Limbe in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Limbe in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Limbe plotted against Sud-Ouest and Cameroon. While Sud-Ouest and Cameroon both rose steadily, Limbe's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Limbe's incremental SNDi rose from 3.39 to 3.43 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Limbe ranked 3rd out of 5 cities in Sud-Ouest and 26th out of 44 in Cameroon as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.43
- Rank in Cameroon
- 16th of 44
- Rank in Sud-Ouest
- 1st of 5
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.26
- Rank in Cameroon
- 26th of 44
- Rank in Sud-Ouest
- 3rd of 5
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Luputa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Salalah, Oman
- Udaipur, India
- Wanlaweyn, Somalia
- Balneário Camboriú, Brazil
In new street additions, Limbe and Udaipur both built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Luputa fluctuated in its street-construction patterns. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Limbe and Luputa have been growing further apart in their street-network character since 1975.