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Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad OblastRussia

With a code
#PK3L1-WR75R
Said aloud
Kaliningrad WR75R

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Kaliningrad is #PK3L1-WR75R. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.98 m east to west, centred on 54°42'23.02"N, 20°30'39.68"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 Kaliningrad, near its centre.

Code
#PK3L1-WR75R
With a check character
#PK3L1-WR75R*G
Short form
WR75R
Cell centre
54.706395, 20.511022
Cell size
2.56 m by 1.98 m
Region
Kaliningrad Oblast
Country
Russia
Population
475,056

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PK3L1-WR75R. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad WR75R: 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 3.1 km east or west of Kaliningrad. 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

#PK3L1-WR75R*G. 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 30.9 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. PK3LMetropolitan area40 km by 30.9 km
  2. PK3L1District8 km by 6.17 km
  3. PK3L1WSuburb1.6 km by 1.23 km
  4. PK3L1WRA few streets320 m by 247 m
  5. PK3L1WR7Building64 m by 49.4 m
  6. PK3L1WR75Entrance12.8 m by 9.88 m
  7. PK3L1WR75RDoorway2.56 m by 1.98 m

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