Lipetsk

Lipetsk OblastRussia

With a code: #PRWLR-5PCWC
Said aloud: Lipetsk 5PCWC

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Lipetsk is #PRWLR-5PCWC. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.08 m east to west, centred on 52°35'15.32"N, 39°33'05.49"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 Lipetsk, near its centre.

Code: #PRWLR-5PCWC
With a check character: #PRWLR-5PCWC*3
Short form: 5PCWC
Cell centre: 52.587590, 39.551524
Cell size: 2.56 m by 2.08 m
Region: Lipetsk Oblast
Country: Russia
Population: 509,735

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #PRWLR-5PCWC. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Lipetsk Oblast: Lipetsk 5PCWC: 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 3.2 km east or west of Lipetsk. 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: #PRWLR-5PCWC*3. 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 32.5 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.

PRWLMetropolitan area40 km by 32.5 km
PRWLRDistrict8 km by 6.49 km
PRWLR5Suburb1.6 km by 1.3 km
PRWLR5PA few streets320 m by 260 m
PRWLR5PCBuilding64 m by 51.9 m
PRWLR5PCWEntrance12.8 m by 10.4 m
PRWLR5PCWCDoorway2.56 m by 2.08 m

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