Chicken Street

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Chicken Street is #KNRP4-FK46X. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.82 m east to west, centred on 34°31'41.49"N, 69°10'12.76"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is

Street in Kabul, Afghanistan

Code

#KNRP4-FK46X

With a check character

#KNRP4-FK46X*3

Short form

FK46X

Cell centre

34.528193, 69.170212

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.82 m

City

Kabul

Region

Kabul Province

Country

Afghanistan

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KNRP4-FK46X. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Kabul

Chicken Street FK46X: a name both people know, then the last five characters. They give back the exact code for anywhere within 4.0 km north or south and 4.4 km east or west of Chicken Street. Further away the same five name somewhere else, which is why the whole code is what goes on a sign.

Copied by hand, or read over a phone

#KNRP4-FK46X*3. The character on the end catches any single mistyped symbol and any two neighbours swapped.

As a link or a square code

Open it on the map, move to the exact door, and add directions if the code needs help: "blue gate, second floor". The link and the square code carry them. Nothing is kept on this site.

From the city to the door

The first four characters name a cell about 40 km by 44 km here. Each one after that picks one of 25 inside the last, so the whole ten name a spot about the size of a doorway.

1. PKNRPMetropolitan area40 km by 44 km
2. 4KNRP4District8 km by 8.8 km
3. FKNRP4FSuburb1.6 km by 1.76 km
4. KKNRP4FKA few streets320 m by 352 m
5. 4KNRP4FK4Building64 m by 70.4 m
6. 6KNRP4FK46Entrance12.8 m by 14.1 m
7. XKNRP4FK46XDoorway2.56 m by 2.82 m

More in Afghanistan

• Kabul
• Herāt
• Mazār-e Sharīf
• Kandahār
• Jalālābād
• Band-e Amir National Park
• Minaret of Jam