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Baghdad

Iraq

Grid Point Code for Baghdad
With a code
#J6MF7-27D1K
Said aloud
Baghdad 27D1K

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Baghdad is #J6MF7-27D1K. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.86 m east to west, centred on 33°20'26.06"N, 44°24'03.21"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 Baghdad, near its centre, and Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.

Code
#J6MF7-27D1K
With a check character
#J6MF7-27D1K*D
Short form
27D1K
Cell centre
33.340573, 44.400891
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.86 m
Country
Iraq
Population
7,216,000

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J6MF7-27D1K. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Iraq

Baghdad 27D1K: 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 4.5 km east or west of Baghdad. 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

#J6MF7-27D1K*D. 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 44.6 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. J6MFMetropolitan area40 km by 44.6 km
  2. J6MF7District8 km by 8.93 km
  3. J6MF72Suburb1.6 km by 1.79 km
  4. J6MF727A few streets320 m by 357 m
  5. J6MF727DBuilding64 m by 71.4 m
  6. J6MF727D1Entrance12.8 m by 14.3 m
  7. J6MF727D1KDoorway2.56 m by 2.86 m

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