Chợ Lớn

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)Vietnam

With a code: #K6P24-5D7P4
Said aloud: Chợ Lớn 5D7P4

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Chợ Lớn is #K6P24-5D7P4. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.36 m east to west, centred on 10°44'59.97"N, 106°38'59.98"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 Chợ Lớn, near its centre.

Code: #K6P24-5D7P4
With a check character: #K6P24-5D7P4*1
Short form: 5D7P4
Cell centre: 10.749992, 106.649994
Cell size: 2.56 m by 3.36 m
Region: Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)
Country: Vietnam
Population: 561,000

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #K6P24-5D7P4. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC): Chợ Lớn 5D7P4: 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 Chợ Lớn. 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: #K6P24-5D7P4*1. 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 52.5 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.

K6P2Metropolitan area40 km by 52.5 km
K6P24District8 km by 10.5 km
K6P245Suburb1.6 km by 2.1 km
K6P245DA few streets320 m by 420 m
K6P245D7Building64 m by 84 m
K6P245D7PEntrance12.8 m by 16.8 m
K6P245D7P4Doorway2.56 m by 3.36 m

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City, region and population from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.