Wire rope

A wire rope, comprising:

• a strand that is formed by winding a plurality of metal wires, wherein:
• the strand includes a core wire arranged in a center of the plurality of metal wires, and side wires that make up a remainder of the plurality of metal wires, each of the side wires being arranged on an outer periphery of the core wire,
• in a transverse section of the strand, each of the side wires includes end portions positioned at opposite ends in a circumferential direction of the core wire,
• each of the end portions includes a contact portion in contact with an end portion of an adjacent side wire, and a non-contact portion not in contact with the adjacent side wire,
• a Vickers hardness of the contact portion is higher by 1% or more than a Vickers hardness of the non-contact portion,
• a surface roughness Ra of an outer peripheral surface of each of the side wires is 0.10 μm or less,
• the strand is obtained by die-drawing a twisted wire including a plurality of circular-cross-section metal wires, and
• a cross-sectional width of the strand is 57.2% to 85.7%, or 42.9% to 71.4%, of a diameter of the twisted wire before the die-drawing.