Grid Point Code

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Yulin

GuangxiChina

With a code
#KHCHT-8C4W9
Said aloud
Yulin 8C4W9

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Yulin is #KHCHT-8C4W9. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.16 m east to west, centred on 22°37'49.80"N, 110°08'48.67"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 Yulin, near its centre.

Code
#KHCHT-8C4W9
With a check character
#KHCHT-8C4W9*W
Short form
8C4W9
Cell centre
22.630499, 110.146852
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.16 m
Region
Guangxi
Country
China
Population
1,056,743

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KHCHT-8C4W9. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Guangxi

Yulin 8C4W9: 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 Yulin. 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

#KHCHT-8C4W9*W. 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 49.3 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.

  1. KHCHMetropolitan area40 km by 49.3 km
  2. KHCHTDistrict8 km by 9.86 km
  3. KHCHT8Suburb1.6 km by 1.97 km
  4. KHCHT8CA few streets320 m by 395 m
  5. KHCHT8C4Building64 m by 78.9 m
  6. KHCHT8C4WEntrance12.8 m by 15.8 m
  7. KHCHT8C4W9Doorway2.56 m by 3.16 m

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