Ar Raqqah

RaqqaSyria

With a code: #J6W3W-88MTF
Said aloud: Ar Raqqah 88MTF

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Ar Raqqah is #J6W3W-88MTF. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.77 m east to west, centred on 35°57'10.17"N, 39°00'28.34"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 Ar Raqqah, near its centre.

Code: #J6W3W-88MTF
With a check character: #J6W3W-88MTF*D
Short form: 88MTF
Cell centre: 35.952826, 39.007872
Cell size: 2.56 m by 2.77 m
Region: Raqqa
Country: Syria
Population: 531,952

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #J6W3W-88MTF. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Raqqa: Ar Raqqah 88MTF: 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 4.3 km east or west of Ar Raqqah. 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: #J6W3W-88MTF*D. 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 43.3 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.

J6W3Metropolitan area40 km by 43.3 km
J6W3WDistrict8 km by 8.65 km
J6W3W8Suburb1.6 km by 1.73 km
J6W3W88A few streets320 m by 346 m
J6W3W88MBuilding64 m by 69.2 m
J6W3W88MTEntrance12.8 m by 13.8 m
J6W3W88MTFDoorway2.56 m by 2.77 m

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