | 28 | Includes 3 BRT routes | ||
| Changzi | c. 1985 | 2 | Commuter trolleybus line serving Wuyang Coal Mine | ||
| Dalian | 1 October 1960 | 1 | |||
| Guangzhou | 30 September 1960 | 7 | |||
| Hangzhou | 26 April 1961 | 2 | |||
| Jinan | 1 January 1977 | 18 | |||
| Qingdao | 21 October 1960 | 3 | |||
| Shanghai | 15 November 1914 | 7 | Comprises 6 regular and 1 BRT routes | ||
| Taiyuan | 1 May 1960 | 2 | |||
| Wuhan | 20 September 1958 | 7 | |||
| Zhengzhou | 1 January 2021 | 1 | BRT | ||
| Brno | 30 July 1949 | 13 | |||
| České Budějovice | 2 May 1991 | 6 | |||
| Chomutov–Jirkov | 1 September 1995 | 6 | |||
| Hradec Králové | 2 May 1949 | 8 | |||
| Jihlava | 19 December 1948 | 8 | |||
| Mariánské Lázně | 27 April 1952 | 4 | |||
| Opava | 24 August 1952 | 4 | |||
| Ostrava | 9 May 1952 | 9 | |||
| Pardubice | 20 January 1952 | 12 | |||
| Plzeň | 9 April 1941 | 9 | |||
| Prague | 15 October 2017 | 2 | |||
| Teplice | 1 May 1952 | 10 | |||
| Ústí nad Labem | 1 July 1988 | 9 | |||
| Zlín–Otrokovice | 27 January 1944 | 13 | |||
| Quito | 18 December 1995 | 4 | BRT | ||
| Tallinn | 6 July 1965 | 4 | Operation suspended due to ongoing fleet and network modernization | ||
| Limoges | 14 July 1943 | 5 | |||
| Lyon | 4 September 1935 | 9 | |||
| Nancy | 27 September 1982 | 1 | |||
| Saint-Étienne | 1 January 1942 | 2 | |||
| Sukhumi | 3 January 1968 | 3 | |||
| Eberswalde | 3 November 1940 | 2 | |||
| Esslingen am Neckar | 1 April 1944 | 3 | |||
| Solingen | 19 June 1952 | 9 | |||
| Athens | 27 December 1953 | 19 | Piraeus system, which now operates as part of the Athens system, was opened in 1948 and connected to the Athens system in 1988. | ||
| Budapest | 21 December 1949 | 14 | |||
| Debrecen | 2 July 1985 | 5 | |||
| Szeged | 1 May 1979 | 6 | |||
| Ancona | 15 March 1949 | 1 | |||
| Bologna | 4 January 1991 | 6 | |||
| Cagliari | 22 February 1952 | 4 | |||
| Chieti | 1 August 1950 | 1 | |||
| Genoa | 1 July 1997 | 1 | |||
| La Spezia | 27 January 1951 | 3 | |||
| Lecce | 12 January 2012 | 3 | |||
| Milan | 28 October 1933 | 4 | |||
| Modena | 21 January 1950 | 3 | |||
| Parma | 25 October 1953 | 4 | |||
| Pescara | 11 September 2025 | 1 | |||
| Naples | 8 May 1940 | 4 | |||
| Rimini | 1 January 1939 | 2 | Includes the Metromare, a bus rapid transit line opened (for trolleybuses) in October 2021. | ||
| Rome | 23 March 2005 | 3 | First era: 1937–1972 | ||
| Almaty | 20 April 1944 | 9 | |||
| Osh | 1 November 1977 | 2 | |||
| Riga | 6 November 1947 | 21 | |||
| Kaunas | 31 December 1965 | 17 | |||
| Vilnius | 27 November 1956 | 16 | |||
| Guadalajara | 15 December 1976 | 1 | |||
| Mexico City | 9 March 1951 | 13 | |||
| Bălți | 12 June 1972 | 5 | |||
| Chișinău | 12 October 1949 | 24 | |||
| Tighina | 1996 | ||||
| Tiraspol | 1 November 1967 | 6 | |||
| Marrakesh | 29 September 2017 | 1 | [1][2] | ||
| Arnhem | 5 September 1949 | 7 | |||
| Chongjin | 20 October 1970 | 3 | |||
| Hamhung | 1973 | 2 | |||
| Huichon | c. 2000 | 1 | |||
| Kanggye | 17 April 1992 | 1 | |||
| Kimchaek | 17 May 1985 | 1 | |||
| Manpo | December 2019 | 1 | |||
| Myongdang | c. 29 March 1995 | 1 | |||
| Nampo | c. 1982 | 1 | |||
| Pyongsong | c. 4 August 1983 | 2 | |||
