Failaka Island

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Failaka Island is #J5JN8-LW0H5. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.98 m east to west, centred on 29°26'00.01"N, 48°19'59.98"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is

Kuwaiti island

Code

#J5JN8-LW0H5

With a check character

#J5JN8-LW0H5*R

Short form

LW0H5

Cell centre

29.433335, 48.333327

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.98 m

Region

Capital Governorate

Country

Kuwait

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J5JN8-LW0H5. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Capital Governorate

Failaka Island LW0H5: 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 4.7 km east or west of Failaka Island. 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

#J5JN8-LW0H5*R. 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 46.5 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. NJ5JNMetropolitan area40 km by 46.5 km
2. 8J5JN8District8 km by 9.31 km
3. LJ5JN8LSuburb1.6 km by 1.86 km
4. WJ5JN8LWA few streets320 m by 372 m
5. 0J5JN8LW0Building64 m by 74.5 m
6. HJ5JN8LW0HEntrance12.8 m by 14.9 m
7. 5J5JN8LW0H5Doorway2.56 m by 2.98 m

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