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Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba ProvinceCuba

With a code
#GG6T5-0H605
Said aloud
Santiago de Cuba 0H605

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Santiago de Cuba is #GG6T5-0H605. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.21 m east to west, centred on 20°01'22.36"N, 75°49'18.14"W, 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 Santiago de Cuba, near its centre.

Code
#GG6T5-0H605
With a check character
#GG6T5-0H605*H
Short form
0H605
Cell centre
20.022877, -75.821706
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.21 m
Region
Santiago de Cuba Province
Country
Cuba
Population
555,865

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GG6T5-0H605. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Santiago de Cuba Province

Santiago de Cuba 0H605: 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 5.0 km east or west of Santiago de Cuba. 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

#GG6T5-0H605*H. 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 50.2 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. GG6TMetropolitan area40 km by 50.2 km
  2. GG6T5District8 km by 10 km
  3. GG6T50Suburb1.6 km by 2.01 km
  4. GG6T50HA few streets320 m by 402 m
  5. GG6T50H6Building64 m by 80.3 m
  6. GG6T50H60Entrance12.8 m by 16.1 m
  7. GG6T50H605Doorway2.56 m by 3.21 m

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