Ivanovo

Ivanovo OblastRussia

With a code: #PM7J8-KN5RL
Said aloud: Ivanovo KN5RL

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Ivanovo is #PM7J8-KN5RL. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.86 m east to west, centred on 56°59'59.60"N, 40°58'21.25"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 Ivanovo, near its centre.

Code: #PM7J8-KN5RL
With a check character: #PM7J8-KN5RL*7
Short form: KN5RL
Cell centre: 56.999889, 40.972570
Cell size: 2.56 m by 1.86 m
Region: Ivanovo Oblast
Country: Russia
Population: 406,113

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #PM7J8-KN5RL. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Ivanovo Oblast: Ivanovo KN5RL: 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 2.9 km east or west of Ivanovo. 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: #PM7J8-KN5RL*7. 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 29.1 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.

PM7JMetropolitan area40 km by 29.1 km
PM7J8District8 km by 5.82 km
PM7J8KSuburb1.6 km by 1.16 km
PM7J8KNA few streets320 m by 233 m
PM7J8KN5Building64 m by 46.6 m
PM7J8KN5REntrance12.8 m by 9.31 m
PM7J8KN5RLDoorway2.56 m by 1.86 m

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