Baotou in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Baotou in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Baotou plotted against Nei Mongol and China. While Nei Mongol and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Baotou's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Baotou's incremental SNDi rose from 3.58 to 3.99 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Baotou ranked 34th out of 43 cities in Nei Mongol and 1350th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.99
- Rank in China
- 1399th of 1843
- Rank in Nei Mongol
- 37th of 43
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 3.47
- Rank in China
- 1350th of 1843
- Rank in Nei Mongol
- 34th of 43
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Gorakhpur, India
- Tarogong, Indonesia
- Zhangzhou, China
- Gwangju, South Korea
- Cordoba, Argentina
In new street additions, Baotou and Zhangzhou both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Freetown built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend. Notably, Baotou had a more sprawly network than Zhangzhou in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.