Minbya in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Minbya in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Minbya plotted against Rakhine and Myanmar. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Minbya's incremental SNDi rose from 2.49 to 3.49 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Minbya ranked 1st out of 6 cities in Rakhine and 34th out of 113 in Myanmar as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 3.49
- Rank in Myanmar
- 27th of 113
- Rank in Rakhine
- 1st of 6
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 2.85
- Rank in Myanmar
- 34th of 113
- Rank in Rakhine
- 1st of 6
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Gobindaganj, Bangladesh
- Yuanyi, China
- Rembang, Indonesia
- Adaba, Ethiopia
- Montgomery, United States
- Abu Zabad, Sudan
In new street additions, Minbya and Gobindaganj both fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Adaba built increasingly disconnected streets over time. For the full network, Minbya and Gobindaganj both fluctuated in connectivity, while Adaba became progressively more disconnected.