| Pyongyang | 30 April 1962 | 9 | |||
| Sariwon | 19 June 1999 | 1 | |||
| Sinhung | 1 | ||||
| Sinuiju | c. 1977 | 1 | |||
| Wonsan | 8 September 1988 | 1 | |||
| Bergen | 24 February 1950 | 1 | |||
| Gdynia | 18 October 1943 | 18 | Also extends to Sopot | ||
| Lublin | 21 July 1953 | 13 | |||
| Tychy | 1 October 1982 | 6 | |||
| Baia Mare | 16 February 1996 | 2 | |||
| Brașov | 1 May 1959 | 9 | |||
| Bucharest | 10 November 1949 | 15 | |||
| Cluj-Napoca | 7 November 1959 | 12 | |||
| Galați | 23 August 1989 | 2 | |||
| Mediaș | 22 December 1989 | 3 | |||
| Ploiești | 1 September 1997 | 4 | |||
| Târgu Jiu | 20 June 1995 | 2 | System includes interurban line to Bârsești. | ||
| Timișoara | 15 November 1942 | 8 | System includes interurban lines to Dumbrăvița and Ghiroda | ||
| Vaslui | 4 August 2023 | 1 | |||
| Bryansk | 3 December 1960 | 11 | |||
| Vladimir | 5 November 1952 | 9 | 'Officially' opened on 7 November 1952 | ||
| Kovrov | 6 March 1975 | 6 | |||
| Voronezh | 6 November 1960 | 4 | |||
| Ivanovo | 5 November 1962 | 11 | |||
| Kaluga | 30 March 1956 | 14 | |||
| Kursk | 21 August 1972 | 8 | |||
| Khimki | 24 July 1997 | 3 | 2 routes (out of 3) run between Khimki and Moscow city | ||
| Podolsk | 1 May 2001 | 5 | |||
| Vidnoye | 9 September 2000 | 3 | |||
| Oryol | 29 October 1968 | 4 | |||
| Ryazan | 13 November 1949 | 15 | |||
| Smolensk | 8 April 1991 | 4 | |||
| Tula | 5 November 1962 | 7 | |||
| Rybinsk | 14 December 1976 | 4 | |||
| Yaroslavl | 7 November 1949 | 7 | |||
| Khabarovsk | 17 January 1975 | 4 | |||
| Vladivostok | 29 January 1965 | 4 | |||
| Vologda | 22 August 1979 | 6 | |||
| Kaliningrad | 5 November 1975 | 4 | |||
| Petrozavodsk | 5 September 1961 | 8 | |||
| Murmansk | 11 February 1962 | 5 | World's northernmost trolleybus system. | ||
| Veliky Novgorod | 3 December 1995 | 5 | |||
| Saint Petersburg | 21 October 1936 | 44 | Operation suspended November 1941 – 1945 because of war. | ||
| Barnaul | 19 October 1973 | 5 | |||
| Rubtsovsk | 28 December 1973 | 2 | |||
| Chita | 30 December 1970 | 5 | |||
| Irkutsk | 6 November 1970 | 5 | |||
| Bratsk | 1 February 1975 | 5 | |||
| Kemerovo | 25 September 1970 | 10 | |||
| Leninsk-Kuznetsky | 11 January 1984 | 3 | |||
| Novokuznetsk | 1 January 1978 | 4 | |||
| Krasnoyarsk | 5 November 1959 | 8 | |||
| Novosibirsk | 11 November 1957 | 14 | |||
| Omsk | 5 November 1955 | 10 | |||
| Tomsk | 7 November 1967 | 8 | |||
| Abakan | 31 December 1980 | 12 | |||
| Maykop | 29 November 1974 | 12 | |||
| Volgograd | 31 December 1960 | 15 | |||
| Makhachkala | 3 February 1973 | 3 | |||
| Nalchik | 22 November 1980 | 4 | |||
| Cherkessk | 19 December 1988 | 9 | |||
| Armavir | 16 June 1973 | 5 | |||
| Krasnodar | 28 July 1950 | 17 | |||
| Novorossiysk | 1 April 1969 | 14 | |||
| Stavropol | 24 July 1964 | 9 | |||
| Rostov-on-Don | 18 March 1936 | 8 | |||
| Volgodonsk | 4 October 1977 | 6 | |||
| Yekaterinburg | 17 October 1943 | 19 | |||
| Chelyabinsk | 22 November 1942 | 22 | |||
| Miass | 1 February 1975 | 5 | |||
| Sterlitamak | 24 February 1961 | 23 | |||
| Ufa | 27 January 1962 | 21 | |||
| Kirov | 8 November 1943 | 8 | |||
| Yoshkar-Ola | 1 February 1971 | 12 | |||
| Saransk | 29 January 1966 | 17 | |||
