Tangier

Tanger-Tetouan-Al HoceimaMorocco

With a code: #HJTT9-LP13K
Said aloud: Tangier LP13K

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Tangier is #HJTT9-LP13K. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.77 m east to west, centred on 35°46'02.14"N, 5°47'59.05"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 Tangier, near its centre.

Code: #HJTT9-LP13K
With a check character: #HJTT9-LP13K*R
Short form: LP13K
Cell centre: 35.767261, -5.799736
Cell size: 2.56 m by 2.77 m
Region: Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
Country: Morocco
Population: 1,035,141

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #HJTT9-LP13K. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima: Tangier LP13K: 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 4.3 km east or west of Tangier. 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: #HJTT9-LP13K*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 43.4 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.

HJTTMetropolitan area40 km by 43.4 km
HJTT9District8 km by 8.67 km
HJTT9LSuburb1.6 km by 1.73 km
HJTT9LPA few streets320 m by 347 m
HJTT9LP1Building64 m by 69.4 m
HJTT9LP13Entrance12.8 m by 13.9 m
HJTT9LP13KDoorway2.56 m by 2.77 m

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