Nanjing
JiangsuChina
- With a code
#KJCT2-8GD7X- Said aloud
- Nanjing
8GD7X
What the code says
The Grid Point Code for Nanjing is #KJCT2-8GD7X. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.90 m east to west, centred on 32°03'42.01"N, 118°46'40.04"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 Nanjing, near its centre.
- Code
#KJCT2-8GD7X- With a check character
#KJCT2-8GD7X*D- Short form
8GD7X- Cell centre
- 32.061669, 118.777789
- Cell size
- 2.56 m by 2.90 m
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Country
- China
- Population
- 9,314,685
How to give this address
- On a sign, a form or a delivery note
The whole code,
#KJCT2-8GD7X. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.- Said aloud, in Jiangsu
Nanjing 8GD7X: 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 4.5 km east or west of Nanjing. 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
#KJCT2-8GD7X*D. 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 45.3 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.
- KJCTMetropolitan area40 km by 45.3 km
- KJCT2District8 km by 9.06 km
- KJCT28Suburb1.6 km by 1.81 km
- KJCT28GA few streets320 m by 362 m
- KJCT28GDBuilding64 m by 72.5 m
- KJCT28GD7Entrance12.8 m by 14.5 m
- KJCT28GD7XDoorway2.56 m by 2.9 m
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