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Dongying

ShandongChina

Grid Point Code for Dongying
With a code
#KX4RX-8F3H4
Said aloud
Dongying 8F3H4

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Dongying is #KX4RX-8F3H4. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.71 m east to west, centred on 37°27'45.74"N, 118°29'29.99"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 Dongying, near its centre.

Code
#KX4RX-8F3H4
With a check character
#KX4RX-8F3H4*0
Short form
8F3H4
Cell centre
37.462706, 118.491663
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.71 m
Region
Shandong
Country
China
Population
998,968

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KX4RX-8F3H4. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Shandong

Dongying 8F3H4: 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 4.2 km east or west of Dongying. 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

#KX4RX-8F3H4*0. 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 42.4 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. KX4RMetropolitan area40 km by 42.4 km
  2. KX4RXDistrict8 km by 8.48 km
  3. KX4RX8Suburb1.6 km by 1.7 km
  4. KX4RX8FA few streets320 m by 339 m
  5. KX4RX8F3Building64 m by 67.9 m
  6. KX4RX8F3HEntrance12.8 m by 13.6 m
  7. KX4RX8F3H4Doorway2.56 m by 2.71 m

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