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Bandar Abbas

HormozganIran

Grid Point Code for Bandar Abbas
With a code
#J5R2G-D1LK2
Said aloud
Bandar Abbas D1LK2

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Bandar Abbas is #J5R2G-D1LK2. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.04 m east to west, centred on 27°11'11.39"N, 56°16'50.90"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 Bandar Abbas, near its centre.

Code
#J5R2G-D1LK2
With a check character
#J5R2G-D1LK2*F
Short form
D1LK2
Cell centre
27.186497, 56.280806
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.04 m
Region
Hormozgan
Country
Iran
Population
352,173

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J5R2G-D1LK2. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Hormozgan

Bandar Abbas D1LK2: 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 4.8 km east or west of Bandar Abbas. 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

#J5R2G-D1LK2*F. 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 47.5 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. J5R2Metropolitan area40 km by 47.5 km
  2. J5R2GDistrict8 km by 9.51 km
  3. J5R2GDSuburb1.6 km by 1.9 km
  4. J5R2GD1A few streets320 m by 380 m
  5. J5R2GD1LBuilding64 m by 76 m
  6. J5R2GD1LKEntrance12.8 m by 15.2 m
  7. J5R2GD1LK2Doorway2.56 m by 3.04 m

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