Maputo

Maputo CityMozambique

With a code: #8FRFP-7X346
Said aloud: Maputo 7X346

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Maputo is #8FRFP-7X346. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.07 m east to west, centred on 25°57'55.94"S, 32°34'59.57"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 Maputo, near its centre, and Maputo is the capital of Mozambique.

Code: #8FRFP-7X346
With a check character: #8FRFP-7X346*C
Short form: 7X346
Cell centre: -25.965539, 32.583214
Cell size: 2.56 m by 3.07 m
Region: Maputo City
Country: Mozambique
Population: 1,254,837

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #8FRFP-7X346. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Maputo City: Maputo 7X346: 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 Maputo. 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: #8FRFP-7X346*C. 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 48 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.

8FRFMetropolitan area40 km by 48 km
8FRFPDistrict8 km by 9.61 km
8FRFP7Suburb1.6 km by 1.92 km
8FRFP7XA few streets320 m by 384 m
8FRFP7X3Building64 m by 76.9 m
8FRFP7X34Entrance12.8 m by 15.4 m
8FRFP7X346Doorway2.56 m by 3.07 m

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