Lima

Lima ProvincePeru

With a code: #C8L9F-K5L9C
Said aloud: Lima K5L9C

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Lima is #C8L9F-K5L9C. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.34 m east to west, centred on 12°02'35.45"S, 77°01'41.64"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 Lima, near its centre, and Lima is the capital of Peru.

Code: #C8L9F-K5L9C
With a check character: #C8L9F-K5L9C*9
Short form: K5L9C
Cell centre: -12.043181, -77.028234
Cell size: 2.56 m by 3.34 m
Region: Lima Province
Country: Peru
Population: 7,737,002

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #C8L9F-K5L9C. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Lima Province: Lima K5L9C: 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 5.2 km east or west of Lima. 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: #C8L9F-K5L9C*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 52.3 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.

C8L9Metropolitan area40 km by 52.3 km
C8L9FDistrict8 km by 10.5 km
C8L9FKSuburb1.6 km by 2.09 km
C8L9FK5A few streets320 m by 418 m
C8L9FK5LBuilding64 m by 83.6 m
C8L9FK5L9Entrance12.8 m by 16.7 m
C8L9FK5L9CDoorway2.56 m by 3.34 m

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