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Quetta

BalochistanPakistan

Grid Point Code for Quetta
With a code
#KN7JT-51620
Said aloud
Quetta 51620

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Quetta is #KN7JT-51620. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.96 m east to west, centred on 30°11'02.90"N, 67°00'05.08"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 Quetta, near its centre.

Code
#KN7JT-51620
With a check character
#KN7JT-51620*9
Short form
51620
Cell centre
30.184140, 67.001411
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.96 m
Region
Balochistan
Country
Pakistan
Population
1,565,546

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KN7JT-51620. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Balochistan

Quetta 51620: 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 Quetta. 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

#KN7JT-51620*9. 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 46.2 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. KN7JMetropolitan area40 km by 46.2 km
  2. KN7JTDistrict8 km by 9.24 km
  3. KN7JT5Suburb1.6 km by 1.85 km
  4. KN7JT51A few streets320 m by 370 m
  5. KN7JT516Building64 m by 73.9 m
  6. KN7JT5162Entrance12.8 m by 14.8 m
  7. KN7JT51620Doorway2.56 m by 2.96 m

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