Mazār-e Sharīf

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Mazār-e Sharīf is #KP25P-P8RPR. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.74 m east to west, centred on 36°42'32.56"N, 67°06'39.12"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

The point used is the one GeoNames records for Mazār-e Sharīf, near its centre.

Code

#KP25P-P8RPR

With a check character

#KP25P-P8RPR*J

Short form

P8RPR

Cell centre

36.709044, 67.110866

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.74 m

Region

Balkh

Country

Afghanistan

Population

523,300

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KP25P-P8RPR. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Balkh

Mazār-e Sharīf P8RPR: 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 4.3 km east or west of Mazār-e Sharīf. 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

#KP25P-P8RPR*J. 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 42.8 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. 5KP25Metropolitan area40 km by 42.8 km
2. PKP25PDistrict8 km by 8.57 km
3. PKP25PPSuburb1.6 km by 1.71 km
4. 8KP25PP8A few streets320 m by 343 m
5. RKP25PP8RBuilding64 m by 68.5 m
6. PKP25PP8RPEntrance12.8 m by 13.7 m
7. RKP25PP8RPRDoorway2.56 m by 2.74 m

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