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Jhang Sadr

PunjabPakistan

Grid Point Code for Jhang Sadr
With a code
#KMHJ3-8FF2N
Said aloud
Jhang Sadr 8FF2N

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Jhang Sadr is #KMHJ3-8FF2N. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.92 m east to west, centred on 31°16'11.31"N, 72°19'00.70"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 Jhang Sadr, near its centre.

Code
#KMHJ3-8FF2N
With a check character
#KMHJ3-8FF2N*3
Short form
8FF2N
Cell centre
31.269807, 72.316861
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.92 m
Region
Punjab
Country
Pakistan
Population
606,533

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KMHJ3-8FF2N. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Punjab

Jhang Sadr 8FF2N: 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 4.6 km east or west of Jhang Sadr. 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

#KMHJ3-8FF2N*3. 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 45.7 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. KMHJMetropolitan area40 km by 45.7 km
  2. KMHJ3District8 km by 9.13 km
  3. KMHJ38Suburb1.6 km by 1.83 km
  4. KMHJ38FA few streets320 m by 365 m
  5. KMHJ38FFBuilding64 m by 73.1 m
  6. KMHJ38FF2Entrance12.8 m by 14.6 m
  7. KMHJ38FF2NDoorway2.56 m by 2.92 m

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