Kaélé in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Kaele in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kaélé plotted against Extrême-Nord and Cameroon. While Extrême-Nord and Cameroon both rose steadily, Kaélé's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Kaélé's incremental SNDi rose from 1.82 to 1.85 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kaélé ranked 1st out of 8 cities in Extrême-Nord and 1st out of 44 in Cameroon as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.85
- Rank in Cameroon
- 1st of 44
- Rank in Extrême-Nord
- 1st of 8
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.42
- Rank in Cameroon
- 1st of 44
- Rank in Extrême-Nord
- 1st of 8
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Surat Thani, Thailand
- San Pedro Carchá, Guatemala
- Corumbá, Brazil
- Saral, Bangladesh
- Anju, North Korea
- Thana, Pakistan
In new street additions, Kaélé and Surat Thani both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Saral fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full network, Kaélé and Surat Thani both became progressively more disconnected, while Saral fluctuated in connectivity.