The 10 Largest Tram Networks in the World

Although tram systems date to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many old systems were closed during the mid-20th century because of the advent of automobile (including bus) travel. This was especially the case in North America, but postwar reductions and shutdowns also occurred on British, French and other Western European urban rail networks. However, traditional tramway systems survived, and eventually even began to thrive from the late 20th century onward, some eventually operating as much as when they were first built over a century ago. Their numbers have been augmented by modern tramway or light rail systems in cities which had discarded this form of transport. ~Wikipedia

Size comes from Wikipedia, although even Wikipedia is vague about true size of tram networks - some cities may seem like they have bigger ones than others but it may include single tracking or light rail or even commuter rail routes (for this reason LA is excluded since they don't run tram).

What would appear to be a topic that has concrete data about size becomes subjective as one needs to classify what is considered part of the network and what is considered tram (although the systems at the Top are definitively at the top)
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