Sangmélima in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Sangmelima in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sangmélima plotted against Sud and Cameroon. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Sangmélima's incremental SNDi rose from 7.0 to 8.89 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sangmélima ranked 1st out of 3 cities in Sud and 41st out of 44 in Cameroon as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 8.89
- Rank in Cameroon
- 42nd of 44
- Rank in Sud
- 3rd of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.46
- Rank in Cameroon
- 41st of 44
- Rank in Sud
- 1st of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Lancaster, United States
- Tartu, Estonia
- Rank, India
- Zhangzi, China
- Mathbaria, Bangladesh
- Bhera, Pakistan
In new street additions, Sangmélima built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Lancaster built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Zhangzi fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Sangmélima and Zhangzi have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.