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Rahim Yar Khan

PunjabPakistan

Grid Point Code for Rahim Yar Khan
With a code
#KN0K2-M8046
Said aloud
Rahim Yar Khan M8046

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Rahim Yar Khan is #KN0K2-M8046. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.01 m east to west, centred on 28°25'11.55"N, 70°18'12.39"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 Rahim Yar Khan, near its centre.

Code
#KN0K2-M8046
With a check character
#KN0K2-M8046*P
Short form
M8046
Cell centre
28.419875, 70.303442
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.01 m
Region
Punjab
Country
Pakistan
Population
517,000

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KN0K2-M8046. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Punjab

Rahim Yar Khan M8046: 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 Rahim Yar Khan. 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

#KN0K2-M8046*P. 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 47 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. KN0KMetropolitan area40 km by 47 km
  2. KN0K2District8 km by 9.4 km
  3. KN0K2MSuburb1.6 km by 1.88 km
  4. KN0K2M8A few streets320 m by 376 m
  5. KN0K2M80Building64 m by 75.2 m
  6. KN0K2M804Entrance12.8 m by 15 m
  7. KN0K2M8046Doorway2.56 m by 3.01 m

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