Cuamba in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Cuamba plotted against Nassa and Mozambique. While Nassa and Mozambique both rose steadily, Cuamba's new street additions rose steadily. Most recently, Cuamba's incremental SNDi rose from 6.7 to 7.11 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Cuamba ranked 3rd out of 4 cities in Nassa and 40th out of 44 in Mozambique as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam
• Hutou, China
• Kheragarh, India
• Xiuwen, China
• Samadon, Egypt
• Xiangning, China

In new street additions, Cuamba built increasingly disconnected streets over time, while Điện Biên Phủ built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Xiuwen built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then shifted to more disconnected patterns. For the full network, Cuamba became progressively more disconnected, while Điện Biên Phủ became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Xiuwen became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards. Cuamba and Điện Biên Phủ have been converging in their street-network character since 1975.