Kikwit

KwiluDemocratic Republic of the Congo

With a code: #83F0W-PPN6D
Said aloud: Kikwit PPN6D

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Kikwit is #83F0W-PPN6D. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.41 m east to west, centred on 5°02'27.52"S, 18°48'58.32"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 Kikwit, near its centre.

Code: #83F0W-PPN6D
With a check character: #83F0W-PPN6D*6
Short form: PPN6D
Cell centre: -5.040979, 18.816200
Cell size: 2.56 m by 3.41 m
Region: Kwilu
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Population: 509,367

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #83F0W-PPN6D. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Kwilu: Kikwit PPN6D: 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 5.3 km east or west of Kikwit. 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: #83F0W-PPN6D*6. 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 53.2 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.

83F0Metropolitan area40 km by 53.2 km
83F0WDistrict8 km by 10.6 km
83F0WPSuburb1.6 km by 2.13 km
83F0WPPA few streets320 m by 426 m
83F0WPPNBuilding64 m by 85.2 m
83F0WPPN6Entrance12.8 m by 17 m
83F0WPPN6DDoorway2.56 m by 3.41 m

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