Dimapur in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Dimapur in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Dimapur plotted against Nagaland and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Dimapur's incremental SNDi rose from 6.2 to 6.95 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Dimapur ranked 2nd out of 3 cities in Nagaland and 1692nd out of 1868 in India as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 6.95
- Rank in India
- 1561st of 1868
- Rank in Nagaland
- 2nd of 3
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 5.99
- Rank in India
- 1692nd of 1868
- Rank in Nagaland
- 2nd of 3
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Benguela, Angola
- Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia
- Chaoyang, China
- Ghazipur, India
- Loudi, China
- Cooch Behar, India
In new street additions, Dimapur and Ghazipur both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Benguela built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full street network, though, all three cities follow the same trend.