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Chaozhou

GuangdongChina

Grid Point Code for Chaozhou
With a code
#KHKT9-HN2WC
Said aloud
Chaozhou HN2WC

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Chaozhou is #KHKT9-HN2WC. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.13 m east to west, centred on 23°39'14.25"N, 116°37'21.46"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 Chaozhou, near its centre.

Code
#KHKT9-HN2WC
With a check character
#KHKT9-HN2WC*T
Short form
HN2WC
Cell centre
23.653958, 116.622628
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.13 m
Region
Guangdong
Country
China
Population
1,750,945

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KHKT9-HN2WC. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Guangdong

Chaozhou HN2WC: 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 4.9 km east or west of Chaozhou. 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

#KHKT9-HN2WC*T. 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 48.9 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. KHKTMetropolitan area40 km by 48.9 km
  2. KHKT9District8 km by 9.79 km
  3. KHKT9HSuburb1.6 km by 1.96 km
  4. KHKT9HNA few streets320 m by 392 m
  5. KHKT9HN2Building64 m by 78.3 m
  6. KHKT9HN2WEntrance12.8 m by 15.7 m
  7. KHKT9HN2WCDoorway2.56 m by 3.13 m

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