| Dzerzhinsk | 15 April 1976 | 5 | |||
| Nizhny Novgorod | 27 June 1947 | 21 | |||
| Orenburg | 1 May 1953 | 5 | |||
| Penza | 4 November 1948 | 6 | |||
| Berezniki | 14 March 1961 | 11 | |||
| Novokuybyshevsk | 4 January 1986 | 16 | |||
| Samara | 7 November 1942 | 16 | |||
| Tolyatti | 21 January 1966 | 21 | |||
| Balakovo | 18 November 1967 | 10 | |||
| Engels | 29 April 1964 | 4 | |||
| Saratov | 6 November 1952 | 11 | |||
| Almetyevsk | 13 January 1976 | 4 | |||
| Kazan | 27 November 1948 | 16 | |||
| Izhevsk | 6 November 1968 | 11 | |||
| Ulyanovsk | 31 December 1973 | 7 | |||
| Cheboksary | 7 November 1964 | 19 | |||
| Novocheboksarsk | 2 November 1979 | 4 | |||
| Riyadh | 23 April 2013 | 1 | System is located on the campus of the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. | ||
| Belgrade | 22 June 1947 | 7 | |||
| Banská Bystrica | 24 August 1989 | 8 | |||
| Bratislava | 31 July 1941 | 15 | |||
| Prešov | 13 May 1962 | 13 | |||
| Žilina | 17 November 1994 | 8 | |||
| Castellón de la Plana | 25 June 2008 | 1 | |||
| Landskrona | 27 September 2003 | 1 | |||
| Bern | 29 October 1940 | 3 | |||
| Biel/Bienne | 19 October 1940 | 2 | |||
| Fribourg | 1 February 1949 | 1 | |||
| Geneva | 11 September 1942 | 6 | |||
| Lausanne | 2 October 1932 | 10 | |||
| Lucerne | 7 December 1941 | 6 | |||
| Montreux/Vevey | 18 April 1957 | 1 | |||
| Neuchâtel | 16 February 1940 | 3 | |||
| St. Gallen | 18 July 1950 | 4 | |||
| Schaffhausen | 24 September 1966 | 1 | |||
| Winterthur | 28 December 1938 | 3 | |||
| Zürich | 27 May 1939 | 7 | |||
| Dushanbe | 2 May 1955 | 8 | |||
| Malatya | 10 March 2015 | 1 | |||
| Sanliurfa | 28 April 2023 | 1 | |||
| Cherkasy | 9 November 1965 | 23 | |||
| Chernihiv | 4 November 1964 | 7 | |||
| Chernivtsi | 1 February 1939 | 9 | |||
| Crimea | 1 May 1961 | 1 | |||
| Kerch | 18 September 2004 | 1 | |||
| Dnipro | 7 November 1947 | 21 | |||
| Kryvyi Rih | 21 December 1957 | 23 | |||
| Donetsk | 3 January 1940 | 10 | |||
| Horlivka | 6 November 1974 | 3 | |||
| Khartsyzk | 4 February 1982 | 3 | |||
| Kramatorsk | 18 November 1971 | 11 | |||
| Makiivka | 13 November 1969 | 3 | |||
| Sloviansk | 19 March 1977 | 5 | |||
| Ivano-Frankivsk | 31 December 1983 | 8 | |||
| Kharkiv | 5 May 1939 | 24 | |||
| Kherson | 16 June 1960 | 5 | |||
| Khmelnytskyi | 25 December 1970 | 26 | |||
| Kropyvnytskyi | 4 November 1967 | 7 | |||
| Kyiv | 5 November 1935 | 45 | |||
| Bila Tserkva | 23 June 1980 | 7 | |||
| Lviv | 27 November 1952 | 10 | |||
| Mykolaiv | 29 October 1967 | 8 | |||
| Odesa | 5 November 1945 | 8 | |||
| Kremenchuk | 6 November 1966 | 12 | |||
| Poltava | 14 September 1962 | 9 | |||
| Rivne | 27 December 1974 | 12 | |||
| Sevastopol | 6 November 1950 | 16 | |||
| Sumy | 25 August 1967 | 19 | |||
| Ternopil | 24 December 1975 | 8 | |||
| Vinnytsia | 20 February 1964 | 22 | |||
| Lutsk | 8 April 1972 | 12 | |||
| Zaporizhzhia | 22 December 1949 | 6 | |||
| Zhytomyr | 1 May 1962 | 11 | |||
| Dayton | 23 April 1933 | 5 | |||
| San Francisco | 6 October 1935 | 15 | |||
| Seattle | 28 April 1940 | 15 | |||
| Philadelphia | 14 October 1923 | 3 | |||
| Urgench | 20 October 1997 | 1 |
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