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Zhengzhou

HenanChina

Grid Point Code for Zhengzhou
With a code
#KJT6G-JJJ9X
Said aloud
Zhengzhou JJJ9X

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Zhengzhou is #KJT6G-JJJ9X. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.81 m east to west, centred on 34°45'28.03"N, 113°38'55.05"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 Zhengzhou, near its centre.

Code
#KJT6G-JJJ9X
With a check character
#KJT6G-JJJ9X*1
Short form
JJJ9X
Cell centre
34.757787, 113.648625
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.81 m
Region
Henan
Country
China
Population
6,650,532

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KJT6G-JJJ9X. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Henan

Zhengzhou JJJ9X: 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 4.4 km east or west of Zhengzhou. 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

#KJT6G-JJJ9X*1. 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 43.9 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. KJT6Metropolitan area40 km by 43.9 km
  2. KJT6GDistrict8 km by 8.78 km
  3. KJT6GJSuburb1.6 km by 1.76 km
  4. KJT6GJJA few streets320 m by 351 m
  5. KJT6GJJJBuilding64 m by 70.2 m
  6. KJT6GJJJ9Entrance12.8 m by 14 m
  7. KJT6GJJJ9XDoorway2.56 m by 2.81 m

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