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Qinhuangdao

HebeiChina

Grid Point Code for Qinhuangdao
With a code
#KXH4P-K8C1F
Said aloud
Qinhuangdao K8C1F

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Qinhuangdao is #KXH4P-K8C1F. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.62 m east to west, centred on 39°56'27.78"N, 119°35'21.66"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 Qinhuangdao, near its centre.

Code
#KXH4P-K8C1F
With a check character
#KXH4P-K8C1F*3
Short form
K8C1F
Cell centre
39.941050, 119.589350
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.62 m
Region
Hebei
Country
China
Population
759,718

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KXH4P-K8C1F. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Hebei

Qinhuangdao K8C1F: 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 4.1 km east or west of Qinhuangdao. 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

#KXH4P-K8C1F*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 41 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. KXH4Metropolitan area40 km by 41 km
  2. KXH4PDistrict8 km by 8.19 km
  3. KXH4PKSuburb1.6 km by 1.64 km
  4. KXH4PK8A few streets320 m by 328 m
  5. KXH4PK8CBuilding64 m by 65.5 m
  6. KXH4PK8C1Entrance12.8 m by 13.1 m
  7. KXH4PK8C1FDoorway2.56 m by 2.62 m

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